The hot corner was once the place of royalty in Major League Baseball.  Some of the greatest players to ever play to game manned third basemen, including the great Mike Schmidt, Eddie Matthews, George Brett, and Brooks Robinson. Furthermore, it was not long ago that third basemen provided fantasy owners with depth comparable to that […]

Warning: Things are about to get very ugly, very fast.  Remember the reference to Bruce Willis’s hair at the beginning of my rankings?  Well, we’re moving away from the Die Hard years, and into the thinned-out Surrogates days. 11. Gordon Beckham (.271, 80 R, 21 HR, 82 RBI, 10 SB) Do not sleep on young […]

As it stands right now, the AL East looks as if it’s about to vastly improve with quality upgrades all up and down the Eastern seaboard. New York and Boston continued to impress by enjoying another off-season spending spree, with Boston adding youth and exuberance, while New York took a more retro approach. Baltimore and […]

Draft Advice: Scarcity, Projections, or Balance. Which Path is Right? Brewing deep in the black murky cauldrons of fantasy baseball is a battle of epic proportions. A battle that is so heavily debated it should be featured in a town hall every Friday night. A debate so complex, you’ll lay your head to rest at […]

In the 1960s, it was Luis Aparicio.  The 1970s belonged to Mark Belanger.  The wonderful Wizard of Oz owned the 1980s.  Omar Vizquel set the standard in the 1990s. Sometime during the first decade of the twenty-first century, something changed.  Teams stopped seeking men who were magicians with their gloves, but offered limited upside at […]