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2013 Fantasy Baseball: The Week 2 Closer Report
Our first week of baseball is just about in the books. I’m not sure I recall more bullpen upheaval in the first week of any season in recent memory. Who is sneaking up on incumbent closers? Who is knocking down the door? And what is DAS EFX doing in this
2013 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 6th, 2013
Leading Off Ivan Nova’s pitches looked as big as a supernova for Prince Fielder, as he got off the schneid with a two home-run, five RBI performance and leading the slow-starting Tigers to a win. Meanwhile, Fister struggled landing a courtesy win despite failing to record a quality start –
2013 Fantasy Baseball Rookie Report, Week 1: Gyorko, Bradley, Ryu
Welcome to the first 2013 installment of the Rookie Report. Each week I’ll highlight a few rookies who have consistent playing time, see how they’ve done and try to predict what we’ll see from them in the future. Also, since the minor-league season just started today, starting next week I’ll
Evan Longoria: 2013 American League MVP Candidate
There is no player more valuable to his team in the American League than Evan Longoria is to the Tampa Bay Rays. He is the stand alone star player on a team that is mostly filled with solid, but young, and often inexperienced players. Year after year a revolving door
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 5, 2013
Thursday was an off day for eight teams, and every game was over by around 10 p.m. Eastern so it was an unusual day in the baseball world. The Blue Jays, Yankees, Phillies, Padres and Royals all won their first games of the year, while the Marlins fell to 0-3.
The Rubber, Week One – Brett Talley’s Initial Top 75 SP
I give you my initial ranking of my top 75 starting pitchers for the 2013 season. I’ve commented at length of many of these guys this preseason and covered each one in our 2013 Draft Guide. I won’t bother rehashing and reprinting my prior comments. Enjoy the uninterrupted list, and
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 4th, 2013
“Here come the Astros burning with desire, here come the Astros, they’re breathing orange fire.” The Astros may be breathing orange fire again, but they sure as hell aren’t making a lot of contact these days. In three games, they have struck out 13 times, 15 times, and 15 times
2013 MLB Staff Predictions: Nationals Favorite at the Fix
So it took a little longer than expected, but here are the staff predictions for the 2013 MLB season. The Fix staff favors the following American League division champions: AL East: Blue Jays AL Central: Tigers AL West: Angels Staffer AL East AL Central AL West AL Wild Card AL
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 3, 2013
Please watch this clip for approximately six seconds. Okay, now watch it again and imagine Deniro yelling YUUUUUUUU about four octaves higher, but instead of at Billy Crystal, directed at a laptop with the ‘Stros/Rangers game on. Good, you now understand how my night went. The only knock on Darvish’s absolute
2013 Fantasy Baseball: Week 1 Tools of the Trade
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
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 2, 2013
The First Pitch We have to start today’s Fix with this video of Anthony Rizzo absolutely raping the first pitch he saw this season: Bryce Harper didn’t hit a home run on the first pitch he saw, but he did hit a home run in each of his first two
2013 Fantasy Baseball: Week 1 Waiver Wire Hunting
The end of Spring Training is a hectic time for every team. When teams finalize their rosters they have to expose some players on waivers. Every other team has to decide if their 24th and 25th guy is better than what is available on the waiver wire. In a similar