This Past Week’s Hottest Hitters
Week 8: New Faces This week’s list not only gives us some new faces, but is also giving us some down to earth numbers as well. On top of this list is last year’s runner-up to the AL MVP title, Detroit’s Magglio Ordonez with a line of 7/3/9/0/.478/.500 (R/HR/RBI/SB/BA/OBP) which just edges out the Phillies […]
Hottest Hitters per Position
Peter’s Fantasy Baseball Corner All of these stats are as of May 15, 2008 (almost a week ago), which was a month and a half into the season. Here’s a look at the hot fantasy hitters by position using a typical 5×5 fantasy scoring, but with the addition of OBP. The big surprises thus far […]
Lester’s No-Hitter
About 22 months ago, Jon Lester, talented young starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. 10 months later, Lester was the winning pitcher for Boston’s clinching game 4 victory in last year’s World Series against the Rockies. Now, 18 months after defeating cancer and completing his cancer treatment (chemo […]
Week Seven’s Hottest Hitters
For those of you who thought that Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox had a good week last week, check out the Chicago Cub’s OF Alfonzo Soriano’s figures this week! He has had the best week of any player all year long. If you think otherwise, let me know! Soriano hit 7 HRs with a […]
Who’s the Hottest Hitter in Week 5
Oakland A’s: Jack Cust Jack had 3 HRs this week, but only 4 RBIs while he hit .500 with an OBP of .600 and he scored 6 runs (3 of which came on his 3 HRs). A close second to Cust was Pirate’s RF Xavier Nady who went homerless this week but also scored […]
Hottest Pitcher in April
My vote goes to the Arizona Diamondback’s Micah Owings. He’s probably one of my favorite pitchers of the past two years, but I don’t get to see him play much being from the east coast. To go along with his much improved performance on the mound so far this year (4-0 with a 3.48 ERA […]
MLB’s Who’s Hot: Week # 4
Swinging for the Stars! This week’s hot hitter was by far, Houston 1B Lance Berkman. As you can see below, he hit for a BA over .400, OBP over .500 while hitting 4 HRs, 12 RBIs & even a SB! Rounding out the top 5 hot hitters for week 4 would be the Ranger’s 5-tool […]
MLB’s Who’s Hot: Week # 3
D’Backs 1B Conor Jackson This week was a tough selection, but with 10runs scored, 3 HRs, 10 RBIs to go along with a BA of .480 and an OBP of .519, Conor just edged out the Tiger’s Miguel Cabrera, the Phillies’ 2B Chase Utley and Boston’s Manny Ramirez. Cabrera had more RBIs (11), Utley […]
Hot Hitters: MLB Week 2
Here’s a listing of the MLB’s hottest hitters for the second week of the season. They may not have hit the highest number of HRs, but they hit 2 or more while hitting for a BA over .400 and an OBP of over .500 [TABLE=24] 2 players did hit 4 HRs and 9 others hit […]
MLB Monopoly
Since the beginning of the 2007 season you can no longer listen to games online via your local radio station. Instead, you have to have an MLB GameDayAudio account, but the radio is still FREE. I just can’t get radio stations at work when games are played during the day in the early stages of […]
Who’s Hot & Who’s Not: Week 1
Who’s Hot: Team POS Player BA/HR/RBI/SB/OBP/SLG/OPS/Comments Phillies 2B Chase Utley .412/3/6/0/.522/1.000/1.522/Can Utley follow in the footsteps of teammates Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins and be the third Phillie in a row to win the NL MVP award? This quick start might be a foreshadowing of what’s to come. D’Backs RF Justin Upton […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: RF
Detroit’s Magglio Ordonez was more than 20 points better than the nest best RF in 2007, but don’t expect him to have a repeat performance in 2008. He may hit over .300, but probably not over .340 again. He HR totals can be reached, but the R and RBI totals may be a stretch in […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: CF
Put Me In Coach, I’m Ready to Play…Centerfield No one is head and shoulders above the rest, but if healthy all of last year, the Mets’ Carlos Beltran might have been! Instead, he’s one of the top three Centerfielders that are all within 10 points of each other. Those three were Beltran, the D’Backs Eric […]
Team Analysis: AL East – Baltimore Orioles
AL East Baltimore Orioles C – Ramon Hernandez: He had an injury plagued year in 2007 and it had to affect his numbers. He usually hit better than they were last year. I expect him to bounce back in 2008 if healthy. 1B – Kevin Millar: Fantasy owners might appreciate that Millar is also available […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: LF
By far, the first choice out of all of the candidates for LF is the Rockies’ Matt Holliday with a line of .340/.405/50/120/36/137 (BA/OBP/2B/R/HR/RBI). Wow! Over 40 (but closer to 50) points behind Holliday would be the trio of the D’backs’ Eric Byrnes who also qualifies for CF and RF, The Reds’ Adam Dunn and […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: SS
My top ranked SS from 2007 was the Phillies’ Jimmy Rollins who edges out the Marlins’ Hanley Ramirez by almost 18 points. Over 20 points behind Ramirez is the Mets’ own Jose Reyes. The next two players to look out for are the Rockies’ 2007 rookie sensation Troy Tulowitzki and Detroit’s Carlos Guillen who will […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: 3B
The # 1 overall pick in this year’s Fantasy draft, if he can be had, ought to be Third Baseman of the NY Yankees, A-Rod! His 2007 numbers speak for themselves. Just don’t reply on those type of number in every category in 2008. After A-Rod there’s a drop off down to number two at […]
Johan + Mets = NL East Title
Sorry Phillies Phans, but with the acquisition of Johan Santana, the Mets now become the favorite to win the NL East in my opinion. That is, if the Mets can sign Santana to a contract extension within the allotted time frame. If this deal does go through, and there’s no reason why it won’t (everyone […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: 2B
My # 1 choice for the top Fantasy Second Baseman for the 2008 season has to be Brandon Phillips of the Reds over Chase Utley of the Phillies due in part to the huge edge in SBs that Phillips provides. What also plays into the mix here is that Utley was hurt towards the end […]
Fantasy Baseball Analysis: 1B
Fielder or Howard, flip a coin! There’s mere 2.02 point difference separating the top two candidates in the upcoming 2008 Fantasy Baseball Season. The Brewer’s Prince Fielder has a slight edge over the Phillies’ Ryan Howard. Please note, my metrics are only using the basic 5×5 rotisserie statistics. The Rays’ Carlos Pena is a close […]
Pete’s MLB Fantasy Picks: Catcher
Pete’s Picks The top catcher going into 2008 is a split between Cleveland‘s Victor Martinez, who also qualifies at 1B, and the Dodger‘s Russell Martin. Going strictly by the numbers, Martinez has a 3 point lead over Martin. Some other qualities to look at here is that Martinez, as was mentioned already, also qualifies at 1B. […]
Major League Baseball Team Analysis: Atlanta Braves, Part 1
Pete’s Perspective By Peter Schiller The Usual Suspects The players who supported the Braves offense in past years, did so again in 2007…with a little help from their youth movement. Chipper Jones was his typical offensive self despite trips on the DL due to arm and wrist woes. See his numbers below. The only question […]
A Baseball Team Analysis: New York Mets Part 2
A Position by Position Breakdown of the 2007 Season By Peter Schiller Starting Pitchers: Second year pitcher John Maine might not have been the Met’s first choice as the Ace of their staff, but despite his decline in the second half of 2007, his numbers dictate that he was at least in the running. Maine’s […]
Philadelphia Phillies, Part 2
A review of the 2007 Phillies & a preview of the 2008 season By Peter Schiller The strength of the 2007 Philadelphia Phillies was their offense, but now let’s look at the pitching staff! Then we’ll wrap things up by addressing Philadelphia’s biggest needs going into 2008. The rating system that I used as the […]
Philadelphia Phillies, Part 1
A review of the 2007 Phillies & a preview of the 2008 season By Peter Schiller The strength of the 2007 Philadelphia Phillies was their offense, especially from ¾ of their infield! The rating system that I used as the metric for these rankings are based on a Fantasy Baseball 5X5 Rotisserie rating system (the […]
Fantasy Baseball Draft Help: DH
**These statistics and analysis are based on a basic 5×5 rotisserie standpoint.** Even though he had what some people called an off year, David Ortiz still leads all DH’s in 3 out of the 5 basic categories: BA, HR (tied) & Runs. He was 2nd in RBI’s & in an unofficial stat, he led all […]
