2011 Fantasy Baseball

If you have the MLB Network, you need to be watching Fantasy 411.  It’s a great place to learn more about fantasy baseball and to get inside tips from some of the most knowledgeable people in the game.  Here’s some notes from the special 2 hour draft preview show. Some top fantasy baseball tips Get [...]

The biggest day of the year is almost here…draft day. Today we are going to review a product that could give you a big edge on the day of your draft, Roto Champ Draft Software. Roto Champ is a draft preparation and in-draft tool that is new in 2011. We were eager to try it [...]

Ivan Nova is one of many MLB prospects who may go from relative unknown to league wide name in 2011. Before the Yanks failed to land a big name free agent pitcher in the offseason, Nova was nothing more than a second-tier 24-year old prospect in their farm system. He had a strong 2010 campaign [...]

Brandon Belt has some big shoes to fill in 2011. As a highly-touted prospect first baseman of the world champion San Francisco Giants, Belt’s rookie campaign is likely going to follow in the footsteps of reigning NL Rookie of the Year Buster Posey. In a similar scenario to 2010, most of the rookie hype in [...]

You’ve heard it before.  A budding star gets sent back to Triple-A after beating up on Big League pitching during Spring Training and the team says its so he can get “more seasoning” or “play every day.”  Now, it’s obvious to you, me, and your grandmother that the rookie is better than what the team [...]

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 [...]