Fantasy Baseball Dugout

Thanks to Baseball Almanac, here’s a list of the fastest thrown baseballs in the history of MLB and the radar gun.

In Order by Fastest Observed Speed
(Listing Has Only The Fastest Known Speed by the Pitcher)

Pitcher

Radar Speed

Date / Box Score

Location

Joel Zumaya *

104.8 mph

10-10-2006

McAfee Coliseum

Aroldis Chapman ^
103.9 mph
09-01-2010
Great American Ball Park

Neftali Feliz ^
103.4 mph
09-01-2010
Rangers Ballpark

Armando Benitez

102.0 mph

05-24-2002

Shea [...]

There’s always one highly-touted MLB prospect that rocks the fantasy baseball world during draft season. Sure, there are pitchers too, but they are typically the victims of overhype because we all get to see them audition against Major League hitting during the stretch of the previous season (Joba Chamberlain and David Price, anyone?).
Hitting prospects who [...]

Clearwater Beach, Florida — It’s a tough assignment to have to leave the snow of the Northeast to spend a few days in Florida covering Spring Training 2010, but that’s exactly what the owners of Olympic Internet
wanted me to do this season to help get you ready for your 2010 fantasy baseball draft.
We couldn’t be [...]

Below is our first review of the top three hitters and pitchers in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category during Spring Training.
(Note: WHIP is now listed below. Thanks to Frank for the insight. My calculator is still broken, however. Sorry.)
Keep in mind that several fantasy baseball studs will noticeably be missing from some categories (Adam [...]

At Fantasy Baseball Dugout, we find it much more effective for our readers to review a draft of a normal league as opposed to experts leagues. More often than not, regular fantasy baseball GM’s don’t draft with other “experts,” who reach for prospects earlier, never draft their favorite players, and always draft pitchers much later [...]