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Alan Harrison

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

2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Adam Lind followed up a sublime 2011 campaign with one of the biggest flops of all time. After hitting 26 homers in 2011, he hit only 11 in 2012, and he only scored 28 runs while knocking in a measly 45. Injury clearly had something to do with it, as

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

A majority of the fantasy coverage on the main sites (ESPN, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs) centers around players that are relevant in mixed leagues. When an injury occurs, a players replacement is deemed mixed league worthy, or not. However, guys who get around 350 plate appearances each year, platoon players, are

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Fantasy Baseball

The 2013 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft is in full-swing, so in honor of all the scouts out there, I’d like to take a quick look at some of the scouting reports made available to us by the fine folks at Diamond Mines.

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to the Fix’s week 10 fantasy baseball mailbag. We’re going to skip the fluffy introduction and fast forward to the meat-and-potatoes: @thefantasyfix better ROS: Zack Wheeler, Michael Wacha, Kevin Gausmann? Thanks. — Eric Bertram (@EricDBertram) June 6, 2013   Let’s see what the Fix staff has to say about

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Bud Norris has the 41st best ERA (3.39) among qualified pitchers this season. He has the 69th best WHIP (1.48). These things, as the cool kids say, do not compute. Making matters a bit murkier for Norris is an astoundingly small K% (14.9%) and K/9 rate (5.74). These are wretchedly

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2013 Fantasy BaseballAlan HarrisonFantasy BaseballFront Office

TheFantasyFix.com’s “Tools of the Trade” is a unique guide for owners to use while attempting to make an even trade with their league-mates in a standard 12-team mixed, 5×5 head-to-head or rotisserie redraft league. The values present in this guide are simply the basis for a trade. A full-blown analysis

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The Houston Astros may strike out nearly 25% of the time and have performances where they are laughably bad. However, instead of being a league worst offense they way they have for the last several years, they rank 19th in total runs scored and 16th in team ISO. There are

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

National attention on top prospects for the upcoming MLB Draft has mostly centered on college pitchers Jonathan Gray (Oklahoma) and Mark Appel (Stanford) with Georgia High School stud Clint Frazier thrown in here and there for color. The college hitting class is thought of as relatively weak, largely because it

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Fantasy Baseball

Sometimes, we fall in love with players and create unrealistic expectations. For many, Brett Lawrie is one of these players, and he may be breaking your heart.  He may have even broken your heart in 2012.  But as he takes a seat on the disabled list with a sprained ankle,

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2013 Fantasy BaseballAlan HarrisonFantasy Baseball

On the heels of the first 20/20 season of his career — 27 homers, 21 swipes to be exact — and at the ripe age of 23, Jason Heyward became a prime target for fantasy baseballers entering the twenty-thirteen season. But it wasn’t just the lanky lefty’s solo potential that

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