So it’s our second player versus player challenge and after your overwhelmingly positive response to our last poll, we thought we would stick with the baseball theme but move to the mound this time with two guys who are up and coming baseball stars.

You’ve got Hoffman closing games, you’ve got Heath Bell setting up, and you’ve got the Padres a dime under .500. That’d be fine if it were 1996, but with Hoffman toeing the horizon, something’s going to change.

Aaron Hill is the 5′11″ version of David Wright. And he plays second base. Wright, who’s the superior power hitter, has one inch and fifteen pounds on Hill. And those vitals are enough to make the difference between 20 and 30 HR/season.

Pitchers are supposed to peak at 30, 31.

Well, Brett’s 27 now. And he’s regressing. He’s getting bad. He’d getting awful. For crissakes, he’s worse than Kyle Lohse!

I love these articles on ESPN and might have some worthwhile comments later, but I totally encourage your to read this article it’s a great look inside Japanese baseball. Go ahead and check it out.

It’s twenty-seven (27) games into the season and while it is too early to pass judgment on players, there are certain ones that are worth at least taking a look at. Tampa Bay Ray Evan Longoria is one of those players.

With Mike Pelfrey debuting yesterday - and a Seth McClung/Pelfrey deal NOT looming on the horizon - it seems appropriate to offer a scouting report on the guy who’s suddenly become significant in ‘06 now that Lima-time is over.
So, I’ll start with the basics. Pelfrey, the 9th overall pick in the 2005 draft, played [...]

The interesting thing about Eddie Guardado’s career as a reliever is that he was actually pretty bad over his first eight seasons. Until his 45 save campaign in ‘02, Eddie had never posted a sub-3.5 ERA. He was just your average, 90-92 mph fastball, left-handed reliever. Then, in 2000, his ERA started dropping. He went [...]

At 6′3″, 210, Brad Hawpe’s got a power-hitter’s body. He’s got a career .317 minor league average, and a career .547 minor league slugging percentage . He’s even got a decent 317:194 K:BB ratio.
So is he for real? Well, in ‘04 he went .322/31 HR/86 RBI for AAA-Colorado Springs. In ‘02 he went .327/22/97 [...]

Following up on my last post about why your league should have a minor league draft, I thought it would be pertinent to discuss why I chose to take Daisuke Matsuzaka in the second round of my Fantasy Baseball league’s minor league draft this year.
While it is true that the World Baseball Classic MVP will [...]

The fantasy owner who can take a rational approach to prospects is about as rare as a GOP convention without booze. Everyone scours the ‘Net looking for Top 10 lists, and hyped kids like Jeremy Hermida end up going for double-digits in auction leagues. But let’s cool down and take a step back from the [...]