It should be noted in this series that players are listed at their primary position. Sometimes that can get hairy because a number of players have multiple position flexibility. That has a dramatic impact on their draft stock and that isn’t necessarily reflected in the positional rankings. Third base and

As an admitted Houston Astros fan I want to give my full-throated congratulations to the Washington Nationals and their fans. Their team deserved that victory after knocking off two juggernaughts in the Dodgers and Astros. Their hitters came up big when they needed to and their pitchers kept a number

The common thread running through this series is that only fools run with their roster and never make changes from day one. The winners in fantasy baseball are never the ones who win the draft. That’s like winning the Winter Meetings for real baseball clubs. The winners are the ones

Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA projections always come at a time of year where it is a good idea to reboot the rankings. The first round of rankings are based largely on past performance in the various formats. Past performance can be valuable, but sometimes it is inappropriate for the future. So,

The crop of second basemen coming up through the ranks is a potentially exciting group. It’s hard ranking young players when they first come up. You don’t want to use their pure numbers because they will almost always come up on the short end of the stick. Yet, you don’t

Welcome to deadline day. There are days that should be national holidays, but sadly aren’t. Opening day is one of those days and deadline day is also one of those days. However, we take a break from the craziness that is the deadline to look at third basemen. Ironically, the

OFFSEASON OVERVIEW Major League Baseball’s two franchises located in city of Chicago are moving in drastically different directions. The team on Chicago’s north side, the Cubs, are reigning World Series Champions and have built an absolute juggernaut for years to come with their collection of young talent. The White Sox,

Tuesday was moving day for the Boston Red Sox. They began the day by acquiring reliever Tyler Thornburg from the Milwaukee Brewers for Travis Shaw, Mauricio Dubon, and Josh Pennington. Then, they pulled off the blockbuster of the offseason when they traded Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander, and Victor

Third base is a loaded position in fantasy baseball, so it would make perfect sense than the knocking on the door series would be loaded as well. At least one of them would have rated as a top 24 third baseman based on the numbers from last year alone. However,