One of the struggles of writing for a national audience is avoiding obvious bias. However, sometimes the fan part of me wins out. The Houston Astros are the second hottest team in baseball right now. Unfortunately for them, the hottest team also plays in their division. They have now have

You can tell the quality of a team and the direction it is going based on the quality of the breakout candidate chosen for that team. After all, the term breakout itself tends to eliminate several people immediately. Established stars cannot be breakout players by definition. With some teams (the

The great folks at Fantasy Pros gather many fantasy analysts’ rankings and put them together to make a nice little cheat sheet for us to use. This helps eliminate crazy default rankings at one of the main fantasy sites and gives you a little clearer picture of where players are

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

2015 Quick Overview The Astros finished 86-76 on the 2015 season. That marked a 16-game improvement from the previous season and a 35-game improvement over a two year period. Most interested observers believed 2016 would be the season where they would burst onto the playoff scene, but it came a

If you read only one thing….. Jerry Dipoto officially resigned as the Angels general manager on July 1st. Of course that whole saga has numerous angles, but the most important might be the team’s play in the wake of his resignation. The Angels lost to the Yankees 3-1 on that

View image | gettyimages.com It shouldn’t be any surprise that right field is the premier fantasy position according to real offensive value (ROV). After all, we’ve done other profiles of the positions in the past and right field usually comes out on top. Any good metric is going to reveal

View image | gettyimages.com If you read only one thing… The big story is the fact that the Kansas City Royals now have seven players that would start for the American League all-star team. Mike Trout is the only non-Royal leading his position at the current time. Leading vote getters

View image | gettyimages.com This marks the end of the VORP revisited series. With the end comes this one piece of advice: it is dangerous to use any one piece of information exclusively during your draft. Statistics are tools. If you follow them down the rabbit hole, you usually wind

View image | gettyimages.com Offseason Overview Although the Houston Astros weren’t a very good team last year as they only won 70 games, their 19-win improvement from 2013 was encouraging after a stretch of three consecutive years with at least 105 losses. While the Astros may have a tough time