Forget Your Draft — Start Managing
Our drafts are just a small fraction of the fantasy season. The draft is our base, but our fantasy fortune doesn’t rely entirely on our picks. We can’t win without …
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Yonny Chirinos Is Here to Help
The Tampa Bay pitching staff caught its share of hype this preseason, and most Rays arms are long gone in deeper leagues. Aside from Blake Snell’s bathroom mishap, there’s really …
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Pine Tar Posts: Anderson, Andrus, Swanson, Semien, DeJong and More Shortstop Depth
One could certainly argue that shortstop was the strongest position in the 2019 fantasy drafts, but if early results are any indication, the position is even stronger than expected. Looking …
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Monitoring the Early-Season Waiver Wire
Last week I advised early season patience, but we cannot sit on our hands and do nothing while our waiver wires are churned by our competitors, can we? Ideally, we …
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Waiver Wire Report: Franimal, Urias, Fried and More
Who should I add? Who should I drop? Both are questions fantasy baseball mangers are struggling to answer when evaluating their teams three weeks into the fantasy baseball season. Some …
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Early Season Patience
The MLB season is two-plus weeks old with another 24 weeks to go, the proverbial marathon. Despite this, fantasy players seem to be sprinting out of the gate. You don’t …
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Starting Pitcher Watch List: Eflin, Alcantara, Chirinos
Starting pitching was a priority for most fantasy drafters this spring. With so few 200-inning, 200 strikeout guys left in today’s game, we looked to anchor our staffs with at …
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Pine Tar Posts: Roto, Musial, Preseason Summary, Rule Changes
Pine Tar Posts is a new bi-monthly column that will hopefully provide entertaining and informative fantasy baseball material while sprinkling in some real baseball news, trivia, antidotes, etc. Any comments …
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Fantasy Portfolio: Give Me All the Elvis Andrus
With four mixed leagues and one of two NL-only auctions in the books, it’s time to take a look around the rosters to see who will ultimately determine my fantasy …
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Five Stud Outfielders Outside the Top 30
At least until Mike Trout signed his record-breaking extension, Bryce Harper stole the baseball headlines. If you are one of the unlucky points-league fantasy managers without a chance to draft …
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NFBC Main Event: What Really Happened
Ray Flowers misled me. OK, Ray Flowers and I never had a conversation prior to the NFBC Main Event draft this past Saturday. Yet, I felt a bit cheated as …
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What (Draft) Dreams May Come
This is a two-part column, kind of like the before and after of my NFBC Main Event draft. This piece, as you’ll see, is the “before” version. I am penning …
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