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Masahiro Tanaka fantasy baseball
2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Dumpster diving is fairly straightforward when it comes to position players, but it gets rather difficult when it comes to starting pitchers. Unfortunately, pitchers must rely on their teammates for much of their statistical outputs (cough wins cough), so instead of looking at only undrafted and unowned pitchers, we’re going

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to another edition of the Daily Fix. Draftstreet has been a terrific platform for daily competition and they have some really good deals if you want to join now. There are tons of different games to play for various amounts of dough. Personally, I keep it pretty simple with

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Baseball players are multi-dimensional and it is paramount that we understand each of these dimensions when looking at any individual player. For instance, people might look at Gerardo Parra and wonder why he is playing every day. That becomes much more clear when you look at his fielding numbers. Most

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The last position on the diamond (officially) carries many of the same issues as the other positions on the diamond. The choices on the waiver wire range from decent players that simply can’t get on the field everyday to players that play everyday but simply aren’t living up to expectations.

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Clayton Kershaw Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

It’s always interesting how things look like they will last forever. When the offensive explosion began following the strike in 1994, we thought hitting would dominate forever. It seems that forever has come to an end. Such studies wouldn’t seem to belong on a fantasy sports site except that assumptions

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jon singleton
2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The Jonathan Singleton story is really two-fold. He already has made his major league debut and has already hit his first big league home run. On a site like this, the story is Singleton the player. First base is a crowded position, so immediately we have to wonder where he

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Sometimes a player’s struggles seem to come out of nowhere. Statisticians can predict a lot of things with mathematical models, but they can’t predict everything. Steve Blass was instrumental in helping the Pirates win the 1971 World Series. The very next season he couldn’t find the strike zone anymore. The

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to another edition of the Daily Fix. For most of us, it is the last week of school, so baseball is finally front and center on most people’s mind. The NBA Finals will start on Thursday and the NHL finals are also in full swing. So, in a couple

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Last time we looked at the young centerfielders available in most leagues. Today, we will look at the more experienced centerfielders that are available. In some cases, the difference is only a year, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Last time, we saw that Michael Saunders was the

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We begin this week on the dumpster diver series by taking a look back. Radio deejays often talk about how often they have to reset their conversation. They have to assume that they get a new bank of listeners every so often. I don’t know if that holds true in

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