March 13th, 2010 by jzak
Yes, Albert Pujols dominates the position. He dominates fantasy baseball as a whole
But if you aren’t lucky enough to draft in the top slot of your fantasy league, all is not lost.
As shown by the following composite rankings (compiled from projections provided by ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, FoxSports and CBS Sportsline), there is a variety [...]
March 10th, 2010 by ep
If you don’t end up with 20 homers out of your first baseman, you’re not trying hard enough or you are very, very unlucky.
These 1Bs, they have the power. Not surprisingly, the first five players are in the Top 10 overall and the top 14 or so are going in the top 100. Your 1B [...]
March 7th, 2010 by ep
If there’s one player in the top-10 in fantasy baseball in 2010 that I don’t want, it’s Evan Longoria. And that’s only because he’s in the Top -10.
Longoria’s an excellent young player and has been projected to rack up some stats. But he feels like the least “safe” of all the first-round picks. I’d probably [...]
February 26th, 2010 by ep
While reviewing the elite 5×5 hitters, I stumbled across many interesting findings.
Several deserved even further research. Having both Brewers 1B Prince Fielder and OF Ryan Braun as elite RBI producers was near the top.
Both Braun and Fielder are stars. They’ll probably drive in themselves with their elite 30+-homer power, but they are going to need [...]
February 23rd, 2010 by ep
Completing the series highlighting the expected best players in the 5×5 categories — the final post on ERA contains links to all the other parts of the series — revealed some interesting facts.
Again, this project reviewed three different and highly respected sets of fantasy projections — CHONE, Marcel and FanGraphs fan consenusus — to pinpoint [...]
February 16th, 2010 by ep
Fantasy baseball projectionists are, uh, projecting far fewer 100-RBI hitters than you might expect for 2010.
Only seven players drove in 100 in all three sets of projections reviewed for this article. The number is surprising considering 32 players drove in 99 or more in 2009.
So, these top six guys, consider them a lock to reach [...]