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A week ago, Josh Rutledge of the Colorado Rockies was among the top 10 second basemen on ESPN's Player Rater. Now he's on his way to Triple-A Colorado Springs. Talk about a swift fall from grace! Rutledge, a 23rd-rounder, on average, in ESPN live ...

Blog | May 23, 2013

It's hardly practical to expect first-year players to perform as well as Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout and Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper did in 2012. For starters, no rookie had ever done quite what Trout did, while Har...

Blog | January 30, 2013

Eric Karabell lays out his 2013 expectations for Jurickson Profar, Shelby Miller and the remainder of his top 10 fantasy prospects for this season.

Blog | Conversation | January 30, 2013

Nobody had ever accomplished quite what Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout did statistically during the 2012 season. So it's not merely reasonable, but expected, that some regression is coming in 2013. I mean, let's get real. Trout wa...

Blog | January 11, 2013

Eric Karabell lays out his top 10 fantasy baseball rankings for 2013, explaining why Matt Kemp and Troy Tulowitzki make it in but Prince Fielder and Buster Posey don't.

Blog | Conversation | January 11, 2013

Eric Karabell ranks the top 165 players from the 10 playoff teams for your postseason fantasy baseball pools.

Blog | Conversation | October 04, 2012

SweetSpot blogger Dave Schoenfield and I gathered for Monday's Baseball Today podcast with our big top-10 lists of best teams and much more! 1. Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Sims talked about the Mariners, whether Ichiro will be in a Mariners un...

Eric Karabell lays out his top 100 fantasy options for 2012, taking into account position scarcity, the depth of starting pitching and more.

Blog | Conversation | February 14, 2012

Eric Karabell explains why he now ranks Miguel Cabrera No. 1 overall in fantasy for 2012, over such players as Albert Pujols and Matt Kemp, following the Detroit Tigers' reported signing of Prince Fielder.

Blog | Conversation | January 24, 2012

Surely the most critical adjustment to the top of the fantasy baseball rankings in the past few months had nothing to do with trades or free agent signings. It's about a top player allegedly testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. Li...

Blog | January 12, 2012

Eric Karabell lays out his top 10 fantasy baseball rankings for 2012, explaining why Troy Tulowitzki and Evan Longoria make it in but Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Verlander don't.

Blog | Conversation | January 12, 2012

Prior to the season, the case could easily have been made that second base was the worst position in fantasy baseball. We knew Robinson Cano would be good, and he has been, but there were a whole lot of questions surrounding other top 10 options. Wou...

Blog | July 28, 2011

Eric Karabell looks at the best options in the second base pool to replace the injured Rickie Weeks.

Blog | Conversation | July 28, 2011

Trusted colleague Tristan H. Cockcroft and I had an interesting debate on Friday's Fantasy Focus 06010 podcast, as an emailer wanted to know whether Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury had impressed us enough to warrant top-10 overall stat...

Blog | July 22, 2011

Eric Karabell lays out his rest-of-2011 expectations -- and 2012 rank -- for Jacoby Ellsbury, and posts his preliminary top 10 for 2012.

Blog | Conversation | July 22, 2011