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Beyond the Boxscore Weekend Edition - 8/22-8/24

Aaron Harang was finally able to get back into the win column on Friday, as he threw six shutout innings and struck out four batters as he raised his nightmare season’s record to 4-13. The Harangatang, as one of my most loyal readers likes to call him, won his first game since June 13th, and even though he had a quality…
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Beyond the Boxscore for August 13, 2008

Sorry about the night off, it was a birthday celebration.

Delmon Young is really starting to heat up now.  After having just four homers the whole season, Young now has three bombs over the last five days.  If this is the start of a hot streak for Delmon, he could really help carry your team to a championship.  He has a TON of potential…
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Weekly Free Agent Pickups - 7/25/08

Fighting Chance Fantasy would like to welcome Troy Patterson, the head writer over at RotoSavants.com. Troy writes on player reviews, strategy, Pitch F/x and pickup suggestions. He will be writing a weekly free agent pickups update here. Troy will supply one from each of the following positions (C, CI, MI, OF, SP and RP) and will include there current availability (which may have changed since his initial…
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Beyond the Boxscore–Fantasy MLB News and Notes 7/20/08

Boy, I hope all of you who drafted Justin Verlander were able to stay patient with him, but I bet better than 50% of you already have traded him off and got less than he is worth.  Let the kicking yourself in the ass begin now!  The Tigers ace was great again on Sunday as he was able to win his…
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Beyond the Boxscore–Fantasy MLB News and Notes 6/13/08

Starting on Saturday June 14th, we are going to be having a change in structure at least on a demo basis. Instead of this Beyond the Boxscore article every night, we will be making a post for each news item and posting them as they become relevant. I am very interested to get all of your feedback either by email (love my emailers!) or you can post a comment…
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Beyond the Boxscore–Fantasy MLB News and Notes 6/7/08

Sorry for the delay in posting folks, not the best night on the baby front! Lots of tears! But enough about that, let’s get to baseball!

If you would have told me in April that on June 7th I would have written the following sentence I would have said you were crazy, but here goes. Twins OF Delmon Young connected on his first home run of the…
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Beyond the Boxscore–Fantasy MLB News and Notes 6/2/08

The Reds have called up their phenom pitching prospect Homer Bailey to start their game on Thursday. Now I know that I have been urging you all to pick up some of the hotter prospects all season long to mixed success. However, today I come to you with a message of caution with Bailey. He has…
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Beyond the Boxscore–Fantasy MLB News and Notes 5/24/08 Kershaw is Here! Longoria, Ian Stewart, Injury News

I would like to start out tonight by welcoming the NEW (and second) member of the Fighting Chance Fantasy Sports Team. Andy Houle will bring a number of things to the table. One, he is a great fantasy player. He has been playing in leagues with me for about eight years now, and has been my stiffest competition. His opinions and knowledge are very respectable…
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