Coming home from a Washington Nationals game last week, a league mate and I got on the topic of Atlanta Braves OF Jason Heyward. This league mate drafted Heyward in our keeper league during a minor league draft before Heyward made his major league debut and has held on to him like a bride is counseled to hold on to her groom – for better or worse, for rich or poor, in sickness and health.
About Jim Higgins
Jim Higgins is the owner/operator/writer of Keeper Experts. Jim has played fantasy baseball for over 15 years and spent five years as a sports writer for multiple newspapers before serving as the Director of Communications for the Washington Freedom of Women’s Professional Soccer for a year.
Jim now works as a survey analyst and spends most of his free time researching fantasy baseball information so he can dominate his leagues.
May 21, 2012 Leave a Comment
May 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
Keeper Search: Yonder Alonso
As a lifelong Padres fan, this year is one that really tests how much of a fan you are. And it isn’t as much about the losses that are piling up as it is about the fact that there’s not much on this team to cheer for.
For all the great minor league talent San Diego has acquired recently, I’ve found that at the major league level the only hitter I actually look forward to watching is 1B Yonder Alonso. I had the opportunity to check out Alonso when the Padres were in D.C. to play the Nationals this week, and here are my thoughts on him as they relate to keeper leagues.
May 8, 2012 1 Comment
Keeper Search: Danny Duffy
A third round draft pick in 2007, Kansas City Royals LHP Danny Duffy was the first of a wave of promising young arms to flood the Royals farm system with major league caliber talent. At age 20, Duffy represented the Royals in the MLB Futures Game and the following spring, he earned an invitation to Spring Training.
All that promise almost slipped through the Royals fingers though as Duffy decided during the spring that he wanted to retire from baseball to reexamine his priorities.
May 7, 2012 2 Comments
Harper already living up to lofty expectations
The violent swing.
The mullet mohawk hairdo.
The cannon arm in the outfield.
The gallons of eye black.
The steal of home after a division rival purposefully plunked him.
At only 19-years-old and with only a handful of games at the major league level, phenom Bryce Harper is doing everything he can to live up to the expectations that have been placed on him since he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated while still in high school.
May 3, 2012 Leave a Comment
Site update
I caught Bryce Harper‘s Nationals debut on Tuesday and plan to post about his performance and the game but I traveled across the country yesterday and it has put me behind schedule. I plan on posting my thoughts on Harper tonight. In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments, please share in the comments below.
April 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
The inaccurate science of trading
One thing I get asked to do a lot of is to evaluate various trade offers. Many owners come to me looking for a second opinion on whether a deal is fair and I am happy to give my opinion because I have done the same thing with my friends over the years. Sometimes pulling the trigger on a deal is so much easier when you have that second opinion.
Where things get tough though, is when an owner asks me to compose a counter offer if I don’t like the deal he e-mails me.
April 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
Keeper Search: Nolan Reimold
This is the Nolan Reimold fantasy/keeper owners and Orioles fans have been waiting for.
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