Spring Training Hype: B.J. Upton

For the full list of hyped spring training players, visit OwnersEdge.com.

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Team Poll: Tampa Bay Rays

Monday marked the beginning of the Fanball/RotoTimes Team Poll series.  You can view all of the staff’s answers here, but I’d like to explain my picks from the polls on CrowdthePlate.com each day.  Here’s the Rays.

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Team Poll: Yankees

Monday marked the beginning of the Fanball/RotoTimes Team Poll series.  You can view all of the staff’s answers here, but I’d like to explain my picks from the polls on CrowdthePlate.com each day.  Here’s the Yankees.

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Team Poll: Boston Red Sox

Monday marked the beginning of the Fanball/RotoTimes Team Poll series.  You can view all of the staff’s answers here, but I’d like to explain my picks from the polls on CrowdthePlate.com each day.  Here’s the Red Sox.

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Team Poll: Baltimore Orioles

Monday marked the beginning of the Fanball/RotoTimes Team Poll series.  You can view all of the staff’s answers here, but I’d like to explain my picks from the polls on CrowdthePlate.com each day.  Here’s the Orioles.

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Starting Next Week…

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be restarting my baseball writing on OwnersEdge.com next week (at least in an online form, as I’ve been writing more than my fair share all offseason). 

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Rookie Expectations: AFL Hitters Edition

The Fanball  visited the Arizona Fall League for a weekend back in early November.  Within those four-plus jampacked days the crew took in three AFL games.  Continuing with the “Rookie Expectations” series, I’d like to take a short look at some of the hitters that played this year at the AFL.

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Rookie Expectations: Stephen Strasburg

As it stands today, the Nationals starting rotation for 2010 is weaker than weak. John Lannan is a lock as the “ace,” but from there we have a real crapshoot.

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Reasonable Rookie Expectations

I’d like to start looking more at the 2010 rookie crop as the playoffs draw to a close and draft preparation for next season begins.  Here at Fanball we are already wrapping up our first of four fantasy baseball magazines, so why not?

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Carlos Gonzalez the Next Matt Kemp?

If you take a look at Carlos Gonzalez’s 2009 season in the majors compared to Matt Kemp, the stats are closer than you would think.

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