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2014 Fantasy Baseball

This week’s Free Agent Fixes features a couple of young fireball throwing relievers from Chicago. They’re joined by a 30-year old starting pitcher that has a history of control problems that, quite frankly, I can’t believe I’m writing good things about. On the hitter side of the ledger, a middle

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The wonderful game of baseball provides a plethora of things to talk about, and those things don’t always tie together very neatly. Instead of trying to force a square peg through a round hole, I’m going to embrace this platform to speak on a variety of wide spanning topics that

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With the season now under way, it’s time to begin glancing at the free agent pool and determining who is worth grabbing and who is worth leaving available. In order to try and cater to as large an audience as I can, I’m going to vary the ownership rates of

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The season is still really young, so I’ll start by issuing the standard warning to not overreact to the first week’s happenings, or even the first month’s for that matter. That said, everyone (whether they want to admit it or not), has some spare parts rounding out their roster that

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With time being of the essence, and a vacation on the horizon for this guy, I’ve jumped ahead to the rankings that have brought home the proverbial bacon for me the last two seasons. Without trying to sound like I’m gloating, I’ve been money ranking starting pitchers in consecutive years,

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

My rankings at catcher and first base were fairly straight forward, but things get a little weird here at second base. It starts with a difference in positional eligibility requirements. In order to qualify for a position in my rankings a player had to play in 15 games at that

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Last Wednesday my catcher rankings were posted, and today we move on to first base. The position is, obviously, substantially deeper than catcher and Fantasy Fix colleague Landon Jones made the case for waiting to draft one last Thursday. I’m not here to discuss strategy, though, but I do intend

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The first of my positional rankings pieces is finally published for your reading pleasure. They were created with a 5×5 rotisserie format in mind. Pertinent 2013 stats are included with each player, and the stats are from the highest professional level that player played at last season. After the rankings,

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