Baseball fans turned their attention towards the annual amateur draft last night. MLB has been doing a better job of advertising and promoting the draft in recent seasons. The MLB Network has televised the first round of the draft over the past several seasons and casual fans are beginning to

Major League Baseball players ranked according to their Taco Bell menu equivalent in 3, 2, 1… Just because I have a player listed above another player in the same tier doesn’t mean I rank that player higher than the player below him. The reason for using tiers is because the

The Marlins suffer from baseball’s version of bulimia. Jeffrey Loria may be the most hated man in baseball because he can’t seem to commit to funding his team on a consistent basis. 2016 would appear to be in the binging cycle. They added Wei-Yen Chen and Edwin Jackson in free

There are many ways to rank players. I don’t claim to have a monopoly on the truth, but I hope my methods balance analytics with common sense. The analytics part is probably the most involved. We take runs above replacement from the past three seasons according to three different sources

Prior to this year, the Marlins organization had been notoriously known throughout Major League Baseball as one not to shy away from a “fire-sale.” They took this approach in both years following their World Series Championships in 1997 and 2003, and they also cleaned house when their experiment with Ozzie Guillen, Jose

Christian Yelich has been a much better player for the Miami Marlins in his three seasons in the Majors than he has for fantasy owners. Yelich has put up 7.9 fWAR in just over two full-seasons’ worth of games (332). His wRC+ in each season? 117. His wOBA? .341, .341,

As we move to the outfield portion of our “Where are they now?” series, we find a position where most of the disappointments have done so for the most basic of reasons: they’ve been hurt. In many ways, this makes the analysis a lot easier. All you have to do

View image | gettyimages.com The outfield is an interesting thing when it comes to fantasy baseball. Some leagues consider outfielders generically while others have specific positions. Some have only three starting outfield slots while others have five. Even if we agree on the rules, what one person would consider a

View image | gettyimages.com Why should you read this article? That’s the question everyone is asking themselves at this point. When you can get hard hitting offensive analysis all over the internet, why would you pay attention to fielding for your fantasy team? The simple answer is that you can’t

View image | gettyimages.com As we continue with our plate discipline series we find ourselves moving to the outfield. Breaking down where everyone belongs is hard enough. Some players have traditionally played certain spots in the outfield and have changed positions recently. For outfielders, we will look at what position