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- Fantasy Baseball Paid and Trade: Mike Cameron Gives Red Sox Many Options
- By Knox Bardeen 12/16/2009 12:10 AM ET
The Major League Baseball Hot Stove is on fire right now, and it looks like it could remain hot for the next few days. It's already been a busy week with Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee being relocated in ... More »
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- Fantasy Baseball Paid and Trade: Can Billy Wagner Be a Top-10 Closer?
- By Knox Bardeen 12/03/2009 10:50 AM ET
Paid and Trade is FanHouse's offseason look at the baseball world through the eyes of a fantasy baseball GM. One of the biggest pieces of Hot Stove news yesterday was the signing of Billy Wagner by ... More »
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- Always Be Closing: A Look to 2010
- By Matt Snyder 9/22/2009 9:05 PM ET
In last week's version of Always Be Closing, we had a reader request: to look ahead at the closing jobs for 2010. "Artsaba" actually only asked for those who aren't currently closing that could land ... More »
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- Always Be Closing: Marmol Enters 2010 as Cubs Closer
- By Knox Bardeen 9/15/2009 9:55 AM ET
It was one of the more hotly debated topics of the off-season, which spilled into Spring Training and even the regular season. We wanted to know if Kevin Gregg or Carlos Marmol would close out games ... More »
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- Brad Lidge or Ryan Madson: Who's the Phillies Closer?
- By Knox Bardeen 9/09/2009 2:53 PM ET
Phillies skipper Charlie Manuel replaced Brad Lidge with Ryan Madson once before as the team's closer, but that was due to a Lidge injury. Now Lidge may be losing his job due to poor pitching. On ... More »
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- Roto Rush: A Monumental Labor Day Weekend Potentially Gets Better
- By Knox Bardeen 9/07/2009 11:35 AM ET
Poppin' out of the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday. On Sunday, Ichiro Suzuki became the second fastest ... More »
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- Roto Rush: Closers Aching and Sidelined
- By Knox Bardeen 9/03/2009 12:05 PM ET
Poppin' out of the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday. It wasn't a good day to be a top-ten closer on ... More »
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- Chad Qualls Injury Forces Fantasy Owners to Scramble for Saves
- By Knox Bardeen 8/31/2009 11:41 AM ET
A potential season-ending injury is no way for a closer to end a game. But, Chad Qualls did just that on Sunday as he earned his 24th save but took a line drive off of his kneecap on the final play of ... More »
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- Kendry Morales Upstages John Lackey's 100th Career Win
- By Knox Bardeen 8/31/2009 11:00 AM ET
Poppin' out of the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday. John Lackey threw eight innings on Sunday, striking out ... More »
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- Mariners' Late-Inning Woes Should Cause Concern for Fantasy Owners
- By Knox Bardeen 8/25/2009 11:40 AM ET
An interesting statistic just flew by me. Over the last two weeks three pitchers have blown two saves. While that's not earth shattering stuff, it is odd that two of these three pitchers play for the ... More »
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- Cubs Remove Kevin Gregg as Closer
- By Knox Bardeen 8/18/2009 9:56 AM ET
It's been a season of ups and downs for Chicago Cubs closer relief pitcher Kevin Gregg. He started the year off in rough fashion with a 5.59 ERA in 10 appearances in April with only one save to show ... More »
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- Randy Wolf Provides All the Run Support He Needs
- By Knox Bardeen 8/17/2009 9:00 AM ET
Randy Wolf was good on Sunday. Really good. Let's start with his 7.2 innings of work on the mound. Wolf gave up three earned runs and five hits. But he struck out an amazing ten batters while walking ... More »
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- Should Fernando Rodney Be Worried About His Job?
- By Knox Bardeen 8/12/2009 2:15 PM ET
Detroit Tigers closer Fernando Rodney has only one blown save this year. He's recorded 23 saves, has almost a strikeout per inning pitched and at 3.86, his ERA, while not superb, is manageable. So, ... More »
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- Rich Harden Leads Cubs to NL Central Top Spot
- By Knox Bardeen 7/27/2009 8:03 AM ET
Poppin' out the box scores and right into your cubicle, the Roto Rush is your double espresso shot of fantasy baseball advice every weekday. Sure, he gave up a home run to Joey Votto on Sunday, but ... More »
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- Chatting Waiver Wire, Closers and Sell High Candidates With Sid Rosenberg
- By Knox Bardeen 7/01/2009 9:00 PM ET
We're almost exactly at the halfway mark of the major league season. If you're really going to make that final run for the title you need to make careful and calculating roster moves from this point ... More »
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- Howell Still the Man in Tampa, Fuentes Still the Man
- By Knox Bardeen 6/30/2009 11:30 AM ET
In the ever changing topography of closers in Major League Baseball three names remain on top of the standings as pillars or consistency. Leading the league in saves as of Monday are Brian Fuentes, ... More »
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- Braves Buying In to Two-Closer System, Nationals Just Buying Time
- By Knox Bardeen 6/16/2009 2:50 PM ET
In what is most likely music to many fantasy owners' ears, Jose Valverde is back from the disabled list and ready to close out games for the Astros. He's thrown in two games since his return and has ... More »
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- Lidge's DL Stint Temporarily Ends Phillies' 9th Inning Suffering
- By Knox Bardeen 6/09/2009 2:53 PM ET
It was announced by the Phillies today that Brad Lidge is being placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 7th. To say he's been having a disappointing season in an understatement.Lidge, ...
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- Kevin Gregg: Public Enemy No. 1
- By Knox Bardeen 6/03/2009 10:24 AM ET
The first thing that Randy Wells might want to do today is seek Carlos Zambrano out for guidance. Whether this advice be about punching teammates in the face or taking out aggression on innocent ... More »
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- The Closer Report: Heath Bell Shines as Brad Lidge Declines
- By Knox Bardeen 5/28/2009 10:05 AM ET
It's always nice to know how secure a closer's job is and who's next in line if somebody loses their 9th inning job. The Closer Report will give you that info. And if that wasn't good enough, we'll ... More »
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