Going the Other Way On August 21st Ramon Laureano smacked two homers off of living legend, Bartolo Colon. My partner, who is a Bartolo Colon fan, turned to me and asked who’s that guy? I replied with a shrug, “I have no idea who that dude is.” My wife then

Last year was the year of the home run, causing ripples through the entire fantasy landscape. Unsurprisingly, this had quite the effect on pitchers, although it’s been less talked about than the hitter side of things. What should fantasy owners do, if anything, about this trend?

As TDG gears up for a new baseball season, we are promoting a new weekly feature providing the most interesting and informative baseball articles from across the internet.  These pieces will not be limited to dynasty formats or fantasy baseball.  In addition, we will provide a brief synopsis of the

As I’m sure is true with many dedicated fantasy owners, I’ll dive to the oceans depths to find fantasy prospect bats, attempting to find players in rookie ball and international players to add, to the point where my full roster has me watching free agent players I enjoy and hoping

Constructing a dynasty roster requires foresight. It requires patience, calculation and perseverance. It requires the ability to plan for the future and look for the stars of tomorrow, before they become the “can’t miss” prospects of the present. Every now and then the heavens part, the stars align, and the

As we discussed in the introduction post to this series, more and more dynasty leagues are rostering upwards of 150-200 minor leaguers these days, and some ridiculously deep leagues (like a few that I’m involved with) roster double or triple that amount. Often times performances from the previous year’s draft class

Trust and value your sources. Doing so is obviously of great importance when delving into the world of prospects, particularly since it’s impossible to keep track of the roughly 9,712 different minor league players currently getting a paycheck to play baseball. Whether it’s John Sickels of Minor League Ball, Keith Law of ESPN

Let’s take a look at some hitters who were owned in every league at the beginning of the season but have since been dropped in many leagues. There have been a surprising number of batters who have been big producers in the past and were expected to be good again

We’ve reached the middle of July, which is when most prospect purveyors update their respective lists to reflect the multitude of changes that have occurred since the beginning of the season. As we’ve touched on before, it is extremely important to stay abreast of the constant changes in the valuation

Let’s get our jump to conclusions mat out and make some rash judgments based upon hitters getting one or two at-bats playing in their first game in front of a more than a few thousand fans — or even better — let’s make some sweeping generalizations regarding starting pitchers who are