A special Happy Father's Day goes out to all of the readers who have children, hopefully your wife/girlfriend/kids spoiled you today. I had a very nice day today with a nice new shirt/tie combo for work, along with a book that I have been wanting...
First and foremost, Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there! Yeah, I know that it feels like just another day to us, but soak it in while you can...
Josh Beckett has officially caught fire. He has now won six of his last seven decisions, and with the complete game shutout tonight, has not allowed even a run in four of his last six starts...
Saves: 7 Save Opportunities: 7 Fuentes gets league leading 19th save while K-Rod bounces back for his 18th by Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport...
Derrek Lee hit two homers on the day today, bringing his season total to 10. Anyone who has read this blog at all knows that I am very anti-D-Lee...
Saves: 6 Save Opportunities: 9 KROD blows second save, while MacDougal saves second in a row. Valverde returns. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com It was a bad day for Francisco Rodriguez...
Magglio Ordonezhas been benched indefinitely by manager Jim Leyland because of this ridiculous slump that he has been in basically all season long. You can expect him to do a lot more of what you see in the picture...
It has happened to all of us before. We enter a fantasy baseball season planning to contend and leave the draft thinking our club is unbeatable...
It’s time again for the hump day look-see, a random collection of stats and thoughts to help get you through your fantasy week. The look-see will appear every Wednesday for the remainder of the season...
Corey Hart is really looking like he is back on track and should certainly be back in your lineups. He hit his ninth homer of the season tonight, and in the last week has three homers, 10 RBI, and has raised his batting average 20 points...
Saves: 10 Save Opportunities: 11 Hoffman gets roughed up again, Fuentes leads the pack with 18 saves. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com Today was full of action with over a dozaen closers hitting the field...
Saves: 2 Save Opportunities: 4 Madson and Bailey blow saves, while only two get recorded. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com Monday was a slow day with two saves, so I skipped the report...
Happy Flag Day everybody! It is at this point every season where I feel the need to remind fantasy players to be hoisting up the red, white, and blue flag and not just the all white one...
June 14th, 2009 JunkyardJake.Com Sean Rodriguez, LA Angels, 2B —Oh my, well it's now clear that Angels Manager, Mike Scioscia, was hardly ...
Saves: 3 Save Opportunities: 4 Only three saves and few appearances make for a slow day. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com Today was a bad day for closers, but a good day for starters—who threw four complete games...
Saves: 9 Save Opportunities: 10 Franklin finally gets another save. Capps and Street continue hot streaks. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com Papelbon capped off a great Red Sox comeback by shutting the door on the Yankees for his 16th save...
Max Scherzer continues to pitch very strong, and picked up his third win. This is a kid that I like to continue to progress and, of course, continue to strikeout everyone and their mother...
It's time again for the hump day look see, a random collection of stats and thoughts to help get you through your fantasy week. the look see will appear every Wednesday evening for the remainder of the season...
Troy Tulowitzki is also starting to get hot, or is it just a tease? He homered for the second time in three games, drove in a run for the third time in four games, and six hits over the last four contests...
Saves: 9 Save Opportunities: 10 Bailey gets ripped by the Twins, giving Nathan his 13th save .By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com Andrew Bailey had a nightmare appearance against the Twins...
Saves: 6 Save Opportunities: 6 Bell saves number 17; Andrew Bailey gets fifth save Andrew Bailey has secured the closer role for the Athletics with another strong save. Monday night he pitched a perfect inning to secure a 4-3 win for the A's...
Like I always say, young players, and especially pitchers, often struggle. Tommy Hanson got a rude welcome to the majors today as he allowed six runs over six innings...
Pssst. Yeah, you.....come here for a minute. I got something I want to show you. Now listen, I know why you're here, you know why you're here so there's no need to be squemish about this. You're jonesing, I can see it all over your face...
Last week, the Hot Eight told you to do out and grab Tommy Hanson, Gordon Beckham and Ben Zobrist right now. If you made those moves last Sunday then you are now a much better team than you were before reading this little article...
Saves: 5 Save Opportunities: 6 Not many saves tonight, but plenty of closer action. By Todd Farino, www.thecloserreport.com There might have only been five saves today, but there was plenty of closer action...
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