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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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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Draft Kings EPL Picks for Saturday, April 7
There will be eight EPL games on the Saturday, April 7, and Draft Kings is presenting contests to cover all. The standard lineup at Draft Kings consists of two forwards, …
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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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Eight First Week Names to Note (Week 1, April 2, 2018)
Oh boy! Games are here, the season is here! Stats are here! Baseball is on! And that means good fun, all around, right? Well, unless your team decided Kevin Gausman …
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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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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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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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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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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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