On the surface, Mike Minor’s 4.12 ERA in 2012 is about as bland as it comes. And with Thanksgiving a day away, bland is unacceptable. We want succulent turkey, the sweetest cranberry sauce imaginable and all 21 of Craig Goldstein’s pies. Seriously. He’s making 21 pies. But if you were

Wil Myers took home the American League Rookie of the Year award in predictable fashion, giving the Tampa Bay Rays three ROYs in the past six years. Evan Longoria won the award in 2008, and Jeremy Hellickson followed suit in 2011. Hellickson went 13-10 in 29 starts that season, posting

I’ll start by naming all the second basemen more valuable than Jason Kipnis in 2013: Robinson Cano Cheesy way to start a blog post aside, many doubted the second baseman’s 2012 campaign after he completely fell apart post All-Star break. I wasn’t one of the doubters, but I understood the

The Arizona Fall League is in full swing, and we hope you’ve enjoyed TDG’s coverage taking you through all the rosters, big names and lesser names you may one day see in a big league box score. But before we dive into the final installment, here are five links to

Continuing the Arizona Fall League series at TDG, today I look at the Salt River Rafters, my personal favorite team name of the bunch — it just rolls off the tongue. The Rafters are made up of players from the minor league affiliates of the Blue Jays, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Rays

I jumped at the chance to highlight the stars of the Mesa Solar Sox in TDG’s latest series covering the Arizona Fall League, because — if you didn’t know — I kind of, sort of like the Cubs. I was sad to see shortstop Javier Baez taken off Mesa’s roster when

By coincidence or joke, Bret assigned me the third basemen in this week’s team effort to pinpoint players at each position who are worth picking up in your dynasty league before free agency closes on Sunday. I say joke because—since joining the TDG crew—I’ve already spent a large amount of

As I write this, Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Colby Rasmus is probably hitting another home run that’s not counting toward my fantasy stats in a pretty important semifinals matchup. (Checking…Yep!) I was late to activate Rasmus—who had been sidelined since early August with a left oblique strain—over the weekend, and

After taking Clayton Kershaw deep not once, but twice (!) on Sunday Night Baseball, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jay Bruce finds himself one moon shot away from registering his third consecutive 30-home run season. Unfortunately for me, that means my preseason prediction of 40 long balls is all but a certainty

Third base has been hit-and-miss in 2013, with Matt Carpenter, Manny Machado and Kyle Seager among the obvious hits, and Pablo Sandoval, Brett Lawrie and Mike Moustakas among the glaring misses. Carpenter, Seager, Lawrie and Moustakas have all recently been discussed in great detail here at The Dynasty Guru, and