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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Evaluating pitchers is easily the hardest thing to do in fantasy baseball. So much of what pitchers do is dependent on those around them. As researchers, scouts, and statisticians put their heads together, the more they realize how much fielding impacts pitching and pitchers’ numbers. Throw in the fantasy element

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Offseason Overview Jerry Dipoto is a riverboat gambler. In the span of two offseason, he has almost remade the whole rosters, but he still has the core there from when he came into town. It is that core that is going to take them as far as they want to

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2016 Fantasy Baseball2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

Rating the other positions was relatively easy. Runs above replacement tends to work pretty well and you only needed 20 players at each position. Grading out pitchers is considerably more difficult. Additionally, most teams carry at least five starters, and when you add in the standard 12- team league you

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

2015 QUICK OVERVIEW The Mariners finished 76-86 on the 2015 season. A number of pundits had them picked as the front runner to win the 2015 AL West championship after signing slugger Nelson Cruz to join Robinson Cano in the everyday lineup. Unfortunately, the supporting cast let those guys down and

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The Los Angeles Dodgers decision to sign left handed pitcher Scott Kazmir had a slight stench of desperation to it. As a die-hard Met fan who once saw the once-prized pitching prospect dealt for the likes of Victor Zambrano, I’d like to state right off the bat that I have no

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The Winter Meetings is a fun time of year. It’s awesome to watch general managers work. You lose a guy and then go right out and get another guy. The Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners consummated a trade, but the roots of that trade came earlier in the weekend.

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In the Week 17 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re hanging on to Hisashi Iwakuma, passing on Michael Conforto, and jumping on the Jung-Ho Kang hype train. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players in fantasy leagues. This

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com Welcome to the The Fantasy Fix nightly fantasy baseball recap, where you’ll find updates on bullpen usage, lineup construction, injuries, and transactions. Whether you play season-long or daily fantasy, expect to see the best coverage from ever team, every night, all season long. Ten teams were in

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball Guide To Twitter

View image | gettyimages.com This article is also published at FantasyPros.com. Check out FantasyPros MLB Draft Simulator for help with your upcoming MLB Draft! You can follow Ryan on Twitter, @RyNoonan. In part one, I took a look at the top-40 overall from both FantasyPros and Steamer. Today I’m going to look at the players in

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

While the 2014 Major League Baseball season hasn’t yet begun, pitchers and catchers have already started reporting and Spring Training is about to be in full swing with the first full slate of games set to start on February 28. The preseason may only be a couple days old, but

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