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Detroit Tigers’ rookie center fielder Austin Jackson is on course to become a pretty good Major League Baseball player. We are starting to question, though, will he ever become a good “fantasy” baseball player? At this stage of his career, he’s more athlete than baseball player and [...]
Your semi-daily Jason Heyward update: Legend grows with mammoth home run
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Atlanta Braves rookie outfielder Jason Heyward can’t possibly be sent to the minors after his showing in spring training. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today that the 20-year-old launched a Max Scherzer fastball at least 450 feet in the first inning of the Braves’ contest at the Tigers’ [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Keeper Question: Justin Verlander or Jayson Werth?
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In many fantasy baseball leagues, the deadline to make crucial keeper decisions like the one below is rapidly approaching. We wanted to answer Chris’ question on the site because a.) we want to roll out the red carpet for our first reader question in weeks, and b.) [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Justin Verlander, SP, Detroit Tigers
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Robinson Cano, 2B, New York Yankees
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
Kansas City Royals’ third baseman Alex Gordon is catching the wrong kind of breaks
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Kansas City Royals third baseman is dangerously close to making the transition from sleeper to coma victim. As the Kansas City Star reports, a broken thumb is the latest obstacle for the seemingly star-crossed infielder. Gordon broke his right thumb sliding head-first into second base today, an [...]
Baltimore Orioles’ prospect Josh Bell may be closer to fantasy relevance than we think
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Baltimore Orioles’ third baseman Miguel Tejada’s job may not be in jeopardy, but hot shot prospect Josh Bell is certainly making his case. He’s impressing in Orioles’ camp, but as the Baltimore Sun’s Peter Schmuck tells us, the plan is for Bell ‘to get more comfortable hitting [...]
Fantasy owners aren’t giving Arizona Diamondbacks’ pitcher Edwin Jackson enough respect: NL West roundup
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Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Edwin Jackson has impressed catcher Miguel Montero early in spring training, according to the Arizona Republic.
Jackson, at least according to his new catcher, is no one-year wonder. He was traded to Detroit from Tampa Bay last season for little more than a bucket of [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Justin Morneau, 1B, Minnesota Twins
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Adam Lind, OF, Toronto Blue Jays
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
Fantasy Baseball Lunch Links: Risks and rewards at the shortstop position
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After Hanley Ramirez, there are many risks at the shortstop position, writes Jon Lewin for The Faster Times.
Yes and no, in our opinion. While there are risks of the unknown — Rollins’ downward statistical trends, Jeter’s age, Bartlett’s lack of track record, etc. — there are also [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Ryan Zimmerman, 3B, Washington Nationals
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Brian McCann, C, Atlanta Braves
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Adam Dunn, 1B, Washington Nationals
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Cliff Lee, SP, Seattle Mariners
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball All-Sleeper Team: The infield
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Can’t get enough sleepers? Yeah, neither can we. And from our experience, the more names you can see, the better job you can do evaluating all the choices on draft day. We’ve already done a little sleeper roundtable, but our next move is to roll out the [...]
Sources of Error in RB YPC Projections
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In the last few articles, I have shown some average yards per carry and improvement for running backs by age and by experience. In this article, we are going to examine the error we get if we apply these curves to predict 2009 statistics from 2008 [...]
Fantasy Baseball Prospect 2010
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The Counselor is IN:
Here is a list of prospects that I like. Prospects are young players who may still be in the minors, rookies, or other young guys yet to fulfill their potential in the majors.
SP Wade Davis - Tampa Bay
Davis is built like a Tight [...]
Cowboys Pride Radio special edition
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The Counselor is IN:
As most of my readers know, I am the co-host on the Cowboys Pride Weekly Radio show on Blog Talk Radio. This week, Doyle and I will be making a huge announcement. Please tune in for the announcement on Thursday March 4, 2010 at [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Derek Jeter, SS, New York Yankees
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
Cowboys Pride Radio special edition
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The Counselor is IN:
As most of my readers know, I am the co-host on the Cowboys Pride Weekly Radio show on Blog Talk Radio. This week, Doyle and I will be making a huge announcement. Please tune in for the announcement on Thursday March 4, 2010 [...]
32 Team Mock Draft @ Sports Jabber
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The Counselor is IN:
The fine folks at Sports Jabber, aka the Wally World of sports sites, is having a 32 Team Mock Draft. If you would like to try your hand at the being the General Manager for a team and pick the first 3 rounds [...]
RB Performance with Age
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As promised, today we are going to look at how running backs perform per age. First, we added up all the yards gained by 20-year-olds, 21-year-olds, 22-year-olds, etc, then divided by the number of carries for each age group. The figure below shows the results.
The only [...]
RB Improvement with Experience
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OK, here’s the update - I’ve got the last three season’s (2007, 2008, and 2009) worth of games into my database and I can finally start to play around with some stats.
So now the question becomes, what is the best way to project a player’s improvement?
I’m [...]
2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft Profile: Adam Wainwright, SP, St. Louis Cardinals
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We will be rolling out plenty of 2010 fantasy baseball coverage in the coming days, weeks and months, but let’s start right here with player-by-player profiles of our rough top 100 preseason rankings. Stay tuned to the site for more player profiles, draft kit information, rankings, sleepers, [...]
