Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for August 5
As Major League Baseball hands out its Biogenesis suspensions today, it’s nice to have a reason to focus on the action on the field, rather than the ugly mess off of it. So joining a Star Fantasy Leagues daily league is a great way to do it. Once again, I’m looking at good pitching and […]
Week 19 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Cosart, Nova, Salazar, Doubront
This week’s waiver wire is very pitcher heavy with many a young arm shining with four months of baseball under their belt. Let’s take a look at baseball’s up-and-coming pitchers and one aging, soon-to-be-suspended third baseman. Jarred Cosart (10%): Cosart has been nothing short of stellar since being called up by the Astros, putting up […]
Dion Phaneuf Poised To Be Traded From Toronto Maple Leafs
Gord Stellick, a well-know television and radio sport personality in Canada, was talking recently on the Sportsnet 360 television program ‘Tim and Sid” about how the Leafs will need to trade Dion Phaneuf by the trade deadline next year because of the expiring contract he’s on and the likely contract he’s due to receive. Being an […]
Best Ball: Quarterback Definitive Starts
After laying out what the Definitive Start meant for receivers, running backs and tight ends for your Best Ball leagues, we’ve finally reached the point of examining the quarterback position. Most importantly, we’ve outlined when to take them in draft only leagues. A Definitive Start is any time a player finishes a week as a […]
MLB Week 19: A Look Ahead at Key Storylines and Matchups
Major League Baseball is getting set to deliver one of its biggest announcements ever, and Alex Rodriguez finds himself at the center of it. While much of the MLB spotlight will be focused on the Biogenesis saga this week, it shouldn’t detract too much from the action on the field. Less than a third of […]
2013 MLB Trade Deadline Recap (Part 4 of 5): The Key Players
SJN continues its recap of Major League Baseball’s trade deadline with a look at some of the key players who were dealt in July. These are all impact trades that can help push a team over the top. Orioles trade Jake Arrieta, Pedro Strop and international signing money to Cubs for Scott Feldman and Steve […]
2013 MLB Trade Deadline Recap (Part 3 of 5): The Impact Players
The first two days of our trade deadline recap series (which you can find here and here), we’ve covered some of the lesser-known players that were dealt in July. Now, we move on to some players that could have a real impact on teams in playoff contention. Tigers trade Danry Vasquez and a player to […]
Are The Knicks Forcing Carmelo Anthony To Walk Next Summer?
Madison Square Garden, home of New York’s darling Knicks, was recently given a notice to vacate the premises. It has 10 years to find a new stomping ground in a highly congested, landlord-controlled New York market. At 29, during his peak years, as last year’s leading scorer, and early on in 2012-13 a leading candidate […]