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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Last Year’s Or This Year’s Bums
The ‘Last Year’s Bums’ concept has served me well over the years. Recency bias sometimes weighs recent performance disproportionately, especially if we know of certain circumstances that contributed to the …
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Domingo Santana Might Not Find a Starting Job, But We Found His Biggest Fan
I don’t like commenting on other teams’ picks, but I’ll make this one exception. Saturday night it was raining in Southern California (don’t tell Albert Hammond), so I decided to …
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On Death and (Somebody Else) Dying
NOTE: Steve Moyer’s friends in the fantasy and baseball industries have begun a GoFundMe to help support his daughters, Harmony and Mary, who face college and adulthood without their pop. …
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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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National League LABR Draft Recap
I wish that I did not have to write this, but a pall was cast over the LABR (League of Alternative Baseball Reality) proceedings in Phoenix this past weekend due …
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Where the Mock am I?
It is getting to be crunch time. Later today I get to participate in the League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR), and The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational is currently ripping …
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Inside Injuries: 10 Pitchers to Avoid in Fantasy Baseball Drafts
With many players returning from offseason surgeries and injuries they have picked up in recent months, here are 10 pitchers to avoid in fantasy drafts this year. Some aren’t worth …
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ADP: A Deceptive Process
I admit it. I watch. I sneak a peek. I check it out. I’m not embarrassed about it at all. It’s a guilty pleasure. I also know, however, that it’s …
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Has Marwin Gonzalez Changed Everything?
In 2017, Houston’s Marwin Gonzalez played the following games at these positions: 1B-31 2B-22 3B-19 SS-38 OF-48 In the process, Gonzalez hit .303-23-90 with eight swipes over 455 at-bats and …
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Inside Injuries Looks at MLB Players Recovering from Offseason Surgeries- Pitchers Edition
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 …
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