The drama caused by my unpopular catching strategy is still being talked about at the chinstrap ninja headquarters water cooler on a fairly regular basis.
You know … the one where I suggested investing in a catcher in the top portion of your fantasy draft.
Well, knowing that most of the fantasy baseball crowd is as oppositional-defiant [...]
Joe Mauer is the best catcher in fantasy baseball, but unlike my colleague I can’t recommend picking him.
Last year was Mauer’s ceiling, or at least a few inches from it. Nobody should have to tell you that paying for a career year is a bad investment.
To put it another way, it’s a bad risk. But [...]
In case you haven’t noticed our little countdown timer in the sidebar to your right and about halfway down the page, the first pitchers and catchers report in eight days.
While it’s still ultra early in this 2010 baseball season, the Chinstrap Ninjas have been dicing through fantasy information like a Slap Chop does to onions [...]
Ryan Braun was pretty awesome last season, smacking more than 30 homers and setting a career high with 20 steals.
But if you don’t draft him in 2010, that isn’t a bad thing.
Sure landing Braun or Matt Kemp would be very sweet in any fantasy format, but you can survive nicely without them, draft studs at [...]
Derek Jeter is the Hallmark greeting card of fantasy shortstops.
And that isn’t a good thing.
You see, Hallmark is the crème de la crème of greeting cards, according to some. From birthdays to bah mitzvahs, if you want to show that you truly care, only a Hallmark will do … or so the commercials insinuate.
And, of [...]
When I was 15 years old, while camping with our local Boy Scout troop, I met the dumbest person on the planet.
It was 12-year-old who had just finished using a Coleman propane cook stove. Within seconds of turning it off, he decided to touch the burner, jumping back and screaming in pain a split second [...]
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