Following up on my article on Cano, AJ Burnett is another guy that superficially looks bad but there is reason for optimism. I sure hope so since he is on a few of my teams.

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Our esteemed co-General, the prolific and astoundingly precocious Kevin Orris is helping out with Hurricane relief, and asked me to post his recent interview with Jamie Moyer. Moyer is a philanthropist and you can read about  his work. The interview will also be featured on www.mlbfrontoffice.com and www.majorleaguereport.com.

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I am still hearing about Cano’s poor start, and many analysts are predicting a big resurgence. Has it already happened?

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Courtesy of Fantasy Phenoms, this week the Roundtable was asked: Which pitcher and hitter are overexceeding expectations so far in 2008 and are unlikely to keep it up? Click the link above for the responses, and my thoughts are below.

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Today I’m moving on to the hitters for Minor League Week. I’ll be looking at the leaders in isolated power, or ISOP. As I’ve discussed before in my columns and on the Roundtable radio show, I like ISOP as a measure of power, as opposed to straight Slugging %, because ISOP removes singles from the […]

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After leading the Mets and Cubs to the playoffs the past two seasons, Cliff Floyd is bringing his magic act to the Rays this season. Here’s a look at how good teams have followed Floyd throughout his Major League career.

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With three Rays on my fantasy team, I was the happy recipient of a healthy portion of the many runs, home runs, and RBI in their 15-3 win over the Marlins yesterday. I got a similar boost from their 13-4 win over the Angels on June 9th. The two recent examples have me thinking: is […]

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And finally we reach the last of the pitching skills trifecta- walk rate. One of the big reasons why I pay least attention to this stat, especially for minor leaguers, is because anecdotedly it’s the easiest skill to improve upon.

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Last night on The Roundtable Show we were split on the question of who will be more likely to get back to his established level, Alex Rios or Nick Swisher. This is a very close and tough question, so I wanted to go into more detail.

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I wrote a guest article for Roto Authority on JC Bradbury’s PrOPS, or predicted OPS, metric. In it, I take a look at those hitters with the largest differences between their PrOPS and actual OPS, similar to the format of my Leaders & Laggards series. The article is up now, so check it out.
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The Fantasy Baseball Roundtable Radio Show tonight is at the new time of 9 PM EST.  You can click on the link or play it from the player in the left column.  Tonight we welcome Jason Collette of Roto Junkie, so feel free to listen in.

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Today, Minor League Week takes us to groundball rate. Pitchers with this skill in the minors seem to get overlooked more often since they usually don’t have the classic “stuff” scouts look for when classifying pitchers into their prospect tiers. These pitchers therefore fly under the radar, and lots of times put up ERAs higher […]

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Take a Chance on Me is going to go in a different angle for the next few posts. While the prior arrangement of the articles was to urge fantasy baseballers to acquire players whom could have a positive impact on ones team in a manner of ‘buying low’, TACOM would more or less ignore injuries. […]

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For those readers that are continuing to follow the Generals’ travails in the FBSEL, here is this week’s update. Yes there is a bit of salaciousness afoot between Rob Reed and Todd Farino….

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I am going to begin Minor League Week with the most important pitching skill, strikeout ability. I will be using the fantastic FirstInning.com for all the stats I will be posting and analyzing. They use K%, or strikeouts per plate appearance, which I find to be a better metric than K/9 because it can’t be inflated […]

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Mike Podhorzer’s column, and his ban on using the terms in his column, made me give a lot more thought on the topic.

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We’re nearing the All-Star Break and I thought now would be a good time to take a look at the minor leagues. All this week I’ll be checking in on the leaders in the various skill categories for pitchers and hitters and posting my comments as usual. Please keep in mind that I have not actually […]

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Courtesy of us, this week the Roundtable panel was asked what sleeper has the best chance to get 20 steals for the rest of the season.

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Because of the show’s success more favorable time slots have been made available to us. So starting this Tuesday 6/24 the show will be at 9 PM EST. Hopefully this will be a more convenient time for anyone to listen in.

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Is Hank right that the NL should get rid of the DH?

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In the preseason I expressed concern about Sizemore based on his declining skills as he made it though his purported growth years. So far there has been no reason for concern on the surface. Has he turned the corner?

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As part of the White Sox’s 16-3 blowout of the Pirates yesterday, Alexei Ramirez went two-for-five with two RBI, continuing a great season performance that currently has him batting .297/.327/.761, with a line of .412/.455/1.043 so far in June, capped by three home runs in the last three weeks.
Thanks partly a confluence of injuries to […]

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Last night the Roundtable welcomed The True Guru Todd Farino. We discussed the promotion of Chase Headley, the decline of Rickie Weeks and the return of Troy Tulowitzki, plus the Mets. There was some surprising pessimism on all three players.

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In a stroke of luck, a few weeks ago I picked up Morrow in the Fantasy Baseball Search Expert League, and now am reaping the benefits. Can he maintain his current performance, and is there any chance of him losing his job?

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My preseason rookie of the year pick is turning it around after a terrible April. Is the turnaround for real?

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If you haven’t noticed by now, Tigers OFer Marcus Thames is on fire. His last 7 hits have all been homers and he’s now up to 12 HRs in just 113 ABs. This follows an 18 HR performance in 269 ABs last year and 26 HRs in 348 ABs in 2006. That’s a total of […]

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Tonight we welcome our guest, Todd “The True Guru” Farino, who you all know and love. I am proud to say that despite only having two official shows on Blog Talk Radio, at the time of this post the show has catapulted into the top 15 most listened-to sports shows out of the 7300 or so sports […]

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This morning I read on a prominent website about how a certain Arizona hitter hits much worse with two strikes. Even prominent websites get it wrong.  The inability of guys to hit with two strikes is a fallacy.

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We are adding a few pages to the top links. I have already added one on The Basics of Trading. I will be adding one for The Generals’ Core Principles, which will be amended as time goes on. We wanted to have a central location where people can find our statement of what we believe […]

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