Eight First Week Names to Note (Week 1, April 2, 2018)
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 …
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We Are Getting Old
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, …
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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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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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Boring Vets Are Here to Help
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 …
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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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