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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

You cannot find any positions any different than catcher and first base. That being said, there were 17 regular catchers (or at least semi-regular) that were above average in real offensive value. The first base tally is off the charts. So, there will inevitably be some pretty decent first sackers

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

There are two categories of catchers left on the fantasy landscape after our first real offensive value edition. There are catchers that were expected to be top notch catchers, but are merely performing as above average catchers. That’s bad enough, but then there are catchers that are actually performing below

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

There is and always will be a tension between fantasy baseball and real baseball. Real statistical analysts often ignore run producing statistics (runs and RBI) because they are largely what we may call opportunity statistics. They are dependent on the quality of the players around a particular player and not

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

As our midseason profile of starting pitching comes to a close, it is instructive to take a look at where we have been in addition to looking at the pitchers from the National League East. The big picture and little picture are equally important in fantasy baseball. The long and

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome to another edition of the daily fix. Draftsteet has been a terrific platform for us and it can be for you too. They offer three different types of games and they offer them at all types of financial levels for the gambling fan. Draftstreet has pick em’ games, salary

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The starting pitcher market has been going through some adjustments over the past several seasons. Offense is becoming less and less prominent which means more and more starting pitchers are putting up solid numbers. The NL Central is the fifth division we have profiled in the past week and we

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

It might be the golden age of starting pitching and we take a look at the National League West, we might see the best starting pitching in baseball. As we saw in the American League, there are plenty of first and second tier starting pitchers on the open market. We

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

We come to the end of the American League portion of our study on starting pitchers. The AL West is easily the the best division in terms of quality and quantity of starting pitchers. In fact, if we throw in Collin McHugh we will have 18 qualifying pitchers. He stands at

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Fix. Our partners at Draftstreet have some exciting games you can get involved in. Sign up is easy and they have some exciting games to get involved in. The biggest is the one million dollar pay out that is possible for one

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

A funny thing happened on the way to looking at the AL Central pitching market. When you have hard and fast rules at who belongs in what tier, you sometimes find some tiers underrepresented. As it turned out, only one pitcher qualified as a tier one starter in the AL

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