Draft Season Regrets
Major League Baseball’s first weekend brings with it so many obvious outcomes we all should have seen coming: Giancarlo Stanton mashing as a Yankee, a healthy Xander Bogaerts doing his …
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Advantages of Using the Expected Disabled List
The Thursday opening of the 2018 Major League Baseball season is not aligned with tradition, but is instead a by-product of additional in-season rest days negotiated by players into the …
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How Deep is Your Love (for First Basemen)?
I finished my NFBC Main Event this past Saturday. No two drafts are alike, and nothing is like the 15 Team NFBC with sharks sprinkled throughout each league. In addition …
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LABR FAAB Report: Week of March 26
Welcome to the inaugural 2018 League of Alternative Reality (LABR) FAAB report, on its new home at creativesports 2.0. I’ll be dropping by every Monday, sharing the results of Sunday …
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Inside Injuries: Spring Training Owies Continue to Pile Up
Opening Day is just a week away. But with the return of baseball season comes injury troubles that are already piling up for many of the league’s top players. Let’s …
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Pre-Season “Sleepers?” (Week 0, March 25, 2018)
With the season giving us a quirky Thursday start, just a little over a week past this year’s advent of spring, there appears to be a lot of champing at …
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I’ll Be Missing You
The nice thing about playing in a large number of fantasy leagues (five in my case) is that you have the chance to own a lot of different players. Can’t …
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Pre-Season Thoughts and Machinations
Gad, what a wild conglomeration of weeks, peppered with four games at the Cactus League culminating with the American League LABR auction, after which I shot to Pt. St. Lucie …
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Christmas Comes on St. Patty’s Day in Vegas
Christmas came on St. Patrick’s Day, and while Santa brought me some cool gifts (Clayton Kershaw and Christian Yelich), he also left a whole lot of coal (Chris Davis and …
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National League Tout Wars Draft Recap
If the LABR drafts are Christmas, the Tout Wars drafts are New Year’s Eve and the New Years’ Day football games all rolled into one. This past Saturday, March 17, …
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A Different Road to the AL Tout Crown?
I think this is going to be a slightly different review of my Tout Wars team for a few reasons. First, I seriously was trying to go after more offense …
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Shortly after 6 PM ET this past Monday, the slow draft was over. Kolten Wong rounded out my first completed “real” fantasy roster of 2018, and The Great Fantasy Baseball …
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