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Post Trade Deadline Position Rankings: Right Field
We come to the end of another series as we look at the top twelve fantasy right fielders in the game right now. Of course, many of you might bristle at some of the rankings along the way, but the point has been to demonstrate the number of surprising performances
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Right Field Projections
There are many ways to rank players. I don’t claim to have a monopoly on the truth, but I hope my methods balance analytics with common sense. The analytics part is probably the most involved. We take runs above replacement from the past three seasons according to three different sources
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Seattle Mariners Team Preview
2015 QUICK OVERVIEW The Mariners finished 76-86 on the 2015 season. A number of pundits had them picked as the front runner to win the 2015 AL West championship after signing slugger Nelson Cruz to join Robinson Cano in the everyday lineup. Unfortunately, the supporting cast let those guys down and
Fantasy Baseball Final: September 10, 2015
Welcome to the TheFantasyFix.com’s nightly fantasy baseball recap, where you’ll find updates on bullpen usage, lineup construction, injuries, and transactions. No matter the format, we have everything you need to know to help you win your league. Seattle has been playing pretty decent ball lately, and were able to manage
2015 Fantasy Baseball: The AL MVP Race
As we saw in our last edition, the fantasy baseball regular seaaon is coming to a close for most players, so it is actually a good time to take a look at MVP races. At the time of this writing, there are only four weeks of baseball left, so most
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Real Offensive Value — Right Fielders
View image | gettyimages.com It shouldn’t be any surprise that right field is the premier fantasy position according to real offensive value (ROV). After all, we’ve done other profiles of the positions in the past and right field usually comes out on top. Any good metric is going to reveal
2015 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Chronicles — Right Fielders
View image | gettyimages.com Why should I read this article? We’ve come to the end of the fielding chronicles. I hope you’ve at least gotten some solid information out of them. If you are joining us for the first time, I’d point to the same thing that I’ve pointed to
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Plate Discipline — Right Fielders
View image | gettyimages.com We’ve come to the end of our plate discipline series. Usually, when these things happen we want to pause for a moment and take a look at all the ground we’ve covered. So, to start we will look at each position as a whole to see
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Right Field VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com This marks the end of the VORP revisited series. With the end comes this one piece of advice: it is dangerous to use any one piece of information exclusively during your draft. Statistics are tools. If you follow them down the rabbit hole, you usually wind
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Left Field VORP Revisited
View image | gettyimages.com As you might imagine, outfield is one of the deepest positions in any fantasy draft. The trouble is that different leagues treat outfielders differently. Some of them consider them collectively while others break them down by their individual positions. Here we will break them down by