Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitchers

Rarely in the MLB does a pitcher win Most Valuable Player honors.  the last pitcher to win the MVP award in the National League was Bob Gibson in 1968.  Since then, several American League pitchers have won the MVP award and most recently it was Dennis Eckersley who won it with the A’s in 1992. [...]

September is no time to stop pushing in your fantasy baseball league.  In fact, with a wealth of new players hitting the Big Leagues when rosters expand to 40, there will be some talent available to help you out. Here’s a look at a few that we think will have the biggest impact in the [...]

As you may know, at Fantasy Baseball Scholars we’re all about the trends and numbers.   It seems like several times a week while analyzing players we run across stats that don’t seem possible.  So we thought that we would come up with 21 stats that stood out to us.  1. Jay Bruce was the NL [...]

The MLB All-Star game takes place on Tuesday night in Phoenix and once again, we take a look at the ALL STAR DUDS  and the ALL STAR SNUBS based on fantasy baseball statistics. FANTASY BASEBALL ALL STAR DUDS Aaron Crow, Relief Pitcher, Royals — Crow is having a nice rookie season with a 2-2 record [...]

There is an interesting situation growing in the New York Mets bullpen and it involves the lightning rod of the New York relief pitching platoon, K-Rod. The Mets remain 10 games behind the Phillies in National League East and 6 1/2 games behind the Wild Card leading Atlanta Braves.  While the New Yorkers have surged [...]

Aroldis Chapman has always had a wild streak in him.  But, when you can throw a 105 MPH fastball, we tend to overlook things like that. But, when Chapman is not a closer, he has no business being on your roster.  Due to the walks, he’s never going to have a WHIP that is going [...]

  The Padres’ Heath Bell has converted 40 consecutive saves, a streak that goes back to May 29, 2010.  Bell’s streak of save conversions is the fifth-longest of all time. Bell is tied with Dennis Eckersley and Trevor Hoffman who also had 40 consecutive saves.  He is within one save of Rod Beck’s 41 straight. [...]

Jonathan Papelbon fantasy baseball Editor’s Note: The Fantasy Baseball King normally digs into our mailbag and provides some of the best fantasy baseball advice online each Wednesday. He had so many great questions this week, however, that Ballpark Bob and BeeZee felt a second post from the mailbag was in order. If you have any [...]