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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

There were pink uniforms aplenty on this Mother’s Day, 2016, with a full slate of 15 ballgames. Today’s action will be headlined by the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox squaring off in the Bronx at 8 PM EST. The Sox will send knuckleballer Steven Wright to the hill

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Most of the sports world is focusing on the first round of the NFL draft tonight. No one can doubt that football is king in America. If anyone doubts that, they should take a look at the television ratings tomorrow morning. The NFL will undoubtedly trounce real live baseball games

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

A stacked slate of 15 ballgames made up this second Saturday of the 2016 Major League Baseball season as action got underway around the one o’clock hour. After going winless throughout the majority of the first two weeks of the season, both the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves got off

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2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

The team at TheFantasyFix.com collaborated their efforts to rank short stops for the 2016 fantasy baseball season. Below you will see each writer’s ranks. Alan and Mick also discussed the rankings on a recent podcast that you can find here. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave

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2016 Fantasy Baseball2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

Rating position players 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 then you have yourself 60

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Prior to this year, the Marlins organization had been notoriously known throughout Major League Baseball as one not to shy away from a “fire-sale.” They took this approach in both years following their World Series Championships in 1997 and 2003, and they also cleaned house when their experiment with Ozzie Guillen, Jose

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Fantasy Baseball

The Winter Meetings hadn’t even officially begun before the Chicago Cubs began wheeling and dealing. They officially signed starting pitcher John Lackey and now second baseman/left fielder Ben Zobrist. The Cubs were rumored to be involved with David Price for awhile, but when you look at the financials involved, they ended

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

It has been my pleasure to do the Friday night finals this season. This Friday marks the last one for the 2015 season. I love baseball specifically and sports in general because you never know what is going to happen. The Pittsburgh Pirates have the second best record in baseball

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Dr. Heimlich, paging Dr. Heimlich. I’m not sure if this is unique to baseball, but baseball fans are obsessed with failure. I suppose when someone can do something 30 percent of the time and be considered a success that’s a part of the equation. The Texas Rangers might have just

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The Mets are still the talk of the league and it is for far more than surprising the National League with their late season push. People are still talking about the Matt Harvey controversy even after the Mets agreed to limit his innings late in the season. You can’t help

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