2010 Echelons of Starting Pitching: Part 4

Continuing the monster starting pitcher list… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Echelon 4, Part I – Upside Hotel As with the Echelon 5, I’m going to sort this subset of players by age with 26 again being the cutoff point. This group of 25 and under arms is further along than the group in [...]

2010 Echelons of Starting Pitching: Part 3

Continuing the monster starting pitcher list… Part 1 Part 2 Echelon 5, Part II – A Mixed Bag This group, at 26 and above, has used up their prospect status on the low end while the older guys are retreads looking to recapture magic or make good on promise they once had. There are 30 [...]

2010 Echelons of Starting Pitching: Part 2

Continuing my mega-list of starting pitchers for 2010… Echelon 5 – Lottery Tickets For this grouping, players will be broken up by age instead of ranked. After all, what does it really mean if I rate Junichi Tazawa over Tanner Scheppers or vice versa? It doesn’t. Both are deep AL-Only options in dynasty leagues or [...]

2010 Echelons of Starting Pitching: Part 1

I haven’t posted for three weeks, but it hasn’t been without good reason. I have been working on my favorite piece of the winter, the Starting Pitcher Echelons. It’s my third year doing this and this year’s is the biggest yet. Last year, I went 154 deep and in 2008 there were 112. This year, [...]

2010 First Basemen Tiers

Let me start off by stating the obvious: first base is remarkably deep this year. I mean, remarkably. That said, it’s still a position that is worth grabbing early on given the abundance of elite-level players at the position sure to go in the first few rounds/for some of your auction’s highest dollar values. In [...]