From the monthly archives: October 2008

Phillies!

By On October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Congrats to the world champion Philadelphia Phillies, who beat the Rays in 5 games tonight. I never thought the Phillies would get this far but I am happy for them and for the fans of Philadelphia. If you are stuck with the losingest team in pro sports history, at least you should get [...]

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Site news, the World Series (again)

By On October 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

We were supposed to have the rankings up today, and then the power went out most of the weekend and we haven’t had a chance to do any of them! Anyway sorry we didn’t have the rankings up at some point today but really we are quite a long ways away from most [...]

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Catchers rankings, world series

By On October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I know I haven’t  posted a lot this week but I have been working on Fantasy Bullpen’s catchers rankings and there hasn’t been much news to post about anyway. Over the weekend I will finish the catchers projections, and post the preliminary list here some time on Sunday. It would take to much [...]

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World Series game 1: Hamels vs. Kazmir

By On October 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

For the first time in recent memory I am actually looking forward to watching a world series game. I never like watching the playoffs when the Yankees are out, and with the combination of poor broadcasting and extreme lack of sabermetric involvement watching the world series has been even more painful. This is [...]

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Congrats to the Rays!

By On October 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I am proud to say I believed in the Rays as playoff contenders this spring, but I did not think they had that much of a shot against Boston. I am very glad they proved me wrong. One thing I would like to add about these playoffs from a fantasy perspective is that [...]

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Joba and the Red Sox

By On October 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Sad news for Yankees fans, Joba Chamberlain was arrested for DUI in Nebrakska. The last time this happened within the organization it was Steve Swindle and we all saw his career go up in smoke. Doesn’t seem like Joba is going to miss any time, and I doubt this hurts his development [...]

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Draft kit update!

By On October 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Over the last couple of days (and for the rest of the weekend) I have been working on and will be working on projections for the 2009 draft kit. Right now I’m working to recruit a few other blogs into this project (run a blog, think you can help, email me please!) and [...]

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Another keeper list

By On October 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Ben writes:

Hey Alex,

Was hoping you could help me out with some tough decisions for my keeper league next year. After winning the league twice in a row, my team failed to come together this year, and I ended up throwing the season in about June for some keepers. My league’s specs: [...]

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Looking back: 2005 top 5 prospects

By On October 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

One of the most difficult aspects of fantasy baseball is predicting the performance of rookies and minor leaguers. Very few owners win leagues without rookies, and a lot of them loose leagues because of them. To improve as fantasy owners, we have to look back at the mistakes we have made in the [...]

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Mike Mussina’s HOF case

By On October 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I watched Mike Francesa on YES today. I don’t usually watch something like that, because I know it will result in quite a few nightmares, however it was the only thing on and they were talking about baseball (oh wait, even worse!) So when I turned it on, Francesa and his two guest [...]

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