What I am going to do today is keep this post updated as to any trades that happen with my analysis. So you can keep checking back for the latest. There were a few overnight deals worth addressing, so read on and check back! I will add any updates in bold and the newest trades […]

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With “Big Z” Brad Ziegler setting scoreless-innings-pitched records for the A’s and “Little z” Jeff Samardzija picking up a save for the Cubs, there has been some swirling speculation about the future relief prospects for these two. What are their likely bullpen roles, and are their skills worth adding to a fantasy team?
(above, Ziegler serves […]

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Latest News on Manny Ramirez has been added.

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As I sit here at my desk, fully planning to refresh Rotoworld every 5 minutes at the least, why not allow you, the reader, to pass the time between deals by reading another installment of the Leaders & Laggards? You know you were going to devote your entire day to baseball anyway, so let’s move into […]

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I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this nugget on RotoWorld:
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that the Rockies were “shocked” when the Mariners asked for both Dexter Fowler and Casey Weathers in exchange for Jarrod Washburn. No wonder the Yankees backed out of the rumored deal for Washburn. The newspaper also notes that the […]

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Using the daily boxscores to riff on the Marlins playoff chances, the role of present and past Seattle outfield greats, unnamed scouts, nicknames, GM rankings, junkball pitchers and lots more.

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Of course we are all about the debate here, so in the interests of full disclosure here is a response from the analyst that wrote about the projections issue raised by me and Mike. These were posted as comments, but I wanted to give him full exposure so that everyone can read his response.

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Courtesy of The Hardball Times. This week the question was: what non-all star will have the biggest impact in the second half? Actually the question is older than last week, but there was a delay in posting. Anyway, here is the link.

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After reading the article Patrick quoted from in the post he published earlier today, I found some more questionable advice. I hate to pick on this article for a 2nd time, but I’m secretly hoping to turn this site into the FireJoeMorgan.com of fantasy baseball writing.

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If you haven’t realized it yet, there is a strong relationship between BABIP and HR/F with LOB%. Obviously, if a pitcher has been getting “hit lucky” with his BABIP, that means fewer opportunities for the opposing team to score and more runners stranded. Similarly, a pitcher with a low HR/F will also be stranding more […]

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I read some advice that I disagree with on a website regarding preparation for next year. What is the advice? It advises that we should average three sets of projections.

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Rhett shares an open letter to his league regarding a one for one trade that was objected to, and rails against the useless raising of objections. Enough is enough!

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Find out which visiting player will be sorry to see Yankee Stadium go, which youngster is succeeding despite a .606 contact rate, which team started a veteran with a .284 slugging mark at first base, which Chris Young owns the other and a whole lot more.

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It’s amazing to me how popular BABIP has become, as I seem to be reading about it now all over the place, when just last year, no one except the Baseball Forecaster and Baseball HQ and Baseball Prospectus were basically talking about it. Yes, Patrick also talked about it in the first incarnation of the blog, […]

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Hot on the heels of the much maligned Randy Wolf trade, we now hear that Ed Wade is going after more experienced players. What on earth is going on? Not even he knows….

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Today’s edition has both leagues in one post with notes about Adam Dunn, Scott Schoeneweis, Bryan LaHair, Kevin Slowey and two teammates who have strikingly similar numbers. And a whole lot more.

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Tonight we welcome Gabriel Lundeen, the co-host of The Wiretap and Inside the Trader’s Studio Shows, and well known Fantasy Baseball Mafia maven. You can listen in here. Hopefully we will not have the same technical problems we had last week. So join us tonight on Blog Talk radio!

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As you all know I am part of a new venture to launch next year with Paul Greco, Lenny Melnick and Tony Cincotta. With that in mind, we have prepared a survey to see what items and areas readers enjoy most. I would greatly appreciate it if regular readers of this site could take the […]

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Earlier this month Mike Podhorzer and I appeared on my former show with Todd Farino, The Baseball Gurus Show, to debate “sabermetrics” versus “scouting.” I am not going to get into the whole debate now, though it is fair to say that Mike and I creamed the “scouting” guys. I did want to address one main contention on […]

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Thoughts on Jeff Samardzija, Randy Johnson, Fernando Tatis and others

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Our pal and my collaborator Paul Greco has a new fantasy video on ReelSportsFan.com, giving some of the latest news and analysis. Check it out!

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I am going to go off the board here and nix the Yankees’ trade for a small deal that I think is far more interesting.

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It’s been a couple of weeks since I last published the Leaders & Laggards series, so let’s take our first post-All-Star Break look at our favorite lucky and unlucky pitchers. With the season about 64% complete, one would expect these lists to start stabilizing, the lucky guys regressing closer to league average, and the unlucky guys also […]

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Thoughts on Brad Ziegler, Manny Ramirez, Nick Blackburn and others.

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After another dazzling outing last night against the Phillies, Oliver Perez has been on quite a run. Over his last 5 starts, including a game against the Yankees and 2 against the Phils, OP has gone 33.2 innings with a 39/12 K/BB ratio and 1.34 ERA.

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Continuing my lazy hops around the boxscores, here are some interesting things that can be gleaned from the NL Boxscores.

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I have never done a post like this, but in my daily review of the boxscores there were so many interesting things that I couldn’t help myself. Tomorrow I will do the NL.

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A little over a month ago, we looked at the good start of Alexei Ramirez, and tried our best to divine how he might perform going forward. The task was complicated by the dearth of available stats for the Cuban emigre, and so I wanted to check again on his progress to see if he […]

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If you’ve recently moved to the moon and just got your Internet connection working, then you surely haven’t been able to keep up with all the rumors and speculation relating to current closers potentially on the move. For those who have not made the questionable decision to move far, far away, and have read so […]

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According to Blog Talk Radio, because of technical errors on their end last night’s Roundtable Radio Show was not recorded and is lost forever. AAAARRRRGGGGHHH.  Obviously this irks me to no end, and if you were looking for the show then I have to apologize. Anyway, here is a summary of what we discussed with […]

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