Florio's Bullpen Report: Speculative Saves, Changing Bullpens, Elite Ratios (Week 5)

This is a wonderful time to be a sports fan. The NBA and NHL playoffs are in full swing and the NFL Draft is right around the corner. It is one of the best weeks on the sports calendar. With so much going on, it could be easy to take your eye off the fantasy... Read More

Hot MLB Prospects to Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Week 5

Welcome back, RotoBallers! We're heading into Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season. The minor league baseball season is off to a hot start, providing us with plenty of big plays and impressive prospect performances. It's imperative to monitor the top fantasy baseball prospects who have turned heads thus far. The players listed here are... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Risers and Fallers for Week 5

There is nothing quite like the ebbs and flows of fantasy baseball. Every at-bat of every game is the final straw based on that moment whereas in reality, players will have hundreds more across the next dozen weeks to neutralize whatever outcome came about. Across the past month, plenty of recently unknown players have thrived... Read More

Today’s MLB Daily Fantasy Best Ball Picks, Values, and Sleepers for RIVAL (4/24/24)

Happy Wednesday RotoBallers, and welcome to our new series covering RIVAL Fantasy Best Ball daily action for the MLB season! We will be covering some of our favorite value players and sleepers that can help you win your league. MLB best ball is similar to your everyday normal fantasy baseball leagues except you draft your... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Frauds? Standout Performers Through Week 4

Baseball is a fickle beast. A player can be red-hot at the plate for a week, then go into an extended slump at a moment’s notice. Sometimes all it takes is one bad matchup to send a player into a funk, or for their timing to be slightly off. The same can be said for... Read More

Are You For Real? Surprising Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Starts From Spencer Turnbull and Jack Flaherty

Welcome back to "Are You For Real?", a weekly column where we take starting pitchers who had surprisingly good starts over the past week and put them under the microscope to determine whether they're legit or just smoke and mirrors. This week, we had two surprising starts from veteran right-handers trying to bounce back after... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Players To Watch For The Week Ahead (April 22 - April 28)

The fourth week of the season has come to a close and while there were the usual pitcher injuries, they weren't the ones we've seen over the first few weeks. Some are dealing with things like neck stiffness (Cristian Javier) and others were hit with line drives off their arms (Ryne Nelson and Frankie Montas).... Read More

Pitchers Advanced Metrics Leaders for BABIP - Statcast Studs and Duds (Week 5)

Welcome to another edition of RotoBaller’s Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds article series for the 2024 season! Each week, I will select one stat, choose a few pitchers with strong metrics and poor metrics, and analyze them to determine how their future performance may change. Over the last two weeks, I looked at different components... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Hitter Streamers - Top Waiver Wire Pickups and Starts for Week 5 (Apr 22 - Apr 28)

As injuries pile up and spots open up on your roster, the need to grab some solid hitters off the waiver wire increases in importance. Maybe you've just decided it's time to part ways with a struggling slugger and go in a new direction. For whatever reason you need hitting, I'm here to help! Our... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Breakout Hitters Watch and Underachievers, Overachievers (Week 4)

As you know by now, I like to take a look around MLB as we head into the weekend and see who is showing signs of some meaningful trends. We're just three weeks into the season, so the "trends" should probably be considered weak by statistical standards, but can be revealing nonetheless. Checking in on... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Lineup Notes: Batting Order, Platoons, and Playing Time Changes - Week 4

It's now Week 4 in the fantasy baseball season. Trends have developed and opportunities are opening up. The sooner you can get in front of these opportunities, the more likely you are to pull out a victory! In this article, we'll go over some of the trends we're seeing with platoon hitters, notable playing time... Read More

Pitcher Arsenal Changes for Fantasy Baseball (Week 4): Pitch Mix, Movement, and Velocity

Injuries aside, starting pitchers have blown up the ratios. That's especially true for some higher-end starting pitchers based on ADP and expectations, including Jesus Luzardo, Luis Castillo, George Kirby, and Chris Sale. One quick way to examine whether the struggles might be luck or skill issues involves scraping the FanGraphs data over the past week... Read More

Finding Fantasy Baseball Hitters Set to Turn it Around Using Expected Stats

Even though the fantasy baseball season is only three weeks old, some hitter trends are worth analyzing to determine whether slow starts (or fast starts) are facts or flukes. One of the best ways to do that is to use the Statcast data provided by Baseball Savant to compare expected statistics to actual statistics through... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Stash List: Prospects Ready to Make a Splash (Week 4)

Winning in a fantasy baseball redraft league requires a nice blend of high-floor players and upside shots. While prospects do present more risk in a one-year setting like a redraft league, if they hit, they pay big dividends. The reward could be huge if these players get adequate playing time and perform. Throughout the season,... Read More

Hot MLB Prospects to Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Week 4

Welcome back, RotoBallers! We're heading into Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season. The minor league baseball season is off to a hot start, providing us with plenty of big plays and impressive prospect performances. It's imperative to monitor the top fantasy baseball prospects who have turned heads thus far. The players listed here are... Read More

10 Surprising Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitchers - Will These Hot Starts Last?

The 2024 fantasy baseball season has been rife with starting pitcher injuries. Whether it be the dreaded elbow inflammation, latissimus strains, or other injuries, it has started to feel like a weekly (if not more often) announcement that a big-name starting pitcher will be out for months. Losses like Spencer Strider and Shane Bieber are... Read More

Florio's Bullpen Report: Mason Miller Elite, Sneaky Relievers to Add

All offseason long in fantasy baseball articles, podcasts, and radio shows, you hear about clarity with bullpens. We may not know who exactly is going to get the bulk of save chances, but the belief is that once the season starts playing out, we will get answers and know who is getting those valuable opportunities.... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Prospect Risers - Players To Stash and Top Performers (Week 4)

The minor league baseball season is underway and many well-known prospects are already making their case for an MLB debut later this summer. However, the question is, do these performances truly matter for this season? How easy will it be for these prospects to reach the big leagues and are they worth stashing on your... Read More

Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Garrett Whitlock and Max Meyer

Welcome back to "Are You For Real?", a weekly column where we take starting pitchers who had surprisingly good starts over the past week and put them under the microscope to determine whether they're legit or just smoke and mirrors. This week we had some surprising starts from two East Division right-handers, and both did... Read More

Today’s MLB Daily Fantasy Best Ball Picks, Values and Sleepers For RIVAL (4/17/24)

Happy Wednesday RotoBallers, and welcome to our new series covering RIVAL Fantasy Best Ball daily action for the MLB season! We will be covering some of our favorite value players and sleepers that can help you win your league MLB best ball is similar to your everyday normal fantasy baseball leagues except you draft your... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Frauds? Standout Performers Through Week 3

While some teams have played nearly 20 games already, we still have a long way to go in the baseball season. A lot of the stats that we have seen so far still need to be taken with a grain of salt. Examining production in the early going isn’t just the key to working the... Read More

Pitchers Advanced Metrics Leaders for Launch Angle - Statcast Studs and Duds (Week 4)

Welcome to another edition of RotoBaller’s Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds article series for the 2024 season! Each week, I will select one stat, choose a few pitchers with strong metrics and poor metrics, and analyze them to determine how their future performance may change. Last week, I wrote about average exit velocity (EV), and... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Players To Watch For The Week Ahead (April 15 - April 21)

The third week of the season has come to a close and of course, we saw more of what we saw last week... oh, you thought I was referring to home runs, pitching gems, and exciting plays? Well, yes of course there were those, but I was referring to pitcher injuries. Bobby Miller looked electric... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Hitter Streamers - Top Waiver Wire Pickups and Starts for Week 4 (Apr 15 - Apr 21)

The season is starting to hit its stride with most teams closing in on completing ten percent of their schedule already. Early season injuries are opening up playing time for backups and platoon players, while young prospects are already making noise in the minor leagues and could be forcing their way onto big league rosters... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Breakout Hitters Watch and Underachievers, Overachievers (Week 3)

As I often do heading into the weekend, I like to take a look around the league and see who is showing signs of some meaningful trends. In this case, we're just two weeks into the season, so the "trends" should probably be considered weak by statistical standards. But checking in on who's hot (or... Read More

League Winners or Hot Starts? Four Fantasy Baseball Hitters Who Are Raking

April baseball is kind of strange. The best hitters on the planet look lost at the plate, the standings are wonky, and quite frankly, nothing makes sense. It takes a bit for teams to shed their spring training skins and adapt to the regular season. Not many fans like it simply because it feels uncompetitive.... Read More

Surprising Starts From Fantasy Baseball Pitchers: Who Will Regress?

When putting together a fantasy baseball team, starting pitching may be the most difficult position to account for. Chances are you won't put together a team full of set-it-and-forget-it aces. As the season goes on, injuries will occur and some sleepers will end up not making the big jump some people expected. On the other... Read More

Fantasy Baseball Lineup Notes: Batting Order, Platoons and Playing Time Changes - Week 3

We're in Week 3 in the fantasy baseball season and trends are starting to develop. The sooner you can get in front of them, the better your fantasy baseball teams will perform. In this article, we'll go over some of the trends we're seeing with platoon hitters, notable playing time changes, and batting order notes.... Read More

Starting Pitcher Arsenal Changes for Fantasy Baseball: Pitch Mix, Movement, and Velocity

We've had 16 pitchers in the top-200 picks of NFBC ADP injured in the first week or so, with Sonny Gray as the only pitcher returning from an injury. Meanwhile, seven hitters inside the top 200 in ADP have been injured to begin the season. It's been brutal and we seem to have pitchers unexpectedly... Read More