John Jaso
Underrated Athletics
A majority of the fantasy coverage on the main sites (ESPN, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs) centers around players that are relevant in mixed leagues. When an injury occurs, a players replacement is deemed mixed league worthy, or not. However, guys who get around 350 plate appearances each year, platoon players, are
The Absentee Drafter: Dealing with Being Auto-Drafted
I had one of those situations come up this weekend that is a nightmare for all fantasy baseball players: I had double booked myself. Of course, this was not intentional. I play in a league of players from a fan site I have been a part of for over a
The Platoon Advantage: Catcher Edition
Leave it to our readers to give us the best article ideas. Someone read my article on the platoon advantage and reached out to me via Twitter. He asked if I had a listing of which players had the biggest splits. Of course, I didn’t because I hadn’t bothered with
Total Run Index: Catchers
If you read the introductory article on total run index then you know what this is all about. If you have not read that article, it might be helpful to you to understand a little about what is going on. What follows is a table showing the TRI scores for the
Catcher Sleepers and Sliders
The key to winning in fantasy baseball is the same as in real baseball. The key is to find value where others do not. In the fantasy world we call these players “sleepers.” Of course, in real baseball they use more sophisticated statistics every year. Those same statistics can sometimes