Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Gerard’s Rankings, Third Base
Miguel Cabrera is far and away the best fantasy baseball option at third base, but there’s a surprising amount of meat in the middle of the 3B rankings. My ranks will give you the top three tiers of third sackers, along with strong plays in each 5×5 category.
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Tommy John Surgeries Causing Problems
While Major League Baseball teams must always be prepared to deal with unexpected injuries that can have a lasting impact on the big league club, it’s always brutal to find out players seasons are deemed over before the season even begins. Along with settling position battles, determining who will make
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Changes in Value When K/9 Replaces K and QS Replaces W
If your league uses non-standard roto categories, you can’t rely on rankings and auction values from a website or magazine. And if you’re drafting online, you can’t rely on the order in which players are listed in the draft room. Almost all of those rankings are drawn up with the
45 Prospects in 45 Days: Boston’s Allen Webster
Profile Allen Webster can bring the heat. In his short major league stint with the Red Sox last season, he averaged 94.4 miles per hour on his fastball, a velocity that would have ranked seventh among starting pitchers, if he’d had enough innings to qualify. His control is bad, verging on
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Potential Hitter Busts
The following is a list of hitters that are currently being taken too high for my liking, so you may want to be cautious with these sluggers or speedsters on draft day. All ADP data is found in parenthesis (ADP) and taken from FantasyPros.com on February 1, 2014. All commentary
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Pumping the Brakes on Spring Training
There was a Fangraphs piece a short while ago that mentioned Jake Fox. That piece is hyperlinked here. I’ll sum it up for you, in case you’ve forgotten who Jake Fox is/was. Jake Fox spent the majority of his career in the Cubs’ and Orioles’ systems. He spent the majority
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Casey McGehee Story
Baseball is a game of failure. I hate to be so pessimistic this early on in the season, but when you think about the game itself, it is predicated on failure. After all, in what other sport could you meet your goal 30 percent of the time and be considered
45 Prospects in 45 Days: New York’s Travis d’Arnaud
Over the next 45 days the staff here at the Fix will profile and predict the fantasy fates of prospects that could – should, in some cases – be closely monitored on the waiver wire or even in the draft room. For the projection portion of the article, we will
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Potential Busts on the Mound
The following is a list of pitchers that are currently being taken too high for my liking, so you may want to be cautious with these hurlers on draft day. All ADP data is found in parenthesis (ADP) and taken from FantasyPros.com on February 1, 2014. All commentary reflects a
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Rotters and Sleepers — Third Basemen
When we look at third base we get some unique situations as it pertains to sleepers and rotters. In some cases, people may question whether they are sleepers at all. In the case of Chase Headley, that is definitely the big question. At one point, he was a top three