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Fantasy Baseball

Author’s Note: This is the seventh edition of a seven part series on fielding, and how it could affect your fantasy team and the trade deadline. We are profiling the top two teams in each division because those are the teams most likely to deal for players to help them

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Author’s Note: This is the sixth edition of a seven part series on fielding, and how it could affect your fantasy team and the trade deadline. We are profiling the top two teams in each division because those are the teams most likely to deal for players to help them

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

They say you can’t go home again. The Chicago Cubs have traded Alfonso Soriano to the New York Yankees for a couple of lower level minor league arms. Additionally, the Cubs will be taking on the majority of Soriano’s remaining salary for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Funny, but Soriano’s

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Author’s Note: This is the fifth edition of a seven part series on fielding, and how it could affect your fantasy team and the trade deadline. We are profiling the top two teams in each division because those are the teams most likely to deal for players to help them

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Author’s Note: This is the fourth edition of a seven part series on fielding and how it could affect your fantasy team and the trade deadline. We are profiling the top two teams in each division because those are the teams most likely to deal for players to help them

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballTeam Fix

Yesterday was one of those days you love to have. You try a new strategy and it worked. I spent most of the evening on top of the leader board. Several players jumped out and had productive evenings and I walked away with nearly twice as much as I wagered.

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballTeam Fix

This is my first official daily fix since the all-star break. The all-star break is not the half way point, but it is a natural break. Given that, we will be changing strategies a tad moving forward. We will still try to exploit some negative match-ups, but we will primarily

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

One of my favorite parts of the tables I throw up is that they often tell a story you aren’t meaning to tell. In this case, we are looking strictly at fielding numbers, but in the case of both the Braves and the Nationals they tell a story of why

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballTeam Fix

Opportunities don’t come along like this very often. Those of you that know me know I play the Double Up! contest habitually, but Draftkings has made an offer I can’t refuse and you shouldn’t either. Draftkings is presenting a one time contest where the winner is set to earn $125,000. Yup,

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Fantasy Baseball

Fielding analysis and fantasy sports don’t mix. At least, they don’t mix yet. A scant decade ago, fielding analysis and sabermetrics didn’t mix either and sabermetrics has always been on the sharp edge on the spear of thinking in the sport. Sabermetricians have always been about value. Simply put, they

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