2021 Tout Wars Season Review – Crisis Management
Throughout my 20+ years managing fantasy baseball teams, I’ve dealt with plenty of injuries. But I’ve never lost my best player to a season-ending injury with half of a season …
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2021 Tout Wars Mixed Salary Cap Draft Recap – Resisting Temptation
In the days leading up to this year’s Tout Wars Mixed Salary Cap draft, I thought about doing something totally different. I thought about going out of character and embracing …
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Where LABR and TGFBI Disagreed
Two down, two to go, one still in progress. That sums up the state of my 2021 fantasy baseball draft season with the most challenging draft, the Tout Wars 15-team …
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2021 LABR Draft Recap – Some Things Different
My third season in the LABR mixed league began on a disappointing note, but the disappointment was somewhat expected. As it turned out, the idea that Trea Turner might still …
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Let’s Get Mocking Again
As a longtime contributor to Peter Kreutzer’s Fantasy Baseball Guide Professional Edition season preview magazine, I had always considered participating in the magazine’s mid-November mock draft to be the official …
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2020 Tout Wars Season Review – Unfamiliar Territory
Maybe I should have seen this coming. In a season unlike any of my previous 20 seasons playing fantasy baseball and eight seasons participating in the Tout Wars Mixed Auction …
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2020 Tout Wars Mixed Auction Draft Recap — Change of Plans
Only two and a half weeks ago, Tout Wars Weekend in New York was still on the calendar. A lot has changed since, and it’s now clear that the Tout …
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Walton’s NL Tout Wars Draft Recap – Extra Time for Injuries to Heal?
As many readers may know, the Tout Wars board decided this Tuesday to move our annual in-person drafts scheduled this past weekend in New York City to online only. We …
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Why Jim Crane’s Apology Fell Short
By now, even the most casual of baseball fans know the details behind the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal, which led to fines and loss of draft picks for the team …
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2020 LABR Draft Recap – Energized
Four months should have been enough time for me to move on from the drama of last season’s final week in LABR Mixed. But I wasn’t quite there yet when …
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A Draft to Think About
In my 20 years competing in fantasy baseball leagues, I don’t remember an offseason that has gone by as fast as this one. Most of the big-name free agents were …
Read More 2019 LABR Season Review – So Much for Probability
Some 13-point leads are safer than others. I was fully aware of this as I carried a 124-111 advantage into the final week of the season in LABR Mixed. I …
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