Week 3 Fantasy Stock Market: The Chandler Parsons Project
With three weeks in the books, hopefully your fantasy team has been able to carve out more wins than the Washington Wizards’ real team. Just in case you haven’t, there is still plenty of time left in the season to invest wisely and turn this ship around. Which is more than can be said of […]
Three Ways to Avoid Thursday Night Fantasy Disaster
The populist movement known as #FreeCJSpiller reached its apex a couple weeks ago, when the electrifying Buffalo Bills running back was averaging more than seven yards a touch, mowing down defenses at will, while head coach Chan Gailey insisted on maintaining an even timeshare with infinitely less talented backfield mate Fred Jackson. Nothing against Jackson. […]
Tigers Owner Mike Ilitch and the Pizza Fund
For those of you unfamiliar with Mike Ilitch – here’s the 83 year-old father of Little Caesar’s Pizza, philanthropist of Detroit, owner of the Red Wings, former minor-leaguer and well-known Michigan magnate of the last couple of decades. He has made a lot of money from all of that pizza, and won the hearts of […]
Stars, Prospects, and Rumors Turn Up the Heat on Hot Stove Season
The Hot Stove season was at a slow simmer until last night. In an instant, it got right to a boil with the announcement of a 12-player blockbuster between the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins. Leaving South Beach are Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio and heading to Miami […]
Deep League Digging – Alexey Shved
There are waiver wire pickups, and then there are the guys who are really deep. This weekly segment will discuss a player each week that could be of use in any league with at least 10 teams and category-base scoring. The Minnesota Timberwolves are hemorrhaging players faster than the U.S. economy is money. For owners […]
We need to talk about Danario Alexander
Danario Alexander, the shot of life into the decaying corpse of the Chargers’ passing game, is more than a waiver wire flier, more than a guy worth a plug and play and a prayer for a fluky 80-yard score this week against the Broncos. Alexander is the 24-year-old free agent signing last seen in a […]
Free Agent Watch: Predicting Where Melky Cabrera Will Sign
In August, Melky Cabrera probably went to sleep with dollar signs in his eyes. No player in baseball was building toward a surprise, Beltre-esqe $100 Million free agent payday more than Mr. Cabrera. Not only was he playing for a World Series favorite and leading the N.L. in batting, but he won the All-Star game MVP. […]
Konichiwa Ichiro: Likely Destinations
It was the end of an era last July when the Mariners traded Ichiro Suzuki, the face of their franchise, and of Japanese baseball as a whole. It also looked like this might be the final sayonara to Ichiro’s career, as the perennial all-star was batting just .260 and struggling to get on base. But […]