The road to saves is paved with good intentions
The road to hell is not the only thing that’s paved with good intentions. The road to saves in fantasy baseball is also paved with good intentions. Based on my …
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Nearing the halfway point… now what?
It’s hard to believe it, but we are almost halfway through the 2024 major league baseball season. Time flies when you’re having fun. However, I understand that the majority of …
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Where Were They Then?
There is a wealth of excellent in-depth prospect coverage today with many terrific resources for dynasty and keeper managers to uncover new talent. However good the coverage, I find the …
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Optimizing Your Reserve List
There are several purposes for acquiring a player from the waiver wire via FAAB. One is to roster a player with upside and staying power – a player who could …
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Closer SOS: Save Our Season
With Memorial Day looming ahead on the calendar, a check of the 2024 MLB saves leaders holds more than a few surprises for fantasy baseball managers. Emmanuel Clase, Ryan Helsley, …
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Bat Speed: A Preliminary Review
There has been a lot of digital ink spilled on the utility of Baseball Savant’s recently released bat tracking technology. Intuitively, there would seem to be a tight correlation between …
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Evaluating Quality of Offense
Last week, I made the ill-fated choice to bench Seth Lugo at Toronto based on my impression the Blue Jays lineup was a strong, albeit underperforming unit. Upon digging into …
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Salvaging Your Fantasy Team
If you are an automobile hobbyist, or just enjoy working on your car, you know about parts cars. For the rest of you, a parts car can be defined as …
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Looking at “Weather” Location Matters
Fantasy baseball players have a better understanding of advanced stats, granular data, and splits than ever before. Along these lines, most know that offense peaks in the summer months. Take …
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What you need to know about in-season management
In my April 2 column, I told you the amount of time you spent in in-season management of your fantasy baseball teams will show up in the standings. Today, I …
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Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
“Bodies,” the Drowning Pool song, is playing in the background as I write this column. Pitchers are dropping like flies. Injuries are a normal part of baseball, but not like …
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Diving Into Reliever Wins
A much-discussed topic within fantasy baseball is the increasing share of wins by relief pitching. In the chart below, you can see relievers won about 100 more games in 2023 …
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