Top 25 outfielders: 2009

Vladimir Guerrero, Ichiro Suzuki, Manny Ramirez in their prime.
Ryan Braun, Carlos Lee, Ichiro Suzuki right now.
Notice a trend? Those are great outfields. Take a wild guess who has owned those guys? Yes, The Greatness. In yet another installment of TheBaseballStars draft advice, you will be receiving the know-how from the bona fide pro. A lot of fantasy experts will tell you to stay away from outfield and grab the harder to fill infield positions.
Screw them.
Get a good outfield. It is a one-stop shop for every stat you need. It is the only place you can a plethora of .300 hitters with 30 to 40 homers with a 100 runs and RBIs thrown in. Want speed? Then this is the best source to get them. Take a look at those two outfield groups above and respect the balance. Get a troika like that and you are way ahead of the curve for offense.

Top 10 third basemen: 2009

David Wright naked pictures. That one sentence just guaranteed about 50 page views over the course of the season. Good news Newspaperman, the absence of pictures means you won’t have to secretly wash that towel, and your wife won’t say, “Hey, what happened to all the Windex?”
Welcome to the fifth installment of TheBaseballStars draft advice. We are on third base and it is getting harder to write the intro to this stuff.
Sorry for the dirty David Wright trick above ladies and gents (some of you) … but at least you don’t have it as bad as Newspaperman who surrounds himself in his David Wright baseball cards in his underwear. Let’s just say, crying, cussing and self loathing are involved. So read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Top 10 shortstops: 2009

OK, so it easy to rank shortstops. And it is cliché to list the big three and feel all important. We don’t do that here at TheBaseballStars. By now you should get a feel of how we operate. The Jon ranks guys by how he would draft then and shoves it in the face of fantasy writers that live and breathe off of stats and hype. FreeSanJose hates the Yankees and will always lean on the side of the power hitter. Newspaperman, in his quest to be universally loved, is the textbook fantasy baseball ranker. PoiDog? When he does decide to write, he usually has a beer in his hand and the other hand in his pants.
And do you know before Hanley Ramirez became the guy, the most famous Hanley was from the video DWYCK? Man, mid-90s rap gear was tight. Bikinis in the ’90s … umm no.
So heh heh heh heh heh heHanlee, Hanlee Leroy you need to read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Top 10 Second basemen: 2009

Hey, it’s yours truly far from booty and we’re back for part three of our draft strategy portion of the show. Today we are dealing with second basemen even though this is the No. 3 installment. Planning makes a great Web site or something. But hey we don’t get paid, so read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Top 10 first basemen with DH thrown in: 2009

So here is part two of the only fantasy baseball draft strategy guide you’ll need. Today is first base and DH. Why the combo? Because there are no good DH’s anymore. The days of Edgar Martinez are long gone. Great, adding Edgar Martinez to the post will probably spawn about three hits to this site for the whole year. Speaking of hits … guess who is the top first baseman? Albert Pujols … which of course brings us to his wife Deidre Pujols which will generate more hits than Edgar Martinez. For all of you coveters of another man’s wife here’s some pictures of her above … ummm let’s get started. So read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Top 10 catchers: 2009

Hey, it’s gone on long enough. TheBaseballStars is laying down its rankings once again. Since we don’t get paid for this and The Jon doesn’t feel like calculating an overall top 10 list, we decided to mix it up and offer individual rankings. This is more effective for a couple of reasons. Not only does it show that The Jon has the greatest baseball mind and truly stands alone in a world with no peers, it also allows you the fantasy manager to quickly identify your personal preferences and relay it accordingly to our advice on draft day. So read on and good luck or Godspeed or something.

Rebuilding A Franchise: A rebuttal

Go ahead and read Newspaperman’s 1,000 word diatribe on how he rebuilt his team in our bush-fantasy league.
It is a study on what good fantasy managers do when their team sucks in a keeper league. Now Newspaperman’s case hardly ever happens. Newspaperman on paper had a viable list of keepers with the flagship being Chase Utley … but here’s the dealer. He was willing to trade Utley. Granted, it is well known Newspaperman sees The Jon as a hero, someone to emulate if you will and he went into this season by stealing The Jon’s mindset … blow your team the hail up. And it all started with his b.s. trade of Cole Hamels and Ryan Braun for a first round pick.

Fantasy baseball draft myths & advice: Done or Dunn?

There might not be another player in fantasy baseball that has such wide-ranging opinions.There are those that believe that he is an absolute albatross.
That simply by drafting him, you damn your team to an eternal hell of enduring rather lengthy droughts in exchange for some homers.
You know I’m not one of those people. I won a title with Dunn last year and will happily draft him if I get the chance this year.
Convince me otherwise.

Convince you not to draft a guy you already said you would draft? Look, The Jon has respect for what Dunn does.
He just gets drafted to high in a spot that is usually reserved for secondary fantasy producers. Dunn is a third option at best because of his up and down weeks of consistency. The only consistency the guy has is unpredictability. If you are drafting a team from scratch, you really need to be committed to offense to get the guy and can count on a rag-tag bunch of pitchers to be your staff.

Here’s the deal:

Fantasy baseball draft myths and advice: The training bras come off

The Jon thought everything was cool between The Jon and FreeSanJose. There was some bondage between the two of us during the hallowed Edinson Volquez and Cliff Lee conversation. FreeSanJose even left with his handcuffs. It is our intention to try and help y’all prepare for a draft by highlighting players and strategies. The Jon thought FreeSanJose was on board with that and then we got into a big argument where insults and racial epithets were thrown.

FreeSanJose truly believes we agree on many of the same points in fantasy baseball.

The Jon is great.

FreeSanJose is not.

So to show FSJ the error of his ways, it is game time.

FreeSanJose’s last take on Volquez as a keeper

So, FreeSanJose had his last take on Edinson Volquez as a keeper for The Greatness over Cliff Lee, The Jon just never got around to posting it. After many phone calls and threats of bodily harm, The Jon caved in and will now post it. FreeSanJose’s voice can be annoying, sue me.
Enjoy fools.