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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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No job in sports has a higher turnover than Major League closer. Less than six weeks in, the Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers, Tigers, and Diamondbacks all have different closers than when they started the season. Between injuries and ineffectiveness, there may be something to the idea that drafting below-top tier closers is a waste
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There are plenty of new injuries to wade through today as the Red Sox closer job is suddenly on the market, Hanley Ramirez and Joel Hanrahan make a quick return to the DL, and Roy Halladay tries to find anything to blame his horrific pitching on. Let’s take a look at who’s in and who’s
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The Houston Astros may be the worst team in the American League but it makes for a great opportunity for a younger player to get real playing time and become a true fantasy baseball sleeper. Enter Jimmy Paredes who was just called up after the Astros released Rick Ankiel and Fernando Martinez. Paredes has been
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