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 …
Second-Tier Starters Off to Fast Starts Read More
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 …
Draft Season Regrets Read More
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 …
Boring Vets Are Here to Help Read More
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. …
Steals in the Outfield Read More
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 …
Around the Diamond in the Late Rounds Read More
I’ve spent the past few days prepping for The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, a collection of 15-team roto leagues organized by Justin Mason of Friends with Fantasy Benefits. For those …
Power Up! Read More
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 …
Buy! Buy! Buy!: Five Takeaways From an NL-Only Auction Read More
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 …
What’s Not to Like About Kenta Maeda? Read More
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 …
The Case for Cheap Batting Champs Read More
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 …
Five wOBA Outliers Read More
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 …
Early Takeaways From an Early Mock Read More
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 …
Waiting on Starters in a Bullpen-Friendly World Read More