Mock Draft: Talking Pitching Early baseballguys.com Tue 2/12/13 7:56 AM 1 Comment
In fantasy baseball circles I'm known as the ‘anti-pitcher' guy. I tell people all the time that in re-draft leagues there is no reason to take a pitcher at the top of a draft, and I practice what I preach (see how my staff turned out in the recent FSTA Experts Draft where I waited [...]
Hurlers: Mound Movement baseballguys.com Fri 1/25/13 1:07 PM
The start of major league baseball season is getting closer by the hour, and in less than a month Spring Training will officially start rolling. I'm excited too. Today I will review some of the recent player movement on the hill. I'll talk about some hurlers who are changing roles, have a brief discussion of [...]
2012 Positional Review -- Relief Pitchers: Misses baseballguys.com Thu 11/1/12 12:42 PM
Now that the 2012 season is over, it's time to review how my predictions went for each position in fantasy baseball. To that end, I will review my top-10 at each position and give a brief rundown on how each of the ten performed. I'll also list which player was a "Hit" (someone who lived [...]
Review: K-BAD baseballguys.com Wed 10/10/12 12:41 PM
The folks over at KFFL.com have been gracious enough to invite me to participate in KFFL's Baseball Analysis Draft (K-BAD) the last couple of years. When you see how my team performed no wonder they invited me. I'm apparently an easy mark. Ryan Doumit was great (.275-18-75). Not so much Kurt Suzuki who burned me [...]
Review: Tout Wars baseballguys.com Tue 10/9/12 12:22 PM
I stand accountable for my actions. More times than not I'm right, but sometimes I make mistakes. When I do, I'm not afraid to admit it. I'd like to think that helps to set me out a bit in this industry. I try to be transparent and truthful. To that end, I thought I would [...]
Mailbag: May 17, 2012 baseballguys.com Thu 5/17/12 1:38 PM
Each week I'll be here answering questions that have been sent to me at the BaseballGuys' Twitter account. My Jason Motte for Bryce Harper. Too much? -- ErikJKatz We're all aware of it by now, but the attrition rate of closers this season is better than 50 percent, and that's just stupefying. What it means [...]
Around the Horn: May15, 2012 baseballguys.com Tue 5/15/12 1:22 PM
(1) Matt Kemp to DL. (2) Christian Frienrich dominating. (3) Troy Tulowitzki hurt. (4) Nationals, Yankees, Mets having 9th inning issues. (5) Dan Haren -- buy low candidate? (6) Jeff Neimann out with a broken leg. By Ray Flowers
SWIP: 2012 -- Swingmen & Relievers baseballguys.com Fri 3/16/12 12:22 PM
Yesterday in SWIP: 2012 -- Starters, I gave a detailed description of exactly what SWIP is before I took a look at the starting pitcher pool from 2011. In PART II of my SWIP report, I'll take a look at all the hurlers who tossed less than 160 innings including a discussion about the men [...]
K-BAD: Experts Draft, Part II baseballguys.com Fri 2/24/12 12:14 PM
For the last few years I've been fortunate enough to be invited to participate an experts league with the crew from KFFL.com. The league, called K-BAD (KFFL's Baseball Analysis Draft), pits 12 experts against one another in a 12 team mixed league draft with 28 man rosters. For a breakdown of who is in the [...]