2013 MLB Trade Rumors: Tim Hudson Injury Could Force Braves’ Hand
At 57-45, the Atlanta Braves are in pretty good shape to make the postseason in the National League East. As good as they’ve been, the rest of the Division has been equally disappointing. The Philadelphia Phillies were expected to compete but have fallen flat on their collective face and are under .500. With a healthy […]
Fantasy Hockey: Evaluating and Projecting Goaltenders
How good a goaltender projects to be is a very precarious proposition. There are so many mitigating factors that play into how a goaltender performs at the NHL level that anyone who proclaims that they know a certain goaltender will be elite before they actually prove it over a large sample (there’s no real baseline, but […]
Week 17 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Jump in a Lake
With plenty of call-ups, trades, and injuries in the past week, fantasy owners have plenty of new names to target on the waiver wire this weekend. Let’s take a look at whose turn is up in the never-ending closer carousel and whose fantasy stock has run dry in this week’s stock market. Junior Lake: Speculative […]
Tortoises vs Hares Part II: What Scutaro and Trout Have in Common
We explained in Part I that the leading base runners in Major League Baseball in the “Scoring from First Base on a Double” scenario are mostly players who are more known for their power bats rather than their blazing speed. In this chapter of this series, we take a look at the leaders in the “Reaching […]