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2015 Fantasy Baseball: Expert Rankings vs. Steamer Projections, Part II
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
2014 Fantasy Baseball Rankings Revisited: Jean Segura and Carlos Gomez Discussed
Major League Baseball’s 2014 regular season is in the books, so it’s time to look back towards Spring Training and reflect upon my preseason fantasy baseball rankings. Many players fell off due to season-ending injuries at some point during the season, unfortunately, but the six below I simply “hit” or
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Breakthrough Players — Right Fielders
We finally reach the conclusion of the position player portion of our breakthrough series. It’s always nice to get all the way through one of these series. Right field might be the most competitive of all of the positions. However, we see a similar situation as center field in terms
2014 Fantasy Baseball: The Worm-Burner All Stars
If you play the humbling, ego-repressing game that is golf, then you’ve been there. I’m a Noonan, so obviously it’s required by law/Caddyshack that I play. Picture it; it’s a busy early morning on the links, and you’re ready to go. You’ve got a new sleeve of balls, a few frosty cold
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Week Six Roundup
One of the great things about watching baseball is that you never know what you are going to see in a particular game. The uncertainty is what keeps us intrigued over a marathon of a season that consists of 162 games. Any avid sports fan will tell you that if
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Break the Streak
It has been 15 or so years since I paid attention to the sports wrestling entertainment industry. But thanks to the Twitter Universe, I learned that the Undertaker’s streak at Wrestlemania has ended. It spanned 20-plus years and saw him rack up 21 victories. Granted, we are talking about orchestrated
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Is Jay Bruce Getting Worse?
Since his rookie season, echoes of Jay Bruce’s big potential breakout ring in your ears. The youth. The upside. The dingers. Each thought gets louder with every passing second on draft day. Three, Two, One…it begins. You ponder with an uneasy exhale and your draft rituals begin as the heart
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Trying to Justify Jacoby’s ADP
There’s something about Jacoby Ellsbury and his ADP value that just doesn’t sit well with me this year. We are talking about the #11 overall player being selected in fantasy drafts at the moment, right after Ryan Braun and before Bryce Harper, Yasiel Puig, Carlos Gomez, Giancarlo Stanton, and Jay
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Total Run Index – ADP vs. TRI Right Field
The best position is in the eye of the beholder, but there is no deeper position than right field. According to TRI, there are sixteenright fielders with TRI scores above ten (including one not in the top 20 in ADP). So, that could end up affecting your decision on draft
2014 Fantasy Baseball, Total Run Index Sneak Peeks: Right Field
“Cause I’m here in right field just watching the dandelions grow.” — Peter, Paul, and Mary Right field is an afterthought at almost every level of baseball competition. Of course, when one gets to college and the minor leagues, that whole philosophy gets thrown on its ear. Right fielders are