Post-Draft Review: The Rest

Since it’s Cinco de Mayo, and the season (in America) began back in the last week of March, I think it’s time to just rip through the last 3 teams, Angry Anteaters, Cy Hughesand Jeff Kent’s Mustache. I’ll start with Jeff Kent’s Mustache.
Mustache had OK keepers, excluding Orlando Cabrera, but his draft was hampered by looming [...]

Trade Critique

Lecherous Goldenberg Trades Jonathan Sanchez, Adam Wainwright, and Kerry Wood to Cy Hughes for Curtis Granderson.
McJunk’s take: This is the first midseason big name trade of the season. It seems that Lecherous Goldenberg will take a little bit of a hit to his pitching staff as he gives up his best pitcher to date (Wainwright) [...]

Post-Draft Review: 40oz to Farney

Farney, who has subsequently renamed himself Lecherous Goldenberg to simultaneously show off his superior fantasy vocabulary and poke fun at the irony of a frat brother that was the opposite of lecherous, had a pretty decent draft. Getting Chipper Jones in the first round will provide strong power and OBP numbers for the 450 ABs a year that he’s [...]

Post-Draft Review: The Cuddle Rapers

The 2008 draft went OK for the Cuddle Rapers. Building on his tremendous hitting core of Pujols, Holliday and Rollins, Rapers needed to address pitching while waiting for Scott Kazmir to recover. With Verlander in tow, and a second outfield slot filled by Godzilla, Rapers only really needed to go after 2B, 3B and the best available [...]

League Update

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b2/746
Lecherous Goldenberg (formerly 40oz to Farney) is off to a good start, with 109 total points.
Can he hang on? Is this his year, after so many disappointing seasons, questionable trades, and mediocre waiver pickups?
With such a big lead, there is a good chance he will be able to hang on to the lead like Goldenberg’s grip [...]

Jon Miller: Prototypical HOF Wingman

Jon Miller, radio voice of the San Francisco Giants and play-by-play man for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, is much more than a silky mic guy…his obvious potential as a world-class wingman has gone unnoticed for far too long…

Post-Draft Review: RA Dickey Dicks

RA Dickey Dicks’ draft went well. Considering his team, I can’t single out a truly questionable pick until the 12th round. With Dunn, Berkman, Lee and Roberts there was speed and power to build on, and with Dice-K and Francisco Cordero, the team had a good start on wins and ks. Cordero was of questionable keeper quality.

Post-Draft Review: Wally Backman

I like Wally Backman’s team. He definitely drafts with a different strategy from mine, but he always ends September with a competitive team. Even considering he finished 4th last season, I think this year’s iteration is improved.

Post-Draft Review: Dynasty Killas

Dynasty Killas draft was somewhat victimized by overthinking. While attempting to find good value Killas failed to anticipate correctly on a number of draft selections and ended up with a competitive team, but not the best team.

Objective Rankings: Hitters

Hey ya’ll.  OK, we know PECOTA isn’t perfect.  I admit some projections seem a bit odd.   But the projections are consistent, and the larger the sample size, the closer they will likely be.
As I said before, if anybody would like my spreadsheets, they can fill in values from another source, like RotoWorld or ESPN or [...]