For many players, injuries are unexpected nuisances that are ultimately inevitable. For Brett Anderson, injuries are a way of life. Once again, a minor injury has turned into a serious problem that will cause him to miss at least all of June meaning he will end the first half with a total of five starts. […]
Week 8 MLB Injury Report: The A’s Plan B Read More »
Give it a couple of months and suddenly all of the overhyped top prospects everyone overbid on in their respective drafts are finally relevant. This week, we will see the return of Jurickson Profar, Jake Odorizzi, Tyler Cloyd, Yasmani Grandal, and maybe even Adam Eaton. Give it a couple of weeks and we will once
Week 8 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Grand-al Time Read More »
Breakout seasons are never what they seem. It’s often hard to tell exactly how a season falls into the context of a player’s career until years later. At the same time, breakouts are rare and it’s pretty safe to assume that a player is overachieving and expect to be right 80% of the time. If
Week 7 Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Cespedes, Lawrie, Morrow Read More »
Fantasy baseball is a game of relative value, especially when it comes to finding sleepers. Take Travis Hafner and Yuniesky Betancourt, two guys that are basically good for 15 home runs per year if healthy. If you’re grabbing them on a hot streak and riding it as long as you can, that’s fine. If you’re
Week 7 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Citizen Cain Read More »
Last season just six players had 40 or more stolen bases. Fantasy baseball sleeper Jarrod Dyson has just 37 at-bats this season and could still top that mark. With stolen bases at a premium in most leagues, Dyson is stepping into an increasingly larger role and could be a massive help to teams struggling to get
Fantasy Baseball Sleeper: Jarrod Dyson Read More »
After Bryce Harper slammed into the wall and laid bloody in the outfield for a good minute, many a sportswriter questioned whether the 20-year-old plays “too hard.” Isn’t it fun when sportswriters make the thing that makes a player special, the thing they harp on about for hours, out to be a negative? As a
Week 7 MLB Injury Report: Bryce Yourself Read More »
With six weeks in the books we can now stop concentrating so much on week-to-week numbers and focus on month-to-month and even half-to-half trends when studying your fantasy baseball waiver wire. Six weeks represents about a quarter of the season and if that isn’t enough of a sample size I don’t know what is. With
Week 7 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Locked In Read More »
A player’s overall body of work seldom tells you anything. With so many ups-and-downs throughout a player’s career, trends are the only reliable measure of where he is at that point. Trends aren’t always that easy to spot. It’s easy to look at someone like Kevin Slowey or James Loney and say that guy is
Week 6 Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Trendsetters Read More »
