We’re looking for a few good men and women to round out the General Scrum portion of the EWC Roto Baseball league community.  If you’d like to try your hand against some of the rejects who didn’t qualify for our Champions League best roto players in the country, join up.  There’s a couple days left [...]

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Folks, Jackson has been “mock drafting.” Note the present continuous form. We’re not talking one mock draft, probably not two, and quite possibly 10. His wife recently posted the above video, taken just this past Friday night at 11:51 p.m. According to her Jackson had the 8th pick in the Fantasy Prof Pro PhD Pandemonium Mock Draft #7a, [...]

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[Note: For readers with 'a life' who don't enjoy reading about roto baseball or me beating Aaron in fantasy sports, you can stop reading here].
It’s been a downright miserable year for the Stinky Tofu, my team in the EWC-sponsored Champions Rotisserie Baseball League.  Nothing has gone right. I’m in 10th place, in danger of being relegated.  Reyes [...]

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I have a rather inexplicable, even irrational admiration for Juan Pierre’s baseball game. It stems back to 2006 when Pierre led my upstart F’ers team to the storied Kingman Roto League championship in its initial season. Yahoo!’s sports guru Andy Behrens–who still grouses bitterly to himself about my back-to-back Kingman titles–frequently lampoons me [...]

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I hate to be one to brag. Wait, no I don’t. I (Forever Crunk) destroyed Jackson’s fantasy team (F’ers) this week by the score of 10-0 in our somewhat high profile Kingman League. I think that’s my first shut out ever, and only the second or third I can recall in the four year history [...]

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Everybody likes the next big thing in roto baseball. Like we’ve discussed, any picks of Chris Davis or Matt Weiters will inevitably bring a chorus of ooh’s and ahh’s and some self-satisfied gloating over this year’s big ’sleepers’.
Conversely, no one wants to spend a draft pick on yesterday’s news.
Experienced fantasy owners know, however, that you [...]

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Apologies for things getting a little slow around here — usually things work out pretty well in terms of our scouting-related bizayness, but not this week. In the meantime Yahoo! has put up their fantasy baseball leagues for 2009, and I want to invite any and all EWC readers to join.
We did a 20-team/roto style [...]

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Anyone who is a roto nerd like I am has an unhealthy love for pre-season stat projections. They bring me back to the days of drafting Strat-o-Matic teams with players like Jay Buhner, who in limited AB’s put up numbers that projected out to look virtually Bondsian over a full season.
In that same spirt, James’ [...]

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Jackson did some fantasy baseball writing a few weeks ago. He might not want you to know this, but he’s been doing mock drafts too. Mock drafts wearing mock turtle necks, probably.
I’m slow in jumping on the train. I ended last season with a very bad taste in my mouth. I finished the EWC league [...]

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Several players worth discusssing either vastly exceeded expectations or seemingly came out of nowhere to become valuable roto contributors in 2008. Owners with enough cajones to draft Dustin Pedroia early on were rewarded with an MVP season from the middle infield. Anyone who says they saw Cliff Lee’s cy young season coming last [...]

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It’s never really too early to start talking about roto baseball, and this year our good commissioner Aaron and I have vowed to keep readers up to date on the progress of our first ever keeper league, which features the top 12 members of our twenty team league from last year, plus a couple of [...]

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And somewhere in Tainan County, Jackson Broder cries a private, solemn tear.
From Yahoo:
Authorities in central Taiwan have turned off the red light at the county’s last legal brothel after the death of its pimp aged 87, newspapers said on Friday.

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Yesterday I had one of those moments in fantasy baseball…hunched over my Kingman League team roster, trying to look at things from every possible angle. The kind of situation where I had to finally get up and take a walk.
See, yesterday Barry Bonds supposedly worked out for the Red Sox. I’ve also seen this reported [...]

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In our inaugural East Windup Chronicle fantasy league the team run by yours truly, the Ulsan Fish Hooks, recently nabbed Dodger phenom Clayton Kershaw with the No. 1 waiver pick. It’s not an understatement to say Jackson Broder (No. 2 waiver pick) was crushed. After a two week surge that saw his team climb from [...]

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As Yahoo! svengali Andy Behrens recently detailed  in his latest Roto Arcade column, this year’s annual Kingman league draft turned (devolved?) into a five day long bloodbath, at times resembling a virtual reality show of 30-40 year old journalists and fantasy baseball geeks with laptops trapped in the  Mock Draft Central  website [...]

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Join me on a trip back in time, to a time when personal computers and electronic mail were still relatively new, Roberto Kelly manned the outfield at Yankee Stadium, and Ozzie Guillen ran to his position, his mouth…closed.
The year is 1992 and the New York Times has just published an article called Personal Computers; fantasy [...]

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Update: Found someone. Thanks  to everyone who emailed.    
Two people in our ginormous 20-team Yahoo! fantasy league have jumped ship due to work and school obligations. We filled one spot from a waiting list, but we have one additional opening.  
We’re drafting this weekend starting at 10 p.m. EST Saturday (11 a.m. Sunday in [...]

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Here’s a fantasy baseball perspective I can get behind. This is Razzball, who I linked to earlier in the week, deconstructing the myth surrounding the taking of starting pitchers early in your draft. Razz argues that pitchers are usually as valuable commodities as hitters, using data drawn from both their own player rater and ESPN’s [...]

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Here’s a handy tool for fans of projections — MLB.com has created a composite of “SEVEN different premium and free projection systems from across the web” into one spreadsheet.
Now, they don’t name the seven projection systems, so for all we know it could be Bill James, CHONE, ZIPS and Billy Baum and the dartboard [...]

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As I mentioned before we’re going to do an East Windup Chronicle fantasy league. If you’re a reader of this site how about joining up? There’s no money involved (Jackson slams fist on keyboard) and the idea is to keep things fairly casual and fun. Even if you don’t have a ton of experience playing [...]

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