Brandon Phillips
2014 Fantasy Baseball Week 6 Waiver Wire: 3 to Catch, 3 to Cut, 3 to Keep
In the Week 6 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re basking in the glow of Yordano Ventura, tuning out Brandon Phillips, and allowing George Springer to get a bit more seasoning. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Break the Streak
It has been 15 or so years since I paid attention to the sports wrestling entertainment industry. But thanks to the Twitter Universe, I learned that the Undertaker’s streak at Wrestlemania has ended. It spanned 20-plus years and saw him rack up 21 victories. Granted, we are talking about orchestrated
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Total Run Index – TRI vs. ADP Second Base
A wise man once said that you should always go with the devil you know over the devil you don’t know. Apparently, the early drafters in fantasy baseball don’t agree at the second base position. We can see two players that have virtually no experience at the big league level
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Total Run Series: Second Basemen
Second base has been one of the more interesting positions in fantasy baseball this season. Seven players in the current top twenty were drafted in the top 100 selections. None of them registered as the number one second baseman to this point of the season. Developments like this are interesting
A Look Back at the 2013 Draft: NL Second Basemen
Fantasy baseball and real baseball often coincide, but there are times like this when we are painfully reminded that what makes a good fantasy player doesn’t necessarily make a good player overall. The difficulty is that teams often get confused as well. The difference between conventional numbers and the more
Rotters and Sleepers: Second Base
We’ve only been making Scott Barzilla’s Total Run Index articles available to our premium subscibers, those who have the Front Office package. But we wanted to give everyone else a peek at Scott’s work. Check it out! And sign up for the Front Office package here. One of the things
The Platoon Advantage: Second Basemen
Second base provides its own unique opportunities for a platoon advantage. If you have been following the series you know we have a few rules of thumb that guide us throughout the draft process. If we can provide balanced good production then we avoid the platoon if we possibly can.
Total Run Index: Second Basemen
As we talked about before with first basemen, there are two primary strategies when it comes to fantasy baseball. You can take the best overall player regardless of position or you can take players based on how they compare to the others at their position. Let’s take second base as