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2016 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

In the newest edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re scooping A.J. Reed, dumping Starlin Castro, and sticking with Justin Upton. Thoughts, questions, whatever… you can always find me on Twitter. 3 TO CATCH Players to be picked up; available in most standard leagues Embed from Getty Images A.J. Reed |

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2016 Fantasy Baseball

Christopher Morais A fantasy owner’s best friend is the waiver wire—where finding value can make the difference between a great week and a very disappointing one. Most pitchers see the mound once every seven days, but if you want to maximize the number of starts per week, it’s important to

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2015 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

View image | gettyimages.com A fantasy owner’s best friend is the waiver wire—where finding value can make the difference between a great week and a very disappointing week. Most pitchers see the mound once a week, but if you want to maximize the number of starts per week, it’s important

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Dumpster diving is fairly straightforward when it comes to position players, but it gets rather difficult when it comes to starting pitchers. Unfortunately, pitchers must rely on their teammates for much of their statistical outputs (cough wins cough), so instead of looking at only undrafted and unowned pitchers, we’re going

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Scott Kazmir Fantasy Baseball
2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Last week, we took a look at three tiers of starting pitchers in the National League. The primary thrust of the week was to see how the three groups were separated in terms of secondary numbers. This week, we are doing the same thing in the American League. For those

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Happy trade deadline hangover! While the waiver trade deadline is still a few weeks away, the majority of fantasy-relevant trades appear to have happened. I took a look at a few players that could have been moved and their potential value on the peaks and valleys scale. It has been

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Bud Norris has the 41st best ERA (3.39) among qualified pitchers this season. He has the 69th best WHIP (1.48). These things, as the cool kids say, do not compute. Making matters a bit murkier for Norris is an astoundingly small K% (14.9%) and K/9 rate (5.74). These are wretchedly

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Fantasy players can go blind tracking down all of the starting pitchers. I’m cutting off the mark at 60. I do this knowing full well that there are probably an additional 30 to 40 viable starting pitchers in fantasy terms. Some of them have limited numbers because of injury while

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2013 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Welcome back to 3×3, where this week, I tell you why you should trade Josh Hamilton and Fernando Rodney, pick up Brandon Moss, and join hands in a prayer for Emilio Bonifacio. 3 TO CUT Josh Hamilton, Los Angeles Angels OF Heading into Sunday’s action, Josh Hamilton had the 22nd-worst

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