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Brett Talley

Listen to Brett on TheFantasyFix.com podcast and find him on Twitter @TheRealTAL.

Brett TalleyFantasy Baseball

We’re only a couple starts into the season for most pitchers, but one or two games are enough at this point in the season for a player’s ownership percentage to skyrocket. If Barry Zito had started the season with quite a few mediocre-to-bad starts and then ripped off a couple

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Brett TalleyFantasy Baseball

  The First Pitch Paul Maholm and Clay Buchholz followed up solid season debuts with excellent second starts yesterday. They each went seven innings, allowed no runs and got a win. As a result, their ownership percentages are on the rise. But should you hop on the bandwagon and add

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Brett TalleyFix Audio

Brett Talley (@TheRealTal) is joined by Glenn DuPaul (@glenn_dupaul) to nerd out a little bit this week.  Glenn is an Economics major who interns with Baseball Info Solutions (a major stat provider). As a result, Glenn is really knowledgeable about the statistical work it takes to develop some of the more

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Brett TalleyFantasy Baseball

I give you my initial ranking of my top 75 starting pitchers for the 2013 season. I’ve commented at length of many of these guys this preseason and covered each one in our 2013 Draft Guide. I won’t bother rehashing and reprinting my prior comments. Enjoy the uninterrupted list, and

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Fantasy Baseball

The First Pitch We have to start today’s Fix with this video of Anthony Rizzo absolutely raping the first pitch he saw this season: Bryce Harper didn’t hit a home run on the first pitch he saw, but he did hit a home run in each of his first two

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2013 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

If you have a draft coming up this weekend and you have no idea what to do, I have the answer for you. The answer is the image below which is a flow chart for you to follow during your draft. There are three tracks you can follow depending on

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2013 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

Trying to prepare for leagues that replace standard categories can be difficult because almost all of the analysis, rankings and projections that you will find are based on the standard 5×5 roto categories. On Friday I examined how you should handle leagues that replace a standard category, batting average, with

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2013 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

I had the privilege of participating in a draft Monday night with fellow members of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. This particular league includes such fantasy dignitaries as Jason Collette and James Quintong. It also included some friends of The Fix, Moe Koltun of rotoanalysis.com and Nick Raducanu and Tony

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2013 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy BaseballProspects

Tyler Skaggs was drafted out of high school in the first round of the 2009 draft (#40 overall) by the Los Angeles Angels. He got to Arizona by way of trade when he was part of the package that the Diamondbacks got in return for Dan Haren. Skaggs is a

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2013 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFront Office

This is the ninth installment of our projection series. We are posting a series of articles in which we project the roto stats for all hitters who could be useful in mixed leagues. The projections and “Roto Ratings” for each player are available to those who subscribe to our premium

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