Early Season Patience
The MLB season is two-plus weeks old with another 24 weeks to go, the proverbial marathon. Despite this, fantasy players seem to be sprinting out of the gate. You don’t …
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Starting Pitcher Watch List: Eflin, Alcantara, Chirinos
Starting pitching was a priority for most fantasy drafters this spring. With so few 200-inning, 200 strikeout guys left in today’s game, we looked to anchor our staffs with at …
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Pine Tar Posts: Roto, Musial, Preseason Summary, Rule Changes
Pine Tar Posts is a new bi-monthly column that will hopefully provide entertaining and informative fantasy baseball material while sprinkling in some real baseball news, trivia, antidotes, etc. Any comments …
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Elaine’s DraftKings DFS EPL Picks for March 30, 2019
DraftKings has six games on the slate for March 30, 2019. Four of the top five players have a “Q” by their name. Man Utd are favorites Saturday at Old …
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Fantasy Portfolio: Give Me All the Elvis Andrus
With four mixed leagues and one of two NL-only auctions in the books, it’s time to take a look around the rosters to see who will ultimately determine my fantasy …
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Five Stud Outfielders Outside the Top 30
At least until Mike Trout signed his record-breaking extension, Bryce Harper stole the baseball headlines. If you are one of the unlucky points-league fantasy managers without a chance to draft …
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NFBC Main Event: What Really Happened
Ray Flowers misled me. OK, Ray Flowers and I never had a conversation prior to the NFBC Main Event draft this past Saturday. Yet, I felt a bit cheated as …
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What (Draft) Dreams May Come
This is a two-part column, kind of like the before and after of my NFBC Main Event draft. This piece, as you’ll see, is the “before” version. I am penning …
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Digging Deep: Woodruff & Burnes
In my constant quest to find value in the later rounds, it is generally easier to identify hitters who can give you a boost in a category or two than …
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Elaine’s DraftKings DFS EPL Picks for March 16, 2019
DraftKings only has three games on Saturday, March 16 — not a busy slate for St. Patrick’s Day weekend. How are you prepping? Irish Coffee? A nice stout? Irish Car …
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Digging Deep: Ryan O’Hearn and Ji-Man Choi
You don’t win your fantasy league in the first couple of rounds of a draft, even though injuries and under-performance by those early picks can certainly take you out of …
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Realmuto and Sanchez, Part Deux
I wrote a column last week about the value of drafting a catcher early in a two-catcher league, and since then I’ve received a number of emails (apparently, you are …
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