Fantasy Baseball Dugout

Below is our final list of the top three MLB hitters and pitchers currently participating in the World Baseball Classic in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category. In case you hadn’t heard, Japan won last night 5-3 in 10 innings over Korea. Daisuke Matsuzaka was named WBC MVP for the second time. While it is [...]

  He’s that good.  Really, he is.  He’s that good. He’s been described by ESPN’s Buster Olney as: “the best I’ve ever seen.  And, it’s not even close.” A bigger prospect than Mark Prior, Cubs fans.  A bigger prospect than Brien Taylor (sorry Yankee fans). Last fall, we profiled Stephen Strasburg–the San Diego State pitcher [...]

Below is a list of the top three MLB hitters and pitchers currently participating in the World Baseball Classic in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category. I don’t think anyone knows how to gauge WBC success for either hitters or pitchers. My theory is that there is little benefit for pitchers. If anything, pitching in [...]

This week, the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe en espanol) takes the top 4 teams from several winter leagues in Central America and pits them against one another in a round-robin tournament. Teams from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela take the field this year in Mexicali, Mexico and play each other twice. [...]

Kendra Wilkinson is a Playboy model and co-star of “The Girls Next Door.”  The Girls Next Door stars Wilkinson along with Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt as Hef’s girlfriends.  The show, which appears on the E! Network has been renewed for its sixth season in 2009. Wilkinson is the jock of the group, although her [...]

Earlier in the week, the San Diego Padres continued purging their roster by sending shortstop Khalil Greene to the St. Louis Cardinals for reliever Mark Worrell and a player to be named later. Let’s look at how this trade affects the fantasy value of Greene. For the most part, any time an offensive player leaves [...]

Yesterday, we looked at the decline of the homerun and that homerun totals in the MLB have declined for the third consecutive year.  Throughout baseball history, when homeurn totals decline, there is often a corresponding increase in stolen bases. Not in 2008. While stolen bases increased from ’05 to ’06 and again from ’06 to [...]

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 [...]