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Yasiel Puig
2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Every night there is something else to grab your attention. With the advent of the internet, Youtube, and the MLB At Bat app, there are always opportunities to catch the big plays. On Friday night, it was Yasiel Puig and Yoenes Cespedes making great plays to kill baserunners. Just imagine

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2016 Fantasy Baseball2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

There are many ways to rank players. I don’t claim to have a monopoly on the truth, but I hope my methods balance analytics with common sense. The analytics part is probably the most involved. We take runs above replacement from the past three seasons according to three different sources

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to another episode of the Twilight Zooooooone, where in some alternate universe Yasiel Puig is healthy and helping your fantasy team take home a championship. Unfortunately, in this dimension, he’s underperforming and hurt (again). Puig was a media, fan and fantasy sensation from the moment he arrived in LaLaLand. He hit

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Center field is the premier position in the game, but for fantasy baseball players, we’ve noticed that right field is a little more advanced in terms of offensive production. That being said there are few disappointments on the center field side. Mike Trout and Andrew McCutchen are the cream of

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com Why should I read this article? We’ve come to the end of the fielding chronicles.  I hope you’ve at least gotten some solid information out of them. If you are joining us for the first time, I’d point to the same thing that I’ve pointed to

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com I have put together a list of five players that I believe would be easier to get now than they will be next season in a keeper league. If your team is not doing very well and you think you might need to start looking ahead,

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

If you read only one thing….. Don’t look now, but the Houston Astros have won eight consecutive games and ten out of eleven to take a commanding lead in the AL West. This coming from a team that hasn’t won more than 70 games since 2010 and haven’t been above

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com This marks the end of the VORP revisited series. With the end comes this one piece of advice: it is dangerous to use any one piece of information exclusively during your draft. Statistics are tools. If you follow them down the rabbit hole, you usually wind

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2015 Fantasy Baseball2015 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com Right field is so famous for being a throw away position that Peter, Paul, and Mary wrote a song about it. “Because I’m here in right field, just watching the dandelions grow.” In terms of fantasy baseball, there can be little doubt that right field is

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

  We reach the end of the position player portion of the “it’s never too early” series. Right field is a little more stable than center field was, but we also have some instances where some players will be eligible at multiple outfield spots. We also have some infielders that

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