It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from us here at Baseball Professor, but that doesn’t mean the behind-the-scenes work came to a hault. Here are some things we’ve done since you last saw us:

• Completed the SportsProfs Fantasy Sports Network which you can find at www.sportsprofs.com. On our main site you’ll see all of our updated posts from both Baseball Professor and Football Professor as well as our most recent tweets which George Fitopoulos does a great job of updating (especially on NFL Sundays). You can follow us @BaseballProf and @PigskinProf if you ever need some quick advice.
• Completed our rough ranking of the top 200 players for 2012 fantasy baseball. We’ll be releasing these players with 200 individual posts starting around the holidays and leading up to draft time.
• Begun work on our 2012 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide which will be available in the spring of 2012. In combination with our top 200 posts series, this will be one of the most comprehensive fantasy draft guides available. We’re even working on our state-of-the-art Blob Rater, which will help you get a quick, yet complete look at any player in the league. Sounds awesome, right?
• Compiled our official list of offseason questions, aptly named BaseballProf’s Top 100 Offseason Questions. Over the next five months we’ll use these 100 questions as the backbone of the research work we’ll be doing to prepare you for 2012. These questions range from player-specific queries such as “Is Danny Espinosa’s HR/SB combo worth the hit in average?” to more in-depth probations such as “With hitting down across the league, are save chances on the rise?” You won’t want to miss our answers to any of these (and if you subscribe to Baseball Professor, you won’t have to!).

So don’t put your fantasy team on the back burner just because the year is almost over. Stay tuned here at Baseball Professor for up-to-date fantasy baseball advice while the hot stove is keeping us warm, and stay tuned at SportsProfs.com for your fantasy football coverage, too.

Remember, champions know there’s never an offseason.

This post represents the two-thirds mark of our Preseason Predictions Revisited series and while we haven’t done too awfully forecasting an entertaining 2011 season, there have been a few predictions we’ve missed badly on. Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s also pretty hilarious. Let’s see what other awful prognostications we missed on, this time focusing on the NL East.

48. Craig Kimbrel will claim the closers role for the Braves by May and strikeout 100 batters. His K/9 was an astonishing 17.42 last year in 20.2 innings.

• Kimbrel recorded his first of 46 saves back in March and never looked back. Those saves and his ridiculous 127 strikeouts (not to mention his 2.10 ERA and 1.04 WHIP) made Kimbrel the game’s best closer in 2011.

49. Chipper Jones will play in 140 games and bat .300 with 20 home runs and 80 RBI, providing great value for those fantasy owners who took a chance on him.

• Chipper played in 126 games and hit .275 with 18 homers and 70 RBI. Over 140 games that line improves to 20 homers on 78 RBI so on a per-game pace Chris was right on target.

50. Dan Uggla will disappoint with a batting average in the .250s. A low line-drive percentage and a lack of speed didn’t support his career high .330 BABIP last year.

• “Disappoint” would be putting his first half nicely, and overall his .233 average fell below Chris’ range. How the heck did this guy put that hit streak together?

51. Mike Minor may not have won a rotation spot out of spring training but he’ll still contend for the NL rookie of the year. In 40.2 innings last year his K/9 was an impressive 9.52 and he showed good control (2.43 BB/9).

• Umm, we meant Brandon Beachy.

52. Anibal Sanchez will have more strikeouts than teammate Josh Johnson. He finally pitched close to 200 innings last season and has no health questions entering the year. He had a K/9 of 7.25 last year and he threw harder than any other year of his career, averaging a career best 91.3 MPH on his fastball.

• Sanchez’s K/9 jumped from 7.25 to 9.26 as he racked up 202 punchouts. Even if Johnson didn’t get hurt those 202 Ks probably would have been enough to top the Marlins ace anyway. Johnson’s career best is 191 strikeouts.

53. Logan Morrison will hit 10 times as many home runs as last year. Although he only hit two home runs in 244 at-bats he did have 20 doubles and seven triples. At 6-foot-3 and 237 pounds there’s definitely more room for him to grow in the power department.

• Chris hit a home run on this prediction. Morrison hit 11.5 times as many home runs as last year in twice as many at-bats.

54. Ricky Nolasco’s ERA will be under 3.50. The average pitcher had a K/BB ratio of 2.17 last year while Nolasco’s was 4.45. Sure, home runs are a problem for him but he let up a career high 28 in 2008 and he still had a 3.52 ERA and 1.10 WHIP. Plus, his K/BB ratio that year wasn’t as good as it was last year.

• Nolasco finished with a 4.67 ERA and has officially landed on my “do not draft due to perennial disappointment” list.

55. Brad Emaus will have double digit home runs and stolen bases for the Mets. His on-base percentage in the minors the last two years was .402 and .395, respectively.

• How about zero home runs and zero RBI. At some point you need playing time.

56. Jose Reyes will score 100 runs, steal 40 bases and hit double-digit home runs. He knows those numbers might make him baseball’s next $100 million man in the offseason.

• Make it 101 runs, 39 steals and seven home runs. Those numbers were just a tick short of what Chris predicted, but his .337 average and overall good health will still make him baseball’s next $100 million man.

57. Lucas Duda will hit 15 home runs. Carlos Beltran is going to miss games and the Mets really like Duda’s bat. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Duda hit 27 home runs last year in 509 at-bats last year splitting time between Double-A, Triple-A and the majors.

• Beltran did not miss time and Duda was forced to wait until the All-Star Break before really getting a chance. He did manage 10 homers in 301 at-bats, but it’s not quite what we expected.

58. The news on Chase Utley is certainly ominous but he’s defied the odds before by returning from both hip surgery and thumb surgery earlier than expected. He gets 400-plus at-bats this year.

• Utley finished with 398 at-bats, but while the at-bats were there, the production still wasn’t.

59. I’d rather have Cliff Lee pitching game seven of the World Series, but Cole Hamels will be the better fantasy pitcher. Their ERAs will be similar but Hamels will have a lot more strikeouts. He’s also younger and he doesn’t have chronic back problems.

• Lee finished as the eighth-ranked starting pitchers. Hamels finished 20th. Their ERAs were similar (2.79 for Hamels, 2.40 for Lee), but Lee racked up the strikeouts as he K-ed 238 batters this year…over a batter an inning.

60. Jimmy Rollins will hit 20 home runs and steal 25 bases. He’s finally healthy after being plagued by injuries last year. The Phillies will need Rollins, who’s in a contract year, to come up big in a lineup missing Jayson Werth and Chase Utley.

• I suppose 16 home runs and 30 steals (46 combined) is pretty close to what Chris predicted (45 combined).

61. Michael Morse will hit 25 home runs. He hit 15 home runs in 266 at-bats last year and he locked up a starting spot in left field after a strong spring. He’ll also bat fifth in the lineup behind Jayson Werth, Ryan Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche.

• Morse exceeded 25 homers as he hit 31 with a .303 average. Those totals were pretty much in line with his per-game averages from 2010 so we may see more seasons like this from Morse in the future.

62. Jordan Zimmermann will have an era under 3.75, a WHIP in the 1.20s and 175 strikeouts. He’s over a year removed from Tommy John surgery and his fastball is back in the mid-90s.

• Zimmermann was better than 3.75 and 1.20 (3.18 and 1.15) but he didn’t approach 175 Ks (just 124).

63. Nationals manager Jim Riggleman is using the dreaded closer by committee approach, but Drew Storen will end the year with 30-plus saves.

• Jim Riggle-who? Storen saved 43 games. Just like the rest of these predictions, I’d say Chris did a pretty good job. Hopefully we did just as well with our NL Central predictions, but we’ll look at those next.