Playoff predictions 08

I’m working on a formula for this but I don’t have one yet so I’m just going to look at the numbers and take a guess. Lets start with tonight’s Twins vs. White Sox game.
Playoff Game
Twins vs. White Sox This is one game so it is even more of a crapshoot than usual but the White [...]

My Award Winners of 2008

AL
MVP: Kevin Youkilis- He is having a great year. He has a very good batting average and his 7th in the league in Woba. He has put up very good numbers all across the board and has been the best player for the Red Sox this year. His OBP is nearing 400 and he has [...]

End of season awards….

I have to do this, and I have to beat ESPN, so here goes….
AL
MVP – Alex Rodriguez – Alex Rodriguez was the best hitter in the American League this year. It’s just that simple. Rodriguez lead the league in OPS among batters with at least 500 plate appearances, and one of the top [...]

Congrats to Mike Mussina!

Let me first start out with this: I do not put any stock in wins. No one who uses sabermetrics does. They just don’t mean anything. But guess what, the hall of fame voters do.
Mike Mussina is obviously a hall of fame caliber pitcher. With a better K/BB rate than Greg Maddux and the most [...]

Rivera considering shoulder surgery, should be ok for 09

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is considering shoulder surgery on what is describe as a “minor injury” by Yankees manager Joe Girardi. Although this may seem like a problem for Rivera owners who are looking to keep him (like me) it really isn’t. Rivera is old, but he also has an extremely consistant track record of [...]

Why I hate giving out end of season awards, and how they can be helpful.

Sports broadcaster, journalists, and fans like to give out end of season awards. They like to figure out who was the best at every little thing. Sometimes these awards can be good. For example a major league GM sitting to create a big board of free agents could make his job a lot easier. However, [...]

Yankee Stadium’s final game

This isn’t fantasy baseball related, however it is definitly a huge topic right now in baseball. Last night the New York Yankees played their final home game of the 2008 regular season (ok, fine, 2008 season) in the final season at the house that Ruth built, and the last (Major League Baseball) game ever to [...]

Complaining about someone elses rankings

Most people know not to trust ESPN for fantasy baseball. Ever. I actually don’t hate Matthew Berry at all. Contrary to popular opinion, he’s pretty smart and he obviously relies on numbers, not his gut instincts. However the numbers that the relies on aren’t necessarily the most advanced, and Bill James only knows how to fix the rest of [...]

Bedard opts for surgery, what is his value in 2009?

Seattle starting pitcher Erik Bedard, who hasn’t pitched since July with a shoulder injury, has decided to undergo exploratory surgery and miss the remainder of 2008 (like it matters, the M’s were out of it around the time the season started). But Bedard has been one of the best pitchers in the big leagues the last few years, so if [...]

Fantasy Bullpen mailbag!

Although we have always encouraged questions and comments to be emailed to us we have been writing about what we want to write about. That doesn’t help our readers as much as it could. So starting this week we will be running weekly mailbags, answering questions and covering topics Fantasy Bullpen reader’s want covered. To [...]

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