Hello Friends,
This will be the 1st of at least three previews of my team, the Greene Monster! I will preview then re-preview, then give a final preseason analysis. I can’t Wait! for baseball season.
I’d like to start by saying, I believe I’m going to win the chip this year.
We’re in a 12 team head to [...]
This is such a boring time of the year for fantasy sports, in my humble opinion. I don’t play fantasy basketball and fantasy hockey any longer. So, I am stuck in this no man’s land, basking in the glow of my fantasy football championship. Meanwhile the fantasy baseball draft is so far away. I have [...]
I banked on Francoeur to have a monster year in 2008, coming off of consecutive 100 RBI seasons.I owned him in both of my fantasy baseball leagues. I am always wary of players being “in the best playing shapes of their lives” but upon hearing Francoeur put on 30 lbs of muscle before the 2008 [...]
Every fantasy owner that plays in his/her respective leagues is concerned with winning the championship and the cash prize that usually comes along with it. Sure, the camaraderie and passion of competing in leagues are good reasons to play, but most people play for the cheese. I wonder what people do with their winnings from [...]
I wonder what’s the strangest places for drafting is. I have done it at friends’ homes. I have done it at a sports bar and/or restaurant. I have done it in someone’s backyard. I have drafted on the phone, via conference call. Of course, with the mainstream sites like cbsportsline.com, yahoo.com, ESPN.com, etc installing the [...]
Per an earlier column in November, I had to decide who I wanted to keep going into next season. After raising the banner, I definitely feel a lot of pressure has been lifted. Once again, here is my quandary: I can only keep 5 of the following (plus 1 defensive player, which will be Tampa [...]
What are your thoughts on Milton Bradley? For most fantasy owners, it’s the agitation about his inability to stay on the field due to his myriad of nagging injuries. Because when Bradley is on the field, his numbers are as good as any of the better hitters in baseball. But that’s the problem, you plug [...]
I didn’t figure Smoltz retiring after his truncated 2008 season. One of the best big game pitchers of all-time, hard to picture him “going out like that”. He was fantastic when he pitched, posting a 2.57 ERA with 36 K’s against only 8 walks in 28 innings. Unfortunately, he lasted a mere 6 games. Both [...]
I have always had an infatuation with Pat Burrell ever since he came up in 2000 with the Phillies as the ballyhooed first overall pick from the 1998 Amateur draft. After a monster .281 37 116 line in 2002, I thought Burrell was on his way to being a superstar slugger, and invested my 3rd [...]
Derek Lowe has decided to hold out for a better contract than the one the New York Mets offered him (3 years/$36 million). I guess even in “today’s economy”, Derek Lowe, a pitcher who has finished under .500 twice in the last four years, believes that $12 million per year is an insulting offer. I [...]