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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Fantasy baseball players certainly sweat the month of March more than any other. Most fantasy drafts take place in March and unless you play daily fantasy baseball, the fantasy draft is still the single most important date of the fantasy year. Fantasy players are constantly scouring the spring box scores

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Occasionally, you find a player that is the perfect microcosm for his team. The Nationals embody underachievement in every possible way. They underachieved to the point where they fired their manager despite finishing second in the NL East. Everyone expected them to win the division and advance to the World

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In a baseball universe of diminished offense, the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays were an oasis of run production in a desert of dominant pitching. They had the league’s MVP in Josh Donaldson and a pair of dynamic run producers around him in Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista. Then, they acquired

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

2015 was an exciting year for the Texas Rangers and their fans. They began the season the same way they ended 2014: in last place. But they went on a summer surge and ended up winning the AL West crown. A large part of the resurgence could be explained by

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

If there is anything all of the sports have in common, it is that they all go through periods where there is a glut of talent at one position or another. It might be quarterbacks in football, point guards in basketball, or goalies in hockey. As you might suspect, a

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Sometimes teams don’t give you a lot of options when it comes to breakout candidates. The Giants are one of those teams. This isn’t to say that the Giants are a bad team. Obviously, you don’t win three World Series titles in the decade when you are a bad team.

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The blogosphere owes Dayton Moore a huge apology. Sure, all of the generic snark kind of looks foolish in the face of two straight pennants and one World Series title. However, more specifically, if we believe the pundits out there (myself included), the Wil Myers trade was the dumbest trade

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Like the Athletics, the Pirates are an organization that must rely on smarts in place of money for them to compete. They are in a slightly better position than Oakland because they have enough money to tie up some of their young stars. Andrew McCutchen signed such a deal a

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In some ways, we are all sad to see Ruben Amaro Jr. out of Philadelphia. When he was released as general manager, he left a trail of snark behind him long enough to go from Philadelphia to Boston (where he landed as a base coach for the Red Sox). He

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Organizations in baseball get certain reputations for doing things well. Some organizations get known their ability to develop hitters while others get known for their ability to develop pitchers. The richer franchises get known for buying their talent. The flip side are those teams that belong to those on the

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