Sometimes a player’s struggles seem to come out of nowhere. Statisticians can predict a lot of things with mathematical models, but they can’t predict everything. Steve Blass was instrumental in helping the Pirates win the 1971 World Series. The very next season he couldn’t find the strike zone anymore. The

While browsing Twitter a little over a week ago, I came upon a tweet from Vicarious Sports that indicated they were looking for a fellow baseball contributor to join a fantasy baseball league in its inaugural year. After emailing Mick Wayne, the owner of the new startup website VicariousSports.com, he

After recently profiling Andrelton Simmons for fantasy relevance in 2014, I noted that he had a 12% increase in his fly ball rate from 27% to 39% as well as an outlandish 17.8% popup rate, the latter of which led the majors last year. It seemed extraordinary that a guy

If you are going to list 2012’s fantasy busts, it’s no secret that B.J. Upton is going to be at the top of the list. Through June 7th, Upton is batting just .155 with six HRs and 12 RBI. He is also three for six in stolen bases and has

“Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today. Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today. Look at me, I can be centerfield. ” — John Fogerty Outfield is the virtual wildcard for all fantasy baseball players. Just as many leagues treat them all the same as divide

Note: This article was sent to press before the Astros announced placing Justin Maxwell on the 15 DL with a broken hand. Therefore, you should choose someone else as your third outfielder. If you haven’t caught onto the daily fantasy phenomenon then make sure you jump on the bandwagon at Draftkings. Now

Welcome fantasy baseballers to the week 4 edition of 3×3, where I advise you to pick up Lorenzo Cain, tell Adam Dunn to kick rocks, and hold Austin Jackson and B.J. Upton so tight you’ll never let them go. Let’s get it on. 3 TO CUT Adam Dunn, Chicago White

Millions of people bought Moneyball and millions of others watched the movie. Many of them came away with the idea that the revolution in analytics was all about on base percentage. They were wrong. If you even generalized that to looking at offense differently you would still be wrong. The

For this purpose of this exercise, the average draft position trends reflect movement over the past two weeks, and are taken from our friends at MockDraftCentral.com. Our ADP data is courtesy of FantasyPros.com. Curtis Granderson | OF | NYY | ADP: 33 | -70% If you aren’t living in a