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2014 Fantasy Baseball Daily Fix: May 15
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Sell High on Tulo: Troy Tulowitzki’s 2014 Fantasy Value and Legacy
One of the most fascinating players in the game of baseball today, and one that can spark one of those five beer deep bar debates that we all love to have, I give you Troy Tulowitzki of the Colorado Rockies. The shortstop, who will turn 30 this year, finds himself
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Hitter Strikeout Rate Standouts
Roughly 20 percent of the Major League Baseball regular season is in the books, which isn’t much, but it means that stats are starting to become more meaningful. A former colleague of mine, Derek Carty, discussed in length when hitter stats stabilize for Baseball Prospectus back in June of 2011.
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Stop the Madness! Ending Over-Reaction Transactions
Every year without fail, it seems as though there is a great deal of hysteria early in the fantasy baseball season that leads to mass amounts of knee jerk transactions being made. There are those owners out there that will make over-reaction transactions that make for amazing message board fodder
Total Run Index: Substitution Value– Third Basemen
Every position is different, so this is where substitution value comes into play. Talking about data distribution can bring even the most enthusiastic baseball fan to sleep. Suffice it to say, the data at third base is a lot more condensed than at other positions. This is particularly true if
2014 FSTA Experts League Draft: 1st Round Review
The fantasy baseball season has officially started. At least that is what the commercials on the Sirius XM broadcast of the 2014 FSTA Experts Draft told me. While the NFBC and even the XFL have held drafts already this season, the FSTA Experts Draft definitely gets the most run in
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Total Run Index Sneak Peeks, Centerfielders
We’ve gotten ourselves pretty deep into these sneak peeks and some people are probably coming in fresh. As they say in the radio business, you have to reset your conversation every fifteen to twenty minutes because the audience often changes. It’s hard to say how often we should do this
2014 Fantasy Baseball: Early Top 20 OF For 2014 Part I
When I began working on my outfield rankings, I decided, mainly due to boredom and my general sadness that there is no baseball at the moment, to do a top 20 instead of a top 10. I’ll be breaking them down into two posts, so this will post will only
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Total Run Series: Centerfielders
Center field is the premier position on the diamond. You think of history of baseball and its great players and center fielders usually come to mind. In the 1950s, you had Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Duke Snider all in New York. In terms of baseball history, you have the
2013 Fantasy Baseball, Daily Fix: May 29, 2013
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