Fantasy Baseball Dugout

Albert Pujols did the unimaginable.  Pujols faked all of us out by signing with the Los Angeles Angels–a team that didn’t even enter the Pujols sweepstakes until two days before he actually signed.  The result of the contract is a 10 year commitment from the Angels that will pay Phat Albert $68,493 per day for [...]

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. [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post submitted by Jeff Herbst. Jeff has had a passion for sports ever since he could first walk. He works with Phoenix Bats, a company that creates wood bats such as their world-class maple baseball bats for amateur and professional ball players around the world. Each year in fantasy baseball, there [...]

Don’t blame Carlos Gonzalez  for the Colorado Rockies demise this year.  When it comes to driving in runs with runners on base, Gonzalez did his job. “Others Batted In Percentage,” or OBI%, is a stat that measures the rate at which batters drive in runners on base, given the opportunities presented.  It’s a far more realistic stat than [...]

It’s a fair question for any fantasy baseball manager to ponder. So let us ponder it and try to put together a universal answer that makes sense for each of the 11 million fantasy baseball owners that  have a different team on a different game system with different league scoring settings. As the season goes [...]

Tomorrow – officially – is Opening Day (even though ESPN likes to get the party started one night early). Opening Day is still one of our favorite days of the year at Fantasy Baseball Dugout. Something about baseball being played nationwide for the first time each April is thrilling. Maybe its one of the sure [...]