Fantasy Baseball
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Baltimore Orioles Sign Pedro Alvarez
The top 50 free agents from the 2015-16 offseason are all officially off the board. The Baltimore Orioles continued their late spending spree when they signed Pedro Alvarez to a one year, 5.5 million dollar deal late Monday night. The deal officially closes the book on the offseason and gives
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Breakout Candidate — Hanley Ramirez
The Red Sox have been baseball’s yo-yo for the past several seasons. They won 78 games a year ago, 71 games in 2014, but won the World Series back in 2013. You can’t help but notice that a number of their players have experienced the same ups and downs. Fantasy
2016 Fantasy Baseball: New York Yankees Team Preview
Team Overview The New York Yankees had a somewhat uncharacteristically quiet offseason, especially from the free agent standpoint, where they didn’t sign a single player to a major league contract the entire offseason. The one contract they had struck with pitcher Tommy Hunter fell through due to his medical records,
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Baltimore Orioles Team Preview
From a fantasy perspective, the Orioles are an exciting bunch. They feature plenty of fantasy options in the lineup and one of the game’s top fantasy closers. The rotation leaves a bit to be desired as it has for the past few years, but let’s delve into the Orioles starting
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Breakout Candidate — Jonathan Schoop
Baseball fans from the distant past brought a different kind of hope to Spring Training. With the rapid increase of free agency and international scouting, teams have a great deal more upward mobility than they used to. Sign a few key free agents and your team suddenly could vault themselves
TheFantasyFix.com’s Fantasy Baseball Podcast, 2016 Episode 11: Brett Talley & Starting Pitchers
Brett Talley of TheFantasyFix.com joins Alan Harrison on episode 11 to discuss the site’s starting pitcher rankings and draft/auction strategy. The guys share some thoughts on the chalk arms like Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole and Zack Greinke then venture off to discuss the likes of Jeff Samardzija, Masahiro Tanaka and Shelby Miller.
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Early Starting Pitcher Rankings
The team at TheFantasyFix.com collaborated their efforts to rank short stops for the 2016 fantasy baseball season. Below you will see each writer’s ranks. Alan and Mick also discussed the rankings on a recent podcast that you can find here. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Breakout Candidate — Ender Inciarte
Hope springs eternal for most baseball fans. March is the time of year when most fans can picture their team making it all the way to October. Fewer fans may be able to picture their team hoisting up the trophy, but you can’t get there if you can’t get to
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Undervalued Top 80 Outfielders
To see the intro to this series check out five undervalued outfielders in the top 40 Dexter Fowler – Fantasy Pros Rank: 43 – My Rank: 37 I’ve always been a fan of Fowler, so of course I’m going to be higher on him than average after his best season
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Chicago White Sox Sign Austin Jackson
The final big free agent position player came off the board on Sunday when the Chicago White Sox signed Austin Jackson to a one year, five million dollar contract. The signing completed a saga that lasted the entire offseason and well into Spring Training. Like with the other holdouts (Ian
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Undervalued Top 40 Outfielders
The great folks at Fantasy Pros gather many fantasy analysts’ rankings and put them together to make a nice little cheat sheet for us to use. This helps eliminate crazy default rankings at one of the main fantasy sites and gives you a little clearer picture of where players are
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Plate Discipline — Outfielders
For those that watch baseball religiously, a lot has been made of the so-called five tools that scouts look to when evaluating players. While fielding and throwing are important, they typically don’t matter to fantasy players. Most fantasy players focus on the other three tools: hitting, hitting for power, and