August 4th, 2009 by ep
Last night San Diego Padres OF/1B Kyle Blanks bombed a ball 411 feet. It was his sixth home run of the season. Of course, the note you Chinstrap Ninjas might be missing is that all six – the only ones of his career – have come in the last 14 games.
He appears to have figured [...]
August 1st, 2009 by ep
Mark Reynolds, the slugging Arizona third baseman (with first base eligibility in Yahoo and ESPN leagues), is still available in 10% of Yahoo fantasy leagues somewhere.
He’s not available in any of the leagues I play in. But, then again, we’re good fantasy players. We’re Ninjas.
I’m not sure where these leagues are, but I would have [...]
July 2nd, 2009 by ep
The Chinstrap Ninjas are American, but we have no biases. We know foreign countries aren’t as good at beer league softball as us, but they occasionally pop out a player who makes a somewhat minimal difference in fantasy baseball circles.
Aroldis Chapman is expected to be next. According to a report from ESPN the Magazine, Chapman [...]
June 2nd, 2009 by ep
“Ultra-early” felt more super than “super-early,” but truthfully ultra-early would be a lie. Ultra-early would have been February or March. It’s June, and glorious fantasy football bears down upon us all.
Still a few weeks away from the meat of preseason hype season, but it’s never too early to talk about fantasy sleepers.
Yesterday I had to [...]
April 5th, 2009 by ep
Just finished a fantasy baseball draft and broke several of my fantasy baseball draft tips. I’d be disappointed in myself, if I didn’t do it based on my seven draft prep recommendations, specifically No. 1: Know your league rules.
The Expert Invitational is a 12-team Yahoo league created by Jzak. It’s a standard 5×5 roto league, [...]
March 22nd, 2009 by ep
The Ninjas have been cranking up the posts recently, here’s a recap of our posts from last week:
Fantasy Baseball
JZ reviewed a www.fantasybaseballcafe.com regular’s aggregate fantasy baseball rankings based on several sites.
There are mixed opinions in the Chinstrap Ninjas newsroom on Baltimore Orioles phenom/bust catcher Matt Wieters. The latest post is “Whiffing on Wieters.”
The fantasy baseball [...]