Top 50 Starting Pitchers with Most Changed Repertoires in 2012

Top 50 Starting Pitchers with Most Changed Repertoires in 2012

By fantasyfiend on from www.baseballprof.com

Cole Hamels introduced a cutter in 2010 and became a strikeout-per-inning ace who has since been among the league leaders in ERA. Josh Beckett followed Hamels’ lead last season and had a resurgent campaign. Kyle Lohse and Brandon McCarthy changed up their repertoires and focused on control and inducing grounders, and they both turned in [...]
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Buy/Sell, Week 3: Stop, It’s Hammel Time

Buy/Sell, Week 3: Stop, It’s Hammel Time

By fantasyfiend on from www.baseballprof.com

This week’s buy/sell is going to focus on those guys on the mound throwing 60 feet, six inches. Every starter has about three starts under his belt and while that’s still a small sample size I think we can start drawing some conclusions on who is for real and who you should cut bait with. 
Jason Hammel, Baltimore Orioles
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The FAAB Five, Week 3: Schafer Leads Surprisingly Average Houston Offense

The FAAB Five, Week 3: Schafer Leads Surprisingly Average Houston Offense

By fantasyfiend on from www.baseballprof.com

The Astros — yes, those AL-bound Houston Astros — currently rank 13th in all of Major League baseball in runs scored (57). It’s early, but I didn’t see that one coming. Jordan Schafer and J.D. Martinez are the men you can credit for the turnaround. I touted Martinez in last week’s edition of the FAAB [...]
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Daily Dozen: Pick Up Ike!

Daily Dozen: Pick Up Ike!

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Every morning we recap the previous night’s games, news and notes so that you’re up-to-date on everything baseball. As always you can follow us on Twitter (@BaseballProf) and like us on Facebook to get updated, fantasy-relevant news, tidbits and analysis.
1. After getting off to a very slow start (.071, 2-for-28), Ike Davis has really picked things up. [...]
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2012 Fantasy Baseball, Brett Talley's THE RUBBER Week 3: A closer look at K/9

2012 Fantasy Baseball, Brett Talley's THE RUBBER Week 3: A closer look at K/9

By fantasyfiend on from www.thefantasyfix.com

Kyle Lohse (credits below) The idea that pitchers who generate more swinging strikes are likely to have more strikeouts is an easy one to understand. Last year, four of the top five pitchers in swinging strike rate were in the top 13 in K/9. We like swinging strikes because it indicates that the pitcher’s stuff is good enough to have batters commit to hitting the ball and not be able to. But I often wonder what the comparative value of a called strike is. As @Ben_Duronio pointed out in a recent Twitter conversation on this topic, a called strike has a lot of value to a pitcher because there is no chance of bad luck on a ball put in play. In other words, a pitcher can’t get BABIP’d if the batter never swings. So called strikes are likely preferred by pitchers.[...]
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Is J.A Happ Fantasy Relevant Again?

Is J.A Happ Fantasy Relevant Again?

By fantasyfiend on from winmyfantasyleague.com

Houston Astros starter J.A. Happ struggled mightily in his first full season with the club, going 6-15 with a 5.35 ERA and a 1.54 WHIP. After posting a 3.27 ERA in his first 289 innings, that wasn’t what they expected from Happ when he was the key piece in the Roy Oswalt trade.
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Perhaps he didn’t deal well with being dealt from a yearly contender to one of the worst teams in the game. At 29 though, there is still plenty of opportunities to turn things around.[...]
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Waiver Wire: A.J. Pierzynski, C, Chicago White Sox

Waiver Wire: A.J. Pierzynski, C, Chicago White Sox

By fantasyfiend on from winmyfantasyleague.com

Guess which catcher is performing better this season than the likes of Brian McCann, Joe Mauer, Alex Avila, Mike Napoli, Miguel Montero, and Buster Posey?  It’s none other than the under-appreciated and unsung A.J. Pierzynski.
Catcher is not the most attractive position in fantasy baseball.  There are few catchers who produce enough to make their owners happy.  Admit it, unless you own Carlos Santana, you could probably use a better catcher.[...]
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Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Should I Drop Him?

Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Should I Drop Him?

By fantasyfiend on from www.kramericasports.com

Author: Courtney ScottFantasyDraftStrategyOk, so your fantasy season isn’t starting off exactly like you thought it would. Don’t tell me you’re already starting to panic and considering dropping you know who! Have you ever heard the expression “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”? Well, just start repeating that phrase to yourself over and over again until your finger is off the proverbial trigger that is your left mouse button. Whatever fantasy sport it is, you need to remember that it’s a long season. While I hope must of us are sane enough to not drop one of top ten round picks, this post is written with the hope of preventing just one more unnecessary player drop.[...]
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The 2012 Minor League Report – Week 3

The 2012 Minor League Report – Week 3

By fantasyfiend on from www.fantasybaseballtools.com

After looking at some of the top hitters at the Double-A and Triple-A level last week in the minor league report, here is a look at some of the more notable pitchers at the higher levels of the minor leagues to see how they are doing in the early weeks of the season.
Shelby Miller (STL) – considered by many to be the top pitcher in the minor leagues to start the 2012 season, Miller has struggled in his first two starts at Triple-A eight runs allowed in nine innings of work.[...]
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Dynasty Dilemma: Mark Ingram

Dynasty Dilemma: Mark Ingram

By fantasyfiend on from winmyfantasyleague.com

This is what I got with the first overall pick in my rookie draft!?!
You can still hear dynasty owners screaming from the rooftops as Mark Ingram was drafted first overall in many rookie drafts, then followed it up by averaging just 12 carries per game and having his season cut short by a turf toe injury for the Saints in 2011. For the year, Ingram was only able to post 474 yards and five touchdowns on a less than stellar 3.9 yards per carry average. Simply put, he failed to become a workhorse or produce the rookie season that many, especially those who drafted him, expected.[...]
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2012 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report: Matt Moore, Jesus Montero & more!

2012 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report: Matt Moore, Jesus Montero & more!

By fantasyfiend on from www.thefantasyfix.com

Matt Moore (credits below) Welcome back to the Rookie Report, week 3. As always, everyone is waiting for that moment when they can brag to their buddies that they were ahead of the curve and knew that their "phenom" was ready to dominate the Bigs. Unfortunately, there is this thing called "reality" and it's rare that a rookie can actually live up the hype early on. So let's check in on some of our favorite rookies of 2012 and see where they stand so far..[...]
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Week 3 MLB Power Rankings

Week 3 MLB Power Rankings

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Every week Matt will be ranking the top 30 teams in baseball, and if we know anything about power rankings it’s that most of you will have a different opinion so let yourself be heard in the comments section below![...]
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It’s Your Number One Priority

It’s Your Number One Priority

By fantasyfiend on from razzball.com

Just to clear my head the other day, I threw on some bicycle shorts, jumped in my El Dorado and went for a spin.  Cause that’s how guys with a ‘stache roll.  If you didn’t know, now you do.  Consider yourself informed.  As I was rocking out to some Don Henley, I was thinking back on some guys that helped me win leagues last year.  Ryan Madson –  Thanks, Mad-Man!  Morse, you dot-dot-dashing hunk!  All She Wants To Do Is Dance DANCE!  Thanks, Hardy, we had some good times solving the mysteries of fantasy baseball!  Hey, Motte, how’s dem apples?![...]
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Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Valentine's big mouth, Tebow gets booed & more!

Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Valentine's big mouth, Tebow gets booed & more!

By fantasyfiend on from www.thefantasyfix.com

Bobby Valentine (credits below) Bobby Valentine continues his big mouth style of managing. Yesterday on Boston's WHDH, he basically called out Kevin Youkilis and said "I don't think he's as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason…" The assumption is that Valentine is trying to light a fire under his players, but he should tred lightly on exactly who he calls out. [...]
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Fantasy Baseball Prospect Cage Match: Trevor Bauer vs Taijuan Walker

Fantasy Baseball Prospect Cage Match: Trevor Bauer vs Taijuan Walker

By fantasyfiend on from www.thefantasyfix.com

Trevor Bauer (Credits below) In the coming weeks, I am going to be writing up a series of prospect ‘Cage Matches’ to see how different prospects stack-up from a fantasy perspective. However, instead of going through the typical Harper vs Trout debate that we see almost every week on a different blog, I have decided to dig a little (although not that much) deeper and just compare prospects who I find interesting, and whose differences I find very compelling.[...]
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Goal Line Running Back Stats

Goal Line Running Back Stats

By fantasyfiend on from football.razzball.com

I’ve done some number crunching here to see who the best goal line running back’s have been over the last 3 years.  Well, not exactly goal line, these numbers are all from the 5 yard line in. I’ll call it goal line because that sounds better and true goal line numbers are insanely small and make for a poor data set (like I know anything about math). Overall these numbers aren’t exactly indicators of what a player will do the next time he gets inside the 5 yard line but that area of the field is so insanely important that whatever happens there has been dissected by the coaching staff over and over.  So anyway, let’s look at some of this stuff.[...]
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