For those who aren’t regular readers of Bill Simmons (you don’t know what you’re missing), I’ll start out this article by filling you in on perhaps one of his funniest running jokes. After a disastrous draft in which the Minnesota Timberwolves had three first round picks two years ago and used them all on point […]

An enigmatic personality, we all know Manny Ramirez is good at one thing: getting himself run out of town. After faking injuries and quitting on teammates, Ramirez, once a fan favorite, was traded out of Boston at the 2008 trade deadline with the full faith and blessing of the Fenway Faithful. It was no problem […]

Great Scott! Usually fantasy baseball drafters are quick to pick up guys who have proven capable of hitting a respectable batting average and above average power production. Not with Luke Scott, though. Like Oakland first baseman Daric Barton, another established player who gets so little attention he still qualifies as a sleeper of sorts, Scott […]

I need to start off this sleeper with a bit of a disclaimer, or caveat, if you will. Unlike other fantasy baseball sleeper players I’ve written about like Freddie Freeman and Sean Rodriguez, who are young players fresh off the farm looking for their breakout season, Barton has for the most part established himself as […]

Unlike fellow first base sleeper Mitch Moreland, Freddie Freeman has been a guy scouts raved about his whole minor league career. In 2007, the Braves thought so highly of the kid they drafted him out of high school with their 2nd round pick. Heading into the 2009 season, Freeman made an appearance on Baseball America’s […]