Minor League Watch: Five Guys Ready for Promotion

How far into the season is it fair to sit down, and really take a hard look at a players statistics? Depends who you ask. The New York media would like to put that somewhere around the fifth inning of opening day. Most fans really start to pay attention a month into the season. Statically [...]

Time To Make a Move

It’s May 16th. The baseball season is nearly a fourth of the way over. And if you’re like me, the seasons hasn’t been too kind so far. I was doing fine in my AL league, until Nelson Cruz and Brett Anderson went on the DL. I lost a dozen points, and now I’m in the [...]

Suprise Performances: Silva, Millwood, and Livan.

Who would have guessed that on April 20th, Livan Herandnez and Carlos Silva would be first and second in the Major Leagues in ERA. Early season surprises are to be expected. But we are now at the point where most starters have made their third start of the season. While three starts is not a [...]

Roberts, Hill to DL

A day into the second week of the 2010 Major League season, and several teams are dealing with serious injuries in their middle infield. The Baltimore Orioles have placed Brian Roberts on the DL, retroactive to Friday, with a strained abdomen. Roberts has been dealing with pain from a herniated disk since the spring, an [...]

Francisco Out, Feliz In

On Friday, I addressed the Rangers bullpen situation: Frank Francisco has had a rough start to the season. After picking up his first save Monday, he imploded against the Blue Jays on Thursday, giving up 3 runs in two thirds of an inning. He’s got two years worth of performance indicating that he can be [...]

Closer Watch: Week 1

Less than a week into the season and we already have a few closers on the hot seat. Already, 22 pitchers have a blown save, and two have multiple blown saves. So who’s going to turn it around? Who isn’t? Who’s going to take their jobs? We have to start with Baltimore’s Mike Gonzalez. Gonzalez, [...]

Jones, Ethier, and Hill Out of Lineup

A few days into the regular season and we already have our first few major injuries, though none looks like a DL-stint yet. Chipper Jones, Andre Ethier, and Aaron Hill will be out of the lineup on Friday, after missing time yesterday due to various ailments. Chipper Jones left Thursday’s game against Chicago in the [...]

Can Garrett Jones Keep It Up?

Last June the Pittsburgh Pirates traded Eric Hinske to the New York Yankees. In order to fill his roster spot, Neal Huntington called up a 28 year old career minor leaguer by the name of Garrett Jones. Jones was a career .252 hitter in the minor leagues, but his .307/.348/.502 line at AAA earned him [...]

An NL-Only Auction

Last week I went over my AL-Only team, so today I’ll take a look at my NL-only roster. The auction was last night. This is an 11-team, 5×5 roto league. My strategy going in was to spend most of my budget on hitters. I wanted to come out of the draft with at least one [...]

An AL-Only Auction

Every year I end up in quite a few leagues, but it seems like a single league always rises to the top, commanding my attention more than any other from April through September. Last year, that league was the AL only, self proclaimed “Cafe Experts League.” The league is standard. Well at least it is [...]

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