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Fantasy baseball: Mistake breeds two bonus end-game sleepers

Sometimes mistakes aren’t all that bad.
We’re not reinventing penicillin here, but stumbling across two sleepers while doing research that really had no beginning point is one of those beneficial mistakes.
While reviewing my elite 5×5 hitters post I mistakenly thought Rays outfielders Carl Crawford and BJ Upton were each expected to score 100 runs. The question, [...]

Who’s setting the table for Brewers sluggers?

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 [...]

Fantasy baseball: Just so everyone is up to speed…

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 [...]

Fantasy baseball: 17 strikeout aces for 2010

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 you at [...]

Fantasy shortstop value players that need to be on your radar screen

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 [...]

Third base fantasy baseball values you can’t afford to overlook

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 [...]