Week 17 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Jump in a Lake
With plenty of call-ups, trades, and injuries in the past week, fantasy owners have plenty of new names to target on the waiver wire this weekend. Let’s take a look at whose turn is up in the never-ending closer carousel and whose fantasy stock has run dry in this week’s stock market. Junior Lake: Speculative […]
Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for July 24
While setting my Star Fantasy Leagues MLB daily lineups recently, I have spent more than two-thirds of my budget on offense, focusing on strategic value-plays with my pitchers. And it has worked quite consistently. But, today, for better or for worse, I’m shifting that a bit. With a lot of solid, mid-range starting pitching options […]
Tortoises vs Hares: Does Speed Still Matter in Baseball?
I’ve been having these season-long conversations with fellow baseball fans about the major significance of Major League Baseball teams to have “speed” guys on their team. Lots of people still believe in the notion that a speedy player can cause havoc on the basepaths and, in turn, provide more runs for their respective teams because they […]
Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: Christian Yelich and Jake Marisnick
The one nice thing about the Marlins’ blowing up their entire roster and scattering it throughout the league is the amount of highly touted prospects you bring back, worth their weight in hype. We have already seen plenty of Derek Dietrich (acquired in the offseason from Tampa Bay for Yunel Escobar), Jacob Turner (acquired last […]
Week 17 MLB Injury Report: Cabrera, Cespedes, Grilli
B.J. Upton (hip): Upton will be eligible to come off the DL over the weekend but has not progressed to the point where the Braves will activate him. He will likely have to play a rehab stint before returning which will leave a spot for Evan Gattis to continue playing left field. Paul Maholm (wrist): […]
MLB’s Biggest Losers Bonus: Samardzija, Lincecum, Nolasco, and Hughes
We last left off on our “Biggest Losers” series with Part III evaluating the 2013 season of the following starting pitchers: Kris Medlen Lucas Harrell Wily Peralta In case you missed the previous two installments, you can still read Part I and Part II. Before I move on to baseball’s next puzzlers, I would be […]
Fantasy Baseball Week 17 Pitcher Streaming Picks
Monday, July 22: Ivan Nova at TEX: Nova has been red hot since April, putting up a 2.29 ERA and .217 BAA over his last six appearances. Meanwhile, the Rangers offense has slowed down, ranking 17th in the Majors in July. Tom Gorzelanny vs. SD: Gorzelanny has had a stellar season out of the bullpen […]
Fantasy Baseball Week 17 Waiver Wire: Peralta, Archer, Adams
We are almost four months into the season which means that whatever players did back in April and May is pretty much irrelevant in terms of what you can expect the rest of the way. Plenty of players like Marlon Byrd, Wily Peralta, and Felix Doubront were terrible in the first month or two of […]