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Entries from February 2006
February 27, 2006
Keepers/Franchise Player Deadline
Fungo League owners: please prepare your keepers and franchise player lists for 2006 by Saturday, March 11. E-mail them to ben at fungoleague dot com where they will be safely guarded unseen until the deadline.
You get to keep up to two unrestricted free agents (these are your franchise players) and as many restricted [...]
February 26, 2006
Old Faces in New Places: The Designated Hitters
Phil Nevin
Old team: Padres
New team: Rangers
Fantasy status: Liquor Laws RFA; 24th round keeper possibility
Would you believe that Nevin was the first overall pick in the 1992 amateur draft? You’d never guess it by looking at his career numbers. There are a lot of guys out there who would look better [...]
February 25, 2006
Old Faces in New Places: The Outfielders
Milton Bradley
Old team: Dodgers
New team: Athletics
Fantasy status: Undrafted; unrestricted free agent
Million-dollar bat, five-cent head. Bradley is usually a safe bet to get suspended at some point during the season for some kind of inappropriate outburst. They say the change of scenery will do him good, but that’s what they said [...]
February 24, 2006
Old Faces in New Places: The Shortstops
Rafael Furcal
Old team: Braves
New team: Dodgers
Contract: $39M over 3 years
Fantasy status: Liquor Laws RFA, 6th round keeper possibility
Furcal was pretty consistent over the past few seasons in Atlanta. If he remains the same kind of hitter with the Dodgers, you can chalk him up for a dozen homers, 60 runs [...]
February 23, 2006
Old Faces in New Places: The Third Basemen
Tony Batista
Old team: Hawks (Japan)
New team: Twins
Contract: $1.25M for 1 year
Fantasy status: Undrafted; unrestricted free agent
Batista in 32 HR and drove in 110 runs with the Expos in 2004, but his .241/.272/.455 numbers were less than impressive. Now he’s back after a season in Japan, but he’s probably not the [...]
