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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The New York Yankees have locked up Brett Gardner to a four year extension after the 2014 season.  The extension buys out his last two arbitration years and first two years of free agency.  The extension in total is worth $52 million over those four years.  There has been shock

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Nelson Cruz Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Nelson Cruz had been searching for a lucrative long-term deal the whole offseason, and to his dismay, was unable to find one. But on Monday the Baltimore Orioles finalized a one-year, $8 million contract with the 33-year-old slugger. What made signing Cruz such an arduous task was the fact that

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Over the next 45 days the staff here at The Fix will profile and predict the fantasy fates of prospects that could – should, in some cases – be closely monitored on the waiver wire or even in the draft room. For the projection portion of the article, we will

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2014 Fantasy BaseballChris GarosiProspects

Over the next 45 days the staff here at the Fix will profile and predict the fantasy fates of prospects that could – should, in some cases – be closely monitored on the waiver wire or even in the draft room. For the projection portion of the article, we will

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2014 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFront Office

Behind the pay wall you’ll find my projections for my top 26 third basemen. I project the five standard roto categories as well as on-base percentage and slugging percentage (along with OPS). When I’m done projecting all the positions (hopefully by the first of March), I’ll run those through the Zach

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2014 Fantasy BaseballBrett TalleyFantasy Baseball

I had planned on using a mixture of projection systems like Steamer, ZiPS, the Fan projections from Fangraphs and maybe a few other systems this year to do my projections and rankings. But I’ve recently been going through the positions and comparing Steamer’s projections to ADP, and I’ve found that

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2014 Fantasy BaseballChris GarosiFantasy Baseball

Profile Taijuan Walker was drafted in the first round (supplemental) with the 43rd pick overall out of high school in Washington state and secured an $800,000 signing bonus. The 21 year-old right-hander stands 6’ 4”, weighs 210 pounds and looks like he might fit in more as a basketball or

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2014 Fantasy Baseball

Over the next few weeks as the season – draft season, specifically – draws nearer I want to focus on players that I believe are either undervalued or overvalued in respect to their pre-draft site rankings. Julio Teheran, of the Atlanta Braves, is our first focus. Not many players have

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2014 Fantasy BaseballAndrew Miller

Second base in 2014 is a really top-heavy position with Robinson Cano, Jason Kipnis and Dustin Pedroia leading the pack. After the top four or five names there’s not much that separates the next handful of second basemen. Instead of spending a middle-round pick on a second basemen you should

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Brett TalleyFantasy Baseball

Projections for the 2014 season are already out from steamerprojections.com. After the 2012 season, Razzball did a study on the most accurate projection systems, and Steamer seemed to be one of the better systems at projecting both hitting and pitching. So I wanted to find a way to turn the Steamer projections

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