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From Fantasy Baseball Dugout’s desk devoted to Baseball’s Hottest Wives, Lisa Dergan’s base stealing husband has signed a minor-league deal with the Chicago White Sox. Podsednik played for the White Sox from 2005 – 2008 and hit a memorable homerun in Game 2 of the 2005 World Series off a pre-Philadelphia Phillies Brad Lidge. Pods [...]

It’s Opening Day – one of our favorite days of the year at Fantasy Baseball Dugout! Because every team has a chance today – even the Orioles and Pirates! We figured now is the best time to throw out those 2009 regular season predictions and knock a bunch of those teams back down to earth. [...]

What is the definition of a fantasy baseball sleeper? Many of our readers have written us with conflicting answers to this question.  Our answer is quite simple. A fantasy baseball sleeper is a player whose statistics for 2009 are projected to be significantly better than his statistics were for last  year.  If the player is a [...]

Bobby Abreu signed a 1-year deal with the Anaheim Angels today, putting him into a crowded but talented outfield heading into 2009. Fantasy Baseball Dugout is guessing the signing of Abreu moves Vladimir Guerrero to a permanent DH-role, with Torii Hunter and either Reggie Willits or Gary Matthews, Jr., taking the other spots. Abreu’s current [...]

Long a staple of tremendous starting pitching, the Atlanta Braves have reportedly made a move that will strengthen their staff, dealing for erstwhile Chicago White Sox member Javier Vazquez. The Braves will send a number of players to Chicago, most notably Jo-Jo Reyes and Brett Lillibridge.

The Chicago White Sox shipped under-performing outfielder Nick Swisher to the New York Yankees for Wilson Betemit, Jeff Marquez and Jhonny Nunez. The highly-touted Swisher lived up to expectations with 35 homers and 95 RBIs in 2006 for Oakland. Since then, he has done very little.

Today, Barack Obama accepted the official endorsement of Fantasy Baseball Dugout for president of the United States. While we’re not certain that Senator Obama plays fantasy baseball, we are aware that Obama does play fantasy football. We also know that he is a Chicago White Sox fan, but after the Sox were eliminated, Obama officially [...]

If you are in a fantasy baseball championship, now is the time to start cutting ties with your favorite starting pitchers. Unless they are scheduled to make two starts this weekend, a starting pitcher has no value to your team once he completes his final start. In leagues with daily lineup changes, you can probably [...]