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By Todd Lammi, on April 29th, 2011 Here is a look at the options for two start pitchers in week five of the major league baseball season, covering May 2 – May 8. Lots of top players in the American League next week with Jon Lester, CC Sabathia, and Justin Verlander all throwing.
2 start pitchers week 6: the list below is [...]
By Tony Mancini, on April 21st, 2011 A couple of demotions to the minor leagues have created some additional value for players that had been not seeing much playing time. Here is a look around fantasy baseball for some players to target on the waiver wire in week 4.
12 / 15 team mixed league:
SS – Jed Lowrie (BOS) – the [...]
By Todd Lammi, on April 17th, 2011 Here is a look at the latest news and notes from around major league baseball to help you set your fantasy baseball lineup for week 4 of the 2011 fantasy baseball season.
American League:
Grady Sizemore returned to the lineup for the Cleveland Indians in center field and hitting leadoff and went 2-for-4 with a [...]
By Todd Lammi, on April 16th, 2011 Here is a look at the options for two start pitchers in week four of the major league baseball season, covering April 18 – April 24th. Because of the rain out in Philadelphia, Joe Blanton becomes a two start pitcher next week getting the start on Monday.
2 start pitchers week 4: the list below [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 28th, 2011 One of the things I am always on the lookout for as the major league baseball rosters are finalized are those guys that make a team and can grab a role where they might have some impact in deeper AL or NL only leagues. Here is a look at some players to be keeping on [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 27th, 2011 With spring training coming to a close, here is a look at some of the hitters by position that are seeing their fantasy baseball value rise due to a number of circumstances.
C – Ryan Doumit (Pit) – Chris Snyder has been dealing with back soreness for the past 10 days and missed yesterday’s game [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 24th, 2011 The big question that many fantasy baseball owners were waiting to have answered this week finally got resolved with the Texas rangers announcing that Neftali Feliz would return to his role as closer instead of moving into the starting rotation. No change to his value as he remains a top five closer, but from a [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 22nd, 2011 With the final week of fantasy baseball drafts nearly upon us, here is a look at what is happening around the American League.
Baltimore Orioles: waiting to see if Zach Britton is going to pull out the final rotation spot which would make him a good play in AL only leagues. He doesn’t have quite [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 18th, 2011 One of the keys when trying to project fantasy baseball stats is trying to determine where in the batting order each player is going to hit. With that in mind, here is a look at the projected batting orders for the American League East.
2011 Batting order for the Baltimore Orioles:
1. Brian Roberts 2. [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 17th, 2011 Now that we are hallway through spring training, there have been numerous injuries and news that have come out in regards to certain players that should have you adjusting your fantasy baseball cheat sheets to make sure they are up to date before your next fantasy baseball draft or auction. Here is a look by [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 12th, 2011 As you are preparing for your fantasy baseball draft or fantasy baseball auction, there are several items you can use to help you determine where the value lies at each position and where a drop off can suddenly occur leaving you short at a thin position. We have already looked at the fantasy baseball ADP [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 11th, 2011 As you are preparing for your fantasy baseball draft or fantasy baseball auction, there are several items you can use to help you determine where the value lies at each position and where a drop off can suddenly occur leaving you short at a thin position. We have already looked at the fantasy baseball ADP [...]
By Todd Lammi, on March 2nd, 2011 As you are preparing for your fantasy baseball draft or fantasy baseball auction, there are several items you can use to help you determine where the value lies at each position and where a drop off can suddenly occur leaving you short at a thin position. We have already looked at the fantasy baseball ADP [...]
By Todd Lammi, on February 26th, 2011 Following up on our article earlier in the week on fantasy baseball strategy for drafting closers, here is a look around the American League West at the current closer situations for each team.
Los Angeles Angels:
1. Fernando Rodney – will start the season as the Angels closer, but whether he finishes the year in [...]
By Todd Lammi, on February 22nd, 2011 When it comes to drafting starting pitching in fantasy baseball drafts, if you were to ask 10 “experts” on their philosophy, you are likely to get 10 different answers. Some owners like to try to get at least one stud early in the draft, others like to wait until the middle rounds while loading up [...]
By Todd Lammi, on February 17th, 2011 This is the sixth article in the series examining the current 2011 fantasy baseball ADP (average draft position) for the position of outfield. The data used for this article is from Mock Draft Central using the NFBC scoring system which has 15 teams per league in a mixed format with two catchers needed per team.
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By Todd Lammi, on January 18th, 2011 With fantasy baseball drafts only a month or two away, it is time to start preparing for your fantasy baseball keeper league draft. There are several more challenges that go into getting prepared for a keeper league than there is in doing an annual draft that starts new each season.
First you need to determine [...]
By Todd Lammi, on January 17th, 2011 For those of you that have not had much success playing fantasy baseball or are just getting started playing fantasy baseball for the first time, there is different strategy that goes into playing snake drafts (where picks go 1-15 and then back 15-1) or in an auction format.
One of the biggest problems that people [...]
By Todd Lammi, on January 15th, 2011 If you are searching for more 2011 fantasy baseball ADP information, here is a look at some data from the NFBC for their slow drafts they have been conducting from the middle of December through last week. Again, I tend to give this data a little more credence since this is a high stakes event [...]
By Todd Lammi, on January 13th, 2011 For those of you that don’t follow industry news for fantasy baseball, there was a shocking announcement that came this week from Liberty Media. In a nutshell, Fanball.com will cease to exist as of June 30, 2011. That means no 2011 fantasy baseball games, good bye salary cap contests and the like. If you have [...]
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