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Roto Rush: The Comeback Kid

Posted: Aug 14th 2009 9:00AM by R.J. White (author feed)
Filed under: MLB Injury Report, MLB Locking Your Lineup, MLB Sleepers

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Poppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday.

By all accounts, this has been a season to forget for Josh Hamilton. While it would have been hard to meet the expectations that come after a 32-HR, 130-RBI season (Hamilton's numbers in 2008), no one could have predicted a fall this precipitous.

After a .242, two-HR April, we called it a rough start. Hamilton followed that up with a .237 May and went on the shelf for a month. The struggling Texas outfielder entered the All-Star break hitting .243 with just six HRs on the season. By August 2, his average was down to .220.

And then, something finally clicked.
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Starting Five: No Slowing Yankees Down

Posted: Aug 14th 2009 6:00AM by Andrew Johnson (author feed)
Filed under: Marlins, Rangers, Red Sox, Reds, White Sox, Yankees, Starting Five

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Hideki MatsuiStarting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action with a quick nod to what is ahead.

You Oughta Know ...
That the Yankees are awfully potent, even without their All-Star catcher and third baseman in the lineup. New York opened a weekend series in Seattle without Alex Rodriguez or Jorge Posada available and crushed the Mariners anyway, riding a two-homer night from Hideki Matsui to an 11-1 win.

New York is 21-6 since the All-Star break and is on pace to finish the year with 101 wins. Oh, yes, its win and Boston's loss to Justin Verlander and the Tigers restores its edge in the AL East to 6 1/2 games.
More Coverage: Scoreboard | Standings | Statistics
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Roto Rush: Ryan Ludwick Rolling

Posted: Jul 22nd 2009 11:00AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: MLB Injury Report, MLB Locking Your Lineup, MLB Waiver Wire

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Ryan Ludwick fantasy baseballPoppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday.

Ryan Ludwick scuffled early this season, which was a sign to many about how much of a fluke his huge 2008 season was. Through June 29, Ludwick was hitting just .227 with a .718 OPS. Last season, he hit .299 with a .966 OPS in his career year, with a whopping 37 home runs and 113 RBI. Many thought it was an outlier, but he had never gotten a chance to play everyday in the majors until then.

In July, he's heating up and showing that he is no fluke.
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Vlad the Impaler Rises From His Grave

Posted: Jun 25th 2009 2:00PM by Tom Herrera (author feed)
Filed under: MLB Fantasy Felony, MLB Injury Report, MLB Waiver Wire

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Vlad Guerrero
Poppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday.

No one said recovering from a torn pectoral muscle would be easy. And for Vladimir Guerrero's fantasy owners, many of his 130-plus at-bats were pretty painful to watch. But on Wednesday night, Vlad came back to life in a big way.
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Dusty Baker Believes in Miracles

Posted: Mar 6th 2009 2:18PM by Pat Lackey (author feed)
Filed under: Reds, NL Central

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If I wrote on every single silly thing that Dusty Baker has said in the two years since he took over the Reds, I'd be the most prolific author at FanHouse. Generally, when Dusty gets into his Baker-isms, I'm content to let him ramble and just roll my eyes and check Fire Joe Morgan. But FJM is gone now and I feel like there's this void in which someone has to discuss the pure lunacy of Dusty Baker.
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Left on Base: WBC Rosters, Schilling Shills for 'Tek, Rickey Takes Off

Posted: Jan 20th 2009 5:15PM by Matt Watson (author feed)
Filed under: Mets, Pirates, Red Sox, Reds, Royals, Tigers

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Curt Schilling and Jason VaritekLeft on Base is MLB FanHouse's link dump.

* The 45-man rosters for the World Baseball Classic were announced yesterday, which is interesting but not altogether meaningful -- the 28-man rosters that teams will actually play with won't be announced until Feb. 24. In the meantime, Baseball America scours the WBC for prospects.

* Curt Schilling does the math to "prove" the Red Sox should bring back Jason Varitek.
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Rays Host 12-Year-Old Student Suspended Over 'Rayhawk'

Posted: Oct 13th 2008 2:25PM by Matt Watson (author feed)
Filed under: Rays, AL East, MLB Fans, MLB Playoffs

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RayhawkZachary Sharples, a 12-year-old middle school student, was punished with an in-school suspension last week for committing the dastardly crime of ... getting a haircut? More specifically, he got a "Rayhawk," which is exactly the same as a mohawk except ... well, okay, it's just a mohawk.

But while the hair cut was once reserved for rebellious punk rockers, it's now popular among Tampa Bay baseball fans following in the footsteps of Jonny Gomes, Evan Longoria, Ben Zobrist and the rest of the Rays. But apparently at Palmetto's Lincoln Middle School, it's also against the dress code.

Not surprisingly, the suspension made waves both in the local media and the blogosphere, and when Gomes saw a story about Sharples on the news, he decided to invite him and his family onto the field to watch batting practice before Game 2 of the ALCS. From MLB.com:
Once Sharples got out onto the Tropicana Field turf, the Rays stopped over, one by one, and offered their support."Keep the mohawk, man," right-hander Andy Sonnanstine said, giving Sharples a fist bump. First baseman Carlos Pena offered to write the youngster's former principal a note.

[...] Gomes laughed when asked of his suspensions as a youngster, saying a Mohawk would have been "one of the better things" he did. "Hopefully, we've got a Rays fan for life -- a Jonny Gomes fan for life," Gomes said.
Between this and the girl in Chicago who got in trouble for (gasp!) wearing a Kosuke Fukudome jersey, some school officials need to relax. When did being a sports fan start being against the rules?

Prepare Yourself for Bob Barker Jokes: Rays Call David Price to the Majors

Posted: Sep 13th 2008 2:50PM by Will Brinson (author feed)
Filed under: Rays, AL East, MLB Biz, MLB Transactions

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It's no large surprise that the Tampa Rays are using their strong farm system to strengthen their MLB roster as the playoffs draw nigh. And it's less of a surprise that the biggest impact player getting called up -- along with Jonny Gomes, Jeff Niemann and Mitch Talbot -- is David Price, rapidly rising pitching phenom of first round fame.
"For David to get this opportunity so early in his career speaks volumes about him," executive vice president Andrew Friedman said. "We still feel like there's some things developmentally that he needs to work on. There were a little bit of road bumps for him in Triple A, but it's good for his development to have experienced it, and we think for him to be a part of this environment and what's going on right now will further aid in his development."
Price has been more dominant in the minors -- his stint at Triple-A excepted -- than even the most optimistic of expectations could have predicted, going 12-1 with a 2.30 ERA and 109 K's and only 32 walks in 109.2 innings.

The Rays are, of course, in pretty good shape playoff wise; they hold a two game lead over the Red Sox and a nice eight game cushion over the Wild Card hopeful Twins.

There's no word yet on how Price and Niemann -- both top end starters in the minors -- will be used at the big league level. And it would seem pretty presumptuous to expect Price to slide into the rotation amid a pennant race and simply dominate, which is why seeing both guys pitch out of the pen wouldn't be shocking at all. But if Edwin Jackson falters at all, well, yeah, Price will be in the rotation pretty quickly.

The Dugout: The Replacement Killers

Posted: Jun 8th 2008 12:37AM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: New York, Yankees, Rays, AL East, Tampa Bay, The Dugout

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Two notes before tonight's Dugout:

1) Reliant K Kyle Farnsworth has obviously not been on vacation all week. However, the Dugout version of Farnsworth has been on vacation (and yes, he's the religion he says he is in real life too) and if you can't disassociate the two and need a kayfabed explanation, the one who has been pitching in Yankees games this week wasn't Kyle at all but his evil pseudo-brother Jeff.

2) The subject who appears at the end of this strip was brought up and requested in tonight's Baseball is Boring: Mariners-Red Sox live blog. We really do listen to you guys. We wouldn't be doing these (and getting paid to do these) for Fanhouse if it wasn't for our audience, so we always want to know what you want and hear what you have to say. If you haven't been reading BiB you've been missing out and should remedy that. Especially now, before it gets popular and gets its own Fanhouse tag.

Tonight's Dugout is after the jump.
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Duncan, Melky, and Gomes Suspended for Wednesday's Brouhaha

Posted: Mar 14th 2008 3:45PM by Yankees Chick (author feed)
Filed under: New York, Yankees, Rays, AL East, Tampa Bay

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The Yankees and Red Sox have been rivals for ... forever .. but after Saturday's home plate collision incident and the subsequent "retaliation" pulled by Shelley Duncan on Wednesday, it appears that the Yankees have cultivated a rivalry with another AL East team -- the Rays.

If you recall, Saturday''s game featured a rough collision at home plate by Elliott Johnson that broke Yankee catching prospect Francisco Cervelli, and on Wednesday slid cleat-first into Rays' second baseman Akinori Iwamura. The benches cleared, five players were ejected, and now the three players that were most integral in the action have been suspended. Obviously, Shelley "Spirit Coordinator" Duncan was one of the three; he will miss the first three games of the season, as will Melky Cabrera. Jonny Gomes will only miss two for his tackle job. They'll also all be paying fines, but I'm not sure how much they'll be ponying up

It's no surprise that those guys were penalized. I, for one, think they absolutely deserved it. It seemed very obvious that Duncan's wacko slide was intentional, and I don't think it was appropriate to pull that move, particularly in Spring Training. If this was a late September game that the Yankees had to win in order to get closer to a playoff spot and were down by a couple runs, maybe I would feel differently. Is that fair of me? Probably not ... but I have a feeling a lot of fans feel similarly. Am I right? Comment away!

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