The owners will be regularly posting to the expert league blog, and there is some funny stuff there so take a look and bookmark it! Just try not to get caught up in “Todd Farino Spelling Mistake Bingo.” Click here for the blog.

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Junkyard Jake’s UT man Adam Jones Makes an Error
The Generals start off the expert league season with a matchup against radio co-host Junkyard Jake.
This matchup is a good test for my “no starting pitcher” strategy. The point of the strategy was that there would only be marginal differences offensively unless you really went […]

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Tonight Fausto Carmona makes his first start of the season as Cleveland hosts the White Sox. After his breakout season last year (19 wins, 3.06 ERA, 137 K), a lot of fantasy projections are expecting some moderate-to-large regression (depending on where you go), but tonight might provide a skewed (and small) sample for this season: […]

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Last night, Josh Hamilton, Patrick’s “longshot” pick for the AL home run title, got off to a good start with a game-winning blast off J.J. Putz in the top of the ninth. Hamilton went 2 for 5 on the night, including that two-run homer that spoiled Putz’s save opportunity and put Texas up 5-4.
Putz’s blown […]

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Last night Jon Garland recorded a win in his first start for the Angels, working eight full innings to give up six hits and one run. He didn’t throw any strikeouts, but you can’t expect too many from him (His K/9 for 2005-2007: 4.68, 4.77, 4.23)–and anyway, he only gave up one walk (a promising […]

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Another of the “True or False” questions: True or False, five years from now, Carlos Gomez will be a more valuable player than Daric Barton.
This is a tough question since it has a lot of ambiguity to it, though on the surface it may seem simple. Let’s first look at fantasy value. In that sense […]

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