Published at: 02:03 pm - Monday March 02 2009
The American League is not as loaded at first base in fantasy baseball as far as top heavy performers, but they do have better depth overall at the position. There are more players that are in the above average categories than in the National League. The top performers are not on the level with Howard, Pujols and others in the NL, but you have many more choices that will get you by. Here are the five best first basemen for fantasy baseball in the American League. Read more...
Published at: 05:01 pm - Monday January 12 2009
The Boston Red Sox takes a chance on another ball player who has had a pretty lousy last season. Brad Penny, playing on the disabled list last season, was just signed into a $5 million deal with the Red Sox for this year’s baseball season. He has had a tough season last year when he played with the Los Angeles Dodgers – the worst season in his baseball career, in fact. The previous season posted the worst winning percentage of Brad Penny’s career. Impaled with shoulder tendinitis and bursitis, Brad Penny pushed himself to his limits when he should not have. Instead of giving it a rest, Brad Penny continued playing for the Dodgers, going 6-9 with a 6.27 ERA. Admittedly, Brad Penny found it hard to accept his dismal performance in the wake of two of his most productive years on major league baseball. In 2007, he went 16-4 with an ERA of 3.03 and ranked third in the voting for the National League’s Cy Young award. During the same year, he made it to the All-Star team, just as he did the previous year. With a 4.33 ERA going 16-9 in 2006, Brad Penny made the All-Stars playing for the Dodgers. Penny is 94-75 in his nine-year baseball career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Florida Marlins – Penny was in the roster when the Marlins won the World Series in 2003. Read more...