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Fantasy Baseball

In many ways, handicapping the Cy Young awards (and Rookie of the Year) is infinitely easier than handicapping the MVP award. All we have to do is determine who the best pitcher or best rookie is. The MVP award comes with its own caveats because of the disagreement over the

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Fantasy Baseball

In many ways, handicapping the Cy Young awards (and Rookie of the Year) is infinitely easier than handicapping the MVP award. All we have to do is determine who the best pitcher or best rookie is. The MVP award comes with its own caveats because of the disagreement over the

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Fantasy Baseball

Awards voting is always fun and when there is a race as close as the NL Cy Young Award race appears to be. When you are talking about the beatwriters you are talking about a diverse group that often looks for different things. So, we are trying to give as

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Fantasy Baseball

We like to use WAR and win shares around here, but as we will see there are some issues when we use those statistics to judge pitchers on individual seasons. For instance, Mike Minor leads the league in WAR, but likely won’t even finish in the top five in the

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Fantasy Baseball

We have almost come to the end of August. There are about two weeks left in the fantasy baseball season, so even though there are about 30 games left in the schedule, the clock is running out. We always love the draft, but as we will see, the guys we

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Fantasy Baseball

Last time we looked at fantasy outfielders that were ranked one through twelve before the season according to Yahoo six category rankings. This time we will look at the next group of outfielders. For a standard twelve team league, this would be your second outfielder. Obviously, outfield is an extremely

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Fantasy Baseball

Every time we get to outfielders we get the fateful decision of whether to split them up by position or just treat them all the same. Since most outfielders are eligible at multiple outfield positions, we are taking them in one group. So, this time we will look at the

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Fantasy Baseball

As we approach mid August we come to the end of the regular season for fantasy baseball players. The playoffs start in less than a month and in less than three weeks in some leagues. Some are celebrating great seasons while others are just playing out the string. Most will

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Fantasy Baseball

One of the truths in all fantasy sports and particularly fantasy baseball is that people put way too much emphasis on draft day. I get it. It’s the most exciting day of the year. There are so many great players in the game today and you want to see which

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Fantasy Baseball

There is never a more fun time in fantasy sports then draft time. Fantasy football players are certainly gearing up for their drafts right now. It’s easy to place all of your eggs in that draft basket, but any good fantasy player knows that how you navigate the waiver wire

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