Fantasy Baseball Prospects

Jonathan Bentz of Fantasy Baseball Dugout discusses the Michael Pineda for Jesus Montero trade and its impact on fantasy baseball 2012.   Michael Pineda to the Yankees: Fantasy Analysis In getting traded to the New York Yankees, Miguel Pineda immediately gets thrown into a spotlight/pressure cooker situation. He’s projecting right now as no. 2 in [...]

The Toronto Blue Jays are beginning to experiment with what they may have for the future.  Yesterday, the Jays called up third baseman Brett Lawrie and the 21-year-old will be given the rest of the season to show Toronto just what he can do. Travis Snider, another youngster at just 23, earned the demotion.  The [...]

Dustin Ackley will make his Major League debut tonight in Seattle against the Phillies and Roy Oswalt.  The Mariners second baseman of the future is now the second baseman of the present as he steps into Safeco Field tonight against the Phillies. Ackley, the overall #2 pick in the 2009 draft, taken right after a [...]

The Kansas City Royals have one of the most talented core group of young players in the majors. All of those early round draft picks and trades of talented players for prospects may actually be paying off. On the heels of a 17-14 start, a great spring training campaign put together by Spring MVP Kila [...]

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 [...]

Phillies Spring Training 2011 Jayson Werth may wish that he was Ruben Amaro Jr., but he isn’t.  And, the Phillies decided to not sign Werth for 2011 despite his contributions the past several seasons.  Rather, the Phillies used that money to sign Cliff Lee whom they should not have let go to begin with. Why [...]

Kyle Drabek certainly has the pedigree.  His father Doug is a former Cy Young Award Winner.  In speaking of his father, Kyle said: “It was like having a pitching coach who lives with you … He taught me so much, not only about the physical part of the game but the mental part too.” Some [...]