16 Mar
I’ve updated the 2013 Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitcher Guide . I have edited the sections on:
For more information, visit: http://www.thefantasyfix.com/2013/03/2013-fantasy-baseball-relief-pitcher-guide-updated-3-15/.
14 Mar
2013 Fantasy Baseball Head-to-Head Catcher Rankings and Preview for Fantasy Pros 911: http://fp911.com/2013-fantasy-baseball-head-to-head-catcher-rankings-preview/.
For a brief tutorial on how to use my head-to-head ranks, please visit here. For all of my in-depth rankings breakdowns, please visit http://fp911.com/author/albertlang/. For spreadsheets of rankings visit here.
Why I (generally) Avoid Catchers: Given the lack of consistent at bats and injury concerns at the position, I tend to hate drafting catchers early (so they are typically inordinately low on my board). It’s not hard to get top 5-10 catchers at the end of the draft or even off the wire. I’ve never owned Joe Mauer or Victor Martinez (aside from his under-the-radar breakout year in 2004). Read the full article here.
8 Mar
I’ve updated the 2013 Relief Pitcher Guide and made it free to everyone via the Fantasy Fix. I have improved on the Trevor Rosenthal, Derek Lowe and Jenrry Mejia sections. For the updates/additions, check out http://www.thefantasyfix.com/2013/03/2013-fantasy-baseball-relief-pitcher-guide-updated-3-7/.
5 Mar
Shamar, man, that dude is not long for the game. Did he learn nothing in the military? Why is he so flappable? You were in Iraq, holy crap man. Reynold needs to keep needling him. Only chance he has.
Eddie comes off as a moron, so glad I went Eddie-Reynold-Shamar wow.
Could they just put Brandon and Shamar on an island and see what happens? What did they use to do? Exile island or something?
Reynold just needle Shamar, only chance you got. Man this tall older woman is smart. She’s like Cirie, real smart but no one pays attention to her. Her name is Sherri even! Heck! When do you think you start knowing people’s names in survivor. There are still 18 of them and I can’t keep the newbies straight, they’re all blond.
How do you think the military feels that Shamar was just compared to a snotty-nosed teenager and is about ready to quit?
He is just coming up with excuses for when he loses now, disheartening? Bitch, please.
Phillip just described his basketball game with “double dribble” and “nothing but air” — not exactly basketball savant attributes.
Man, we slept on Malcolm. Damn. I think I’m rooting for Malcolm, and I don’t even own him, at least Corinne is playing him.
These discover credit card commercials are horrible. Here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am13QuDpokk. CBS sure knows how to pack commercials into online content.
A Pavarti sighting– how is her real last name actually shallow?
I love Cochran. Change my mind, want him to win.
Most people don’t like Corinne–she is a bitch and like crazy. At least that’s my memory. You have Corinne, LOLOLOLOL!!!! I was not drafting her.
That said, Andrea playing way too hard right now, hey-Zeus. Andrea really thought telling Brandon was a good idea? He’s not stable.
Still Brandon makes a lot of threats. I don’t recall him actually peeing in rice, right? He hasn’t burned people’s shoes like Russell. God I love Russell. I miss him.
I bet Shamar quits (written before Shamar talks about quitting). He’s a drama queen. Pure and simple. The looks on his tribes-mates face when he tells them about his issues seems like what the surreal life cast looked like when they read the mystery celebs rap sheet—-it was Jose Canseco. Then Janice Dickinson got all up in his business.
I don’t want to make fun of Shamar anymore. War is hard, I imagine. Shamar’ll do the right thing and fall on his sword at some point. Good dude.
Reynold calling him out on it but no one could possibly know what Shamar is dealing with. Stress can do all sorts of things.
Erik gonna dominate this challenge.
These combo immunity-rewards really skew the fantasy points given how uneven our teams are. Go newbies!
Why didn’t Cochrane learn to swim? What the hell? I kind of thought he’d do some training, he had to know in the back of his mind he might be back on at some point.
How did the fans take lead? Weird. Seems like someone could drown doing this.
Damn it fans—carry that stupid thing out the water.
Reynold can throw things. Maybe he played in the NBA with Philip? Why did they switch tossers so often? You’d think one person would be better. Damn it Eddie. You suck.
I still think Eddie goes home. But who knows?
You are beating me badly. Yikes. Knew I should’ve gone Erik first.
Wait, I change mind. Eddie’s boo goes home, whoever it is. Laura? Nope Laura is the weak one. Hope, that’s her name.
Hope should have been able to figure out the plan on her own. Clearly they’ll split the vote and she’d have to vote for Eddie and she would be fine. I have Hope, Eddie, Shamar and Reynold, so I’m screwed regardless. For his sake, I kind of hope Shamar goes. But, still, Hope was an idiot, why not save yourself? Then it’s just you and Reynold on one side with an idol….
Sherri needs a lower profile, she smart.
How is Reynold allowed to just keep the idol? Very odd.
It’s Shamar, right? This gonna be epic. Or Shamar will just feel relieved.
It probably should have been Hope, but it is what it is.
You are going to kill me in this. Yikes
Wow a 3 way tie!!!!!! Blows my mind. Surprised the Shamar stuff didn’t work. Sherri got control of folks? Hope is the smart one to get rid of. Shamar isn’t weak and is a perpetual scapegoat. They’re good to have around–malcontents have a purpose.
Good season so far. I have the points from one more eliminated player and am still losing.
Sherri and Eddie fight, not good for me.
Bryan: 49 (9 Players); Me: 39 (8 Players)
5 Mar
I’ve updated the 2013 Relief Pitcher Guide and made it free to everyone via the Fantasy Fix. You’ll get about 42,000 words on mostly relievers and how they might fit into saves, holds, K/9 and other types of leagues.
For cliff notes, check out here and here, which focused on some sleeper candidates including Rhiner Cruz, Kelvin Herrera, Carter Capps, Esmil Rogers, Junichi Tazawa, Jake McGee, Tommy Hunter, Cory Burns, A.J. Ramos, Fernando Salas, Josh Edgin, Nick Vincent, Brad Brach, Zach Stewart, Chris Leroux, Raul Valdes, and Adam Ottavino. I also went into some potentially volatile bull pen situations and which relievers might gain value in head-to-head leagues here.
For full details read the article at http://www.thefantasyfix.com/2013/03/2013-updated-relief-pitcher-guide/.
5 Mar
2013 Fantasy Baseball Head-to-Head Third Basemen Rankings & Preview for Fantasy Pros 911.
For a brief tutorial on how to use my head-to-head ranks, please visit here. For all of my in-depth rankings breakdowns, please visit http://fp911.com/author/albertlang/. For spreadsheets of rankings visit here.
Mark Reynolds (#118 Hitter, #27 1B, #15 3B) was covered in the first basemen preview here.
In the minors, Mike Moustakas (#137 Hitter, #16 3B) was a power dynamo, slugging 36 HRs between AA and AAA in 2010. He seemed to get his stroke back at the beginning of 2012, socking 15 HRs in the first half, but finished with just 20 total bombs.
For the rest of the preview, visit FP911: http://fp911.com/2013-fantasy-baseball-head-to-head-third-basemen-rankings-preview/
1 Mar
For a brief tutorial on how to use my head-to-head ranks, please visit here. For all of my in-depth rankings breakdowns, please visit http://fp911.com/author/albertlang/. For spreadsheets of rankings visit here.
Even with Dan Uggla’s (#52 Hitter, #6 2B) disastrous 2012, he has the 17th most HRs since 2010 – that’s among all hitters, not just second basemen. Among second basemen, he has the second most HRs, is tied for the fourth most runs, and has the second most RBIs since 2010.
Read the full article here: http://fp911.com/2013-fantasy-baseball-head-to-head-second-basemen-rankings-preview/.
26 Feb
For a brief tutorial on how to use my head-to-head ranks, please visit here. For all of my in-depth rankings breakdowns, please visit http://fp911.com/author/albertlang/. For spreadsheets of rankings visit here.
As noted elsewhere in this series, my rankings value consistent players who have put up numbers for the past three seasons. As such, it should be no surprise that I am, once again, one of the highest on Paul Konerko (#27 Hitter, #5 1B). Since 2010, Konerko is tied for the eighth most HRs, has the 14th most RBIs and owns the 14th best batting average among all qualified hitters. Of course, he is living off a pretty impressive 2010 (39 HRs) and has seen his HR total decline from that high to 31 to 26 last season. Not surprisingly his HR/FB rate has been on a downward trend as well, while his ground balls have been increasing.
Read the full analysis at FP911: http://fp911.com/2013-fantasy-baseball-head-to-head-first-basemen-rankings-preview/
21 Feb
Beware the Hype Machine: Paul Goldschmidt for the Fantasy Fix. At the tender age of 24, Paul Goldschmidt batted .286/.359/.490 with 20 HRs and 18 SBs (against just three caught stealings). He scored and knocked in 82 runs in just 145 games. This followed up a somewhat impressive debut in 2011, during which he socked eight dingers in just 48 games. Read more at: http://www.thefantasyfix.com/2013/02/beware-the-hype-machine-paul-goldschmidt/
21 Feb
2013 Fantasy Baseball Head-to-Head Outfield Rankings & Preview for Fantasy Pros 911. My approach to outfielders in the head-to-head format, with thoughts on Carlos Gonzalez, B.J. Upton, Shin-soo Choo, Hunter Pence, Drew Stubbs, Chris Young, Nick Markakis, Matt Joyce, Denard Span, Norichika Aoki, Carlos Gomez, Michael Saunders, Lorenzo Cain, Adam Eaton, Darin Mastroianni, Collin Cowgill, Jarrod Dyson and more.
Read it all at: http://fp911.com/2013-fantasy-baseball-head-to-head-outfield-rankings-preview/.
h2h Corner 