It’s that time of year already. You feel the pressure of a bad start.  You’ve lost three out of four games in your head to head league or you’ve already fallen well behind in your standard roto league.  You start to toy with the idea of trading Clayton Kershaw even though you own the rights to him for three years at 7 dollars.  You think that this Albert Pujols guy is a bum and think about dropping him all together.  Well, hopefully things aren’t that bad.  Continue Reading »

Joe and Dan are back with another podcast… looking back at the month of April and a small look at ahead to the month of May. Continue Reading »

Joe and Dan talk about it some key adds from the waiver wire, hitters and pitchers having strong springs, and some strategy for the start of the year.  We had to use backup audio this time around!

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Joe and Dan take a look at the last of the roster spots for the 2012 Fantasy Baseball Season.  Email us at TheBig2Show@big2show.com with any questions you may have.  Follow us on Twitter @DanStrafford and @JoePisapia17.

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Dan and Joe are at it again.  They discuss catchers, first basemen, and third basemen in the latest installments of the Big 2 Show.  Have a question for the duo?  Email us at TheBig2Show@big2show.com

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Joe Pisapia and Dan Strafford get together for their first podcast of 2012.  They discuss the Fantasy Baseball Black Book 2012 Edition, Relative Position Value, some story lines for the upcoming year, and names to keep an eye on at each position.

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You know your format.  You know the categories/stats that your league will track.  You are ready for the draft.  Well, you are on your way to being ready for the draft.   You have one opportunity to make your team what you want.  No matter how good you are at making deals during the season, your draft is your only opportunity to be smart, decisive, and daring all at the same time.  You must be prepared.  You can be the smartest person in your league, but if you don’t go into your draft with a plan your head will be spinning by the fifth round. Continue Reading »

The first step to competing in fantasy sports is knowing your format.  It’s seems so very simple, but is probably the most overlooked aspect of the game.  Whether in roto or a points league, it is important to seek out and understand every aspect of the rules set forth. Continue Reading »

Every year, we all think about, or even make, New Year’s Resolutions.  Sometimes they are goals.  Sometimes they are hopes.  Sometimes they are pipedreams. The one thing New Year’s Resolutions do is help to refocus energy lost as we found our way through the holiday season.  My New Year’s Resolutions are plentiful.  The one that matters most here is twofold.  One is to produce weekly, if not daily content for this site, for the entire year.  It may seem easy, and I am in no way complaining, but life can get in the way from time to time.   The second is to fully prepare for my fantasy baseball drafts this year.

In the past, I must admit that I’ve been a lazy drafter.  I don’t do the best preperation and typically don’t do my tiers until late February.  Not this time around. I will start working on my tiers this week and will star posting what I have thus far as soon as it’s available.

Every year, there is the water cooler discussion of who the best pitcher in baseball is that year.  While there are some pitchers who jump up from year to year, the likes of Wandy Rodriguez and Ubaldo Jiminez come to mind, the list tends to pretty static over the course of time.  You can always throw Roy Halladay out there, Felix Hernandez, Tim Lincecum, and maybe even CC Sabathia as a top five candidate.  One pitcher I always throw out there is Josh Johnson.   Johnson is a beast when he is on the mound.  He has a plus curve ball and slider with a mid 90′s fastball.  There is a lot to like.  He has shown some great poise as well for a youngster.  Continue Reading »