Its a Roto Friday

With most auction drafts either underway or about to get started soon, here are some tips that might help you out.
Over at Tout Wars , they have the results of their draft including auction values NL.
USA Today which covers the League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR) has their feature article on the 2007 LABR [...]

The Unexpected Happenings of Spring

The magic of spring training. Each year as roster decision time comes around, there are moves made as spring winds down where we scratch our heads and say we didn’t see that coming, or who in the %$&% is that? Here is my list of spring surprises:

Mark Prior starting for your AAA Cubs
Alejandro De [...]

Cat in the Hat AL East Edition

The Yankee Opening Day nightmare
Dice-K rare bad Outing edition. Though, no run given up.
Alot of bad news coming out of Oriole camp.
The final rosters decisions in Toronto
Several years later, Edwin Jackson has finally landed.

Top 10 of Baseball Blogs and more

Here is the baseball blogs who are rated top 10 material.
Here is the Diamond Backs FAQ that was written prior to the Julio trade. Petit the pitcher the D-Backs received has been known for his deceptive delivery. So deceptive, he is with his third organization.

You want BP with that?

Where has your father’s Sports Illustrated gone? I’d have to say with the addition of Nate Silver and the BP commentary wedged between the pages of SI (and even online), you might have me hooked. Just don’t tell Murray Chass.
Now, do we trust Vegas or BP. Interesting that BP is picking the Devil Rays [...]

Cutdown Day: There’s No Crying In Baseball

There is one week of each of the major league team getting down to the their final 25 man roster, and for each player that does not make the cut I remind you of this.
If there is one guy who has been battling for years to make it to the show, there is one that [...]

UsaToday “LABR Draft” Issue Is Out

The must have issue of the fantasy season is finally out. I check it out every year as the LABR draft numbers is what I like to see.

I see that you can buy it online for $1.50, but it forces you to spend $5.00 credit first, which i don’t like so much.
Tape Measure Blasts:

New offerings [...]

Matt Murton Dollar Values

Yesterday, I discussed the Cubs crowded outfield. With many roto drafts approaching I thought would survey what people are saying Murton is worth (NL Only).
Matt Murton $14 - fantasybaseballchampionship
Matt Murton $10 - MLB.com
Matt Murton 14.97 - Player Forecast Manager (13 teams,170$H,$90P)
Matt Murton $11 - Fantasy Baseball Index
Matt Murton $14 - Rotowire
Matt Murton $11 - [...]

Tale of three Cubs Left Fielders

I’d say there is not position battle in all of baseball that is muddled the way the Cubs outfield is. It was early in camp that Lou Piniella went out on a limb and stated that Felix Pie has no room in the Cub’s outfield.
It was last season that Alfonso Soriano was kicking [...]

The Return of Sir Helton

Just a few years ago Todd Helton was the class of the baseball scene . He had the power of Jeff Bagwell, the sweet swing of Mark Grace, and glove of Keith Hernandez. This combination proved to make him one of the best players in baseball. However, in the background you always heard that if [...]