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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

This is a stressful time of year for fantasy baseball players. You’ve either just held your draft or you are about to hold your draft. The first few days of the baseball season are exciting. There are a marathon of games on ESPN and MLB.tv and everything seems so new.

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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The last week before the season is an intriguing time for fantasy baseball players. Most people have had at least one draft before that time, but there are always surprise moves in the last week before the season starts that rock the fantasy world. Okay, maybe they don’t quite rock

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2016 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFront Office

Welcome back, baseball. And more importantly, welcome back MLB DFS. We’ve got a 12-game slate today to kick off the season (yesterday’s three-game slate hardly counts). With all the varying start times today, playing on DraftKings is a safer option because they allow late swaps. On FanDuel, your roster will lock

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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

An all-star starting pitcher from 2015 has some serious red flags I’m unable to overlook. He’s joined by a righty whose ERA estimators were more than a run better than his ERA in 2015, but the ERA estimators don’t tell the whole story. On the positive side of things, a

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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 Baseball2016 Fantasy Baseball Draft GuideFantasy Baseball

…they’re often overvalued. As many women can probably attest to, if a man is being acknowledged for one particular, standout characteristic, they’re likely hiding some big flaws beneath the surface. Just like the timid co-ed being wooed by the talented, yet troubled star QB, fantasy baseball owners have to discriminate when

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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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