Fantasy Baseball
Cooking Up Some Trade Talk
In a few days, we will be entering July. This means Major League Baseball’s trade season will soon be getting hot. Like a hot stove…hmm…As the heat turns up, our fantasy teams will be put in now or never situations. Buy or sell? Stand pat or take a chance? Trade
2013 Fantasy Baseball, The Daily Fix: June 27, 2013
Thursday is sometimes a difficult day to play on. It’s quite common for Draftkings to split their contests into early, normal, and late game contests. When you have only nine games on the schedule to begin with, it can be really challenging to put a schedule together using the daily
2013 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report, Week 13: MVPuig?
Yasiel Puig see ball hit ball far. The Dodgers’ 22-year-old stud hit his seventh homer Monday night in just his 20th MLB game. He’s doing just about everything right. Minus a gaffe in Monday’s game in right field, he’s making highlight plays defensively and offensively. MLB Network’s Heidi Watney tweeted
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Plate Discipline: Left Fielders
We’ve gone through a majority of the positions and profiled certain players on the positive and negative lists for each position. For left fielders we are going to do something a little different. In this case, we will look at some of the commonalities for players on either side of
2013 Fantasy Baseball, The Daily Fix: June 26, 2013
Before we move onto the daily lineups I should put forth a bit of a disclaimer. I will be deviating from my normal methodology today and trying something else. It has little to do with lack of success lately (although that is a pleasant side effect) and more to do
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Plate Discipline: Shortstops
Last time we talked about the difference between results and process. Obviously, most teams and most fantasy players focus on results. Process doesn’t earn you any points by itself. However, paying attention to process can tip you off to some sleepers and some players ready to fall. Unfortunately, teams don’t
2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix, June 25, 2013
Last week I tried to use a video to explain the DraftKings team of the day. The idea was that I could get more info out and discuss more names in ten minutes of talking than I could in 600+ words of text. I still think that’s probably true. The
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Week 13 Tools of the Trade: Targeting Jose Reyes?
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
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Week 13 PCL Update
Remember the days when you didn’t have to dive into BABIP, ISO and K% to evaluate talent. Well, if you don’t, there was a day not too long ago when looking at batting average, HRs, and RBI in a section of the sports page (in a thing called a newspaper)
TheFantasyFix.com Podcast: Ben Duronio
Host Brett Talley (@TheRealTAL) is joined by Ben Duronio (@ben_duronio) of Talking Chop, Rotographs and TheFantasyFix.com. When Ben is on the pod, it’s an obligation to talk about his team the Braves. Who gets the boot when Brandon Beachy gets back? And are Jason Heyward and B.J. Upton on the
2013 Fantasy Baseball Week 13 Waiver Wire: 3 to Catch, 3 to Cut, 3 to Keep
It’s Week 13 fantasy baseball 3×3, where we’re scooping up Mitch Moreland, throwing in the towel on Justin Morneau, and staying patient with a couple of Rays. 3 TO CATCH Mitch Moreland | Texas Rangers | 1B Mitch Moreland ranks sixth among first basemen in wOBA behind only Chris Davis,
The BABIP Monologues: Justin Verlander and His Mythical Bad Luck
In my ever increasing attempts to rid the fantasy baseball landscape of broad paint brush stroke analysis on batting average on balls in play, I bring you “The BABIP Monologues.” Justin Verlander and the Myth of Bad Luck Justin Verlander has been quite awful this season in terms of ERA