Fantasy Baseball Dugout

Pitching is 80% of the game, give or take a little depending on whom you speak with.  But, in fantasy baseball, there’s no doubt about it: pitching is 50% of the game. Many fantasy baseball managers enter a draft thinking that pitching is an after-thought.  Rarely, does a manager spend more than 50% of his [...]

Listen to BallparkBob Bentz and Jonathan Bentz talk about fantasy baseball on the Phil Naessans Show.

If every pitcher had his ability to pitch anywhere, it would be Petco Park in San Diego.  Now, Mat Latos leaves Petco and its friendly confines for Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.  How will Latos fare there? Well, Latos leaves a Padres team that has struggled to score runs to a Cincinnati team that has [...]

BallparkBob names his all-Christmas name baseball team.

One of our favorite cartoon characters of all-time, Goofy, teaches us how to play baseball.  Given that Goofy is playing with a wooden bat, I don’t think this video is very recent. Actually, if I recall my Roman numerals correctly, it is from 1967.  Moreover, there is no mention of fantasy baseball.

The Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox made a trade last week that sent Astros’ closer Mark Melancon to the Red Sox in exchange for infielder Jed Lowrie and Kyle Weiland. Who Will Nab Red Sox Closer Role? Mark Melancon had 20 saves for Houston this year, going 8-4 with a 2.78 ERA and 1.22 [...]

by BallparkBob In the past, we’ve covered the Top 100 Sports Movies of all-time. We’ve also received a lot of publicity about the Top 50 Baseball Movies of all-time. We’ve even reprinted the New York Times all-time baseball movie team. And, we sure gave a lot of coverage to Moneyball prior to its release. Heck, [...]