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Alan Harrison

Alan is the founder of TheFantasyFix.com and a contributor to RotoGraphs. Follow his rants on Twitter @TheFantasyFix.

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On this day in 1967, Hank Aaron hit his first and only inside-the-park home run of his career 755 moon shots… WIth his second walk-off hit of the homestand, Carl Crawford is starting to look like the player that demanded $142 million this past off season from the Boston Red

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Welcome to Week Six of (Waiver) Wired and Baked – your weekly review of who shouldn’t be available in your league, but probably is. This week we’re going to go back to our regularly scheduled format – looking at the top 5 players you should look to pickup this week,

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Jacoby Ellsbury Jacoby Ellsbury increased his hitting streak to 17 games on Sunday with three more knocks. He has eight multi-hit games during the stretch, and has lifted his BA from .186 to .297. Over that same time period, teammate Dustin Pedroia has nosedived from .333 to .236. After throwing

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Sam Fuld ON THE RISEBARTOLO COLON (48.3% owned ESPN leagues) – Colon was hit hard last night by the Rangers but other than that start he has been amazing since taking over for injured Yankee pitcher Phil Hughes. Colon is 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA. He is averaging a strike out per inning

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Two-Start Pitchers To Start Brandon Morrow, Toronto Blue Jays (100%) – Morrow has a good matchup in his first start of the week. Tiger’s hitters are only batting .206, along with a .263 WHIP against Morrow. This start also takes place at home for him where his stats are a night

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Justin Verlander Justin Verlander tossed his second carreer no hitter, in an endearing moment, he admitted to thinking about the potential perfect game/no-hitter in the 4th or 5th inning. I hate it when pitchers say they don’t know until the 7th or 8th inning, you know some a-hole buddy is

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Justin Verlander has done it again. Saturday afternoon Verlander no-hit the Toronto Blue Jays and was 1 walk away from a perfect game. Verlander also threw a no-hitter in 2007 against Milwaukee. This was the 7th no-hitter in Tiger’s history. Earlier in the week Francisco Liriano pitched a no-hitter against

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Julio Teheran On this day in 2005, Julio Franco of the Atlanta Braves became the second oldest player to homer in an MLB game at 46 years and 257 days old. Awkward Line: Cliff Lee of the Phillies earned the loss in a seven inning effort in which he allowed

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Today I would like to talk about going on hiatus. First of all, let me apologize to TheFantasyFix.com world for not writing a new Finding the Mean article in a month. I received a new assignment at work that is a huge upgrade in the actual amount of real work

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Sergio Santos In today's Closer Report, we're going to get all sabermetric on you with a look at the advanced statistic BABIP and how you should use that to improve your fantasy team. But first, the news. Quick NewsSergio Santos has taken a hold of the closer role, having gotten the last 3

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