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Fantasy Baseball

The majority of the offseason has been uneventful. Then, in the span of 24 hours, the Angels won the Ohtani sweepstakes and the Marlins found a way to dump Giancarlo Stanton‘s massive contract. In fact, the Marlins have now dumped the likes of Dee Gordon and Stanton in the span

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Fantasy Baseball

The Los Angeles Angels shocked the baseball world when they won the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes. It was a unique negotiation as teams could not offer more than what they had in their international bonus pool. He will make the league minimum like any other rookie once he collects his signing

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Fantasy Baseball

Total points have a way of stripping all pretense aside and giving you a reflection of who the player really is. This can be seen clearly when looking at the pivot. Some players come with a tremendous amount of hype because of their power numbers or their speed numbers. Fantasy

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Fantasy Baseball

Baseball has always been a thinking man’s game, but sometimes it takes a while for these ideas to become mainstream. Leave it to gamblers to find a way to make these ideas become more popular with the masses. Total points began as a way to introduce daily fantasy baseball to

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Fantasy Baseball

The offseason is beginning to heat up as we approach the Winter Meetings. The Winter Meetings are definitely the closest thing to Christmas for most baseball fans. Key free agents get signed and key players get traded. So, we have our last opportunity to rank players before some of them

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Fantasy Baseball

It can be difficult to go back to a standard five category league after experiencing total points. There are so many things that those basic formats don’t encompass. Even adding walks (our sixth category) doesn’t quite tell the whole story. So, when you see these players ranked you have to

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jose abreu
Fantasy Baseball

Total points are the newest craze in fantasy baseball, but five and six category leagues are still the foundation of the industry. Still, if you would like a comparison across the first base universe, please feel free to check out the total points version. Included in that version is the

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Fantasy Baseball

There are a number of catchers that have already arrived that made it to Generation Next. First base really only has one such player. So, we will take a different tact with this position. We are looking at five guys that have either already debuted in the big leagues or

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Fantasy Baseball

Total points is taking over the fantasy baseball community and for those of us seamheads, it is isn’t a moment too soon. When you add points for all positive events and deduct for negative events you encompass more of the player and you cease to be a slave to single

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Edwin Encarnacion Fantasy Baseball
Fantasy Baseball

The major awards have been handed out and there was a fair amount of controversy there (as there always is), but now we are ready to move onto the second phase of the offseason. This is where we prepare for the hot stove season and player movement. Player movement certainly

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