2012 Fantasy Baseball, NL-Only: Draft Traditions and the first week in review
Henry Rodriguez Since our league has been together for quite a while, most of the owners know which players each other like, and what strategies each of us try to employ. And after every draft, some of us mill around and talk about how awesome our team is and how
2012 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire, Week 3: Jacoby Ellsbury Injured, Potential Replacements
Jacoby Ellsbury Welcome to Week 3’s Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire You’ve spent several months reading and reciting a variety of fantasy baseball analysts’ draft guides and analysis articles like they were the gospel, and just two-to-three weeks into this young season you are ready to part ways with your draft
2012 Fanatsy Baseball Podcast: Brett & Eno Sarris of FanGraphs talk "The Game" & Hot Starts
Brett Talley (@TheRealTAL) of TheFantasyFix.com is joined by Eno Sarris (@enosarris) of Fangraphs.com. Brett and Eno discuss Fangraphs' insanely cool new version of daily fantasy baseball, The Game. Then they shift gears and talk about some guys off to hot starts like Austin Jackson, Zack Cozart, Danny Duffy, Juan Nicasio
2012 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: Zack Greinke’s home/road woes continue
Zack Greinke's ugly home/road splits are back. Greinke frustrated fantasy owners last year when he was so good at home and so bad on the road, and this year has started out the same way. After throwing seven scoreless innings in his first start of the year at home, Greinke gave
2012 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Fix: Halladay tops Johnson, Lincecum gets rocked
It was aces galore around Major League baseball on Wednesday. If you had Wednesday's starting pitchers as a poker hand in a high stakes game against the Devil, you'd say confidently, “I bet my soul on this hand.” Unfortunately, he'd pull a royal flush out of his goat ass and
2012 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Dan Brooks & Harry Pavlidis take you to PITCH F/X school
Brett Talley (@TheRealTAL) of TheFantasyFix.com is joined by Dan Brooks (@brooksbaseball) and Harry Pavlidis (@HarryPav) of brooksbaseball.net, the preeminent source for PITCHF/X data. Dan and Harry explain what PITCH F/X is, how it is tracked and what the applications are for the ample information that comes out of it. Listen
2012 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Fix: Matt Moore Loses, David Wright Breaks Finger & More
Quick Hits More on Matt Moore’s 2012 debut below (as I got to catch a significant portion of the game). The Cliff Notes version: he was somewhat unimpressive, with five walks, four K’s and four hits over 6.2 innings. I also didn’t think this was a great Tigers line-up and
2012 Fantasy Baseball: Johan Santana and the Amazin’s are off to a hot start
Johan Santana (credits below) The Amazin’s! Writing articles like this aren’t usually what I do, but I figured I’d better take this opportunity to write about my Mets as they’re 4-1 and in first place in the NL East. Let’s take a look at the fantasy prospects from this team
2012 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report: No embargo on Cuba’s Yoenis Cespedes
Yoenis Cespedes (credits below) The Rookie Report returns for the first of our weekly 2012 Tuesday editions. We start 2012 with a look at a Japanese flame thrower and a 26 year old slugger from Cuba. SP- YU DARVISH (TEXAS)- Darvish was shaky in his first major league start last night as he took
2012 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Fix: Yu Darvish Debuts, Barry Zito’s $19 million game
Yu Darvish (credits below) Yu Darvish didn't pitch his best in his first career MLB start, but he still walked away a winner as the Rangers knocked off the Mariners. The Ranger bats came alive as they beat up rookie Hector Noesi and put 11 runs on the board. As