Fantasy Baseball Draft

Tigers’ slugger Miguel Cabrera is the latest MLB superstar to admit to substance abuse.  But, this time, it isn’t steroids, its’ alcohol. Cabrera, entering the third year of a $153.3 million 8-year contract, is currently on the Tigers’ caravan after admitting to spending the past three months in alcohol rehab. Sobering Finish You’ve heard the story [...]

Prior to the beginning of the 2009 fantasy baseball season, we told you that the best pick in the 2009 fantasy baseball draft was Albert Pujols.  Pujols has been the best player of the decade and while there were sexier picks prior to the start of the season, Fantasy Baseball Dugout reasoned that Pujols had been [...]

What is the definition of a fantasy baseball sleeper? Many of our readers have written us with conflicting answers to this question.  Our answer is quite simple. A fantasy baseball sleeper is a player whose statistics for 2009 are projected to be significantly better than his statistics were for last  year.  If the player is a [...]

If you’ve read MoneyBall, saves guys are a dime-a-dozen and once they rack up big saves numbers, you can trade them when they are at the peak of the market. It’s no different in fantasy baseball where saves are even more over-rated than Billy Beane thinks they are.  The thing is that there are 30 [...]

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 [...]

Fantasy Baseball Dugout brings you its 2009 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers list for starting pitchers. Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers — 2009 Sleepers National League Starting Pitchers Jordan Zimmerman, SP, Nationals — Jordan Zimmerman, who pitched last season at Double-A Harrisburg, has been named the Nationals’ fifth starter and his Harrisburg teammate Shairon Martis, 22, was named the [...]

There are known in the industry as fantasy baseball sleepers, but in a way, that tag is a bit of a misnomer.  Winning in fantasy baseball is really not about identifying sleepers, but about identifying value picks.  All of the managers are going to feel good about their teams, because they are all going to [...]

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 [...]