The First Pitch Tuesday was not a nice day/night for most pitchers. Only Lance Lynn, Cliff Lee, Anibal Sanchez and rookie Nick Tepesch had games you should be impressed by. Lynn struck out 10 Cincinnati hitters in six one-run innings. It was a very impressive start. Lee came one out

There are always little pecularities when you break down fantasy baseball into individual leagues. One of those is that each league has positions that are strong and positions that are weak. In the case of catching, we notice that the National League is considerably stronger than the American League. Of

  The First Pitch Paul Maholm and Clay Buchholz followed up solid season debuts with excellent second starts yesterday. They each went seven innings, allowed no runs and got a win. As a result, their ownership percentages are on the rise. But should you hop on the bandwagon and add

The industry has been going a bit stir crazy over strand rate and luck factors as excuses for pitchers not performing up to their standards. In the case of J.A. Happ though, he really was bothered by bad luck and variance in categories that he had large skill improvements in.

Morning News and Notes After a torrid start to begin the season, Freddie Freeman of the Braves (.412 BA, 3 Runs scored, 1 HR, and 7 RBI) is heading to the DL with a strained right oblique. Two things are effected here in Atlanta: One, Chris Johnson is likely going

Everyone’s draft has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the analysis needs to end. In fact, looking back on the drafts this year can give us insight into what the various players in our league were thinking and are thinking about certain players and types of players. I will

Leading Off John Lackey returned to the mound and fared alright considering where he’s been the last couple years. Lackey struck out eight and walked only one in 4.1 innings of work. His lone mistake was a HR to red hot Blue Jays Catcher J.P. Arencibia – when he hung

The following list is my ranking of Week 2’s two-start starting pitchers. Since it’s so early in the season most of the decisions were made by previous years’ performance with an impressive first 2013 start and upcoming matchups being tiebreakers. Madison Bumgarner: 4/8 Colorado | 4/13 @ Chicago Cubs Matt

Our first week of baseball is just about in the books. I’m not sure I recall more bullpen upheaval in the first week of any season in recent memory. Who is sneaking up on incumbent closers? Who is knocking down the door? And what is DAS EFX doing in this

Leading Off Ivan Nova’s pitches looked as big as a supernova for Prince Fielder, as he got off the schneid with a two home-run, five RBI performance and leading the slow-starting Tigers to a win. Meanwhile, Fister struggled landing a courtesy win despite failing to record a quality start –