On draft day, one of the main principles I live by is to not end up with too many injury-prone players on my squads. The thinking behind this is you want to try to minimize risk on draft day as navigating your way through a grueling 162 game schedule is

In anticipation of the upcoming 2014 Major League Baseball season, I will be looking at players who you should be targeting on draft day. Hyun-jin Ryu, the second-year starter for the Los Angeles Dodgers, will be the subject in this instance. Much like his fellow countryman Psy, who produced the

In the last edition of the starting pitching countdown, I introduced a term that really isn’t all that new. I simply applied an official sounding term called “substitution value.” The whole idea behind substitution value is to look at a player’s value as not an absolute value (above replacement, average,

Ranking the starting pitchers for 2014 was by far the hardest list I had to make. On a few of the lists – SS in particular – I had to talk myself into including someone that I might not be exuding confidence about. Starting pitching was an entirely different animal. I had

Sundays in Miami are usually reserved for, I’d assume, going to the beach as well as detailing the exploits of a certain serial killer. However, last Sunday those events were put on hold, at least temporarily, for a pitchers’ duel between two of the best young arms in the game.

With the calendar turning to July recently and the season being right at about the halfway mark fantasy owners should know their teams’ strengths and weaknesses and be actively pursuing trades and transactions to improve their teams for the stretch runs. Sometimes those moves might not be what you want

Welcome to the newly revamped ‘Peaks and Valleys!’ For those of you that did not read the previous fantasy hockey columns, or are new to ‘Peaks’ in general, let me run down how this goes. I give you friendly advice about who to add and/or drop or who to from

Shelby Miller made his first 2013 start Saturday in San Francisco, and while it wasn’t as good as his first major-league start last October he looked like he belonged in the majors while facing the world champs. Miller didn’t make it out of the sixth inning after walking Hunter Pence

We’re only a couple starts into the season for most pitchers, but one or two games are enough at this point in the season for a player’s ownership percentage to skyrocket. If Barry Zito had started the season with quite a few mediocre-to-bad starts and then ripped off a couple

The Miami Marlins drafted Jose Fernandez with the 14th overall selection in the first round of the 2011 MLB Amateur Draft out of Braulio Alonso High School in Tampa, Florida. The 6-foot-3 215 pound right-hander arrived in the Tampa area after defecting from Cuba by speedboat in 2008. He subsequently