Just a friendly, albeit late, reminder to tune in tonight at 7 PM EST for another edition of The Fantasy Face-Off. I’ll be making my triumphant return after a week off scouting the prospects in Jamaica. If you can’t listen live, be sure to download the show tomorrow from the player on the left hand side.

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Lucky me, I get to take on two sad, sad teams on consecutive days in our Top Five Fantasy Stories series. Although we still can’t be sure if Brian Sabean really understands what it means to put together a competitive team, there is no shortage of interesting topics to discuss. And on we go…

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What a disappointing year this has been for the Pads. They have made me look bad as I picked them to win the West in the Generals’ preseason predictions article. Let’s see what interesting stories I could dig up…

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If you hadn’t noticed, a new page is now up at the top of the site, Leaders & Laggards. If you were ever wondering exactly how BABIP was calculated or had nightmares that your pitcher had a 25% HR/F but wasn’t really sure what that meant for him going forward, then this is for you. Besides […]

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Our 2nd Fantasy Face-Off show airs tonight at 7 pm, so be sure to tune in live or listen to the archived version tomorrow while at work as you’re counting down the minutes until the weekend officially begins. You could listen to the show live here or the archive from the player on the left side bar. Brian […]

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After another excellent outing since his return from the Minors, Brett Myers is finally turning around his season. As you have no doubt read by now, he’s posted a 1.94 ERA over 41.2 innings in 6 starts since spending a couple of weeks down on the farm. Let’s look deeper to find out if his success […]

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I’m going to try a new type of column today that came to me out of nowhere yesterday. As the title of the article suggests, I’m going to be arguing with myself! Mike1 will be in bold and Mike2 will be in italics. Each Mike will have his own opinion on a player and debate […]

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Is there a more boring team to write about than the Nats? I actually chose to write about them today rather than the Mets because trying to narrow down all the Mets stories this year into just the top 5 is quite a task!

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Last night Brian Joura and I aired the premier of The Fantasy Face-Off radio show on Blog Talk Radio. After some panicky times in the hour leading up to the show including my Internet connection being down and Brian calling the wrong phone number (you could even hear us before the intro music starts…way to […]

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As a Braves fan, it hurts me to write about them after such a disappointing season, but here goes…

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The day has finally come for the premier of our newest radio show, The Fantasy Face-Off. Join Brian Joura and I as we duke it out on the hottest questions in fantasy baseball each week. Tune in live tonight at 7 PM EST, and each and every Thursday, to listen to the show on Blog […]

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Pop-Quiz: Which pitcher would you project for a better ERA the rest of the season, assuming each sustains their current skill-set?
Pitcher A: 5.6 K/9, 1.5 BB/9, 42% GB%
Pitcher B: 5.6 K/9, 2.4 BB/9, 45% GB%
Both pitchers play in the same division, in the same league and their home ballparks aren’t much of a factor.

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For some reason, even though we have like 1 1/2 more months left in the season, I’m already seeing early 2009 rankings. It’s sure fun to look at and debate, but it really doesn’t offer much value with so many potential changes that could and will occur by the time we start really looking toward 2009. Anyway, I keep […]

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The author of the article I critiqued in this post has published his rebuttal. You can read it here and I encourage everyone to do so. Although I’d love to post a follow-up based on his rebuttal, I’m going to refrain since there’s just too much to respond to.  We simply enjoy debate and are […]

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Francisco Liriano finally made his triumphant return from the minors on August 3rd against the Indians and on the surface, it appeared to be a great success. After the Twins ended up taking way longer than logic would dictate to realize that no, Livan Hernandez is not an MLB-quality pitcher (was it the 5.48 ERA […]

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A couple of months ago I read an article on a lesser known fantasy sports site where the author explained why he was so against the BABIP metric. This article was brought to my attention again recently and I wanted to comment on several points made. As I had said during the now famous sabermetrics […]

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On Tuesday’s Roundtable show, we welcomed one of the few female voices in the sports/fantasy blogging community. Sooze from Babes Love Baseball joined us for a passionate show of some good old-fashioned debate. We discussed a variety of topics including some follow-up talk on the trade deadline deals and what the heck is going on […]

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Although I’ve only played fantasy football a couple of times, hate it, and am not playing this year, I still sometimes enjoy reading rankings, projections, and articles because I’m just such a fantasy sports fanatic that apparently any sport will catch my attention. Anyway, I just wanted to quickly rant about the rankings that are […]

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For those of you still following along with the inaugural Razzball league, Rudy finally posted the updated standings after I nagged the guys on the league message board. The last time we checked in on the standings about 3 weeks ago, I was sitting in 7th out of 10th. Since then, my team has been […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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So a couple of days ago, I check out my H2H league team to see that a trade was offered to me. Some people get excited when an offer lands in their inbox; however, I just kind of raise my eyebrows thinking “what lopsided trade will i get offered this time?” Anyhow, the offer turned out to be […]

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For some reason, Joe Mauer is one of those hitters who scouts and fans keep expecting a HR spike from, despite the fact that he has never shown the power he supposedly one day might display. For his career, he has a total of 40 HRs in 1824 ABs, which equates to just 12 HRs […]

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Todd and crew just couldn’t go more than a week without having me on the True Gurus Show, so I’ll be making a guest appearance on tonight’s show airing at 9 PM EST. We’ll be discussing the use of sabermetrics vs. simply using your gut and other methods for projecting player performance in fantasy baseball. […]

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Tim Dierkes over at RotoAuthority posted a short note yesterday on who would close between Corpas or Taylor Buchholz should Brian Fuentes be traded as has been rumored and I wanted to comment further on this topic. I will agree with the belief that Corpas will be given the first shot, but I will also […]

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