2011 NFL Draft: Top Five Quarterbacks The prospect of drafting a quarterback in the opening rounds of the NFL Draft brings with it many expectations from fans, front office personnel and coaching staffs. Just look at the number of rookie quarterbacks started games last year: Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Jimmy Clausen, Colt McCoy, John Skelton, Rusty Smith and Joe Webb. The 2011 quarterback class offers a mixed ...

Only one full year in the minors, Giants first baseman Brandon Belt had a tone of hype coming into this years' spring training. Why not as Belt quickly moved through the Giants minor league system (see stats below) and continued to hit at every level. For the season Belt had 595 plate appearances and hit a sparkling .352 average. Some MLB analysts have Belt as a possible batting champion and gold glove winn ...

As noted in our two start pitchers for week one, most of your starters will be doubling up this week. However, just because most starters pitch twice doesn't mean all of them have favorable matchups. For the most part, I won't recommend you bench your usual suspects for the opening week but I do have a list of pitchers, below that have strong matchups and poor matchups. Favorable Schedules Chris Carpenter P ...

Let's get the 2011 fantasy baseball season started off right. Our week one player rankings for hitters are ready to go. While most fantasy owners will go with their studs early on, it always seems to be that a few choices have to be made before games start. Be it injury or a poor schedule, some of your later round picks may not get the nod come week one, and you will opt for other players. On the list, you ...

Another fantasy baseball season is about to begin but unlike previous seasons, MLB has decided to start the season a few days earlier. The main thought process for starting this Thursday is that it would allow the regular season to end with a few days to spare in September. This way, the playoffs can start at the beginning of October and the league can avoid playing any World Series games in November. Becau ...

The baseball season is about to begin but a fantasy owners job is never done. By this time, most of you are done drafting your team(s) and are probably realizing some short comings in your overall squad. Don't feel bad, as even experienced fantasy owners come away with a few holes. Below I have some players listed out for waiver wire consideration in the first week of the season. Maybe you won't acquire the ...

Depending on if you're going to play in a rotisserie league or H2H leagues, it can change the way you view the top starting pitchers. In H2H leagues, you can get away with a few bad categories as long as you can dominate in enough areas to win each week. In rotisserie you need to find balance and pitchers like Cliff Lee become even more valuable because of his low WHIP totals. Avid fantasy baseball owners k ...

Ok, so Mike Morse has been on the sleeper alert for fantasy baseball for a few weeks now but I just had to wright an article on my thoughts about the Nationals outfielder. Morse started for the Nationals in the final two months of last season and played well but needed to impress this spring to avoid a platoon role. Throughout the spring, few have been as hot at the plate as Morse has posted (as of March, 2 ...

Unlike most players in fantasy football, fantasy baseball allows you to have players eligible for multiple positions if that player plays enough games at various areas of the field. Some leagues demand that a player had up to 20 games played at a position before they're eligible and others could be as low as 10 games. Added position eligibility gives you, the fantasy owner, more flexibility when setting you ...

The final weekend before the regular season is almost upon us and many fantasy owners have yet to draft their teams. As of today, March 23rd, I went ahead and listed Mock Draft Central's top 25 outfield ADP rankings as listed from mixed 5x5 mock draft results, on their site. ADP rankings can be valuable to find a range for where prospects are going on draft day, but they can hurt you if you take them at fac ...