Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers

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 [...]

Fantasy Baseball Dugout talks fantasy baseball and lingerie football on the Spadora on Sports radio show today. BallparkBob reviews the fantasy baseball projections for Yu Darvish and posts him as the 15th best starting pitcher in your fantasy baseball draft in 2012. Bob also reviews his projections for 2012 fantasy baseball sleepers at the first [...]

Fantasy Baseball Projections for Yu Darvish    Darvish, Texas Ranger Just how good is Yu Darvish? The Texas Rangers are betting that he is very, very good.  That’s why they invested $112 million in Darvish over the next six years.  That’s 6 years at $60 million plus a $51.7 million posting fee paid to Darvish’s [...]

BallparkBob analyzes starting pitchers sleepers for the 2012 season on the weekly Spadora on Sports radio show.

There are two schools of thought when it comes to fantasy baseball starting pitchers. The first states that you should grab some quality starters early in your draft (or use keeper spots for holding onto them). The second theory states that starting pitchers are way too inconsistent and therefore you should ignore pitchers until late [...]

Pitching is 80% of the game, give or take a little depending on whom you speak with.  But, in fantasy baseball, there’s no doubt about it: pitching is 50% of the game. Many fantasy baseball managers enter a draft thinking that pitching is an after-thought.  Rarely, does a manager spend more than 50% of his [...]

If every pitcher had his ability to pitch anywhere, it would be Petco Park in San Diego.  Now, Mat Latos leaves Petco and its friendly confines for Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.  How will Latos fare there? Well, Latos leaves a Padres team that has struggled to score runs to a Cincinnati team that has [...]