Second-Tier Starters Off to Fast Starts
I targeted a number of starters over the second and third tiers this year, and the early results have been pretty, pretty good. In some drafts I did grab one true …
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Draft Season Regrets
Major League Baseball’s first weekend brings with it so many obvious outcomes we all should have seen coming: Giancarlo Stanton mashing as a Yankee, a healthy Xander Bogaerts doing his …
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Boring Vets Are Here to Help
Projection systems have a hard time with young players because computers can’t extrapolate 300 plate appearances into a full year’s worth of statistics with much confidence. Too many variables; too …
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Steals in the Outfield
This week’s advice is based on a couple of separate problems I was having early in draft season: losing track of steals and waiting too long to fill outfield slots. …
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Around the Diamond in the Late Rounds
There was some serious sniping going on in draft room #13 of The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational (full results here). The worst for me was when all three of my outfield …
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Buy! Buy! Buy!: Five Takeaways From an NL-Only Auction
This week, the CBS NL-only analysts league honed in on the current National League landscape. (Find the full results here.) My plan was to spend big on Trea Turner — an …
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What’s Not to Like About Kenta Maeda?
Ranking starting pitchers by K-BB% — strikeout rate minus walk rate — is a good way to mine for overlooked and undervalued arms. It makes sense that this stat is …
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The Case for Cheap Batting Champs
Last season’s barrage of home runs is reshaping the way we approach our drafts this year. Power is available up and down the draft board, and it’s going to take …
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Five wOBA Outliers
This week I looked for players who are capable of vastly outperforming their current ADPs based off one particular metric: weighted on-base percentage. The point is to compare the draft-day …
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Early Takeaways From an Early Mock
On Tuesday CBS’s Scott White organized the first of what will be weekly industry mock drafts leading up to MLB’s regular season. Tim McLeod spent literally all of five seconds choosing …
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Waiting on Starters in a Bullpen-Friendly World
Starting pitchers are getting the hook quicker than ever these days as teams invest more heavily in bullpens, while managers increasingly use specialists and high-strikeout relievers early in games. Last …
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