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May 2008

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Roundtable: Your Biggest Fantasy Rival

This week's roundtable asked: Who do you consider your biggest fantasy baseball rival and describe your most gratifying victory and most painful defeat involving them? Our answers can be found here. Do you have any fierce fantasy rivalries?   Continue Reading


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Weekend Spot Starters

Here are some pitchers you may consider picking up for a short-term boost this weekend. Saturday Jon Lester vs. Orioles. Sunday Paul Byrd vs. Royals. Sidney Ponson vs. A's. Darrell Rasner vs. Twins. Bartolo Colon vs. Orioles. Jon Garland vs....   Continue Reading


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Season-To-Date MVPs

Which players have had the most roto value at each position? I used the player rater at ESPN to find out. C - Brian McCann. He's supplanted Geovany Soto. We may be seeing another '06 from McCann, making him a...   Continue Reading


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Jose Valverde For Felix Hernandez?

A trade was reached last night in the RotoAuthority league. The deal was struck between my team (second place with 85 points) and Ms. Behavin' (third place with 72 points). Volvo Stationwagons is holding steady in first with 92.5 points,...   Continue Reading



Running More

I have to admit that our little plate appearances per steal attempt stat is flawed, because it doesn't account for changes in a player's OBP or times on first base. Baseball HQ uses a stat they call SBO, or Stolen...   Continue Reading


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Pick Up Dan Wheeler

Troy Percival just went down - go grab Dan Wheeler for saves in Tampa Bay. Percival will have an MRI on his hamstring.   Continue Reading


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Not Running

I looked at all players who attempted 15 or more steals in 2007. Then I compared their plate appearances per attempt (lower is better) to see who has stopped running in '08. Here are the offenders: NAME PA/Att 08 PA/Att...   Continue Reading


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Jay Bruce To Debut Tomorrow

According to Baseball Digest Daily, the Reds will promote top prospect Jay Bruce and he'll debut tomorrow. Wouldn't be surprising to see Corey Patterson designated for assignment. Bruce should be owned in all leagues; he's that good. Will he mash...   Continue Reading



BABIP, Anyone?

Time for another installment of everyone's favorite BABIP, Anyone? series. Here we look at pitchers with abnormal batting averages on balls in play. I've incorporated ISO into the chart as well. ISO, or Isolated Power, is calculated as SLG-BA. It...   Continue Reading


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Clayton Kershaw Time?

Looks like phenom Clayton Kershaw may debut in Chicago on Tuesday. The 20 year-old has these numbers in Double A: 43.3 IP 9 starts 2.28 ERA 1.08 WHIP 9.76 K/9 3.12 BB/9 3.13 K/BB 6.65 H/9 .291 BABIP 0.00 HR/9...   Continue Reading





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