Kirk Gibson takes over as coach of the Diamondbacks and puts Chris Young in the leadoff spot. Bingo. Young goes 3-for-5 with a homer, five RBI and a stolen base. We talked yesterday about how the managing change could pay dividends for the players and your fantasy team. This is a perfect example. Young is [...]
There are not three different pitchers than Carlos Silva, Max Scherzer and Octavio Dotel in 2010. Based on preseason expectations, Silva started out as a huge surprise, Scherzer was a huge disappointment from the beginning and Dotel started poorly but has turned into a solid underrated source of saves. This week, all three were among [...]
The Twins, Jason Kubel more specifically, took advantage of a rare moment of vulnerability from Mariano Rivera. Rivera walked in a run and surrendered a grand slam to Kubel to take the loss Sunday. Only two of the runs were his responsibility — blame the other three on Joba Chamberlain — but the Yankees were [...]
Not much grosses me out as much as Subway knives and people who don’t take the few extra moments to update their rosters in fantasy baseball. Have you ever noticed that Subway uses the same knife to cut every sub they make? Every sub. They chop a footlong meatball sub in half with the same [...]
There are a couple Top-40 starting pitchers who could pass for Top-60-ers. However, there are quite a few that could supplant some of those guys in the Top-20. It’ll be fun to see how this tier plays out over the course of the 2010 season. You definitely want to own a couple of these guys.
Strikeouts are the one statistic that Major League pitchers really have control over. Every other category they get credit for can be affected both positively and negatively by the offense and defense around him. Cherish the strikeout pitcher. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the hurlers who are most likely to get [...]
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