It may be hard to believe, but on Sunday Lance Berkman connected on his first homer since June 30th. They guy who looked like he was a shoe in for the MVP has slowed WAY down over the last six weeks. He is still having a great season batting .334 with 23 homers, 79 RBI, and 15 steals, but fantasy…
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Let’s play everyone’s favorite game! It’s called “Who closed the game?” This is for all of you desperate for saves monitoring the outcomes of games with closer situations that are a nightmare to watch. In New York, coming on and pitching the last two innings of the game to earn the save tonight was……….Aaron Heilman! He gave up…
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A congratulations to Ryan is in order, who by the time he reads this, should be a father to a second beautiful baby girl (Good luck when they are teenagers!). So in the time he is away, I will try to fill his shoes with tonight’s Beyond the Boxscore.
Daisuke Matsuzaka left yesterday’s Redsox game at the start of the fifth inning. It was first believed to…
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Reds’ rookie Jay Bruce had quite the major league debut for himself. Bruce went 3-3 with two walks and a stolen base. The same thing applies to Bruce that I said about Kershaw the other day. There’s not much more to say about Bruce. If he is available, go get him right away, he should have a major fantasy impact in 2008.
I have been avoiding writing about Eric Hinske…
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The next young arm that is going to be added in a lot of fantasy leagues in the next 24 hours is going to be
the Marlins’ Andrew Miller. Miller was one of the two big pieces that the Marlins got back in the Miguel Cabrera trade, but he got off to a terrible start. This is the fourth…
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Most of the news tonight involves starting pitching, but we do have a segment of unexpected hitters.
For the first time since April 19th, Andruw Jones hit a home run. I know a lot of us had reservations about
Mr. Jones coming into the season because of the way he struggled last year, but I never thought he would fall…
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The player who has created the biggest buzz so far this year in fantasy baseball has been Johnny Cueto, and so far he hasn’t disappointed. His owners had to be very curious how he would do after giving up five runs in his previous start. Would he bounce back? Or was he doomed to start to struggle like most pitchers in his situation? Cueto answered today with another great…
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