Early Thoughts on the Early Rounds of an Early Mock
Last week, CBS Sports convened a collection of the most intrepid fantasy analysts available to mock draft on a Tuesday in January. The premise: 12 team head-to-head league that uses …
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It’s Never Too Early to Take Starting Pitching
I’ve played in the NFBC since its very first year. Last year, for the first time ever, I took a starting pitcher in the first round. I had my sights …
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Is Bryce Harper Following the Le’Veon Bell Theory of Negotiation?
There are a number of rules in negotiating — one of the more important ones is not to overvalue your client’s relative worth. Bryce Harper has super agent Scott Boras …
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Buying Opportunity at Shortstop
Another week, another look at undervalued players based upon the NFBC early ADPs. This week, I’m turning my attention to shortstop, a position that has in the past been, at …
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A Little Love for Yasmani
It’s early in the mock draft season, and the NFBC ADP from early January is likely to change dramatically prior to the Main Event in late March, but it does …
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Keeper League Wintertime Decisions
Baseball’s hot stove has finally heated up, and that means we’re nearing decision time in our keeper leagues, too. I’m going to focus this discussion on auction leagues, assuming a …
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The Value of the Non-Tendered
This article was supposed to be about the biggest trades and free agent signings of the MLB offseason so far, but the events of this past Friday changed that. You …
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Set League Game 163 Plans Far in Advance
OK, I lied. Last week was not my final column of the season, after all, but I guess I could say it was, since the 2018 regular season is officially …
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Jonathan Lucroy for MVP and Other 2018 Baseball Thoughts
Just two days left in the what was the 2018 MLB season — it always cracks me up how long the marathon of a full year of play seems in …
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LABR FAAB Report: Week of September 24
Welcome to this week’s LABR FAAB report. The American League only and National League only formats are 12-team contests using standard 5×5 scoring rules. There’s an old-school flavor as players …
Read More Long-Term Memory
Recency bias is a real thing in fantasy baseball. German Marquez, who is 5-2 with a 2.77 ERA, a 1.01 WHIP and an 11.5 K/9 in 12 starts since the …
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Mistakes Were Made
The summer-long grind offers a lot of opportunity to repair our fantasy baseball rosters on the go — making trades, working the waiver wire, stashing injured players who might help …
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