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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With the foundation of so many big league careers built on father-son relationships, it’s only fitting that MLB had a full slate of ball games lined up for this gorgeous Father’s Day. New daddy and birthday boy, Jacob deGrom took the mound at home in Citi Field for the Mets

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There is an entire cottage industry around generating hype around numbers. The MLB At Bat App sends messages at least once a day surrounding some accomplishment from someone. This guy is the first left handed hitter with freckles to hit three doubles on a Tuesday. Obviously, that’s an exaggeration, but

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Athletics by its very nature is a binary activity. When someone wins, someone also loses. So, on Thursday night, you could choose to focus on the Mariners overcoming a ten run deficit in the fifth inning to defeat the Padres 16-13 or you could choose to focus on the Padres

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Baseball is at the one third mark as most teams have already played their 54th game of the season. Pitching has been the story over the past several seasons, but whether the ball is juiced or hitters are just plain better, hitting has become much more dominant. That is true

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Power paired with punch outs finds itself in each section of this piece. That might seem hypocritical, but there’s an explanation forthcoming. A pair of veterans also find themselves in opposite portions of this article. Like Him Less

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The Red Sox have been baseball’s yo-yo for the past several seasons. They won 78 games a year ago, 71 games in 2014, but won the World Series back in 2013. You can’t help but notice that a number of their players have experienced the same ups and downs. Fantasy

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2015 Season in Review The Boston Red Sox have finished in last place in the American League East three times since the year 2012; however, the one time in the last four years that they managed to climb out of the cellar of their division, they made it all the

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

There are many ways to rank players. I don’t claim to have a monopoly on the truth, but I hope my methods balance analytics with common sense. The analytics part is probably the most involved. We take runs above replacement from the past three seasons according to three different sources

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First basemen and utility players are clearly the glamour position in fantasy baseball. There are more good ones than at any other position. This makes it difficult to plan for a draft. You can go one of two roads on draft day. You can simply pick the best players regardless

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The upper management of the Boston Red Sox has gotten the reputation for being one of the most active and forward thinking front offices in all of baseball the past few years. The organization went from worst to first in 2013, and captured their third World Series title in 10

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