2011 MiLB AA Farm Report: Angels’ Mike Trout Can’t Be Held Down For Too Long
Mike Trout (credits below) Mike Trout, CF LA Angels Still three months short of 20, Trout and his legit five tools continue to tear through AA. In a 57-game sample he’s batting .330 with eight homers and 22 RBI, including a .422 mark in June and four consecutive multi-hit games.
2011 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Jason Heyward Returns & Josh Beckett 1-Hits The Rays
Jason Heyward (credits below) Atlanta’s Golden Child, Jason Heyward returned from the 15-day DL to the Braves after one day at Triple-A Gwinnett. He wasn’t much help as the Mets won 4-0 and their 2nd in a row at Atlanta. Heyward says his shoulder is feeling 100% so get him
Justin Verlander Flirts With Another No-Hitter & Other Fantasy Baseball News
Justin Verlander (credits below) Justin Verlander flirted with another no-hitter, bringing it into the eighth inning when it was broke up by a single to Orlando Cabrera. The only other hit was by Carlos Santana in the ninth. Verlander finished the night with 1 walk and 12K. Two things to
The Fix’s 2011 Fantasy Baseball Podcast, Week 11: A Special Guest Helps Review “The Bets”
Brett Talley & Corey Herron of TheFantasyFix.com bless the world with their eleventh podcast for week eleven. In this week’s episode: A Guest appearance by Judge Sager to speak on the progress of Brett & Corey's "bets" Press play below and be forty-seven minutes closer to winning your fantasy baseball league!
2011 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report Week 11: O’s Set Innings Limit On Zach Britton
Zach Britton Getting my Gee’s and Dee’s straightened out this week as we look at some of the rookies making an impact in the third month of the MLB season. SP – DILLON GEE (NY METS) Gee has now run his record to 7-0 and the Mets have won all
2011 Fantasy Baseball, THE RUBBER Week 11: Top 50 Pitcher Rankings
Alexi Ogando Sometimes a bad start makes me feel better about a starter going forward than a good start does. Which seems pretty counter-intuitive, right? But what happens during those bad starts is the Regression Monster (copyright: @sporer) comes along and sets a pitcher back to even, and back to
2011 Fantasy Baseball, Week 11 Waiver Wire: Time To Jump on Desmond Jennings?
Welcome to Week Eleven of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is (all players are owned in fewer than 50% of Yahoo leagues). As always, I’ll review the top 5 players you should look to pickup this week,
2011 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Cargo Flight Starting to Take Off
Carlos Gonzalez Careful folks, CarGo is catching fire. Gonzalez went 3/5 with a HR, two runs and two RBI on the losing end of a 10-8 shootout at Coors. He’s posted four consecutive multi-hit games (12 for 19 over the stretch) and has raised his BA .21 points in June
2011 Fantasy Baseball Week 11 Sit ‘Em Start ‘Em: Gavin Floyd Gets The Nod
Gavin Floyd Start ‘Em Gavin Floyd– This week Floyd takes the streaking White Sox to Minnesota to take on the Twins. This is an area where I get a little concerned. In his career, Floyd has a 5.27 ERA against the twins. And at Target Field his ERA balloons to
2011 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Oakland A’s Snap 10-Game Losing Streak, Start New One
Congrats to the A's for finally snapping their 10-game losing streak. In addition, congrats to Billy Beane for pulling off the best backstab since Fredo went against the Corleone family. In all seriousness, was it Geren's fault that the only thing of value Matsui brought to Oakland was his porn collection? I mean