Baseball is a unique game because there is no clock. You cannot go into the victory formation, four corners, or whatever they do in hockey. You have to get 27 outs to win and in the Oakland/Houston game both teams had difficulty getting to 27 outs. Will Harris (selected to

The team at TheFantasyFix.com collaborated their efforts to rank short stops for the 2016 fantasy baseball season. Below you will see each writer’s ranks. Alan and Mick also discussed the rankings on a recent podcast that you can find here. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave

I will be the first to admit that grading out relievers is not my forte. Unfortunately, there is a huge disconnect between traditional baseball value and fantasy value. Fantasy value is dependent upon saves (and holds to a lesser extent). Saves and holds are essentially opportunity statistics. They have something

If you read only one thing….. It is Memorial Day. For most prognosticators, Memorial Day is the time when early trends start to look real. We can finally take stock of where things are going. If we look at the standings we’ll notice that just about every division has the

Offseason Overview The St. Louis Cardinals made the NLCS for the fourth straight season in 2014, but for the third year in a row the Cards ended their season by losing three consecutive playoff games. If failing to reach the World Series wasn’t heartbreaking enough for the team, just over

Well, I am back!!! I am finally out of college, having graduated in late April. Since then, I have been gathering lots of data from Brooks Baseball, and beyond, as I look to figure out what players are doing so far this season. There are lots of interesting stats from

After a breathtaking 2013 season which resulted in him taking home the National League Rookie of the Year award, expectations were sky-high for Jose Fernandez coming into his sophomore season. Fernandez had been his usual dominant self in his first eight starts with the Miami Marlins so far this season,

Welcome back to The Fantasy Fix’s Closer Report for Week 3. We continue to see closers drop like flies and the unsettled nature of bullpens all around the league has fantasy owners wanting to dump the saves category completely. Let’s take a look at what has changed in the last

While browsing Twitter a little over a week ago, I came upon a tweet from Vicarious Sports that indicated they were looking for a fellow baseball contributor to join a fantasy baseball league in its inaugural year. After emailing Mick Wayne, the owner of the new startup website VicariousSports.com, he

There gets to be a point where total run index becomes more or less ineffective. That point hits squarely when we are talking about relief pitchers. Relief pitchers offer one or two categories (depending on your league) in spades and these categories have little to do directly with TRI. So,