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Fantasy Baseball Final: May 18, 2015
View image | gettyimages.com Welcome to the TheFantasyFix.com’s nightly fantasy baseball recap, where you’ll find updates on bullpen usage, lineup construction, injuries, and transactions. Whether you play season-long or daily fantasy, expect to see the best coverage from ever team, every night, all season long. Only seven games were scheduled for
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Week 7 Two-Start Pitchers
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
2014 Fantasy Baseball: AL Breakout Starting Pitchers
Evaluating pitchers is much harder than evaluating position players. In many ways, the four main fantasy categories are completely inadequate in truly pinpointing quality in pitching. Sure, ERA and strikeouts are pretty good. WHIP is a little more elusive because of the fielding element. I think we would all agree
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Why Chris Sale Made a Change
Death, taxes, and arm injuries. They’re all that a Major League pitcher is guaranteed in life, or so it seems. We all know the laundry list of starting pitchers that went down earlier this season with arm injuries. “Arm-ageddon 2014” if you will. You won’t? Eh, too late. The eyeball
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Week Four Roundup
Welcome to the fourth edition of the weekly roundup article that will talk about some recent news related to fantasy relevant players in Major League Baseball. As each week passes, fantasy owners must evaluate their team as a whole to identify if there any weak spots that must be addressed
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Fix DL Report – Week Four
Welcome to the fourth week of the Fix DL Report. Each week I (@Rich_Migs) will cover significant fantasy baseball injuries. As the season continues, the report will address some of the most recent injuries and their fantasy implications. OUT FOR THE SEASON: Patrick Corbin, Brandon Beachy, Kris Medlen, Jarrod Parker,
2014 Total Run Index: Starting Pitchers 11-20
In the last edition of the starting pitching countdown, I introduced a term that really isn’t all that new. I simply applied an official sounding term called “substitution value.” The whole idea behind substitution value is to look at a player’s value as not an absolute value (above replacement, average,
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Early Top 20 SP Part I
Ranking the starting pitchers for 2014 was by far the hardest list I had to make. On a few of the lists – SS in particular – I had to talk myself into including someone that I might not be exuding confidence about. Starting pitching was an entirely different animal. I had
Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: April 18, 2013
Yup, I’m back for another run of the daily fix. Unlike Wednesdays, Thursdays always present a special challenge in the daily fix, but that can be to your advantage if you plan ahead. Mondays and Thursdays are typically off days in the MLB schedule. Most teams will have one or