Fantasy Baseball
2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 28th 2013
Draft Kings Team of the Day Today I will be playing the Daily Dollar (great for beginners!): Don’t forget to claim your Deposit Bonus! Here is my @DraftKings team! Yesterday’s news and notes are inside the pick descriptions. Pitcher: Carlos Villanueva | $5,000: Villanueva has been on an absolute tear
2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 27, 2013
DraftKings.com Team of the Day Today I’m playing in the Double Up! contest on DraftKings. I’m playing in the late contest. Don’t forget to get your deposit bonus here. Starting Pitchers – The Options Name Opponent Salary Felix Hernandez LAA $12,000 Felix Doubront HOU $10,100 Matt Moore @CWS $9,700 Joe
Stars on the Shelf: TheFantasyFix.com’s Week 4 DL Report
Here is your fantasy baseball week 4 update on notable injured players. This will be a weekly posted list so you can stay ahead of the game when it comes to information about injuries across baseball that at one point or another affect all fantasy rosters. Here you will find an update
A Look Back at the 2013 Draft: AL Third Basemen
I spend most of my time looking back at the past. It probably comes from being a history teacher for most of my adult life. We could have illustrated some important points by looking at 2012 drafts and prior, but sometimes the information has to be fresh for making the
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 26, 2013
DraftKings Team of the Day Today I’m playing the $3 Double Up contest. You only have to beat out half of the 50 contestants to win some money, so it’s a good way to start out playing daily fantasy baseball. When you sign up at DraftKings don’t forget to claim
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Hold or Fold: Matt Kemp
One of the peculiar things in professional sports is the pay structure involved. Most other businesses have established pay schedules or rules of thumb that govern what we get paid. In professional sports (particularly baseball) a player can be Hall of Fame worthy, but his pay early in his career
Yu Darvish: Five Pitches, One GIF -Flawless Arm Action On Each Offering
Watch this GIF, it is a blend of Yu Darvish throwing all five of his pitches. Watch each pitch do their thing, yet Darvish’s mechanics, motion, arm speed and action is the exact same for every pitch. That is the ultimate gift of a great pitcher, absolute perfect blend of
A Look back at the 2013 Draft: NL Third Basemen
Excuse me while I get on my soapbox. Blogging is not a way to make a living, but it is a way to get out some frustrations and this piece allows me to get out some of mine. Here we go: batting average is dead. Let it die. Unfortunately, the
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Week 4 Tools of the Trade: Selling-Low On Giancarlo Stanton?
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
The Rubber, Week Four: What to Watch with Underperforming Starters
David Price, Matt Cain, Cole Hamels and Gio Gonzalez all had ADPs of 40 or higher, but they all currently have a negative player rater number on ESPN. Normally, I wouldn’t worry about a slow start from a stud pitcher so long as an injury didn’t appear to be a
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 25th, 2013
Yesterday was one of those embarassing days for any writer. If anyone is supposed to be prepared it is us. Most of us write our material in advance because it has to run early on the east coast. Well, that little trick burned me yesterday when I started Justin Maxwell
2013 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report, Week 4: Shelby Miller’s Stock On The Rise
Shelby Miller continued his hot start Monday night by shutting down the Washington Nationals with eight strikeouts and only two runs over 6.2 innings. Miller gave up only four hits and walked two, and even though his ERA went up to 2.16 we can take away nothing but positives from