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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In college baseball, they have an expression known as the “Friday night starter.” The idea is that most college teams reserve their best pitchers for the first game of the series on Friday night. On Friday night, there were a number of marquee matchups. The biggest matchup might have been

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Parity has taken over the American League. With the exception of the Chicago White Sox, nobody in the league even has a .600 winning percentage. For fantasy baseball players, that means they have to pay attention to every team because every team is capable of going through spurts of good

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

When you get through the first month of the season you usually get to the point where you are ready to cut the cord on some underperforming veterans. At third base, Kyle Seager owners just aren’t as proud as they used to be. Granted, the power numbers are there, but

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Baseball has now seen two players test positive for PED use in the early going this season. Chris Colabello wasn’t a headline grabber in fantasy baseball terms, but Dee Gordon was a starting second baseman in probably every league. With the collective bargaining agreement coming up in December, the testing

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Most of the sports world is focusing on the first round of the NFL draft tonight. No one can doubt that football is king in America. If anyone doubts that, they should take a look at the television ratings tomorrow morning. The NFL will undoubtedly trounce real live baseball games

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Obviously, when you get to this point of the season, it gets harder and harder to maintain your patience. Brian Dozier owners are certainly feeling that at this point. He’s hit under .200 for most of the season and has the predictable low totals across the board as of press

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Yasiel Puig
2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Every night there is something else to grab your attention. With the advent of the internet, Youtube, and the MLB At Bat app, there are always opportunities to catch the big plays. On Friday night, it was Yasiel Puig and Yoenes Cespedes making great plays to kill baserunners. Just imagine

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

This is one of those fun nights to do a recap. Jake Arrieta threw his second no-hitter in nine starts. It the quickest turnaround between no-hitters since Johnny Vandermeer had back to back no-hitters. We can safely assume that record will never be broken in our lifetimes. We can also

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2016 Fantasy Baseball

It’s still very early in the fantasy season, but we all get itchy trigger fingers sometimes. That key player you were counting on has gotten off to a slow start. At first base, we can see a number of players that aren’t living up to the advanced billing. Of course,

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chris sale
2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to another weekend edition of the fantasy baseball recap. Not that anyone expected it anyway, but no one is going to break the 1988 Baltimore Orioles record of consecutive losses to begin a season. Supposedly, during that stretch, President Ronald Reagan called Frank Robinson (the Orioles manager) to console

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