Cameron Maybin vs Jordan Schafer

Posted on March 31, 2025 by davidbloom

In my recent keeper league player draft, where we draft NL minor league prospects, I had the choice where I could either select Cameron Maybin or Jordan Schafer. In looking at both players, they both have a clear path on their way to the major leagues. In Maybin, the stop gap for the [...]

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The Spring Position Battles: Its a Wrap!

Posted on March 28, 2025 by davidbloom

One of the interesting things about spring training is the old statement that spring numbers do not matter. We are told to not use spring statistics as a measure of success in the regular season. I can partially buy into that statement. But, why is it that position battles are won or lost based on [...]

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The Offseason Wayback Machine

Posted on March 27, 2025 by davidbloom

Over the past few months we have spent way to much time writing about baseball. In case you missed it, here is a quick rundown from the baseball happenings archives.
The Baseball Blogfathers :

Aaron Gleeman
Rich Lederer
Dave Pinto

Kearns Alarming Number of Ground Balls
Yeah, Brian Roberts, But You Win With Mark DeRosa
Upward Spiral For Hanley ?
Anthony Young [...]

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Its Draft Season

Posted on March 26, 2025 by davidbloom

Excuse me for being in hibernation mode lately, I was on the road this past weekend for a NL Only Fantasy Keeper Auction draft. On Monday Night, I participated in the 1st annual Greener on The Other Side Experts League draft.
The field of other owners included Adam Ronis of Newsday, Jordan Frank of Roto [...]

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The Longoria Chronicles

Posted on March 24, 2025 by davidbloom

The word on the street is that your Tampa Bay Rays plan on shipping their number one pick Evan Longoria down to minor leagues. The reason they want him to play for the Durham Bulls (which is right in my backyard) has nothing to do with his track record, or his performance this spring.
Mr. Sterneberg [...]

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NL LABR Reserves

Posted on March 21, 2025 by davidbloom

A year from now, it will be interesting to look back at the reserves you picked in your drafts and see that sleeper player you either stole, or wish you would have picked because you had the chance. What follows are all the current N.L. LABR reserves:

Fred Lewis SF RESER (OF)
Trot Nixon ARZ RESER (OF)
Zach [...]

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Friday March 20 Tape Measure Blasts

Posted on March 20, 2025 by davidbloom

Here I look at quality pieces I have come across the past few days.

Voros Interviewed
Dodger Sim’s Top 10
Sabermetrics table (H/T Roto Advice)
Bob Costas slams Blogosphere, and the retraction
Bill James 17th Law on a good AAA team
Tampa Bay Rays are Like Movie Juno
Zito in 100 words

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5 Boys Of Summer with Hot Spring Numbers

Posted on March 20, 2025 by davidbloom

I know I have heard the tune over and over that Spring training numbers do not matter. But, many roster decisions are determined by how many of these players perform in the Cactus or the Grapefruit league. There are players in camps now that are turning heads and forcing many GMs to rethink their final [...]

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Introducing the MLB BlogPoll

Posted on March 19, 2025 by davidbloom

The basic outline is this:
Every week, we rank the MVP, CY Young, and Rookie of Year (rotating between American and National League each week) candidates 1-3, with 1 being the best and 3 being the worst.
In summary, we are voting for the Cy Young, Most Valuable Player, and Rookie of [...]

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UsaToday “LABR Draft” Issue 2008 Is Out

Posted on March 18, 2025 by davidbloom

The 2008 League of Alternate Baseball Reality (LABR)
We the people of the League of Alternate Baseball Reality (LABR), in
order to promote the great game of fantasy baseball, prove all GMs
idiots and obtain the biggest bragging rights in the nation do ordain
and establish this constitution of the League of Alternate Baseball
Reality.
has been covered here in snippet [...]

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