Fantasy Baseball Outfielders

The Philadelphia Phillies have been courting Minnesota outfielder Michael Cuddyer for a few months now.  In fact, one of the “jobs” for new Phillies first baseman-pinch hitter Jim Thome was to help sell Philadelphia to Cuddyer. But, despite the Phillies seeming best efforts, Cuddyer is yet to sign with the Phillies or anywhere else for [...]

Listen to BallparkBob talk about the Hot Stove league and off-season fantasy baseball tips.  Today, BallparkBob discusses the change in the outfield fences at Citi Field and how that will affect the 2012 fantasy baseball season for David Wright and Jason Bay.  Also, BallparkBob discusses where Prince Fielder will end up after free agency; Bob [...]

Citi Field is a pitcher’s park.  It has been since it opened three years ago replacing worn out Shea Stadium. In 2011, Citi Field allowed 1.33 home runs per game, thus ranking it 14th among the 16 National League parks.  Only Petco Park (San Diego) and AT&T Park (San Francisco) allowed less home runs per [...]

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 [...]

In the recent week, we have recommended picking up pocket-rockets Jason Bourgeois and Jose Altuve from the Houston Astros. It seems as though the guys over at Yahoo Fantasy Sports agree with us. Take a look at who Yahoo is recommending in addition to the two Astros.

Today, Fantasy Baseball Dugout takes a look at the major trading deadline deals and their potential impact on your fantasy baseball team. Hunter Pence Trade to Phillies  Hunter Pence is having a solid year for a very bad Houston team and at age 28, he’s probably at his peak performance year.  Pence was, by far, [...]

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 [...]

Just where will Carlos Beltran end up? Carlos Beltran is having a monster year and if you drafted Beltran and Lance Berkman, you probably draft two of the best value players in the 2011 fantasy baseball draft.  Beltran is .293/14/59/3 on the season.  If you thought Carlos Beltran was washed up, you were wrong.  We [...]