Father's Day weekend has come and gone but the baseball season continues. That means it's business as usual here at Fantasy Phenoms so let's keep rolling along with our Contact Rate series. This week's installment will focus on the Junior Circuit. Here are the top 15 American League Batting Average leaders along with their respective Contact Rates (AB-K)/AB. 1) Milton Bradley - .330 AVG, ...

Between the story below and Milton Bradley’s ill advised attempts to “introduce himself” to the Royals TV crew , one thing has become perfectly clear : Bob Raissman oughta be looking over his shoulder. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Joe Christensen : The Cleveland Indians dismantled Livan Hernandez and the Twins 12-2 on Thursday night at Progressive Field, ...

So here's the text of what Royals' TV broadcaster Jim Lefebvre said that so totally pissed off Milton Bradley on Wednesday. Bradley, you may recall, heard the comments on the radio in the clubhouse following Wednesday's game, and sprinted up four levels at Kauffman Stadium to dismember "introduce himself" to Lefebvre in the broadcast booth. Fortunately he was intercepted by Rangers' general ...

Okay, this story is a little scary. It seems that the other guy with a funny name, Milton Bradley, is not all quite there and wanted a piece of one of the Royals’ announcers after he heard one of them go on a rant about Milton for “5 minutes” straight. Shoot, he didn’t have to go that far out of his way. How many people even watch a Rangers vs. Royals game? 6, maybe 7 ...

Milton Bradley is the closest he's been in his nine-year Major League Baseball career to being an All-Star. So close that Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw even made a nationally televised appeal on his behalf Wednesday on ESPN's "Around the Horn." The historically volatile Texas Rangers outfielder came into Thursday's play batting a robust .333 with 45 RBIs. Teammate Josh ...

I awoke this morning (OK, afternoon) foolishly believing Carlos Beltran bailing out Billy Wagner after the latter blew a save on behalf of the uncharacteristically-brilliant Mike Pelfrey was Wednesday big baseball story. That was until I’d read the following item from the Dallas Morning News’ Richard Durrett . I’d wondered the other day what were the chances of Texas’ ...

Milton Bradley of the Texas Rangers currently leads the American League in batting average. And he almost beat up an announcer last night in Kansas City. Let’s be frank - the announcer did him dirty: How can you give Josh Hamilton a free pass for his checkered drug history, but continue to crucify the man with the same name as the developer of Monopoly? Intern Bill - who is feverishly ...

As some readers of this blog might know, I lived in Kansas City for three years. Not coincidentally, that's also the same amount of time I spent wondering how Royals announcer Ryan Lefebvre had (and kept) a broadcasting job with a Major League Baseball team. Of course, that was only when I wasn't ignoring him and his mediocre and holier-than-thou broadcasting style. If there was an announcer ...

Milton Bradley of the Rangers went looking for the Royals' play-by-play man Wednesday night after hearing some negative stuff said about him. Yo, Gary Cohen: Be nice to the Diamondbacks today! I'm in my weekly Thursday blogging funk. I'm finally cracking under the pressure. I can't keep up with the full-time bloggers and their NSFW links and their youth and their lack of children ...

News on Milton Bradley, from Thursday's Dallas Morning News . Apparently, he gets to watch the game on tv while DH-ing. Apparently, he didn't like what they were saying about him. And, apparently, he really wanted to say something to Kansas City Royals television broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre about it: "Bradley left the clubhouse after the game and reached the press box but never talked to ...

I was about to preface this post with a protracted discussion about two massive problems affecting the world of celebrity today. On one hand, almost anything a famous person (even a local baseball broadcaster; I'm counting them as celebrity because they have access to audiences of millions) does can be unfairly and wrongly taken as offensive by nearly any person or group of people. But on the ...

From the Associated Press : Milton Bradley stormed out of the Texas Rangers clubhouse after an 11-5 victory Wednesday night over Kansas City and bounded up four flights of stairs looking for Royals television announcer Ryan Lefebvre. Milton Bradley Bradley, who was the designated hitter, heard what he considered derogative remarks made by Lefebvre on a TV in the Rangers clubhouse. Explained ...

It's really a struggle between comical anger versus verifiable rage. Milton Bradley does the stupid kinds of stuff, like throw water bottles, tear his ACL going after an ump, and storming after baseball announcers . Elijah Dukes? You dead, dawg . My sense is that its like Bluto vs. The Incredible Hulk, but I could be wrong. Dukes' trouble has drawn attention from the courts, while ...

He may be named after games but love ain't one to Milton Bradley. Can't the Kansas City Royals see what they're doing to him? They're breaking his heart and making him feel like half the man he used to be. He loves himself so much that it just tears him up inside seeing himself get treated this way. Bradley went postal again after being criticized by Royals announcer Ryan Lefebvre. He ...

When the term “anger management” was coined, I’m sure the person had Milton Bradley in mind. This is a guy who was one of the nicest dudes I’ve ever been around in an MLB clubhouse. But for some reason, he has a short fuse, and when it gets lit, man, does he blow like nobody else. He had yet another uncontrollable blowup following Wednesday night’s game when he ...

It’s such a joy to see that Milton Bradley hasn’t lost his maniacal edge. The same player who flipped out during a Dodgers game ( twice in the same season !) and tore his ACL while arguing with an ump almost outdid himself - by threatening to rip apart a Royals announcer . ( Milton’s heading this way! Run for your lives! ) The FT. WORTH STAR TELEGRAM reports that ...

Sorry for the tardiness, but here is the selections (in order), results, and standings after Week 5. Scores: 1. Zach Piso, MLB Front Office - Rich Harden: 9 Michael Young: 0 2. Commish, Fantasy Baseball Geeks - Ervin Santana: 10.165 Garrett Atkins: 3 3. Adam Ronis, Newsday - Roy Halladay: 9.835 Milton Bradley: 5 4. Grey, Razzball - Aaron Harang: -.34 Johnny Damon: 6 5. Mike Muschiano, ...

Welcome back to another edition of Hot or Not. We've got Hotness, we've got Notness, and we've got an emotional good-bye to...Billy Butler. Let's get to it. Hot Bats Milton Bradley Stats over the last 7 days: 5 HR, 4 SB, .478 BA If the Texas Rangers were a woman, they'd be the one that always dates Guys With Problems, convinced that they can save them. Amazingly, it's paying off - ...

#1 this week is brought to you by Milton Bradley. Not the board game company, but the Texas Ranger’s DH who hit 6 HRs this week with 14 runs scored while knocking in 12 RBIs, swiping 4 bases and hitting .464 with an OBP of .615 That was more than 10 points better than the next [...]

Fantasy Baseball Dugout’s Player of the Week awards are given to the top statistical hitter and pitcher in fantasy baseball during a standard fantasy week (Monday - Sunday). A standard 5×5 league is used for scoring to determine the top players (runs scored, homeruns, RBI, steals, batting average for hitters; wins, saves, strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP [...]