Week 9 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper Stock Market: Lyons’ Den
More than most seasons, the league is rife with good young talent this season and fantasy owners who didn’t have the best draft have had countless chances to snatch up guys that we didn’t even know existed on draft day. This week, we look at some young guys that went almost universally undrafted (or weren’t […]
Week 8 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Kevin Gausman, Yasiel Puig, Justin Grimm
Entering the season, Kevin Gausman was a fourth-overall pick in 2012 with a grand total of 15 Single-A innings under his belt. He’s now pitched a total of 61 minor league innings, which still doesn’t seem anywhere close to how long most guys to develop. It’s possible that Gausman isn’t like “most guys”, he’s only […]
Week 7 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Citizen Cain
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 6 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Closing Time
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 […]
Week 6 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Young Blood
With week six of the fantasy season upon us, there are plenty of newly-called up players and guys shifting to new roles that are suddenly worth a pickup. For every star that gets hurt, like Giancarlo Stanton, Hanley Ramirez, or Roy Halladay (whose star status is very much in question), there is a 20-something looking […]
Week 5 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Boo-hrle
We have seen several injury replacements get the call to the big leagues this week along with a surprise trade that may have landed Chris Nelson back in temporary fantasy relevance. We have also seen a few older guys continue to struggle, possibly giving us a glimpse of what we can expect the rest of […]
Fantasy Baseball Sleeper: Hiram Burgos
Last week we spotlighted the Mets’ Jordany Valdespin as our fantasy baseball sleeper. Since then, Valdespin has hit two homers and driven in eight over 17 at-bats. Call it the SJN bump. This week, the bump goes to Hiram Burgos, starting pitcher for the Brewers. Burgos didn’t make the team out of spring training. He […]
Week 4 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Wait, Then Sell High
The closer carousel might be spinning at its fastest ever this season as a two more closers emerge as legitimate fantasy baseball sleepers this week. Not to mention a couple of familiar faces that we can all but hope build on their 2012 success. Let’s take a look at some great pickups to bolster the ol’ […]