Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy Baseball, Week 3 Tools of the Trade: Buying Homer Bailey?
TheFantasyFix.com’s “Tools of the Trade” is a unique guide for owners to use while attempting to make an even trade with their league-mates in a standard 12-team mixed, 5×5 head-to-head or rotisserie redraft league. The values present in this guide are simply the basis for a trade. A full-blown analysis
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Week Three Roundup
When it comes to fantasy baseball there are a lot of unknowns fantasy owners must deal with. Whether it comes down to players going down unexpectedly with injuries, trying to figure out if a little known player can keep up his production, or accounting for circumstances like a player changing
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Homer Bailey is Fine
Fresh off a $105 million contract extension, Homer Bailey has had a dreadful start to his 2014 campaign. In three starts, Bailey has managed to get through 14.1 innings, while posting an 8.16 ERA. Obviously, this isn’t what Cincinnati or Bailey himself had in mind to begin the season, but
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Factor AL
The most exciting advancement in analytics over the past ten years in baseball has been the relationship between fielding and pitching. Ten years ago, even a majority of analysts were discounting the effects of fielding as Voros McCracken’s theories on defense independent pitching statistics were taking hold. It isn’t so
Is It Time To Worry About Carlos Rodon?
No. Despite rumblings from the baseball prospect online echo chamber, North Carolina State ace left-hander Carlos Rodon is still the best pitching prospect in college baseball and potential big league ace. THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE OF OUR #FRONTOFFICE CONTENT. LEARN HOW TO BE A MEMBER HERE.
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Stop the Madness! Ending Over-Reaction Transactions
Every year without fail, it seems as though there is a great deal of hysteria early in the fantasy baseball season that leads to mass amounts of knee jerk transactions being made. There are those owners out there that will make over-reaction transactions that make for amazing message board fodder
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Third Tier AL Starting Pitchers
The final tier of starting pitchers is usually reserved for the scrubs of the world, but when you look at the table for the aggregate tier one, tier two, and tier three guys you will see that the tier three guys actually had more starts and more innings than the
2014 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Double Switch for April 16th
The Daily Double Switch for Draftstreet is back and ready to give you a direct look into how I’m viewing MLB players tonight. There are 16 games today and some confusing MLB slates so beware. Make sure you know the slate you have joined and subsequently which doubleheader starter is
2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 16th
Welcome to another addition of the daily fix. We have new partners this season with Draftstreet and so far it has been fun getting acclimated to the site. One of the things they offer you is the ability to go with a salary cap system (as most daily games allow)
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Pedro Alvarez’s Improving Eye
For the past few seasons Pedro Alvarez has been a huge tease – a solid performer, but a tease nonetheless. He has been a pain to own in head-to-head formats at times, but he’s also likely won your team’s match-ups singlehandedly a few times. [am4show have=’p3;p4;p7;p11;’ guest_error=’Front Office’ user_error=’Front Office’
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Fix DL Report – Week Three
Photo Credit: Keith Allison Welcome to the second week of the Fix DL Report. Each week I (@Rich_Migs) will cover significant fantasy baseball injuries. As the season continues, the report will address some of the most recent injuries and their fantasy implications. OUT FOR THE SEASON: Patrick Corbin, Brandon Beachy,
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Second Tier AL Starting Pitchers
The second tier list in the National League was a mixed bag. We saw a cross between pitchers that some people would think would be tier one guys and guys that some people thought would be tier three guys. So, going through both lists was fun just to see what