Fantasy Baseball Hitting Planner for Week of August 29th, 2011

August 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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There aren’t as many close division races as there were about a month ago, but there is still some competitive baseball going on.  Depending on your specific league and format, playoffs are just around the corner.  Hopefully everyone reading this is still sitting pretty for the post season.

There are plenty of injuries that are plaguing some of the league’s best players.  It is important to stay on top of every player’s health and make adjustments at the right time.

With that said, let’s get to this week’s Hitting Planner. Read, digest, and set your lineups accordingly.

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Filed Under: Fantasy Baseball Tagged With: adam jones, adrian gonzalez, alex avilla, alex rodriguez, andre ethier, angel pagan, chipper jones, corey hart, david wright, howie kendrick, ian desmond, jason bay, jimmy rollins, joe mauer, joey votto, Jose Reyes, justin turner, kelly johnson, mark reynonlds, miguel montero, orlando hudson, ryan zimmerman, Shin-Soo Choo, vernon wells, VICTOR MARTINEZ

Fantasy Baseball Weekly Hitting Planner: Week of July 25th, 2011

July 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Think fast, when is the trade deadline for 2011? July 31, 2011 would be the answer.While some of you may feel that information isn’t important, it really is. 

Some teams may need a bat, while others need pitching, causing a specific player to change from the NL to AL and vice versa.These changes may not affect your team in any extreme way, baseball, like other sports, is a game of inches. 

There are roughly 60 games left for each team which leaves about 9-10 weeks of the regular season left.Now the heat is on, literally.

In this post, I look past this weekend and into next week to give you a head start on the hitters you should be targeting on waivers and starting/sitting in your lineups.

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Filed Under: Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Sports Tagged With: adam jones, adam lind, alex rodriguez, aramis ramirez, carl crawford, carlos quentin, dan uggla, Freddie Freeman, ian stewart, jason heyward, jemile weeks, joe mauer, JOSH BELL, josh reddick, matt wieters, orlando hudson, rafael furcal, will venable

Fantasy Baseball Hitting Planner for Week of July 18th, 2011

July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The All-Star break is over and the second half of baseball is underway.  Hopefully you are refreshed and ready to go because the season is drawing closer to its end every single day and the winner of your league is soon to be determined.

Will that winner be you?

Who knows. Take a look at the week’s hitting planner and prepare your squads for victory.

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Beginning Baseball: Mystery SOLVED – Why Women Swoon Over Joe Mauer

July 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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As I’m surfing through my TV guide last night–seeing if there is anything worthy of my attention–I stumble upon an MLB game. And OH YES! It’s the Twins-White Sox game!

I did my happy dance and psyched myself up to relax and watch my first TV showing of the Twins.

Ok, I lied. I watched the Twins on TV twice last weekend while in Minnesota, but it was different. I was always in a social atmosphere and was only watching to pay attention to the score. I was excited to focus solely on the game to see what I could learn from the commentators and watching up-close action.

And I made a huge discovery: I solved the mystery of why women swoon over Joe Mauer.

Gentlemen, pay attention. This is good for you to understand.

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We’ve located Amanda Lawson’s dream date, and his shirtless body is truly divine

June 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
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I am currently efforting to find out this man’s name and phone number so that I can provide it to Amanda, who surely will be begging him for a date…and dreaming about his spectacular back hair until she gets it.

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Beginning Baseball: Is Joe Mauer Worth the Extra Buck?

June 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
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Editor’s note: Amanda Lawson is a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who is getting into baseball for the first time this year. After much deliberation and counsel, Amanda settled on the Minnesota Twins as her team. With “Beginning Baseball” Amanda is documenting her first season of baseball fandom.

Last Friday, the Twins reactivated Joe Mauer from the DL, marking his return from two long months of recovery. Twins fans everywhere celebrated.

However, Mauer’s long break away from the game has brought up some questioning among fans and some cynicism among the skeptics. After signing an eight-year contract extension with the Twins (worth $184 million) in May of 2010, chatter has developed about whether the organization invested their money wisely.

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Beginning Baseball: The Value of a Player and the Twins’ Joe Mauer Conundrum

April 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Editor’s note: Amanda Lawson is a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who is getting into baseball for the first time this year. After much deliberation and counsel, Amanda settled on the Minnesota Twins as her team. With “Beginning Baseball” Amanda is documenting her first season of baseball fandom.

This week I had an epiphany. Sort of.

I was reading an opinion article on Joe Mauer and his current physical state. The article talked about his value to the Twins…or lack thereof.

As Jim Souhan went into detail on where he thought Mauer should be placed defensively to become a more valuable asset to the team, I couldn’t help but think that there was an important objective missing in the article.

Then the light bulb came on: the value of a player is based on more than just physical skill.

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Beginning Baseball: It’s Not Football–It’s BASEBALL!

April 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Editor’s note: Amanda Lawson is a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who is getting into baseball for the first time this year. After much deliberation and counsel, Amanda settled on the Minnesota Twins as her team. With “Beginning Baseball” Amanda is documenting her first season of baseball fandom.

Rough start. You could say that again.

After the excitement of choosing to follow the greatest team in baseball, I can’t help but feel a little down about the Twins start to the season.

It could be worse; the Twins could have a start like the Red Sox. But it could also be much better.

And it’s tearing me up. Why? One reason: my head is still stuck in football mode.

Football has been my “thing” since the beginning of my memory. However, it’s a completely different sport from baseball. Differentiating between the two is easily the biggest challenge I am having with baseball for two reasons.

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Only 11 Games In, and the Twins are Killing Me

April 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
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We are only 11 games into the 2011 season and the Minnesota Twins have already turned me into Bill Simmons.

You know what I mean. That guy who calls overreacts to every single little thing and claims the season is over when Tsuyoshi Nishioka can’t figure out the strike zone and doesn’t know how to avoid a base runner trying to break up a double play.

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Three-Peat for Minnesota Twins Will Be Hard to Achieve

March 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
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The Minnesota Twins come into the 2011 season with a lot of expectations. Many people have them pegged to win their third straight AL Central title. Even Skip Bayless has them winning the World Series (which realistically doesn’t mean much since he just says things to get attention).

There are plenty of good reasons for these expectations. The Twins have routinely finished atop their division regardless of any problems they’ve had.

This year could prove to be different however.

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MLB 2011 Predictions: AL Central — White Sox should have what it takes to supplant Twins

March 29, 2011 By 3 Comments

The Minnesota Twins won the Central last season, going 94-68 and finishing seven games ahead of the White Sox, only two games behind the Rays for best record in the American League.

Who will come out on top in what has historically been one of baseball’s most competitive divisions? Can the Twins repeat? Will the reloaded White Sox reclaim the throne? Can the Tigers rebound from last year’s disappointment?

Yesterday we analyzed the AL East. Let’s take look at the AL Central.

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Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, joe mauer, miguel cabrera, minnesota twins, mlb predictions, ozzie guillen

Previewing the White Sox-Twins series that will decide the AL Central

September 11, 2010 By 3 Comments
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If you watch ESPN – and if you read this site then there is about a 99.9999% chance that you do – then you have undoubtedly heard the “Three…is a magic number…yes it is…” commercial that seems to be especially ubiquitous during the morning hours.

If you are a fan of the Chicago White Sox, as I am, then this is a tune to keep in mind once next Tuesday rolls around. Why? That is when the Good Guys host the Twin Cities Piranhas in a three game set that will decide the AL Central.

Let’s preview the series and see just how optimistic White Sox fans should reasonably be about their team rising to the occasion in the most important series of the season.

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An early look at the MLB Playoffs

September 6, 2010 By 2 Comments

So this morning a couple of things go through my usually cavernous head.

First, I gloat over the fact that my week 1 college football picks (exclusive to MSF) went 4-0 on Saturday with Virginia Tech pending on Monday.  Then I check the scores from late last night and I realize that LSU somehow failed to score a point in the entire second half against UNC’s JV defense and choked away the easiest of covers.

Needless to say, as a Duke fan (don’t tell anyone, I know most of you find that gross), I blame Roy Williams for this backdoor disgusting cover, and I now doubly hope that all the UNC suspensions are followed by probation and the death penalty.  In fact, I root for Craig James to show up as a consultant for UNC now that he has helped administer the execution of both the SMU football program and the career of Mike Leach.

The second thing I realize is that this is the last Sunday for approximately 20 weeks that won’t entail about 12 straight hours of NFL football.

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Minnesota Twins 2010 Season Preview

March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Last week on this site we had a preview the upcoming Cubs season, and I’m sure Jerod will at some point put together something on his beloved White Sox. For now however, let’s focus on a team that actually has a chance of winning something this year: the Minnesota Twins.

The Twins come into this season with two former MVPs, an increased payroll, and a new stadium. Expectations are as high as they have been in quite some time. Instead of figuring out how to fill roles vacated by Johan Santana or Torii Hunter like years past, the Twins showed aggressiveness in free agency.

Up until Joe Nathan’s (potentially) devastating injury, the Twins looked like the preseason favorite to win the almighty AL Central. Let’s take a look at the reasons why.

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Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: AL Central, joe mauer, joe nathan, Justin Morneau, minnesota twins, MLB

Monday Link Dump: Twins Ink Joe Mauer for Next Decade, Hot Women of the Super Bowl

February 1, 2010 By 1 Comment

Here are your Monday links.

I know that I’ve gone back and forth between having a daily link dump, and then doing a weekly one, and pretty much every iteration in between. Well here is what I’ve decided: I’ll do link dumps whenever I have enough good links that it makes sense. It might be once a day, it might be once a week. But whenever it is, you’ll get plenty of tasty sports web goodness to feast on.

First up today? Big news in Minnesota where the Twins have inked Joe Mauer for the next decade. And then after that, a link to Guyism’s very nice gallery of Super Media Day hotties. You’re welcome guys.

Update: Hang on just a second about that Joe Mauer contract extension…

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