View image | gettyimages.com This post was written by Rich Migliorisi exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com. Playing the closer game has much to do with avoiding the wrong pitchers as it does picking the right ones. Heading into the 2014 season, I discussed Addison Reed’s injury risk. And despite those red flags, he managed to

View image | gettyimages.com I love FIP. Or at least I did until xFIP came along and improved the predictive power of defense-independent pitching statistics (DIPS). Because home run rates generally fluctuate from year to year, xFIP applies a league average home run rate to all pitchers, which makes xFIP

View image | gettyimages.com Spring Training is here. That means all of us baseball nutsos get to travel to Arizona or Florida to get an early look at our favorite teams and players. It also means that we get to dive head first into numbers to try and sort out

Offseason Overview The Los Angeles Angels recorded a MLB-best 98 wins in 2014 and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2009 thanks to a dynamic offense and better than expected pitching. But their season ended on a sour note as they were swept 3-0 in the ALDS by

Ryan Noonan and Gerard Martin are back to talk about third base. In the hot corner podcast they discuss their approach to the position on draft day, talk through the top tier of third baseman, decide whether or not Chris Davis returns to form, and how much of a ‘leap’ Nolan Arenado

View image | gettyimages.com Some of you may be old enough to remember 45s. I came of age in the tail end of the vinyl generation. Of course, vinyl went the way of the do-do bird and the concept of the single (and subsequent B side) seemed to go along

View image | gettyimages.com The days of Joey Votto being a certified fantasy stud seem long gone. Heck, there was even a year in which he added 16 steals to his incredible overall numbers. Even so, I have seen Votto go at some very cheap prices and for a guy

Above you can see what has become my favorite piece of content to produce each year — my flow chart for use in fantasy baseball snake drafts. The idea is for you to be able to use this during your draft along with a list of names (included below) and have

View image | gettyimages.com I don’t even know what a ‘Sleeper’ is any more. I do know that it’s an overused term in our game and one that’s really hard to define. With so many different league sizes and scoring formats, it’s hard to classify any player as an under

View image | gettyimages.com Welcome to the Jorge Alfaro edition of our 2015 “30 Prospects in 30 Days” series. We’ve decided to review some of the top prospects ranked by some of our favorite prospect analysts for fantasy baseball purposes. You can see some of the other recent prospects discussed