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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Tim Lincecum
As we continue to profile the 2009 postseason award winners for their 2010 fantasy baseball prospectus, it’s time to examine next season outlook for NL Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum. “The Freak” managed to win his second consecutive Cy Young award despite getting the second ...
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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Zack Greinke
Kansas City Royals ace and 2009’s top fantasy baseball pitcher Zack Greinke won the AL Cy Young award Tuesday in convincing fashion over Seattle’s Felix Hernandez and Detroit’s Justin Verlander. Greinke was typically drafted in rounds 7 through 9 in mixed league fantasy ...
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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Andruw Jones
We identified Andruw Jones as a fantasy baseball sleeper two months before the 2009 season. Coming off the season that Jones had in 2008, it’s hard to imagine him as anything but a sleeper. At age 32, it was questionable that he would even make a major league roster after his disastrous ...
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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Andrew Bailey
On Monday, Oakland Athletics closer Andrew Bailey won the 2009 AL Rookie of the Year Award. Bailey received 13 first place votes and held off Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus and Tigers starter Rick Porcello to claim the award. The 2009 All-Star was one of the top sleepers to emerge in 2009 ...
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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Chris Coghlan
Chris Coghlan burst onto the fantasy baseball scene in the second half of the season and played well enough to edge out Fantasy Baseball Dugout-favorite J.A. Happ for the 2010 NL Rookie of the Year. Like many of you in cruise control mode during fantasy baseball’s second half, we slept on ...
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FAKE TEST: Lyle Overbay – Dbacks Trade
Over the weekend, rumors started circulating that Lyle Overbay was on his way to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for catcher Chris Snyder. Trade talks hit a snag on Monday, but XDAY the deal was finalized. In addition to Overbay and Snyder swapping squads, THIS HAPPENED. Acquiring Snyder ...
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2010 Hottest Baseball Wife Nominee: Shanda Lee Munson
Friend of Fantasy Baseball Dugout Dave Skipper (if that’s his real name) dropped us a line yesterday telling us that we need to add Shanda Lee Munson into our group of hottest baseball wives nominated for the vote in 2010. Shanda is a model and actress who has had roles in Remember The ...
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DeRosa Likely to Replace Feliz in Philly
When you look at the Phillies lineup, there aren’t a lot of weak spots. But, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. is not one to stand pat. So, when third baseman Pedro Feliz’s option for 2010 was not renewed, it was no great surprise in the City of Brotherly Love. Pedro Feliz is not a ...
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Week 4 Arizona Fall League Cheat Sheet
Below is a list of the top five hitters and pitchers currently playing in the 2009 Arizona Fall League in each standard 5×5 fantasy baseball category. We are now a month into the Arizona Fall League, and the league championship is only 10 days away. For fantasy baseball experts, watching the ...
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Fantasy Baseball Effects of the J.J. Hardy / Carlos Gomez Trade
The first trade of the young offseason involving multiple players with fantasy baseball relevance went down today. J.J. Hardy was dealt to the Minnesota Twins straight up in exchange for speed demon outfielder Carlos Gomez. Now, forgive both teams if you wouldn’t have made this deal in ...
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Strat-O-Matic Honors Negro Leagues
In a past post, we talked about the History of Fantasy Baseball and how Strat-O-Matic Baseball played a great role in the development of the game we know today. Nearly all middle-aged men baseball fans of today played Strat-O-Matic in their formative years. It was how they learned about ...
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Fantasy Baseball Effects Of The Trading Season Kickoff
With the World Series coming to an end (congrats to the Yanks), the trading season has officially kicked off. Get ready to follow new players to new locations for the next four months. By the way, there’s only 104 days left until the Tampa Bay Rays pitchers and catchers report to Florida ...
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Fantasy Baseball Profile: Jayson Werth
Jayson Werth is having quite an extraordinary postseason. He has now blasted 7 homeruns this postseason, including two last night in the 8-5 loss to the Yankees. Werth is now tied with Troy Glaus and B.J. Upton, and one homerun behind Barry Bonds and Carlos Beltran for tops on the list of ...
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World Series Ratings
  Yankee great Yogi Berra was escorted to the mound by First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden. Beautiful ladies. And Yogi’s cool too. The country seems to love this Phillies vs. Yankees match-up. No doubt, the Fox Network loves it! Game one of the World Series on ...
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2009 Philadelphia Phillies Ballgirls Photos
Last year, Fantasy Baseball Dugout unveiled some great photos of the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies Ballgirls. And because we live in a world where everything revolves around us, we fully believe that our publishing of the ballgirls photos inspired the team to win the World Series. As the 2009 World ...
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Hey Hey Hey its Phat Albert Again
Prior to the beginning of the 2009 fantasy baseball season, we told you that the best pick in the 2009 fantasy baseball draft was Albert Pujols. Pujols has been the best player of the decade and while there were sexier picks prior to the start of the season, Fantasy Baseball Dugout reasoned ...
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Liverpool FC Tickets
There are two Premiere League teams in England that immediately come to mind to most Americans: Manchester United and Liverpool FC. Us Americans don’t follo that soccer dere too closely, yet ManU and Liverpool don’t ever seem to have trouble selling tickets here across the pond. ...
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Get Cheap Sports Tickets To Major Events
Baseball season is winding down… so what are a bunch of fantasy baseball experts to do when they wanna check out some live sports action? Since we don’t have any major connections at professional sports organizations outside of baseball, we have to use other means to get access to ...
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Caught Looking
Steve Phillips, the analysts on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and former GM of the New York Mets, has been called out. Phillips was having a torrid affair with 22-year-old production assistant Brooke Hundley (pictured). According to Hundley, the couple had been involved in sexually heated ...
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Why Sports is So Important
BallparkBob is reporting today from Liverpool, England. Today was a big day. It was the culmination of a trade show that I attended in England. Needless to say, I was up until 1 am at the final closing party for the show watching a band called The Cheatles. You guessed it; what better band 40 ...
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