Yesterday, we began taking a look at National League only starting pitching prospects. The general idea was to split the starters into three tiers based on their Fair Run Averages (FRA) from the previous season. Pitchers with FRAs under 4.00 were in the first tier. Today, we will look at

There are probably close to 100 starting pitchers that will be used by fantasy players this year and some will emerge as fantasy stars (at least for the 2014 season), but we will be stopping our focus on the top 40 guys. One thing to keep in mind about the

  This will be the final DL report for the season.  Fantasy playoffs are coming up, and it terms of most of the players on the DL the writing is on the wall regarding their return and impact with a month left to go in the baseball season. Thank you

Let’s start with a list. Here are the guys with the biggest positive differences between their ERA and xFIP. After the list we’ll examine who has the best chance to take their ERA from (about) 5.00 or more to under 4.00. Name ERA xFIP ERA-xFIP Edwin Jackson 5.76 3.58 2.18

Matt Cain’s follow-up to his 2012 career year has not gone as planned. The twenty-eight-year-old righty currently sits in third atop the home-runs-allowed leaderboard, having given up 13 bombs on the season. At first glance, the eye-popping number in Cain’s peripherals is a career high home-run per fly ball of

The first month of the baseball season has come and gone, so now is your opportunity hit the trade trail. Here is the Fix’s first round table discussion of the 2013 fantasy baseball season: Buy Low Targets. Read it, then go convince your rivals to cough up their underachievers. Enjoy!

This article comes out every Thursday. In previous years it was updated rankings each Thursday, but weekly is too frequent for updates to rankings. Monthly seems more like the stick. And so ‘The Rubber’ will be an updated top 75 on the first Thursday of each month. These are designed

David Price, Matt Cain, Cole Hamels and Gio Gonzalez all had ADPs of 40 or higher, but they all currently have a negative player rater number on ESPN. Normally, I wouldn’t worry about a slow start from a stud pitcher so long as an injury didn’t appear to be a