Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers

It has been a very hot Hot Stove League for Fall and Winter 2011 and there are still many key free agent signings remaining. Fantasy Baseball Dugout takes a look at the winners and losers thus far in the 2011 free agent market.  Which players will perform better in their new homes and which players [...]

Listen as BallparkBob discusses who should be your # 1 pick in the 2012 fantasy baseball draft.  One surprise: that pick is not Albert Pujols this year.  The fantasy sports segment starts with coverage of NFL fantasy football week 14 and we pick up the fantasy baseball report at 3:40 in the dialogue.

In past years, the decision was easy.  Just scratch in Albert Pujols if you had the #1 pick in your fantasy baseball draft and you were locked in.  Sure, some fantasy baseball managers who subscribed to the position scarcity strategy would go with Hanley Ramirez instead, but for the most part, Pujols was your guy. [...]

The pitching staff of the Colorado Rockies is, well, pretty rocky.  The Rockies had the second worst ERA in the National League last year at 4.73 and at least on paper, things are only getting, well, rockier. Gone is ace Ubaldo Jimenez from a July trade.  Gone is veteran Aaron Cook who has opted for [...]

If you are a Major League Baseball team, one thing you might be very thankful for this year is being able to sign Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish.  Darvish is the half Japanese and half Iranian pitcher who has absolutely dominated the Nippon professional baseball league.  Just 25, Darvish has had a sub-2.00 ERA for [...]

A fantasy baseball sleeper can be defined in a number of different ways. What it really comes down to is the ability to draft a player at a lower position than they should be positioned. In other words, a fantasy baseball sleeper is any player who will perform significantly better than other players drafted in [...]

Rarely in the MLB does a pitcher win Most Valuable Player honors.  the last pitcher to win the MVP award in the National League was Bob Gibson in 1968.  Since then, several American League pitchers have won the MVP award and most recently it was Dennis Eckersley who won it with the A’s in 1992. [...]