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2017 Fantasy Baseball: 3 to Add, 3 to Keep, 3 to Drop– Third Basemen
The new disabled list rules are wreaking havoc on fantasy teams. It’s one of those unintended consequences of what is likely a positive overall. Teams are less likely to allow an injured player to fester on the bench until he is healthy. Instead you get a healthy body so you
2017 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Chronicles– Oakland Athletics
The Moneyball movie renewed some interest in Billy Beane and the Athletics. The movie caused some cognitive dissonance due to the dated material in the book. They seemed to eschew fielding and therefore some fans were confused. The truth is that the A’s (along with other teams) have altered their
2017 Fantasy Baseball: AL West Lineup Grades
We reach the end of the line for the AL lineup grades. Grading out lineups in January is often challenging because it is a lot like nailing jello on the wall. There aren’t a lot of major changes that happen at this point in the offseason, but the competitive balance
2017 Fantasy Baseball: Third Basemen L-T
We continue our trip through the third basemen as we get to the second half of the alphabet. This list may not have the heavy hitters on top of the rankings, but there are some good players on this list. Some of them have come out of nowhere it seems
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Waiver Wire Series — Third Base Edition
When you get through the first month of the season you usually get to the point where you are ready to cut the cord on some underperforming veterans. At third base, Kyle Seager owners just aren’t as proud as they used to be. Granted, the power numbers are there, but
Fantasy Baseball Final: April 16th, 2016
A stacked slate of 15 ballgames made up this second Saturday of the 2016 Major League Baseball season as action got underway around the one o’clock hour. After going winless throughout the majority of the first two weeks of the season, both the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves got off
2016 Fantasy Baseball: Third Base 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
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Real Offensive Value — Third Basemen
View image | gettyimages.com Moving to third base from second, we see a return to normalcy in terms of offensive production. Mind you, the days are gone when every team seemingly had a superstar at every position. Fantasy players have to be more discriminating than they used to be, but
2015 Fantasy Baseball: The Fielding Chronicles — Third Basemen
View image | gettyimages.com Why should I read this article? With all of the great coverage on our site and throughout the internet, why should you bother yourself with this fielding mumbo-jumbo? I am not aware of any fantasy league that includes fielding numbers (although that would be interesting). However,
2015 Fantasy Baseball: Plate Discipline — Third Basemen
View image | gettyimages.com We move forward with another edition of the plate discipline series. As we gain some steam we begin to see some patterns across positions. Obviously, we are concerned about individual players, but sometimes it makes sense to look at the aggregate. In this case, it might