Week 19 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Cosart, Nova, Salazar, Doubront
This week’s waiver wire is very pitcher heavy with many a young arm shining with four months of baseball under their belt. Let’s take a look at baseball’s up-and-coming pitchers and one aging, soon-to-be-suspended third baseman. Jarred Cosart (10%): Cosart has been nothing short of stellar since being called up by the Astros, putting up […]
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for August 2
Today brings to an end my first few weekdays of employing my strikeout-first strategy in putting together my Star Fantasy Leagues daily lineup. I’ve been spending more money on pitching than I generally had been, with the intent on using the pitchers who will pick up a lot of points with strikeouts. All in all, […]
Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Traded Players
There may not have been a lot of moves made but the ones that were will certainly have an impact on your fantasy production. Trades can make or break a season, just take a look at some of the players that were dealt at the deadline last year: Hanley Ramirez: On the Marlins, Before Trade: […]
Week 18 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Mejia, Ubaldo, Rienzo, Delgado
I was fully prepared to devote the entire stock market post to the plethora of players that would surely be traded on Wednesday, or as it’s better known, sportswriter Christmas. Instead, we all got coal (likely for wasting so much valuable internet space on Tim Tebow coverage) and the deadline was a bust. There were […]
Fantasy Baseball Word Problems: Question 2
I hope you enjoyed Question number one of this series. Now we move along to Question number two: [All pitchers listed have an Ownership% of less than 60% of fantasy baseball leagues at CBS Sports. All stats are based on the last 30 days of play. Outside factors, such as what team will the pitcher face this week […]
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for July 31
At the start of the new week, I decided I was going to change my strategy in building my Star Fantasy Leagues daily fantasy baseball lineup. Rather than trying to focus much of my budget on offense and using value plays for pitching, I decided to go after high-strikeout pitchers, no matter the cost. And […]
Fantasy Baseball Sleeper: Cody Asche
With the Phillies looking to trade Michael Young by Wednesday’s trade deadline, they have already called up top third base prospect Cody Asche to possibly take Young’s place. Asche has moved through the Philly farm system quickly – and unlike many other prospects we’ve talked about, he’s done well with every promotion. If Michael Young […]
White Sox Trade Jake Peavy to the Red Sox: Fantasy Impact
After weeks of swirling rumors about Jake Peavy moving to just about every team in the league, the Red Sox swooped in and snatched the oft-injured ace in a three-team deal with the Tigers. The Red Sox sent Jose Iglesias to Detroit where he’ll replace presumably-soon-to-be-suspended Jhonny Peralta while the Tigers sent top prospect Avisail […]