Bye, Bye Buxton
It’s easy to look back and say we should have known better. Perennial breakout candidate Byron Buxton finally showed a half-season’s worth of fantasy goodness, helping many with late-season pushes …
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Twins Killing
The Minnesota Twins don’t jump off the page as an offensive juggernaut. The team is hitting at a league-average rate but sitting at 25th in the majors in scoring. A …
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Considering a Second Base Bounty
We’re just over a month into the season, and it’s clear that no matter where you drafted your starting second baseman — or the backup or waiver grab who’s starting …
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Starters Worth a Flier
It’s easy to forgive a hitter for a poor performance through 25 games of the 2018 season even though it feels like Edwin Encarnacion is going to single-handedly tank thousands …
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Set-Up Men to Add Now
It’s never too early to start looking under the hood of struggling bullpens across the league. Dominant relievers have more roto value than ever, so it’s worth rostering these guys …
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Early Season Observations
We’re only about two weeks into the MLB season, but don’t things feel just a little bit… different? Players bundled up in 32-degree weather. Rainouts, snow-outs and the occasional Friday …
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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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