AGRI Biz

Usually, as the weather starts to warm up around the country, so does baseball season. Division races become a little more solid, and the cream of the crop is starting to rise above the bottom of the barrel.  In the Bay Area, the situation is as it always is. The American and National League West divisions are bunched together, with all of the teams seemingly within a nice winning streak of first ...

Barry Zito has been known as a slow starter throughout his career. Since he came over to San Francisco, fans have come to the conclusion that he's not worth watching until July. But in 2010, a new mindset and new approach has quickly led him to the front of the pack of National League pitchers. With Brian Wilson's first blown save of the year falling after a brilliant start by fellow ...

When Aaron Rowand has to leave a game, you know that he's hurting bad. When he doesn't show up in the lineup the next day, it's a good sign there's something really wrong. Rowand is a gamer, and has shown that since he started his career. He doesn't rub it when he gets hit, and he flies around the outfield with reckless abandon, once breaking his nose on the centerfield wall ...

The best thing about being in a league of pretty smart baseball people is that they know how baseball works. Averages even out. ERA's will come down. The statistics, more than any other sport, are pretty good predictors.  Active baseball fans know that. Experienced fantasy owners also know that.  That's why, in Uncle Charlie's League , you won't see the flurry of activity that you see in other leagues. The trends that ...

The day is here, the draft is over, and there are many, many surprises for those who couldn't make it to the war room. In our league, there were a few teams that had notable auto-drafts. Green Monster Hooligans is a good friend of mine, one who is widely know simply as "Boston," because of his prolific love of the BoSox. So it was only fitting when he auto-drafted and with his ...

As the Spring Training days count down, the Opening Day roster gets more and more set, and the battles for those final roster spots get more and more heated. This year is no exception, but due to injuries and some surprising spring performances, the spots open at the beginning of the offseason are not the same spots we see open now. For example, most people thought that after his impressive ...

Nobody wants to hear that their career is over. Ever. That goes right on the top of the list of things you never want said to you. When you're a professional athlete, the pill is even more difficult to swallow. For the most part, the sport you play has been a part of your daily routine since childhood, through high school and college, and for your entire adult life. You don't ...

For anybody who has ever thought through the process to becoming a Major League general manager, Step One is usually "Win a fantasy league." Although it is considered "fake" and "not real" and "a waste of time" by many, fantasy baseball has its strong points in terms of strategy, team-building, and the mastering of witty team names, and message board zings. I've come a long way from my first fantasy league, sophomore ...

After looking at the Top 5 Reasons to look forward to 2010, I wanted to look back at the history of the Giants since their inception in as the New York Gothams in 1883. As one of the oldest franchises in Major League history, the Gothams/New York Giants/San Francisco Giants franchise has a lot of boast about. They have the most wins of ANY franchise in baseball history, with 10,270 ...

For the Giants, their 2009 season was a fantastic surprise, with huge performances from their pitching staff and surprising ones on the offensive side. It brought San Francisco into competitive September baseball for the first time since 2003, and heralded a new era of pitching dominance when Tim Lincecum won his second Cy Young Award in two years. Looking now to the ever-approaching 2010 regular season, the SWOT outlook is ...