Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Starting Pitcher Market — NL Central
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
2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix Podcast: June 24, 2014
Below is a podcast with me discussing daily fantasy strategy for the day. It’s only about seven minutes long. I discuss the starting pitchers with the highest projected point totals and the ones who are the best value for their price. I also discuss which teams are the best to
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Starting Pitching Market — NL West
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
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Walk This Way — The Anthony Rizzo Story
When you’re a fan of Chicago’s north-side team, the narrative is always ‘wait ‘til next year.’ There’s been little to cheer about for Cubs fans over the past decade. The only good news is they aren’t breaking fans hearts in September or October like they did for that small stretch
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Week 13 Free Agent Fixes
This week’s article is pitcher friendly with a trio highlighted. A pair of American League Central outfielders get the nod as mixed league recommendations, and a catcher/outfield eligible hitter is the AL-only pick this week while a second baseman/shortstop is the NL-only pick. Rubby De La Rosa, Boston Red Sox,
2014 Fantasy Baseball Week 13 Waiver Wire: 3 to Catch, 3 to Cut, 3 to Keep
In the Week 13 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re revisiting Carlos Martinez, reinvigorating Albert Pujols, and revising expectations for Mike Moustakas. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players in fantasy leagues. This isn’t one of them. Here,
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Week 12 Roundup
Baseball is a game that works in very mysterious ways. Prior to this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers last no-hitter came way back in 1996. Fast forward to now and the Dodgers have now recorded two no-hitters within the last 30 days. Josh Beckett achieved the feat last month against
Fantasy Baseball: A look at HR surgers and shrinkers
For many players in season long roto leagues, you are beginning to make trades to fill holes in your squad. One of the joys of rotisserie scoring is that you can target one (or more) categories that will have the most significant impact on your point total. I like to
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Sean Doolittle’s Historic Campaign
For the most part, fantasy players don’t pay for saves anymore. Nearly every guide during draft season contains advice about not spending much of your budget on closers. As we know, closers are fickle. They fall out of favor with managers and quickly lose their jobs. Hell, we’re lucky if
2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix Podcast: June 20 2014
Below is a podcast with me discussing daily fantasy strategy for the day. It’s only about eight minutes long. I discuss the starting pitchers with the highest projected point totals and the ones who are the best value for their price. I also discuss which teams are the best to
Middle Relievers with Big Fantasy Value
While middle relievers have started to get more run on the fantasy landscape in recent years, even in leagues that don’t give them a clear path to value via the holds category, they are still a mostly overlooked group. In this strikeout-heavy era where we are seeing obscene rates from
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Rubber, Rest-of-Season SP Rankings
It’s about that time for updated starting pitcher rankings. Below you’ll find my top 60 starters from here on out. To compile the rankings I calculated fantasy value above average by running the Steamer RoS projections through the Zach Sanders method for calculating fantasy value and looking at K-BB% for