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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The offseason is more than half way through. From here, you get some last second changes, but most of the players have already found their new home. The big time players will go where they go regardless of what team they are on, but average players and even below average

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We have finally reached the end of our series. As we saw in the last piece, the gap between the best and worst starters on the list is pretty thin. As a reminder, we are ranking the pitchers within this group according to their three and five year averages in

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We’ve come to the end of the knocking on the door series. When dealing with a group like starting pitchers, there is always a name or two that gets left out. There are a number of up and coming pitchers and we didn’t have enough room for all of them.

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The American League starters represent the end of our series of fantasy rankings. Of course, we will split them into two groups as we did with the National League starters. We will rank them within the group by comparing their three and five year averages in both the four and

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

As we did with the other positions, we have to profile some younger pitchers that didn’t quite make the cut for the top 36 slots amongst NL starters. Some probably already were better than some of the pitchers listed but because of limited exposure it was difficult to give them

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to the new year. 2016 wasn’t kind to a number of people and the month of December alone saw some high-profile celebrity deaths. October and December also saw a great number of fantasy deaths. They do every year. Here is your first opportunity to get a jump start on

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ClaytonKershaw
2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Ranking pitchers is easily the most difficult position to rank on the diamond. A large part of the problem is that so much of a pitcher’s performance is dependent on his teammates. Wins alone are the most misleading statistic in all of baseball. So, this is one of those areas

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The knocking on the door series is a way to capture the players that haven’t built up enough of a track record to be considered amongst the top 24 at their respective position. However, they have the talent and the opportunity to finish in the top 24 by the end

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We have come to the end of the position player section of our initial rankings. Initial rankings are based primarily on past results. That obviously causes some tensions with players that are either clearly on the rise or clearly on the decline. There will be time to look at future

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2017 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

I would like to begin our coverage of right fielders by thanking everyone that has been loyal to our site over the past year. As we wind down 2016, it becomes important to thank those that make all this possible. Eyeballs are what moves the needle and we would like

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