Fantasy Baseball Dugout

WINNING! Unless you’ve been living without electricity in the past few weeks, you’ve no doubt witnessed what might be the biggest celebrity meltdown in history. Charlie Sheen has gone from being the highest paid partying playboy on television to an unemployed “winner” ranting about losing his children and his wife, conspiracies, tiger blood, and having [...]

There’s a popular theory in sabermetric circles that MLB players enter their years of peak statistical performance when they turn the age of 27. Technically, the age range of peak performance for MLB players is somewhere between 26 and 32. During this time period, a man is physically at his peak. The combination of physical [...]

Michael Pineda has breezed through the minor league with a 2.49 ERA and almost a strikeout per inning (396/404).  An elbow injury limited his season in 2009 to just 47 innings, but he bounced back last year at the Triple-A level at only age 21.  He also throws a slider, but it is his weakest [...]

Below is our first 2011 review of the top three hitters and pitchers in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category during 2011 Spring Training… even though we’re in the middle of the third week of Spring Training. Judging a hitter or pitcher on Spring Training performance is difficult because both hitters and hurlers tend to [...]

Considering the fact that they play on two of the biggest rival teams in Major League Baseball, it’s rare that Mets third baseman David Wright and Phillies second baseman Chase Utley end up mentioned in the same article. After the culmination of Fantasy Baseball Dugout’s first annual experts draft, Wright and Utley share distinctions at [...]

Last night, Fantasy Baseball Dugout hosted the official draft of their 2011 Experts League via ESPN’s League Manager. The league consists of 10 teams in a head to head, “most categories wins the week” format with a complete MLB player universe. The draft format was a fantasy baseball auction draft. Participants in the 2011 Experts [...]

The basic rules of fantasy baseball are pretty simple to understand: put a roster of MLB players together, combine all of their stats together, score higher than your competitors, and BOOM! you win. But the finer details often vary from league to league. These days, free leagues on sites like ESPN and Yahoo! allow commissioners [...]