Oh boy! Games are here, the season is here! Stats are here! Baseball is on! And that means good fun, all around, right? Well, unless your team decided Kevin Gausman …
Eight First Week Names to Note (Week 1, April 2, 2018) Read More
The fine hitter and wonderful human being Rusty Staub passed away on Thursday at the age of 73, three days shy of what would have been his 74th birthday on, appropriately, …
We Are Getting Old Read More
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 …
Draft Season Regrets Read More
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 …
Advantages of Using the Expected Disabled List Read More
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 …
LABR FAAB Report: Week of March 26 Read More
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 …
Inside Injuries: Spring Training Owies Continue to Pile Up Read More
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 …
Pre-Season “Sleepers?” (Week 0, March 25, 2018) Read More
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 …
I’ll Be Missing You Read More
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 …
Pre-Season Thoughts and Machinations Read More
Projection systems have a hard time with young players because computers can’t extrapolate 300 plate appearances into a full year’s worth of statistics with much confidence. Too many variables; too …
Boring Vets Are Here to Help Read More
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, …
National League Tout Wars Draft Recap Read More
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 …
A Different Road to the AL Tout Crown? Read More