Clearing The Bases

The 2011 World Series has certainly been memorable.  Whether it’s Albert Pujols hitting three HRs in a single game or phone gate when Tony LaRussa couldn’t get Jason Motte warmed up in the bullpen during Game 5, not like we’re going to forget this series anytime soon.  Let’s see what else is going on throughout […]

Clearing The Bases

The 2011 World Series is upon us with the Texas Rangers representing the American League, not a shock, and the St. Louis Cardinals doing the same for the National League, quite a shock.  The Rangers were considered the best all around team in the AL for most of if not all of the season.  Yes […]

Clearing The Bases

Being a Yankee fan, it’s not easy watching the League Championship Series and not feel like the Yanks should be there.    Not that I thought they were the best team in the American League, I have been picking Texas to make the World Series for most of the season, but I did believe they were […]

Clearing The Bases

The Rays’ magic ran out in the 1st round playoff loss to the Rangers.  They won the first game, but their lack of offense was a glaring weakness in three straight losses that sent them home. The Yankees had a disappointing end to their 2011 season with a Game 5 loss to the Tigers at […]

Clearing The Bases

Wow, what a last couple of days in the baseball season.   Hard to believe that both the Braves and Red Sox choked up huge leads in the month of September, but as everyone likes to say, “that is why they play the games”.  The playoff matchups in the Wildcard round offer up some intriguing possibilities.  […]

Clearing The Bases

I was undecided about what to write about this column and then I did a podcast with Chris Mitchell of the Seamhead Podcast Network and we got into a discussion about the American League MVP.  Who should get the nod?  There are quite a few candidates, let’s go over them.  Not a bad starting lineup […]

Clearing The Bases

Last week we talked about the playoff picture in the American League, which looked kind of locked up with the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers and Rangers looking like they would have to collapse not to get in, but wouldn’t you know it, the Sox are trying to put Tampa back in the playoff hunt.  Problem […]

Clearing The Bases

What a shame that for all intents and purposes the playoff teams in each league have already been determined with three weeks left to go in the season.  Outside of playoff seeding and who wins the AL East, there isn’t much to look forward to.  With that being said I’m going to take a look […]

Clearing The Bases

We’ve had to take a few weeks off due to some software problems, but we’re back today, just in time to watch all of the players that major league teams will call up to fortify their bullpen and bench during this final month.  The Yanks and Red Sox have been playing a big series this […]

Clearing The Bases

Last week we looked at the teams that could be big players before the non-waiver trade deadline, this week we will look at the winners and losers.  This is where the general manager of a team makes his money.  You’re under pressure to make the best deal possible.  Everyone knows what you need, so you […]

Clearing The Bases

Unless you’re not all that big a baseball fan, you know the non-waiver trade deadline is this Sunday at 4PM.  It’s a major league team’s last chance to fix a problem on their roster before players must pass through waivers in order to be traded.  Trades seem to be harder to work out in this […]

Clearing The Bases

There was no column last week as I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and needed a few days to recover.  I’m back now and with the non-waiver trading deadline just 12 days away it seems prudent to talk about some of the players that might need to send a change of address to the post […]

Clearing The Bases

The Major League Baseball All-Star game is this coming Tuesday.  Now I love baseball, am a big Yankee fan, never miss a game, and will watch the ASG, but the format is just insane.  With the way the selections are set up now and how the game plays out, this should be nothing more than […]

Clearing The Bases

Anyone who listened to the Seamheads Fantasy Baseball Show on Wednesday night heard my co-host, Jeff Brown (Red Sox fan) toast the organization for their decision to play Adrian Gonzalez in right field for the sake of getting David Ortiz some at-bats during the team’s nine game road stretch in National League parks.  I may […]

Clearing The Bases

A little news and notes for everyone’s pleasure once again. Atlanta Braves:  Yes, that was Brandon Beachy who struck 11 Blue Jays in his last start, but before we get to excited, let’s remember that Beachy is not a pitcher who is generally going to be looking for a high whiff total…..The Braves are getting […]

Clearing The Bases

Last week we discussed the most disappointing players at each position, this week we’ll go with the most surprising, players who are playing well and above what we thought they might in spring training.  Some of the players listed are no longer playing at that position but that is where they qualified at coming into […]

Clearing The Bases

The baseball season is more than 1/3 completed, the weather is warming up, and pennant races are starting to shape up.  We are in mid-June; no longer can any player state that they are in a slump. Slumps don’t last two plus months.  With that in mind we are going to take a look at […]

Clearing The Bases

This week we’re going to take a look at some news and notes or rumors that involve each team. Atlanta Braves:  Jason Heyward may end up being a great player in time, but it would be nice if he could stay healthy for more than a month at a time……..Johnny Venters may just be the […]

Clearing The Bases

I love the game of baseball and spend most of my days/nights watching as many games as possible.  Over the years I have thought about what I would change if I was the Commissioner and allowed to institute any rules I wish.  So in this column I’ve decided to list the 12 rules that I […]

Clearing The Bases

Unless you have been living in a cave all week you have undoubtedly heard about the Yankees Jorge Posada’s decision to pull himself out of the lineup and refuse to play last Saturday versus Boston.  What you may not know are the details preceding this decision. When Posada first came up with the Yankees he […]

Clearing The Bases

Clearing The Bases                                                                                                                                          April 13, 2011 By George Kurtz Now that we have finished with all of our rankings and predictions, we can get back to our usual weekly column which will include news and notes throughout Major League Baseball that a fan may want to know. Manny Ramirez abruptly retired from the Tampa Bay […]

Clearing The Bases: AL Predictions

Clearing The Bases                                                                                                                                          April 3, 2011 By George Kurtz Yeah I know the season is four days old as of this writing, but today I’ll make my predictions for each division.  It seems the wildcard is no longer a lock to come out of the American League East, not so much because the Yankees and […]

Clearing The Bases: Closers

The old axiom when it comes to relief pitchers, is never pay for saves.  I follow this mantra somewhat, especially in mixed leagues, but in NL or AL only leagues I want to have one solid closer.  I don’t like to spend a big part of my budget on more than one, but I want […]

Clearing The Bases: Starting Pitchers

Clearing The Bases                                                                                                                                          March 30, 2011 By George Kurtz Once again Starting Pitching is generally an area I will select later on in my drafts as I’m a big believer in loading up on hitting early on.   Sure I would love to have a top notch starter to anchor my staff, but I’m not willing […]

Clearing The Bases: Designated Hitters

Most players who are playing full-time at designated hitter this season we have discussed at other positions, so for this column, we will make it short and sweet, and only discuss the DHs that we haven’t gone over at any other point in this series of columns.  The problem with selecting someone who is a […]

Clearing The Bases: Outfielders

Outfield seems to be a jumbled mess of players once you get thru the first dozen or so.  This position is nowhere near as deep as it once was, and even most of the top ten players come with question marks, whether it be their injury history or resume.  This list assumes you are playing […]

Clearing The Bases: 3rd Base

Clearing The Bases                                                                                                                                          March 22, 2011 By George Kurtz Outside of Shortstop, Third Base may be the toughest position to judge come draft time.  There are a bunch of interesting players here but what order to put them in is the big question.  Traditionally 3B is a power position, so you would like a player […]

Clearing The Bases: Shortstops

Today, or tonight depending upon when you are reading this, we will finish up our look at the middle infielders with a look at our top 15 shortstops.  There is not a lot to like here as this position has two outstanding players, then maybe three or four other players you wouldn’t mind having, then […]

Clearing The Bases: Second Basemen

Today and tomorrow we shall go over the middle infield position, starting with our top 15 second basemen.  The position is certainly top heavy, but also hurt by major injury concerns to two of the better players in Chase Utley and Brian Roberts.  Neither one has been announced that they won’t be ready for the […]

Clearing The Bases

Clearing The Bases                                                                                                                                          March 9, 2011 By George Kurtz Today we will go over our top 20 First Basemen.  This is a loaded position with some of the best hitters in the game.  Generally I like to wait to grab a 1B seeing as though the position is so deep.  That being said there will […]

Clearing The Bases

It’s that time of year again where all of us fantasy players are gearing up for our fantasy draft.  Some of us may have already had a draft or two as some leagues like to get it out of the way early.  Personally I prefer drafting as late in spring training as possible so that […]

« Previous Page