Fantasy Baseball Prospects

The Nationals have recalled their minor league ace and his name is NOT Stephen Strasburg. Drew Storen, the tenth overall pick of the 2009 draft, has been added to the Nationals roster replacing reliever Brian Bruney.  Storen wanted to jump straight to the Majors last year out of Stanford University, but instead Storen quickly rose [...]

Sunday marked the debut of two future fantasy baseball superstars. Stephen Strasburg made his long awaited debut for the Harrisburg Senators in front of a standing-room only crowd of 7,877 in Altoona.  Strasburg pitched 5 innings and struckout 8 Curve hitters (I wonder if they swung at “curves”?).  Strasburg also gave up 4 hits, walked [...]

In Spring 2005, Ian Desmond was in Major League spring training camp in Veira, Florida with the Nationals.  It was less than one year after he had starred at Sarasota High School. While taking swings in the batting cage, Frank Robinson, a pretty fair player himself, said to Desmond: “Hey kid.  When you are 22-years-old, [...]

There’s always one highly-touted MLB prospect that rocks the fantasy baseball world during draft season. Sure, there are pitchers too, but they are typically the victims of overhype because we all get to see them audition against Major League hitting during the stretch of the previous season (Joba Chamberlain and David Price, anyone?). Hitting prospects [...]

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 [...]

Outside of it being a fantasy baseball dynasty league, when it comes to drafting a rookie, I am always looking for the player that has the best chance of helping my team in the current season. If you are participating in a one year league or a league with keepers are allowed, it really does [...]

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 [...]

One of the most talked about young players in fantasy baseball heading into the 2010 draft season is Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus. Last year we talked a little bit about him and his potential as a sleeper due to some buzz about him on Twitter as rumors swirled about Michael Young requesting a trade. Instead [...]