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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

We finally get to the end of the line with our position players (American League at least) and it isn’t soon enough. We are approaching the time when 2012 stats become more or less irrelevant. At least they become a lot less relevant in the face of what is going

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

It took us awhile, but we got the end of the position players. The National League right field list is peculiar to say the least. When you look at the owned percentages you see a huge drop off even before you get out of the top ten. That right there

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Yesterday was a rough day for your’s truly. The  infield produced a whopping two points as my team failed to get in the money. These things happen. However, that is the beauty of daily fantasy baseball. Today is a new day. If you want to get in on the action,

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The calendar prattles on, but the good folks at Draftkings are still offering their deposit bonus for playing. Even if you’ve taken it in the teeth on your full season fantasy teams, you can start anew with Draft Kings. No matter how bad each day goes, you can always count

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

The calendar is rapidly approaching the point where most people will stop looking back at 2012 and will start focusing entirely on what is going on in 2013. Some experts look at the six week mark as the key time to start taking stock in what is going on now.

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

At some point, the whole “early stats don’t matter” mantra begins to get old. The question is when we should discard it like yesterday’s garbage. Play in fantasy baseball for long enough and you will face this dilemma with your fantasy roster. You have guys on your team that you

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The calendar has turned to May, but the same story lines keep coming through. The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are on top of the division again like normal. Meanwhile, the so-called power division in the American League (AL West) is sputtering along. The big picture doesn’t necessarily

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

The first thing anyone notices when moving to the outfield is that there is a ton of depth. Whether it is quality depth or not is anyone’s best guess.  A lot of that depends on your definition of quality. For our purposes we are cutting off the position to 20

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

One month is already in the books. It seems only yesterday that the Astros and Rangers were opening the season on ESPN. Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. If you’ve missed out on the fun of the first month, it isn’t too late to get in the game.

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy BaseballFront Office

The National League shortstop universe is an interesting contrast to the American League version. Their collective total averages and batter runs are considerably better, but the median runs created total for the position was under 40 in the National Leagues. That can mean only one thing: there were a number

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