Fantasy Baseball
2016 Fantasy Baseball: The Importance of Plate Discipline
Often times, comments on the site generate a topic idea. Our collective rankings on the various positions have generated a number of comments and one rater in particular has come under a lot fire. One does not necessarily have to defend their rankings in so much as articulate a point
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Prospect Profile — Nomar Mazara
Twenty-plus home run potential for a 20 year old? Nomar Mazara is smashing his way through the minor leagues and will inevitably do the same for the Texas Rangers in 2016. Profile One of the youngest ball players to be in AAA to start the season, Nomar Mazara was an international
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Early Short Stop 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
TheFantasyFix.com’s Fantasy Baseball Podcast, 2016 Episode 5: Short Stops
The fifth episode of the 2016 fantasy baseball podcast season is here! Be sure to follow TheFantasyFix.com and host Alan Harrison on Twitter @TheFantasyFix. You can follow this episode’s guest, Mick Grilli, on Twitter @MickeyGrilli. Alan and Mick discuss the site’s consensus short stop rankings, specifically, what they think of the short
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays Team Preview
2015 Quick Overview If it was power you were looking for last season, the Toronto Blue Jays didn’t fail you. The only team in baseball to possess three players with at least 39 homers last season, the Blue Jays mashed their way to the post season for the first time
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Prospect Profile — J.P. Crawford
Profile A lot of losing appears to be in the forecast for the 2016 Philadelphia Phillies, but with long periods of losing comes the infusion of youth. Both Maikel Franco and Odubel Herrera made their Major League debuts for the club in 2015 at the ages of 23 and 24 respectively,
2016 Fantasy Baseball Prospect Profile: Aaron Judge
Aaron Judge tops the New York Yankees’ farm system that has been depleted for as long as many people can remember but is finally starting to feature some of the best prospects in baseball. While fans of the team have overreacted to former top prospects (see Manny Banuelos, Joba Chamberlain,
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Chicago Cubs Team Preview
Of all the 2015 playoff teams, it’s safe to say that the Chicago Cubs made the biggest improvement to their big league club this offseason. 2015 was supposed to be a year in which the Cubs graduated their minor league talent to the majors, in which they could each get
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Boston Red Sox Team Preview
2015 Season in Review The Boston Red Sox have finished in last place in the American League East three times since the year 2012; however, the one time in the last four years that they managed to climb out of the cellar of their division, they made it all the
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Prospect Profile — Austin Meadows
Profile The Pittsburgh Pirates talented homegrown outfield may have another potential star buried in the weeds. 20 year old Austin Meadows was the Pirates’ ninth overall pick in the 2013 MLB ametur draft out of Grayson High School, and was the second player taken in the top-10 from Loganville, Georgia.
2016 Fantasy Baseball: All-Bust Team — Hitters
Finding potential sleepers and busts is an obsession for fantasy baseball fans. Sometimes you pick up the fantasy baseball magazine or click on the preseason rankings and find yourself scratching your head. Identifying potential busts (as we are doing here) depends largely on your definition of the word. For some,
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Prospect Profile — Mark Appel
There are few prospects that have been in the news as much as Mark Appel the last several years. For someone that has never pitched a big league inning, he sure gets around. First, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2012 amateur draft and declined to sign.