Ever wonder why we love our sleepers and busts lists? It’s the root-for-the-underdog thing. We all love the underdog, and rightfully so. Underdogs rock. For us fantasy baseball ninjas, our sleepers are our underdogs. Our heroes. Busts are our overrated villains. So, who have been our heroes in 2010?
What a crazy day in baseball Wednesday, thanks mostly to that blown call in the Tigers game… The one where pitcher Armando Galarraga lost a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning. Take away that huge incident and we have Ken Griffey Jr. retiring, rumors that Mike Stanton is coming up this weekend [...]
Good or bad, luck is always a factor — and a nearly impossible to predict factor at that. Batting average on balls in play tries. BABIP is a Sabermetric that eliminates some variables from batting average to determine which side of luck a player is currently on. The statistic works for both hitters and pitchers [...]
Two teams’ performances really stood out Wednesday. The first nod has to go to the Cardinals, who got 10 Ks and seven innings pitched out of Chris Carpenter to go with great slugging performances from Colby Rasmus and Skip Schumaker. Rasmus clubbed a pair of homers, scored three times, drove in three runs and went [...]
Made a crack in the Top 40 outfielders about how you really need to get three in the Top 30 or you’ll have a shaky outfield. However, bolstering a shaky outfield with a couple upsiders from the Top-60 would lessen the pain. There are a handful of sleepers and potential breakout stars in outfielders Nos. [...]
Fantasy baseball drafts, in particular their final three rounds, are filled with players soaked in upside or ones that were once darlings but have lost a little of their shine. However, every year one or two of those players will emerge from the ashes of their “talented but…” label. How can we determine who they [...]
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