Fantasy Baseball Draft

Kendrick Earns Fifth Starter Position as Blanton Injured Kyle Kendrick started 6 games in the Grapefruit League for the Phillies and posted a 1.66 ERA in 21 2/3 innings.  But, that wasn’t good enough to earn the fifth starter position. Jamie Moyer, 47, was announced yesterday by loyal manager Charlie Manuel as the Phillies fifth [...]

Editor’s Note: This article is written by Todd Lammi. Todd’s been playing fantasy baseball for 20 years. He has won numerous auction and draft leagues in multiple formats. The latest craze in fantasy baseball is the 15 team mixed auction draft. This combines players from both the American League and the Nation League into one [...]

A few days ago, we analyzed the 2010 fantasy baseball pitcher sleepers to watch in 2010.  Today, we take a look at the more important side of the equation–fantasy baseball hitters sleepers. Unless you like to mortgage the present for the future, or play in a deep keeper league,  most of us don’t want to [...]

Below is our first 2010 review of the top three hitters and pitchers in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category during 2010 Spring Training. Judging a hitter or pitcher on Spring Training performance is difficult because both hitters and hurlers tend to face some competition that won’t make an Opening Day roster. Spring Training stats [...]

Fantasy Baseball Auction Leagues take fantasy baseball to a higher level than traditional draft leagues.  There’s an extra degree of strategy that doesn’t exist in a traditional draft league. In auction leagues, you can’t simply grab one of the magazines at your local newsstand and follow its recommendations, because there is no upfront, defined strategy. [...]

by BallparkBob Everybody is looking for a sleeper in their fantasy baseball draft.  Whether you win the fantasy baseball league or not, having bragging rights for finding that rookie sensation is a nice consolation prize, even if you don’t end up winning the pennant. While finding that unknown diamond in the rough is great for [...]

The 2009 season started off as a major disappointment for almost everyone who drafted Troy Tulowitzki. His performance was as bad as his team’s to start the year. His batting average dipped below the Mendoza line in April and continued to hover around .200 well into May, which was not up to the standards of [...]

Jose Julio “Ruiz is a David Ortiz-looking dude,”  said ESPN’s Jorge Arangure Jr. Ruiz showed up in Miami in June, 2009 after defecting from Cuba.  Our friends over at Cuban Ball Players believe him to be the third best prospect among the recently exiled players from Cuba. Ruiz, 25, is 6′ 3″,230 pounds and is [...]