Fantasy Baseball Dugout

With legend Stephen Strasburg now on the shelf for a year and a half with Tommy John surgery pending, the baseball world turns a keen eye toward Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman. Chapman will be a setup man for the Reds so that’s not all that exciting, especially when it comes to fantasy baseball.  But, a [...]

Fantasy Baseball Dugout is proud to have one of the six voting spots in Yardbarker’s Blogger Poll for MLB Power Rankings 2010. In addition to providing our insight on ranking each MLB team 1-30, we also monitor the NL East each week and drop a little insight on each team. See below for our rankings [...]

As MLB approached the trading deadline, the Minnesota Twins were actively pursuing big names Cliff Lee, Dan Haren, and Roy Oswalt.  Unfortunately, the small market Twins were not able to fill their starting rotation with any of those stars.  Their consolation prize was to add Matt Capps to bolster the bullpen. So, when Kevin Slowey [...]

  Looking for a September call-up sleeper with some pop? Try Brandon Allen of the Diamondbacks. Brandon Allen, who had a less than spectacular end of year call-up for Arizona last year (.202 with 40 whiffs in 102 AB’s), looks to be the starting left fielder for the rest of the season for the disappointing [...]

It’s over. Tiger and Elin are officially divorced. In January, we had our readers vote on whom was the fairest femme of them all and you voted Elin as Tiger’s Hottest.  In March, we wrote how Tiger would not win The Masters.  FBD reader Mountain Jack didn’t like the article and said so in the [...]

The downward spiraling Cubs have sent first baseman Derek Lee packing to Atlanta which means opportunity for Tyler Colvin in the Windy City. The Tyler Colvin experiment at first base is set to begin during the Cubs’ trip to Washington next week. Colvin has been taking ground balls at first base — a position that [...]

When the season began for the St. Louis Cardinals, they turned the third baseman job over to David Freese.  Mr. Freese, 26, did a good job.  He hit .296 with 4 homers and 36 RBI before surgery to repair torn tendons in his right ankle ended his season. Enter utilityman Felipe Lopez.  Lopez hit a [...]