In the earlier part of this decade, I embarked on a pet project to create a Baseball Hall of Fame based solely on fantasy league merit.
This is different from the BBWAA process that leads to a plaque in Cooperstown. The BBWAA awards reverence...
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Here’s hoping your 2018 fantasy baseball season has been a success. The final BABS ratings have been posted to the site.
With the completion of the fantasy season, it’s time to look back and see how I fared in 2018.
Not well.
In fact,...
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by Patrick Cloghessy
According to BABS, in 2017 Patrick Corbin pitched a full season of essentially "asset-less" baseball. She then tabbed him with a (F,e) rating entering 2018. That is not the profile of a breakout star. Some of us may have seen Corbin’s mostly dynamic 2nd half in 2017. He...
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by Patrick Cloghessy
Once BABS gets past the full-timers, mid-timers and part-timers, we arrive at the "no-timers." These are players who were on virtually nobody's radar last spring. Atop the list of no-timers are the small sample size studs. Many of these players are setting September on fire. They are...
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by Chris Doyle
Much has been said about the complete lack of depth at the catcher position in recent years. Finding a difference maker is next to impossible outside the top few options and it’s getting to a point where accepting little production out of that spot is common.
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by Patrick Cloghessy
The seeds of next year’s draft crop were sown this spring. On average, Christian Yelich (p,SB,A+) came off the board this year at pick 45. Yelich’s monstrous fantasy season, coupled with his (BABS-certified) skills are certain to drive his price much higher next season. The same can...
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by Chris Doyle
It’s the final BABS update of the season and we’ve got plenty to talk about. Let’s dive right into the hurlers for some surprises, disappointments and everything in between.
Gerrit Cole (E+, K+) is officially a fantasy ace. He was a bit lucky in the...
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by Patrick Cloghessy
We have arrived at Labor Day Weekend. The unofficial end of summer can be a bummer, but every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. It’s goodbye endless nights and salty surf, hello crisp fall weather, pumpkin spice and pennant fever.
From now...
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by Mark Simmons
When Branch Rickey first used coined “5 tool player”, his phrase separated Mays and Mantle as players in the game who could do it all. In BABS parlance, these elite, across-the-board talents are "triple-asset players."
In the August update, there were 22 players who are...
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by Chris Doyle
With the bulk of the 2018 fantasy season in the rearview mirror, you’re likely in one of two camps: competing for a title or throwing in the towel.
(There’s also a purgatory where you realistically don’t have a chance at winning but aren’t near the bottom either....
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