As we watch the Pittsburgh Pirates clash with the St. Louis Cardinals this week for National League Central Division supremacy, it’s worth to stop and
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As we count down to the NFL season, Sports Jerks will be bringing you 32 questions in 32 days. Each
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This wasn’t the ideal Star Fantasy Leagues daily lineup that I was hoping for. I had a few offensive players in mind who have been on a good run lately that I wanted to add to my team today. But they had off days. That’s the way fantasy sports work, though. Through injuries, slumps, and days off, you need to adjust.
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Last week we took a look at Wilmer Flores, a post-hype prospect who hit his potential in the minors long after the organizations that decide the Top 100 prospects stopped paying attention. This week, the Pirates will call up Andrew Lambo, a former Top 50 prospect in the same situation as Flores. Lambo is a long forgotten prospect who jogged everyone’s memory this year in the minors by crushing 31 home runs in 117 games.
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Finding value in fantasy hockey isn’t so easy. You won’t get many guys coming out of nowhere to put up huge seasons like you’ll see in other sports. Keep this in mind: Since the 2004-2005 lockout, there have been eight rookies to come into the league and average at least 0.73 points/game (which would be a 60-point pace in a full season) and played at least 70 games. These names are Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Paul Stastny, Patrick Kane, Nicklas Backstrom, Jeff Skinner and Anze Kopitar. When you are talking about the last five seasons alone, that list of eight is cut down to Skinner alone.
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The New York Jets – Will Geno Smith take Mark Sanchez’ job in 2013?
After a somewhat surprising rookie season in 2009, Mark Sanchez’ honeymoon with the New York Jets’ fans is long since over. It’s not as if the quarterback was perfect (or even very good) that season. In fact, the stats show that Sanchez played like, well, a rookie. In his first NFL season, Sanchez completed 54% of his passes, threw for a modest 2,444 yards, and had 20 interceptions to go along with only 12 touchdown passes.
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Normally the FPPRR Machine is used for the purposes of good.
Over the past month, we here at Sports Jerks have promoted the receiving value of Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Matt Forte and even the all-questionable trio of DeMarco Murray, Darren McFadden and Ryan Mathews.
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Late season injuries can be devastating for fantasy baseball owners. If a good player on a team out of contention
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