RotoBaller Ultimate Waiver Wire Watch List: Week 8 - 5/21/13 (Updated Daily)

RotoBaller experts have scoured the dregs of free agent pools across the fantasy baseball world to bring you RotoBaller.com's Ultimate Waiver Wire Watch List - updated daily. Our goal is simple: to help you build the best fantasy baseball team and win your league.  Our waiver wire list brings you all the players who are hot, or those who might be relevant in fantasy baseball at some point.  All are largely unowned in standard leagues, and ripe [read more...]

Daily League Fantasy Lineup Analysis: May 20th, 2013

We are going to switch things up a little bit in our Daily League column. Instead of giving you an exact lineup, we'll be sharing top positional plays with quick analysis about why we like these guys.  There is no set budget for these picks, so they may be star-studded... the idea here is to give you some of the best players that are playing at each position. Top Positional Plays:  C: Buster [read more...]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Digging Deeper into Hitters - Chavez, Grandal, Profar, Gordon and more

3B - Eric Chavez – When I pulled up Chavez’s 2013 numbers, I thought the cursor may have accidentally been set to 2004 when he posted a career best wOBA of .384. But no, here we are in 2013 and after going an impressive 9 for 16 over his last 5 games, the 35 year-old 3B is batting .330/.388/.564 through 104 PAs and has a wOBA of .404. There are [read more...]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Roundup May 20th: The Notorious M.I.G.

Miggy Smalls is the illest The 2012 Triple Crown winner, Miguel Cabrera must have pitchers singing; “Miggy-Miggy-Miggy, can’t you see, sometimes your swings just hypnotize me, and I just love your smashing ways, guess I'll throw another fastball your way” Am I right?? Why else would they pitch to him in the zone??? In all seriousness, the “Big Cat” is showing his stripes once again. Cabrera capped off a three home run [read more...]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: May's Under-the-Radar Lineup

You’ve read the noise about all of the studs. Now it’s time to take a look at the quiet guys in the corner. They all want to get out on that dance floor, and they’re cutting some impressive moves while few people are paying attention. But sooner or later, somebody is going to slap them with the “taken” label and dance a wallflower to a championship. It might as well [read more...]

RotoBaller Live Chat (5/18): Fantasy Baseball Advice - Santana, Cingrani, Donaldson & More

The following are the transcripts from the RotoBaller Live Chat that took place on March 18th, 2013.  RotoBaller staff expert Uncle Leo (@Uncle__Leo) talks fantasy baseball, waiver wire, and more with RotoBaller.com readers. As always, you can get some LIVE quick hit advice in RotoBaller's fantasy baseball advice chat room.  Let's win some leagues!   10:48 Baller - Tiffanie Would you trade pujols, granderson, and asdrubal for cano, goldshmidt, and hardy? 10:50 Uncle Leo - RotoBal.. @Tiffanie [read more...]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Undervalued Starting Pitchers Week 8

In this piece, RotoBaller will highlight a selection of starting pitchers owned in less than 50% of both CBS and Yahoo leagues that have favorable matchups in the upcoming week. Whether you’re suffering from injuries, poor performance, or your league’s fantasy baseball waiver wire is barren, these undervalued pitchers could prove useful in the days ahead. 5/22: Brandon Maurer (SEA) @ Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (CJ Wilson) CBS Ownership: 12%, Yahoo Ownership: 1% Based on his [read more...]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Confessions of a Trade Junkie 5/18/13

A couple of fantasy baseball industry experts that I follow on Twitter were discussing trades recently and one of them mentioned that “trading seems to be down in all leagues.”  As a self-proclaimed Trade Junkie, this was discouraging to read, but it really wasn't all that surprising.  After all, I've participated in plenty of fantasy leagues where trading has been essentially non-existent. Sometimes, you just get stuck in a league where [read more...]

Daily Fantasy Roundup 5/18: Harvey Has “It” Factor

In our Daily Fantasy Baseball Update, RotoBaller brings you the latest news and analysis on a daily basis. Young Mets ace Matt Harvey came into Friday with a 4-0 record, a 1.43 ERA, 0.72 WHIP and 62 K over 56.3 IP. The 24-year-old stud has been simply amazin’ for the troubled Mets, and possibly will be the only bright spot as the season wears on. Harvey had not been the beneficiary of much [read more...]

Buy Low and Sell High: Trade and Waiver Targets for Week 7

Are you looking to trade?  If your answer is “yes”, then the RotoBaller.com Buy/Sell Weekly Article is where to find fice players of the week to Sell High and five guys to Buy Low. You trade for one of two reasons: You need a shortstop, have an extra third baseman and someone has as extra shortstop.  You trade a third baseman for a shortstop.  Done. You have a player who is exceeding expectations.  [read more...]