Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Fantasy Baseball Young Arms Race

Kids are a great way to infuse your team whether it's an injury to your ace (Billingsley) or inconsistent starts. These guys are the best to say haha look what I got to your whole league.

Brian Matusz - Orioles - SP - 7-0 with a 1.55 ERA for Double-A Bowie and now starting for the O's
Chris Tillman - Orioles - SP - 8-6 with a 2.71 ERA and 99 strikeouts in Triple-A
Neftali Feliz - Rangers - SP but working as RP - K machine
Bud Norris - Astros - SP - Best pickup on this list, NL is nothing compared to the AL East
Junichi Tazawa - Red Sox - SP - Looked good in debut vs. Tigers tonight

All the guys are highly streamable vs. KC/PIT/WAS/SD/etc. but will not be guaranteed starts just yet.

Coming Soon:
Madison Bumdgardner - Yes the Giants have another one on the farm coming soon, could give the Jimenez-esque jump into the playoffs
Jarrod Parker - D'Back that I've been waiting for him to come up for awhile and with D'Backs faltering the day will be sooner rather than later
Carlos Carrasco - centerpiece of Cliff Lee deal, will have a very long leash with CLE
Jake Arrieta - the Orioles (again) have a great young staff and they are getting there