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RotoBaller MLB Content Guide and Site Tutorial

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A comprehensible list of the MLB fantasy tools offered for free by RotoBaller. Sign up and dominate your leagues with RotoBaller's award-winning team!

Hello, MLB fans, and thanks for joining us here at RotoBaller. Since our inception, we have provided industry-leading MLB rankings and advice from our arsenal of FSWA award-winning writers and analysts. Whether you play in only a family league for fun, are a DFS aficionado, or are a hardcore dynasty league player, we have articles and tools to help everyone.

RotoBaller's MLB lineup includes both free and Premium content which features articles, player news, models, start/sit advice, probable starters, rankings, and a variety of other tools to help our readers with MLB DFS Main and Showdown slates and betting strategy. Our content and tools are provided by a dedicated staff that is universally respected around the fantasy sports and betting worlds.

While we strive to provide actionable content for even the most dedicated and skilled MLB ballers, we also want to offer an easy entryway to this great sport for those that are perhaps trying MLB DFS or placing a wager on MLB games for the first time. We feel that this MLB Tutorial will help rookies and seasoned veterans alike navigate our awesome content and get the most out of our MLB tools.

 

RotoBaller's Free MLB Content Guide

Our free MLB content is easy to access!

If using our desktop site: Select "MLB" from the blue navigation bar across the top of the homepage for a drop-down menu full of content titles. Our free titles are located in the Draft Resources, Draft Articles, In-Season, and DFS & Betting columns. 

If using a mobile device: Click the "Hamburger Button" (the three lines) in the blue navigation bar at the top left of your screen, click "Sports" from the drop-down menu, and select "MLB".

If using the RotoBaller app: Select "MLB" from the home screen.

 

RotoBaller's MLB Draft Resources

  • Free Mobile News App - Get the latest injury information so you know if you need to adjust your daily or season-long lineups straight to your mobile device, free of charge!
  • Mock Draft Simulator - Is your draft coming up and you're nervous because you haven't practiced yet? Jump right into RotoBaller's Mock Draft Simulator. Input your league settings and draft position and you're ready to go!
  • Live Draft Assistant - Take this tool with you to your draft and input picks as they happen! Let RotoBaller's rankings help you with your next pick.
  • Who Should I Draft? - Did your league mates snipe your pick right before you got on the clock? Instantly compare up to four players at a time and let RotoBaller's draft tools take the guesswork out of your next pick.
  • Draft Cheat Sheet - Input your league settings and scoring format and instantly have up to 1000 players ranked using RotoBaller's customized ranking system. Export this to PDF, Excel, or .csv, and take it along on your draft day!
  • Rankings - RotoBaller's award-winning ranking team gives you a fully sortable and customizable ranking table. Sort each player's ADP by position. You can also sort by auction prices. Updated daily.
  • ADP Consensus - Compare each player's ADP on ESPN, CBS, Yahoo!, RTS, NFBC, and Fantrax in one simple table!
  • Closer Depth Charts - Easily access every team's bullpen charts. RotoBaller's analysts identify who will get the most saves and who will get the most holds so you can draft accordingly.

 

RotoBaller's MLB Draft Articles

  • MLB Player News - Get the latest injury information so you know if you need to adjust your daily or season-long lineups. Or sign up for the Free Mobile News App and get instant injury updates straight to your mobile device.
  • Prospects - Browse articles from RotoBaller's award-winning team of writers to identify which prospects are trending towards breaking camp with their teams or browse through dynasty rankings.
  • Rankings - Get RotoBaller's overall staff rankings and breakdowns by position.
  • Bullpens - Get weekly updates on changes in the bullpen pecking order from RotoBaller's writing staff along with breaking news on the bullpen front.
  • Sleepers - Take a look at the players that are being overlooked in drafts and are bargains at their current ADP. Take a look at who could be on the verge of a starting gig during the season.
  • Breakouts - RotoBaller's staff keeps you up to date on players that are on the verge of breaking out using rankings and StatCast data.
  • Sabermetrics - Get all of the information on players whose metrics are performing well beyond their current numbers to get players on your team when the breakout comes. Get your introduction to Sabermetric numbers and what they can mean for your fantasy teams.
  • Points Leagues - Access RotoBaller's custom rankings just for points leagues, updated throughout the season! Identify players that can help you in points leagues that may not have much value in regular leagues.
  • Dynasty Leagues - There is no offseason in dynasty leagues! Access our dynasty rankings exclusively for dynasty formats at any time during the season or offseason.

 

RotoBaller's MLB In-Season Tools

  • Live Scoreboard - Get updated stats and game situations from every player in action. Easily filter by team or situation and get instant access to a player's score on FanDuel, DraftKings, or in points leagues.
  • Starting Lineups - Access the projected starting lineups for each team every day during the season. Updates when official lineups are posted.
  • Waiver Wire - Get RotoBaller's staff picks on players to pick up every week from your league's waiver wire.
  • Start/Sit - Get breakdowns of every pitcher every week of the season with RotoBaller's customized projections to help you decide whether to start your pitchers in every game.
  • Streamers - Take a look at hitters or pitchers that are worth adding to your team for the upcoming week.
  • Statcast - Get daily BvP charts for each batter against today's starting pitchers.
  • Risers and Fallers - Who is moving up the RotoBaller rankings? Who is falling down them due to poor performance? Keep updated throughout the season!
  • Pitcher Projections - Get daily information on starting pitchers, their park factors, history against the team they are facing, and their prices on DraftKings, FanDuel, and Yahoo! Get RotoBaller's customized matchup ratings to help with your lineup decisions.

 

RotoBaller's MLB DFS And Betting

  • DraftKings Picks - Get Daily DFS picks for DraftKings from RotoBaller's award-winning team of writers to help you win cash!
  • FanDuel Picks -Get Daily DFS picks for FanDuel from RotoBaller's award-winning team of writers to help you win cash!
  • DFS Prop Picks - DFS is not your thing? Don't feel like betting full games? RotoBaller's staff will guide you to the prop bets that can help you win some cash every day.
  • Betting Picks - Get RotoBaller's picks for the best full game and the first five (F5) bets every day.
  • DFS Chalk Board - Take a look at the players, prices, projected ownership, and projected points for your DFS lineups. They are all sorted by position to help you get the most bang for your DFS buck.
  • Leverage Stacks - Get the RotoBaller team's favorite DFS stacks for the day. We provide the average salary, projected points, total ownership, and overall leverage. Total points and points per dollar are also estimated to help you get the most out of your DFS stacks.

Whatever your level of MLB fanaticism, we here at RotoBaller can help. We can help from your first draft to the last pitch of the World Series across any type of league and any slate of DFS games.

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