Fantasy Baseball

Source: sports.yahoo.com --- 30 days ago
The Baseball season has entered its home stretch, and many Fantasy leagues are either winding down or cranking... ...

Source: baseball.about.com --- 5 days ago
You know the names. You should also know this: With these guys, you don't have to worry about down years or lengthy time spent on the disabled list. This team doesn't necessarily resemble the best at each position, but it is the most reliable. ...

Source: networks.feedburner.com --- 6 days ago
I played in my first full-season Fantasy Baseball league this year. I played with a bunch of other pf bloggers from the following blogs: Cash Money Life, Moolanomy, Gen X Finance, Money and Values, The Simple Dollar, Lazy Man and Money, Get Rich Slowly, and Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. I seriously lost in a bad way. [...] ...

Source: weblogs.newsday.com --- 36 days ago
BY ADAM RONIS I was the host of the Fantasy Baseball roundtable this week. The question is: What is the best way to handle trades? Should all trades be approved? A league vote? If you're running a league, what's the ideal way to approve trades without too much controversy? Andrew Cleary http://www.fantasybaseballgenerals.com : Ideally, I think trades would be automatically approved, and only subject to the commissioner's veto. Even though the best trades add to each team's strength, it's always possible that one team comes out better than the other (in fact, we all tend to try for this anyway). This is not an abomination. It is not unfair. It is an outcome to be expected in any game that features real human people playing against other human people (see also Major League Baseball). The flipside of this, of course, is that people get greedy, and trades that smack of collusion should be subject to veto, at the commissioner's discretion. Being the commissioner of a league takes responsibility and fairness, and it's appropriate that they should have the final say. That said, however, I think such an ideal system is more suited to older leagues where the players have known each other for some time, and especially in keeper leagues--there's less of an incentive to pull off a stinker of a trade if you know it can affect next year's team, and your relationship with the managers next year. If you're playing in a league with a lot of people ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 35 days ago
At this point of the Fantasy Baseball season, you're either counting your earnings in your head or you're in full-fledged Fantasy football mode. If you're the... ...

Source: weblogs.newsday.com --- 39 days ago
BY ADAM RONIS http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-spfantasy0831,0,5941778.column ...

Source: blogs.jsonline.com --- 7 days ago
Baseball Boss, a free Web-based Baseball simulation game that combines Fantasy Baseball and virtual Baseball cards, is auctioning off a limited edition set of its 1957 Spire collection. The set, which includes many of that era's Baseball icons such as Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron, will be sold off one card at a time, with the auctions running today through Oct. 10 in the game's auction house. The virtual cards are being auctioned off individually but clustered by team in their reverse order of finish in 1957, and only one of each card will ever be made, the site says in a statement. The site's concept is pretty straightforward: create a Fantasy Baseball owner; open a starter pack of free virtual Baseball cards; use those cards to form a Fantasy Baseball team; and then challenge other players. ...

Source: fantasyclubhouse.theledger.com --- 33 days ago
I apologize for the long period between posts. It's been an incredibly hectic couple of weeks, and I haven't had the focus to get back to this until now. It's almost time for the Fantasy Baseball playoffs ... ...

Source: www.faketeams.com --- 36 days ago
With the NFL, and Fantasy football, kicking-off tonight, there is no better time to begin looking forward to the 2009 Fantasy Baseball season.   The first thing I do is look at the data from the current season.  Whose hitting HRs?  Stealing bases?  Hitting for AVG?  Striking out batters? By getting a general sense of who is producing, I can begin to form some preliminary analysis of who the top players are going to be in the 2009 Fantasy Baseball drafts.  And I am not excited. This season looks to have collapsed in terms of power.  With just Ryan Howard of Philadelphia as the only "sure" thing for 40 HRs and a couple others fewer than six from the mark (Whie Sox OF Carlos Quentin and the Diamondbacks' Adam Dunn at 36 and 35 respectively), there isn't the clear cut delineation of production needed to easily rank the top players. Does this mean position scarcity takes a more prominent role?  Maybe.  Here is a Top 10 that does include scarcity more than one would normally see. At the top of the list is Florida Marlins' SS Hanley Ramirez.  His across the board skills combined with his position make him an easy choice as the top-ranked player going into the Fantasy Baseball off-season. ARod is an easy choice at #2.  After that?  Let the debates begin!  (Never mind the bottom portion of the Top 10.) 1. SS Hanley Ramirez, Florida Marlins 2. 3B Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees 3.  2B Chase Utley, Philadelphia Phillies 4.  SS Jose Reyes, New Yo ...

Source: www.faketeams.com --- 33 days ago
Coming into spring training this year, the Los Angeles Dodgers had 4 outfielders for 3 spots: the recently signed Andruw Jones, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, and the overpaid Juan Pierre. Most Dodgers fans, including me, were adamant that the Dodgers outfield should be Ethier-Jones-Kemp. I voiced my opinion on numerous occasions here on Faketeams. But the fact that Joe Torre was 1) in his first year as Dodgers manager, and 2) loves veterans, it appeared that Pierre would be the starter, and Ethier and Kemp would battle for the 3rd outfield spot. But, Ethier settled the argument by having a much better spring training than Juan Pierre, and won the starting leftfield spot, with Jones and Kemp. Ethier had a solid April, but began to slump in May, continued to slump in June and started losing ABs to Pierre. Ether handled sitting on the bench with class saying all the right things and was a team player. But then he got hot again in July and has remained hot through August and the first week in September. He now leads the Dodgers in HRs after hitting his 20th last night in a rout of Dan Haren and the Diamondbacks 7-0. He went 5 for 5 last night with a HR and 5 RBIs. In September he is 11 for 15 with 2 HR and 6 RBIs. Since the All Star break he is hitting .310 with 9 HRs, 24 RBIs, slugging .613 with an OPS of .976. Ethier has solidified his spot in the Dodgers lineup this year, while Pierre has sat on the bench and complained to the press, somethi ...

Source: www.draysbay.com --- 30 days ago
This is off the Rays topic. Sorry if it is inappropriate. I run a Tampa area rotisserie league and we are in search of an owner for the 2009 season. It is an NL only league with 11 current owners. We will be holding an expansion draft for the new owner, so that their team has a chance to be competitive. It is 5 X 5 with pretty standard rules. We have an in-person draft in late March. If you are interested please reply to rotodaddy@hotmail.com   Once again sorry if I bothered anyone. I clearly marked it off-topic. Not trying to waste anybody's time. ...

Source: www.azsnakepit.com --- 39 days ago
I'm just going to do a quick overview this week: it's not like I can slack off at work and do it on company time today. :-) The final round of the regular season, saw no real changes at the top. dbacktom lost, but just held off Douche, thanks to taking the ERA category by just 0.03 and WHIP by 0.06. Greg overtook Amish for the fourth spot, but those two teams still face each other in the first playoff round this week. warlords, who cruised to an easy victory, and 7-2 Offsuiters both get byes, while Adriano Rosario's faced dbacktom in the other first round action. Final Standings, Regular Season Rank   Team W-L-T Pct GB Last Waiver Moves 1.   warlords 126-73-21 .620 - 9-0-1 8 16 2.   7-2 Offsuiters 114-80-26 .577 9.5 6-4-0 13 14 3.   Adriano Rosario's 119-88-13 .570 11 5-5-0 20 58 4.   GregSchulteOverdrive 112-89-19 .552 15 7-3-0 7 31 5.   The Fighting Amish 113-92-15 .548 16 5-5-0 16 60 6.   dbacktom 108-94-18 .532 19.5 3-6-1 14 14 7.   Douchebaggery 104-94-22 .523 21.5 6-3-1 19 25 8.   Crazy VIII's 108-104-8 .509 24.5 6-3-1 18 68 9.   Desert Dingleberries 103-100-17 .507 25 4-6-0 11 27 10.   Ignatius J. Rallies 100-99-21 .502 26 3-4-3 17 26 11.   AZ SnakePit 100-103-17 .493 28 5-5-0 9 18 12.   Shenanigans 2.0 97-103-20 .486 29.5 4-3-3 1 6 13.   Wimboes Barmy Army 97-106-17 .480 31 4-6-0 5 28 14.   Arizona Muugens 94-104-22 .477 31.5 5-5-0 6 17 15.   Desert Storm BC 94-104-22 .477 31.5 3-6-1 10 10 16.   Blonde Streaks 93-109-18 .46 ...

Source: www.faketeams.com --- 1 day ago
Stephen Drew was a highly touted prospect at the beginning of the 2007 season with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was touted as a power hitting SS with a good glove and was handed the everyday SS job coming out of spring training at the age of 24. In 2007, he hit .236-12-60-60. Not bad for his first full year, but more was expected of him, especially with an older brother, the backstabber (sorry) named J.D. In my NL only snake draft league, he was the 9th SS taken in the 7th round behind the following: Ramirez, Rollins, Reyes, Tejada, Furcal, Tulo, Greene and Theriot. In one of my keeper leagues, I traded him for Adam Wainwright. Drew answered all the naysayers in 2008, hitting .291-21-91-67. Only Hanley Ramirez and J.J. Hardy hit more HRs, and only Hardy and Jose Reyes had more RBI than Drew. Going into 2009, he could be the 4th SS off the board in NL only snake drafts depending on where Rafael Furcal signs in the offseason. I think he will end up with more HRs than any SS not named Hanley since he hits in a hitter friendly ballpark in Arizona. He also could easily lead all NL shortstops in RBI should Arizona find a legitimate leadoff hitter and drop him in their batting order. Where would you draft Drew amongst NL shortstops in 2009? ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 7 days ago
Written by Pete Lance Berkman (1B,RF), Houston Astros: After an incredibly hot start (.347/22 HR/73 RBI pre-break), Berkman hit tough times with a .266 July and a .171 September. His overall numbers were impressive with 29 HR, 106 RBI, and 114 R. ... Original story at Sports of Boston . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Houston Astros . ...

Source: www.bleedcubbieblue.com --- 4 days ago
Hello All, Earlier this year I arraigned three Fantasy Baseball teams for BCB and thought now that the [Cubs] season is officially over with we can give congrats and props to those who won the BCB Fantasy leagues and those who placed in the top three. Neifi Perez Fan Club league:                                                                                                                                                             1st Place: Debaser nee FwP (aka Fairies with Plague)                                                                                                               2nd place: Chicago Beer Nutz                                                                                                                                                           3rd place: Madville Ducks Jose Macias Fan Club league:                                                                                                                                                           1st Place: Leon Durham Bulls                                                                                                                                                           2nd Place: BruceKimm4HOF                                                                                                                                                             3rd Place:   Sactown Maddies Men (aka Josh77) Ryno's Happy Place league (aka Super Competitive Ke ...

Source: www.mcvuk.com --- 1 day ago
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Source: www.bleacherreport.com --- 35 days ago
The final weekend of first-round play is nearly in the books, so that makes this weekend important for teams looking to find an edge. With a light schedule yesterday, the weekend games take on more importance. With players coming back, and trying to balance the September call-ups, the decisions do get harder.  We'll be around all weekend over email, and potentially some weekend posts to get Sunday's updates in as well. Be sure to send over your questions to elmhurstpubroundtable@yahoo.com .  On to the notes! Scott Kazmir continues to dominate at home and pitch well against the Yankees. He went six solid innings last night. He gave up just one hit but walked five. Kazmir has these kind of days, where everything seems to be going well on the surface, but the control simply isn't there. This shouldn't concern Fantasy owners, the stats are great for the win. Another note: Dan Wheeler picked up the save. While Troy Percival is going to be given every opportunity to gain back the ninth-inning job, Wheeler quietly has recorded 11 saves and has been very effective in the role. Joe Maddon isn't one to mess around with what's working, so look for Wheeler to continue to see enough time in the role to give him Fantasy value. Jered Weaver is going to miss his start this weekend, which is why Dustin Moseley is getting the call for Anaheim. Weaver was cut while sitting on the bench in the Anaheim dugout. While there appears to be no need for stit ...

Source: www.azsnakepit.com --- 30 days ago
Forgot to do this last night, so here you go. Gameday Thread will be up around 6:30 or so. Week 23 Results Championship Playoffs dbacktom 3, Adriano Rosario's 7 Rosario benefited from Ethier feasting on AZ pitching: he scored ten runs and drove in eight, and the team batted a monstrous .363 overall. tom got all their points on the mound, with Santana's Win and eight K's helpful, but Hamels fanned 12 and Francisco saved two for Rosario. The Fighting Amish 6, GregSchulteOverdrive 4 In a minor shock, #5 seed Amish moved into the semi-finals, at the expense of #4 seed Greg and despite totalling *one* home-run. Santana had a Win and 16 K's, while Capps saved two for them. Soriano had four homers for Greg and Volquez fanned thirteen. Consolation Playoffs AZ SnakePit 2, Ignatius J. Rallies 8 Rallies took control at the plate, sweeping the hitting categories, and then held on from the mound for an easy victory. Betancourt and Blake each homered twice for them, while Hardy did so for Snake. Buehrle's W and seven K's helped Rallies, who had a 2.51 ERA for the week. Shenanigans 2.0 3, Desert Dingleberries 7 Granderson was the difference here, as his 10 Runs, two HR, five RBI and .444 BA gave all four categories to Desert. Greinke had a W and 16 K's for them too: Shen got two saves from Putz, and did post a 2.37 ERA, while Howard had three homers in a losing cause. Week 24 Fixtures Championship Playoffs warlords (#1 seed) vs. Fightin Amish (# ...

Source: www.thesimpledollar.com --- 2 days ago
I entered a Fantasy Baseball league this spring with the owners of several other personal finance blogs. While I did well (my pitching staff had almost 100 combined wins. led by Ryan Dempster, Johan Santana, Carlos Zambrano, Ben Sheets, Adam Wainwright, Jake Peavy, and John Maine - yep, I had ‘em all, and all [...] ...