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2017 Fantasy Baseball: Chicago Cubs Team Preview
Offseason Overview They say it’s lonely at the top, but the difference between the Cubs and other past champions is that they legitimately were the best team in baseball. Usually, that’s debatable, but the Cubs led the majors in runs scored and runs allowed. They were the only 100+ game
2017 Fantasy Baseball: NL Starting Pitchers A-K
Ranking pitchers is easily the most difficult position to rank on the diamond. A large part of the problem is that so much of a pitcher’s performance is dependent on his teammates. Wins alone are the most misleading statistic in all of baseball. So, this is one of those areas
Handicapping the NL Cy Young Award Race
Pitching in the National League normally looks a little better than it does in the American League. Replacing the pitcher with someone like David Ortiz will tend to do that league wide. That being said, the candidates in the National League are noticeably better than in the American League. The
Fantasy Baseball Final: August 12, 2016
Friday night was a historic night in baseball. Alex Rodriguez’s Yankee career has come to an end. ARod has been a force in the game like no other since he came up back in 1994. Of course, no player has been more hated in quite some time and most of
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Week 16 Two-Start Pitchers
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
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Week 13 Two-Start Pitchers
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
Fantasy Baseball Final: June 17, 2016
Break up the Blue Jays. It isn’t the fact that they’ve won a lot recently, but they’ve been destroying people. Michael Saunders had the most fun on this night as he slugged three home runs and drove in eight runs. Needless to say, anyone that had him of their DFS
Fantasy Baseball Final: June 9, 2016
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
Fantasy baseball Final: June 5th, 2016
A majority of the teams playing in the east today held their breath for flurries of rain, and although a pair of games saw delays in the latter innings, there was still a healthy dose of great baseball on this first Sunday in June. Six of this afternoon’s games were
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Week Nine Two-Start Pitchers
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