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An Interesting Fantasy Keeper Question 2007-08-09 06:18:00 Would you rather have a $1 keeper who hits 30 HR or gets 30 SB, with batting averages being equal?? This is an interesting theoretical question, and is right up our alley. Lenny Melnick and Paul Greco, on their podcast, raised an interesting fantasy thought experiment. Lenny asked whether, assuming batting average to be equal, would you rather have a $1 keeper who hits 30 HR or one who gets 30 ...

Links to our latest Hardball Times Posts 2007-08-07 08:35:00 Here are links to my last two posts. Being Prepared The perils of bad advice ...

A Profile of Adam Jones 2007-08-07 08:01:00 What can be expected of top prospect Adam Jones?? Well, it's about damn time. In one of my leagues, (previously addressed here)which allows a team to keep players essentially forever, a few years ago we drafted Adam Jones. We have been patiently waiting for him to get called up. Fantasy players all know that feeling; reading 800 different transaction sites and emails for even the slightest ...

Ichiro: Inching towards Immortality and possibly 4,000 hits?? 2007-08-06 08:20:00 What will Ichiro's final career MLB numbers look like? Could Ichiro have gotten 4,000 hits had he played his entire career in the Majors?? The FantasyBaseballGenerals tinker with The Favorite Toy to attempt to answer these questions. To say that Ichiro is a unique, one of a kind ballplayer is merely stating the obvious. A model of consistency at a very high level, Ichiro has posted over 200 hits ...

Trade number two in the Fait Accompli Strategy--Using Propaganda to Target a Player 2007-08-03 06:37:00 Analysis of the second of my trades this year in the high stakes league. I have talked about this deal before, but had some more to say about it. After making the McCann trade, I then needed to do something about my AL power. Given that I was a contender, and had a weak AL power offense, I had to get a power bat. As an aside, when going into the auction this year it was clear that there was ...

Is Kevin Towers Reading This Blog?? Looking at his excellent use of a Piecemeal Strategy 2007-08-02 08:07:00 Kevin Towers made a series of small moves over the last few days, each of which made small but noticeable gains to the Padres. Sounds like he read up on this blog.... The Padres should be commended for their dealings over the last few days. In a close NL West race, they made a series of small moves, each of which noticeably improved the team, and each of which essentially cost nothing. This is a ...

Trade Deadline--The Rangers are the Big Winner--How Does Daniels Look Now?? 2007-08-01 07:41:00 Earlier I discussed Jon Daniels performance after he was impugned by Peter Pascarelli. How has he done?? It appears he is a winner now. But there is reason for caution. Here, I opined that Daniels performance at the trade deadline might be the make-or-break time in his career. This was noted by almost everyone so it wasn't exactly the most original comment. Now it looks like Daniels may have ...

Tacit Communication and its Role in Selecting and Evaluating Minor Leaguers 2007-07-30 08:58:00 The idea of "tacit communication" and its effect on the evaluation of Minor Leaguers As a follow up to the story of Hal Newhouser, there are very few scouts with the courage of their convictions. Too bad the Astros didn't realize it. Why is it though that most scouts tend to converge on a player? I previously touched on this in a prior column, but wanted to address another important principle at ...

The Busts of the Year 2007-07-30 08:02:00 Jeremy's analysis of the biggest busts this year, and he doesn't mean Pamela Anderson. Question – what is slower than a Jamie Moyer fastball? Answer – my blog updates. So sorry, but needless to say that cleaning diapers and earning a living take much time away from ranting and raving about fake baseball. It takes lots of time to make snarky remarks that have small twinges of wit. I know…very ...

Even More Bad Statistical Analysis From My Favorite Podcaster 2007-07-27 08:18:00 Looking at an alleged "efficiency" statistic and why the advice is useless. Regular readers know that one of my pet peeves is when self-proclaimed experts give bad advice. To be clear, I do not consider myself or our other contributors to be "experts" as I defined them here. We all strive to become experts, but there are very few. Some attain expert status by acclaim, but other foist it upon ...

Trading Brian McCann for a Closer-My First Trade of the Year and the Fait Accompli Strategy 2007-07-26 13:08:00 The first in a series analyzing my high stakes trades this year. Robert Greene, in his book The 33 Strategies of War, calls the piecemeal strategy the Fait Accompli Strategy. In support of this strategy he discusses the history of Charles DeGaulle's rise to power as the leader of Free France during World War II. In fact, Churchill and Roosevelt despised DeGaulle, but DeGaulle managed himself so ...

Who The Heck is Kevin Cameron?? 2007-07-25 08:15:00 A relatively unknown relief pitcher for the Padres is lighting the Majors on fire. But the answer to the question above is: "perhaps the luckiest pitcher in the Majors." Perusing the lists of the most extreme performances to date I came across a certain Padres relief pitcher whom I knew very little about; Kevin Cameron. Right now he is looking more like Mariano Rivera and not an unknown ...

My Latest Hardball Times Post 2007-07-24 09:04:00 This is a link to my latest Hardball Times post. Click here. ...

Matt Kemp: Masher or Mirage? 2007-07-23 12:15:00 Matt looks at Kemp's recent power surge and gives a short and long term forecast. Matthew Ryan Kemp. He's only 22, and he's raking right now: AB HR R RBI SB SO BB AVG OBP SLG 115 6 23 23 3 27 9 .374 .416 .591 As a 21 year old Rookie in 2006, he slugged .448 in 154 at bats, with 7 home runs and 6 steals. That year, he stole 31 bases at 3 levels (including the 6 with LA). Based upon a favorable ...

Forget DiMaggio and Cy Young; Here are Some REALLY Unbreakable Records 2007-07-23 05:51:00 Looking at some really crazy baseball records On the heels of Barry Bonds inching closer to the all time HR record, I came across an old issue of The Baseball Research Journal #31 published by SABR. There was a very interesting and entertaining article on baseball records entitled baseball's Most Unbreakable Records by Joe Dittmar. We often think of the most unbreakable record being DiMaggio's ...