Fantasy Baseball Dugout

Here are the Top 10 Reasons to Watch the MLB Playoffs, brought to you by Ryan Howard.  You can watch this video without the express written consent from Major League Baseball.

If you are the National League representative in the World Series, the guys you don’t want to face are Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero.  No surprise there. Hamilton had a OBI% of 19.4%, good for sixth in the MLB this year amongst players with at least 486 plate appearances.  Guerrero was not far behind at [...]

Don’t blame Carlos Gonzalez  for the Colorado Rockies demise this year.  When it comes to driving in runs with runners on base, Gonzalez did his job. “Others Batted In Percentage,” or OBI%, is a stat that measures the rate at which batters drive in runners on base, given the opportunities presented.  It’s a far more realistic stat than [...]

Being the commissioner of a fantasy baseball league is not an easy task.  The hours are long.  You often manage a bunch of crybabies.  And, the pay: it sucks. Hopefully, you’ll have the rules laid out so that there aren’t any disputes during the season that you have to rule on, but there’s always one [...]

They say that pitching dominates in a short series.  I’ve never fully believed that, but when you can put a trio on the mound made up of Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels, that’s domination.  That’s why we are going with the Philadelphia Phillies to be the 2010 World Series Champs. The Phillies locked [...]

If you are reading this post in October, it’s probably because you love fantasy baseball.  And, you plan on playing again next year.  You also likely play in a keeper league and/or an auction league, because these leagues simply have more strategy and more to offer a serious fantasy baseball player. Keeper Leagues Defined Most [...]

Jody Kedrick is the beautiful wife of Angels second baseman Howie Kedrick and is our latest nominee for 2011 Baseball’s Hottest Wife competition from Fantasy Baseball Dugout.   Jody and Howie met in an Arizona gym in 2005 while Howie was lifting weights.  Jody was a hair stylist at the time.  He gave her his [...]