Category: BASEBALL

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By Dalton Del Don As a 34-year-old constantly dealing with knee injuries playing half his games in a park tough to homer in, Carlos Beltran wasn’t exactly a target of mine entering 2011. Not only has he managed to stay healthy, he’s hit about as well as any point in his career so far this…

By Dalton Del Don Anibal Sanchez has recorded just two wins and currently sports a 3.46 ERA with a pedestrian 1.34 WHIP, but he’s become quite interesting if you look deeper. After posting an 11:0 K:BB ratio against the Nationals during his last start, he’s now fanned 43 batters over 41.2 innings this season. Like…

By Dalton Del Don Ubaldo Jimenez is off to a rough start this season, and many are concerned about his drop in velocity (his average fastball is down from 96.1 mph last year to 92.5 mph so far this year), and his control has been downright awful (4.95 BB/9), but I view him as much…

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By Dalton Del Don After an 0-for-5 game Wednesday, Hanley Ramirez’s average is down to .197 on the year, and he’s yet to homer and has been caught stealing as often as he’s been successful (three). As someone who was drafted as a top-three pick in almost every fantasy league, I’d be stating the obvious…

By Dalton Del Don It’s easy to say Jose Tabata is playing over his head and unlikely to finish with his current .303/.410/.500 line, but fantasy owners have to be excited in what they have nevertheless. Maybe the spring training stories about him bulking up over winter should have been taken more seriously, as he’s…

By Dalton Del Don WESTERN CONFERENCE SPURS over Grizzlies 4-1. NUGGETS over Thunder 4-2. MAVERICKS over Trail Blazers 4-3. LAKERS over Hornets 4-1. EASTERN CONFERENCE BULLS over Pacers 4-0. MAGIC over Hawks 4-0. CELTICS over Knicks 4-1. HEAT over 76ers 4-0. ROUND TWO SPURS over Nuggets 4-3. LAKERS over Mavericks 4-1. BULLS over Magic 4-3.…

By Dalton Del Don It sure was nice to see Tommy Hanson deliver seven scoreless innings Tuesday, because his start to the season was becoming a bit worrisome. Not so much the 6.00 ERA but the continued downward trend with his strikeout rate. After posting a 9.2 K/9 through July last year, Hanson fanned just…

By Dalton Del Don As someone who owns Ubaldo Jimenez in WCOF, watching his first start of the season was a brutal experience. It’s never fun getting burned in ERA right out of the gate (don’t panic Cole Hamels owners), but that was far from the biggest issue here. After his fastball averaged 96.1 mph…

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Before we get started, make sure you didn’t miss my latest “Scoop” (I say this because I’m making a rare two posts in one day). N.L. West 1. San Francisco Giants 2. Los Angeles Dodgers (wild card) 3. Colorado Rockies 4. San Diego Padres 5. Arizona Diamondbacks N.L. Central 1. Cincinnati Reds 2. Milwaukee Brewers…

By Dalton Del Don Alex Gordon has a line of .244/.328/.405 over nearly 1,500 career at-bats in the major leagues, but thanks to a white hot spring (1.188 OPS) he’s back on the fantasy radar. The former No. 2 overall pick isn’t really a sleeper and don’t expect him to be available super late in…

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By Dalton Del Don Over the past three seasons, Alex Rodriguez has averaged 31.6 homers, 109.3 RBI and 12 steals while batting .286, which looks even better when you consider he’s also missed an average of 29 games per year over that span. He’s in the decline phase at age 35, but he also benefits…

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By Dalton Del Don Hanley Ramirez versus Troy Tulowitzki is a pretty good debate entering the year. Ramirez is coming off arguably the worst season of his career, yet he still ranked as the 17th most valuable hitter according to Baseball Monster, and that’s without adjusting for position scarcity. He saw his batting average drop…

Via The New York Times.

By Dalton Del Don I bought Rickie Weeks for $20 in LABR over the weekend, which is something I had absolutely no preconceived notion of doing so. In fact, I’d argue this is the wrong time to buy Weeks, who is coming off a career-year in which he played 130 games for the first time…

Looks like I’m going to start writing for the New York Times. This can’t last long.