Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers

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 your ego, [...]

Chien-Ming Wang is a gamble that the Washington Nationals were willing to take.
The celler-dwellers picked Wang up as a free agent with a $2 million one-year contract with incentives for up to $3 million more.  The Nationals also have the right to add Wang for 2011 if things work out.
Wang is definitely a huge risk [...]

Jays Make Pitch for Cuban, But No Cigar
Cuban southpaw Aroldis Chapman has reportedly signed with the Cincinnati Reds.
Cincinnati Reds for five years and $30 million.  That price is twice what Steven Strasburg, 21, was signed for by the Nationals.  Of course, Chapman had the advantage of not being an American and not having to go into [...]

“If it’s possible, and if anyone can do it, it would be Jamie,” said general manager Ruben Amaro when commenting about 47-year-old Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer who went down last year with abdominal and groin operations.
If Moyer is not able to return to his spot in the Phillies rotation that he gave up to Pedro Martinez [...]

Some time today, a major signing will be announced.
Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman will sign with an MLB team–likely the Mets, Yankees, Marlins, or Athletics.
If you think the A’s don’t have a chance against the New Yorkers, think again.  The A’s were able to sign Dominican Michael Ynoa in 2008 and the 17-year-old Ynoa made his [...]

The Yankees won the World Series for the first time since 2000, and fully expect to assemble an even better roster to repeat as World Series Champs in 2010.
Because resigning Andy Pettitte wasn’t enough of an investment to shore up the starting rotation, the Yanks are bringing back Javier Vazquez. Javy returned to the Yanks [...]