It’s Like We Harvey Knew Ya
I have a team building exercise for the Mets. Get Kevin Mitchell on the horn. He has at least five baby mamas that are flight attendants. Scrounge up the plane Lenny Dykstra owned for a minute before...
View ArticleTeams Pour Some Into Their Forty, Man, For The Brothers Who Are Here
Nick Castellanos a ti, Nick Castellanos a ti, Nick Castellanos a ti... Oh, sorry, I didn't here you walk in. I was just singing Happy Birthday in Spanish with a Greek player's name to anyone that was...
View ArticleTop 20 Catchers, 2013 Fantasy Baseball
It feels like yesterday the baseball regular season started. You wrote “I heart baseball” in permanent marker on your arm, then you met a girl who wrote “I heart guys who heart baseball” on her arm,...
View ArticleWhen All Ells Fails, Yanks Spend Money
You take a guy fresh off a boat -- let's call him Sailor -- and Sailor's boat left a country that didn't have baseball. After explaining what baseball is, you tell Sailor that one baseball team, the...
View ArticleCaught Stealing: A Review of the Best and Worst Catchers
Maybe it's the rush of the holiday season with two kids or the fact that some major cash is flowing in free agency, but I feel like this year's offseason is just whizzing by. This will be the last sort...
View ArticleA Ridiculously Early 2014 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft Recap, Rounds 11-25
Before we get this post-Festivus celebration of the back-end of this mock-u-mentiful draft going, I’d like to pass along a special thanks to our very own Grey Albright and Bryan Curley of Baseball...
View ArticleTop 20 Catchers for 2014 Fantasy Baseball
I just went over the top 10 for 2014 fantasy baseball and the top 20 for 2014 fantasy baseball. Most of you know how I feel about catchers. If you draft a catcher any time before the first 100 picks,...
View Article2014 AL East Spring Training Preview
The hardest division in the league, which includes last year’s world champs, looks to be just as intense again. For that matter, it probably will be that way for the foreseeable future. My favorite...
View ArticleBear or Bull: For What It’s Werth
My last post was about a young ace, so I’m following it up with an article on an old vase, Jayson Werth. Just under two months shy of his 35th birthday, the bearded wonder is entering his 13th season...
View ArticleLester Ks 15 A’s Because Of Their Long-Vowel Pronunciation
On Saturday, Jon Lester threw a gem: 8 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 15 Ks. Such a gem that if that were a blood diamond, diplomats from Monrovia would be lined up in the streets of Liberia for a taste of...
View ArticleBeckett Up Like A No-Hit Truck
What's more American than Memorial Day weekend? How about an ex-country singer-dating, gun-toting, Texan, a guy that looks like he puts a hot dog in the fly of his pants and goes up to female reporters...
View ArticleStreetcar Named Middle Infielder
The Braves called Tommy La Stella up to replace Fuggla. Here's what I said about a month ago, "Incredibly, we already had a Tommy La Stella fantasy post. Don’t you people sleep?! There, Dano compared...
View ArticleJon Singletonz ‘n The Houston
"All this time, I had a dead possum on my head and I didn't even realize it." That was overheard recently by Selig. There should be a rule that anyone that can't make the determination that their...
View ArticleRCL Update, Week 11: Nelson Cruz, Your Player Rater Darling… I Just… I Don’t...
So if you hadn't noticed, Nelson Cruz has been occupying the top spot (until yesterday) on our Player Rater for quite a while now. For the season, he's hitting .303/.374/.636 with 21 home runs, 42...
View ArticleThe Bronx Is Inflaming
I'm staring out on a prairie in the middle of Palm Springs. Okay, it's not a prairie. It's more of a dirt field with a bingo card blowing through it. But let's pretend it's a prairie. Why am I standing...
View ArticlePeavy On The Presidio
You know how when you move out of a place, you throw out a majority of your stuff, but a few things you just slide into the cubbyhole behind the washer/dryer? Maybe nothing significant. Just something...
View ArticleDraftKings – Clayton the Smack Down
Like the end of anything that was good, there is only one thing left to do as the MLB regular season comes to a close: lay it down really hard. Finish strong, as they say. Earn your season-long awards....
View ArticleNathan Saves Tigers From Using Him For Saves
If you had 75 hours into the season for when Joakim Soria would become the closer in Detroit, you win a brand new car*! *Prizes not included (there's no car; stop being greedy, you instead get words...
View ArticleCreeper of the Week: Coors is for Creepers, and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 3
This week I'm making a little one-week tweak to the Creeper of the Week and going with Creepers because we have something that doesn't always happen. What is that Big J? Well eager reader, it's a...
View ArticleProspect Profile: Catchers! (Gross…)
Fantasy owners lost two good catchers this week in Travis d'Arnaud and Jonathan Lucroy. Even in 12-team formats, you probably threw up in your mouth a little when you went to the wire and saw your...
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