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Fantasy Baseball

It might seem a little early to start looking at next year, but as someone wise once said, “past is prologue.” When players start changing uniforms it can be easy to get caught up in the moment of dreaming about how this player will help that player get to the

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Fantasy Baseball

As popular as total points formats have become, the standard five and six category leagues are still the most popular in the genre. Total points is a lot more accurate when it comes to pegging the value of a player, but the standard categories are so easy to understand. Everyone

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Fantasy Baseball

Total points is a blast to play and it might be the wave of the future, but most full season fantasy players still play in standard five by five and six by six head to head leagues. Almost everyone is familiar with the five basic categories. The sixth category depends

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Fantasy Baseball

Thirty players is a lot of players to profile at every position, but there are always players that slip through the cracks for one reason or another. Usually it is because they are young and have not built up enough of a track record. Sometimes it is because they have

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Fantasy Baseball

The period of the offseason immediately following the postseason is the loneliest of all for the avid baseball fan. There are generally few trades and players aren’t eligible for free agency yet. So, it is high time to start the process of rating the players. Obviously, some will depend on

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Fantasy Baseball

It was a fantastic postseason and a World Series for the ages, but now the offseason for 2018 has begun. We will go through and rank the top 30 players at each position according to total points, five categories, and six categories. We begin with catchers and total points. Total

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Fantasy Baseball

It was a fantastic postseason and a World Series for the ages, but now the offseason for 2018 has begun. We will go through and rank the top 30 players at each position according to total points, five categories, and six categories. We begin with catchers and total points. Total

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Now that the season is drawing to a close, it is high time to start looking at the awards races. We want to do this before the playoffs because awards voting takes place before the playoffs begin, but so much of what we think about players depends on what they

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

As we reach the end of the season it becomes the perfect time to evaluate the awards. Every playoff season produces heroes and goats and those performances often color our perception of who should be the regular season MVP and Cy Young award winner. Pitchers in particular play a huge

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

As we did for the American League, we will handicap the National League MVP race in an organized fashion. Some people look at the best player regardless of how the team does while others look at the best player on a winning team. We will try to split the difference

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