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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Moving On Up: Catchers No Longer Automatic End Game Selections
Clearly, Taylor Swift doesn’t play fantasy baseball. Her most recent song, End Game, goes like this, “I wanna be your end game; I wanna be your first string, I wanna …
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Inside Injuries Looks at MLB Players Recovering from Offseason Surgeries- Field players
As the fantasy baseball draft season commences, we are here to provide an early look at guys coming back from season-ending injuries and offseason surgeries. Most of them are still …
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Eight Late NFBC Draft Champions Picks (After 600)
If you are playing in a deep ultra league, or some fun crazy format that allows for a fantasy baseball roster and bench the size of the Donner Party before …
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Drafting to Differ – FSTA vs. Mixed LABR
When reviewing draft results in preparation for my own upcoming strategy battles, differences in opinion interest me a lot more than unanimous agreement. OK, Clayton Kershaw will be a top-10 …
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Mock Becomes Best Ball Becomes Real
I do a lot of mocks and, invariably, someone among the group will say, “let’s play this out” — words that make most of us in the industry shudder. Not …
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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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NFBC Main Event Tips
The NFBC 15-Team Main Event kicks off in about four and a half weeks. Which makes this a good time to review some general guidelines that have served me well …
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Fantasy Impacted by MLB’s Free Agent Slowdown, Too
For those wonks like me who think too much about fantasy rules, this has been the most interesting off-season in years — and it is about to go completely haywire …
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Kenley Jansen: Fantasy Gamechanger
With the eighth pick of the third round of the NFBC Main Event, I select … Kenley Jansen, relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A relief pitcher in the …
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Eight FSTA Reserve Leftovers
The Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s (FSTA) baseball experts draft has concluded — at least through six reserve rounds — for now. That means among the 14 teams, 406 players were …
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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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