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Using ERA-FIP To Identify Starting Pitchers to Target or Trade: June 30th Update
In this piece, I’ll be updating one of my favorite strategies to identify starting pitchers to target via trade for fantasy baseball players in 2016. Each and every baseball site you visit can probably provide you with a strategy to identify players to target via trade. One of my favorite
Fantasy Baseball Final: May 9th, 2016
Christopher Morais Welcome to The Fantasy Fix’s nightly fantasy baseball recap, where you’ll find updates on bullpen usage, lineup construction, injuries, and transactions. Whether you play season-long or daily fantasy, expect to see the best coverage from every team, every night, all season long. Thirteen games were scheduled for tonight,
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Houston Astros Team Preview
2015 Quick Overview The Astros finished 86-76 on the 2015 season. That marked a 16-game improvement from the previous season and a 35-game improvement over a two year period. Most interested observers believed 2016 would be the season where they would burst onto the playoff scene, but it came a
Fantasy Baseball Final: September 18th, 2015
July trades are catch as catch can. There is no rhyme or reason to whether or not they work out or not. This is particularly true with rentals. The Nationals and Mets both brought in high profile rentals at the deadline. The Mets brought in Yoenis Cespedes while the Nationals
Fantasy Baseball Final: August 21st, 2015
There was a very interesting article about the dip in offensive statistics. In particular, walks are down considerably this year as compared to recent years and certainly since the last decade when offense was at its peak. Billy Beane cited capitalism but that’s just a fancy way of saying the
Milwaukee Brewers trade Carlos Gomez and Mike Fiers to Houston
Another hour and another big time trade came down. Imagine that we still have another day of this. This time, the Milwaukee Brewers traded starting pitcher Mike Fiers and center fielder Carlos Gomez to the Houston Astros in exchange for four prospects. This was less than 24 hours after a
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Starting Pitcher Market — Part Two
In the first part of our look at the starting pitcher market, we looked at the top eight names that have been bandied about by MLBTR as possible trade targets by next Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline. There are other arms available, and they are the kind to fly under the
Fantasy Baseball Final: June 1, 2015
View image | gettyimages.com Welcome to the The Fantasy Fix nightly fantasy baseball recap, where you’ll find updates on bullpen usage, lineup construction, injuries, and transactions. Whether you play season-long or daily fantasy, expect to see thebest coverage from every team, every night, all season long 11 games were on
2015 Fantasy Baseball Week 3 Waiver Wire: 3 to Catch, 3 to Cut, 3 to Keep
In the Week 3 edition of fantasy baseball 3×3, we’re circling Archie Bradley, doubting Kendrys Morales, and keeping faith in, ahem, Alex Rodriguez. 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 of them.
Fantasy Baseball Week 2 Waiver Wire: 3 to Cut, 3 to Catch, 3 to Keep
3×3 is back, and this time we’ve got something even better than Spring Training stats: opening week stats! One quick note: Since I’m only discussing nine players per week, I’m going to try as much as possible not to repeat myself. Please check out last week’s list for your Jackie