First Half Fantasy All Star Team

Baseball’s All-Star game is tonight meaning there is no more appropriate time to recognize those players who have done the most for their fantasy owners over the course of the first half of the season. Here is a position-by-position look at the top fantasy players from each league so far.
Catcher
National League – Brian McCann, Braves
McCann [...]

First-Half Surprises

Every baseball season there are some players who seemingly come out of nowhere and make a sizeable fantasy splash. You know, they’re the guys who, upon reviewing the box scores, make you wonder aloud why you did all that preseason prep work. The guys who usually sent you scurrying to your league’s free agency pool [...]

Tweaking the All-Star Selection Process

Well, the people (fans, players, and coaches) have spoken and the 2008 major league baseball All-Star teams have been announced. In terms of those who deserve to be in New York City for this year’s Midsummer Classic, many of the selections were right on the money. Others, not so much. Still others (Jason Varitek, Kosuke [...]

The End for Smoltz?

John Smoltz says he wants to pitch again, but at 41 years of age and facing a lengthy rehab following the season ending shoulder surgery he will have next week, it seems unlikely. I wouldn’t put anything past the guy, though. After all, he’s come back from four previous elbow surgeries and was [...]

All-Star Update

Major League Baseball has released the updated balloting figures for the 79th All-Star game, which is to be played July 15th at Yankee Stadium. As a fantasy baseball maven who thinks he knows which players are most deserving of being called “All-Stars,” I have my strong opinions on the matter; and, as always, [...]

Will Manny Get to 600?

Manny Ramirez became the 24th member of baseball’s 500-home run club on Saturday. In light of him reaching the prestigous milestone, Inside Edge asked me to write an analysis of Manny’s chances of reaching 600 or even 700 home runs for Yahoo!
Here is a snippet from the column I wrote, followed by [...]

Uggla vs. Utley

When I filled out my online All-Star ballot for the first of 25 times this season the other day, checking the box next to the Phillies Chase Utley as NL second baseman seemed like a no-brainer. A quick review of the numbers that Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla is producing, however, suggests [...]

My All-Star Ballot

I admit it, I’m a sucker for Major League Baseball’s All-Star game. I can count on one hand the number of times I have ever missed the game on TV. Why, I remember that I once got mad at my Little League coach when he had the gall to schedule a practice that [...]