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Every year it seems like some team has a player who just comes from nowhere to help lead his team on a march to the Cup final, and so far there have been a few players who show the potential to do just that in these NHL playoffs. Now that the first round is over and the second round match-ups are set, let's look at what players contributed to their team's success and may have that memorial play through the playoffs. Now we all know about the Crosby's, Ovechkin's and McDavid's, of course, they are going to lead the way, here…

Last year the New York Yankees did something they haven't done in over a decade, they were sellers at the deadline. With that in mind, the Yankees traded away big names like Carlos Beltran, Aroldis Chapman, and Andrew Miller. The surprise of these trades was at the time New York still had a chance of making the Wild Card spot, they had a record of 50-48 and were only 4 1/2 games out of the last Wild Card spot and they always sat at the buyer's table. However, insiders and Brian Cashman knew that the Yankees, even if they…

This is part 2 of the list of MiLB players who should get called up (sooner or later) at some point this season and more importantly, could help your fantasy team out.MiLB Players Watch-List: NL Central MiLB Players Watch-List: NL West MiLB Players Watch-List: AL Central  MiLB Players Watch-List: AL West MiLB Players Watch-List: NL East NL CENTRAL Chicago Cubs 1. Ian Happ 2B/OF Not that the Cubs need any help, but if they would, it’s already waiting in line. Two players head the list. The…

Everyone seems to want their team to draft a quarterback in the first round of the NFL Draft!  It's the sexy move, but it doesn't often work out as well as everyone hoped it would.  53 quarterbacks have been drafted in the first round since 1997 and below is a list of the 20 biggest busts among them! Ryan Leaf, San Diego Chargers The Indianapolis Colts were on the clock first in the 1998 NFL Draft.  They were choosing between Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf.  They chose Manning and the QB needy Chargers took Ryan Leaf with…

If you have Pittsburgh Pirates' outfielder Starling Marte or lefty starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner on your roster, take a depth breath and seriously consider your options before you panic.  Both of them have completely different circumstances.  Marte has been suspended for 80 games due to him testing positive for PEDs.  No leagues have spots to stash suspended players, so your options are to clog up your roster with Marte, try to deal him or simply cut him.  Bumgarner hurt his shoulder in a dirt bike accident and their is…

In seemingly a blink of an eye, the first round of the 2017 NHL playoffs has come and gone. Now that the second round is upon us, let's check out how the first round played out. My selections were:Montreal in 6. Pittsburgh in 6. Toronto in 7. Ottawa in 6.The only series I picked completely correctly was the Ottawa series since they beat Boston 4-2. Pittsburgh was also correct, yet only took 5 games to eliminate the Columbus Blue Jackets. Montreal and Toronto were both eliminated in 6 games by New York and…

A lot of American League Only Fantasy Leagues use two catcher starting positions and that is not a good thing for owners as not many of them are hitting well this year.  If you have Salvador Perez, Brian McCann or Welington Castillo on your roster, you are sitting pretty.  Here is a look at each team's current situation in the American League at catcher:Baltimore Orioles - Welington Castillo is off to a really good start and he only gets days off once in a while.  He has played in 14 games for the Orioles this year and…

Round 1 of the NHL Playoffs was exciting but definitely weird. The first round had the most overtime games (18) in one round but no game 7s with 2 sweeps. The Blackhawks got swept by the wild-card Predators. Jake Allen, who has been awful all season, single-handedly won the Blues their round. The Maple Leafs actually brought the Capitals to 6 games. Tanner Glass had more goals than Max Pacioretty. After not being in the league for a year, Zack Kassian had his name in Rogers Place shouted. Lastly, after not playing for 18…

This is a list of MiLB players who should get called up (sooner or later) at some point this season and more importantly, could help your fantasy team out. Some of them you know, some of them you’ve heard of, some of them are long shots and some are relative unknowns. So, here we go...MiLB Players Watch-List: NL Central MiLB Players Watch-List: NL West MiLB Players Watch-List: AL West MiLB Players Watch-List: NL EastAL CENTRAL Chicago White Sox 1. Yoan Moncada 2B/3BI’ll commence with the most obvious…

The second round of the 2017 NHL Playoffs is set to begin on Wednesday with both Western Conference matchups kicking things off. I thought I would take a minute to review my first round selections before moving on to what we should expect to see in round 2.For the first round, I had picked:Chicago in 7 Anaheim in 6 Edmonton in 6 St. Louis in 5In terms of predicting winners, I was 3/4 (although I did pick Nashville in my www.nhl.com bracket) and was able to correctly predict the number of games in 2/4…