The non-waiver trade deadline is a little more than a week away as you are reading this. Of course, baseball fans love to hear about player movement especially when it comes to their favorite team. Fantasy players want to know how trades will affect their guys. This is what that

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE THING… On the last day before the All-Star break, Jake Arrieta, who many think should have been named to the National League All-Star team, came out of Sunday shining after the Cubs beat their cross-town rivals 3-1. Arrieta only surrendered one run over nine dominant

In the Week 8 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re giving appreciating Andre Ethier, pumping the brakes on Ian Kennedy, and wringing our hands over Matt Kemp. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players in fantasy leagues. This

View image | gettyimages.com Each and every baseball site you visit can probably provide you with a strategy to identify players to target or avoid via trade. One of my favorite pieces of data to use is the ERA-FIP statistic, provided to us by our friends at FanGraphs, which you

View image | gettyimages.com This article is also published at FantasyPros.com. Check out FantasyPros MLB Draft Simulator for help with your upcoming MLB Draft! You can follow Ryan on Twitter, @RyNoonan. In part one, I took a look at the top-40 overall from both FantasyPros and Steamer. Today I’m going to look at the players in

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

A funny thing happened on the way to looking at the AL Central pitching market. When you have hard and fast rules at who belongs in what tier, you sometimes find some tiers underrepresented. As it turned out, only one pitcher qualified as a tier one starter in the AL

In the Week 12 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re trusting Alfonso Soriano’s projection, escaping Carlos Gonzalez’ tentacles, and giving due credit to Ben Revere. There are plenty of waiver wire columns out there that provide an exhaustive list of the most added players in fantasy leagues. This isn’t one

The second tier list in the National League was a mixed bag. We saw a cross between pitchers that some people would think would be tier one guys and guys that some people thought would be tier three guys. So, going through both lists was fun just to see what

I can’t think of a single position where there has been more advancement in sabermetrics than pitching over the past decade. A scant decade ago, we were still concerning ourselves with wins, losses, WHIP, and ERA. With the exception of losses, all of them are still staples in the fantasy