2012 Fantasy Baseball, Week 7 Podcast: Host Brett Talley is joined by Steve Gardner
Brett Talley (@TheRealTAL) is joined by Steve Gardner (@sgardnerUSAT) of USAToday.com and USA Today Sports Weekly. Brett and Steve discuss waiver wire options, hitters to sell high on, and lots of undervalued pitchers. Listen below by pressing play, or head to our iTunes page and download the podcast to listen
2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Adam Jones Continues To Ascend, Trevor Bauer Promoted
Adam Jones (credits below) Adam Jones spanked his 12th tater of 2012 last night in the 15th inning against the Royals. According to Yahoo!, Jones is currently ranked fifth overall, and is the fourth ranked outfielder behind Josh Hamilton, Carlos Beltran and Matt Kemp. More of the same should be
2012 Fantasy Baseball Peckin’ Order: Quarter Season Review
Carlos Beltran (credits below) With the first quarter of baseball coming to a close shortly, there has never been a better time for the Peckin’ Order to get back into the swing of things, no pun intended. Teams are approaching their 40th game of the season and as much as
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Full fantasy coverage of yesterday’s games 5/15
Cleveland Indians at Minnesota Twins: It’s going to be a tough year, Twins fans. As an Orioles fan, let me suggest you take solace in the little things, mostly Denard Span. This game was all Cleveland, as Derek Lowe got the complete game shutout without registering a K. Lowe has looked like a
2012 Fantasy Baseball, Brett Talley’s “The Rubber” Week 7: Trolling for Rough Among the Diamonds
Dillon Gee (credits below) The “Leaders” section of Fangraphs is a wonderful place. It’s a smorgasbord of sortable data. One of the many, many useful functions of this data is that you can spot underrated players grouped among some of the more elite and well-known players in the game. Often
2012 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report: Christian Friedrich standing tall in Colorado
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (credits below) This week we take a look at two young lefties in Colorado and a two former major leaguer's sons who recently got the call. SP- CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (COLORADO)- The 6'4" lefty continues to impress as he struck out 10 batters and allowed only one run last night in seven
2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Bryce Harper Hits First Career Home Run, LaHair On Fire
Apparently somebody turned the clock back to 2001 because Miguel Batista was relevant tonight on the fantasy scene. The Dominican righty tossed 7.0 innings of no run ball and struck out five along the way. Don't get any crazy ideas about going out and adding him, this outing should be
2012 Fantasy Baseball, Week 7 Sit Em, Start Em: Hold On To Your Seat, Plug In Yovani Gallardo For Two
Yovani Gallardo (credits below) _ Hitters to Start Adam LaRoche |Washington Nationals| (94.6%) – Adam LaRoche has the pleasure of facing three of the weakest pitching staffs in baseball this week all at home. First he faces San Diego. Against the two San Diego starters LaRoche is hitting .500 with
2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Josh Hamilton Breaks Record Breaking Bat, Votto Blasts Three
Josh Hamilton The good news for Josh Hamilton: His hot streak continued on Mother’s Day with a 2-for-5 effort that drove in three runs. He’s now batting .402 on the season with 18 homers and 41 rib-eyes. The bad news for Josh Hamilton: In his final at bat on Sunday,
2012 NL-Only Fantasy Baseball, The Franchise: FAAB: Spend it Early and Spend it Often
Last time around I discussed how much FAAB I was going to use to bid on phenom outfielder Bryce Harper, preaching how typically spending a large chunk on one player is not the most efficient way to use your FAAB budget (I know that is redundant but it sounds better).