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2017 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Chronicles – Cleveland Indians
We must be nuts to look at fielding on a fantasy site, but fielding has a bigger impact on the fantasy side of the game than we realize. First, it directly impacts the success or failure that pitchers have. Secondly, it can even impact offense in an indirect way. Successful
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Pre-Auction Tiers Shortstops
Shortstops are dominating the game today, but we don’t necessarily see that with the prices for them in current auctions. Most of you have completed your drafts and auctions by now, but that doesn’t mean that your research is done. Many of you will play daily fantasy baseball. We will
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Shortstop PECOTA Projections L-T
Shortstop is a position that has a lot of good, young players. When that happens at a position you get a lot of uncertainty as to where the position is going to go. The law of averages indicates that some will make it and some won’t. Even in that situation,
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Cleveland Indians Team Preview
Offseason Overview Everything looked so rosy when the Indians were up three games to one. Two of the next three games would be at home. They had the mojo working and everything. Sadly, their World Series title drought goes on for at least one more season. Still, they didn’t spend
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Shortstops L-V
As we saw in the last piece, the shortstop position is one of the deepest positions in the fantasy universe. Although, we saw a number of good players in the first half, but there are still some really good hitters in this piece. As we have done before, we will
Post Trade Deadline Position Rankings: Shortstops
Shortstop might be the deepest position on the infield in fantasy baseball. This is definitely unique in history as it is usually the weakest offensive position on the diamond. So, looking back at the draft may not be quite as important as there isn’t as much separation between the top
Fantasy Baseball Final: May 6th, 2016
In college baseball, they have an expression known as the “Friday night starter.” The idea is that most college teams reserve their best pitchers for the first game of the series on Friday night. On Friday night, there were a number of marquee matchups. The biggest matchup might have been
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Breakout Candidate — Ketel Marte
If there is anything all of the sports have in common, it is that they all go through periods where there is a glut of talent at one position or another. It might be quarterbacks in football, point guards in basketball, or goalies in hockey. As you might suspect, a
TheFantasyFix.com’s Fantasy Baseball Podcast, 2016 Episode 6: Chad Young, the Cleveland Indians and Ottoneu
The sixth episode of the 2016 fantasy baseball podcast season is here! Be sure to follow TheFantasyFix.com and host Alan Harrison on Twitter @TheFantasyFix. You can follow this episode’s guest, Chad Young, on Twitter @ChadYoung. Alan and Chad take an in-depth look at the Cleveland Indians starting rotation and projected lineup for
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Shortstop Projections
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