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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We reach the end of our PECOTA series and it has been a lovely ride. Pitchers are easily the most challenging group to project, and you will notice some commonalities with the PECOTA projections. The primary similarity is that wins are depressed for all of the pitchers. This is likely

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to the new year. 2016 wasn’t kind to a number of people and the month of December alone saw some high-profile celebrity deaths. October and December also saw a great number of fantasy deaths. They do every year. Here is your first opportunity to get a jump start on

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Pitching in the National League normally looks a little better than it does in the American League. Replacing the pitcher with someone like David Ortiz will tend to do that league wide. That being said, the candidates in the National League are noticeably better than in the American League. The

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Fantasy Baseball

Christopher Morais A fantasy owner’s best friend is the waiver wire—where finding value can make the difference between a great week and a very disappointing one. Most pitchers see the mound once every seven days, but if you want to maximize the number of starts per week, it’s important to

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2016 Fantasy BaseballAndrew MillerFantasy Baseball

Joe Ross has probably thrown under the radar his entire life. Younger brother to Tyson and now in a rotation with Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer, Ross has wrongfully received less praise than he deserves. I wrote a little about Ross last year late in the season as he was

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Gambling and sports go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly. I would be willing to bet (if you excuse the pun) that a lot of the people who go to a casino online will also be a sports fan. Its something about the risk and high stakes that

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Sunday’s deck of games was stacked with aces as some of the best arms in baseball toed the rubber to close out the weekend. Noah Syndergaard, Max Scherzer, Marcus Stroman, Chris Archer, Cole Hamels, and Zack Greinke all took the mound for their respective clubs, and a good handful of

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2016 Fantasy Baseball

Christopher Morais A fantasy owner’s best friend is the waiver wire—where finding value can make the difference between a great week and a very disappointing one. Most pitchers see the mound once every seven days, but if you want to maximize the number of starts per week, it’s important to

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The vast majority of the action from the last week happened on Wednesday night. Two pitchers turned in legendary performances that you often see only once in your life at the ballpark. Max Scherzer tied a long-standing major league record with 20 strikeouts of the Detroit Tigers. The fact that

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With the first month of the MLB regular season officially in the books, quite a few teams looked to carry their respective hot streaks into the month of May. Four of the five National League East teams entered the day on winning streaks with the Mets having won eight straight,

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