So You're Playing for Next Year: Keeper League Values Around the Diamond

We've come to the point in the fantasy baseball season when, especially in roto leagues, it's all but clear which teams are contending for the money spots.  In keeper and dynasty formats, it's important for those teams that are out of contention to make some transactions with an eye toward next year.  This means evaluating […]

Top 10 Fantasy Prospects for the Playoff Push

As we enter the dog days of summer, prospects become an ever more important part of the fantasy landscape, as injuries and roster expansions mean that teams are beginning to make roster moves to call up their young guns.  In this article, RotoBaller's Joseph Berger examines the top ten prospects for your late-season fantasy run. […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 8: Completely Harvey

Completely Harvey What else does this kid have to do to show us that he’s the best young pitching star in baseball? Wednesday evening Matt “The Real Deal” Harvey, as Dwight Gooden refers to him, dominated the Rockies. Harvey allowed just four hits, struck out six and posted a goose egg in the walk column […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 7: Verlander? Is that you?

The Detroit Tigers have won ten games in a row and now have a five-game lead over the Cleveland Indians in the AL Central. They've been in control of the division for most of the year and have done so without Justin Verlander putting up the numbers we've come to expect from one of the […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Second Base (August Update)

The first four months of the 2013 fantasy baseball season are complete, and we've gotten a good look at which players are establishing themselves as contributors and which guys are struggling. Every month, RotoBaller  updates our original preseason rankings at every position.  Today, we’re going to look at second basemen, a position where we’ve seen some significant changes in […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 6: Justin-Time?

Justin Time? The Atlanta Braves are the hottest team in baseball after winning their eleventh consecutive game on Monday. One big reason for their recent success: Justin Upton. The younger Upton started off the season like gang-busters and mashed 12 homers in April alone, leaving fantasy owners like myself wiggling with joy like a puppy […]

DraftStreet Deals of the Day - MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball - August 6, 2013

In what would seem to have the makings of a great pitcher's duel, Gio Gonzalez and Julio Teheran will square off in the nation's capital this evening. However, neither starter has managed to defeat his respective division rival to this point in the season. The Braves' right-handed rookie is 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA over […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Starting Pitchers (August Update)

We’re now four months deep into the baseball season, and fantasy owners are in the heat of the stretch run. For many of those in contention, they will live and die on their starting pitching.  RotoBaller has been updating our positional rankings over the past week. Today, we’re revisiting the starting pitcher rankings we initially published in April and […]

MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball (Fanduel) - August 5

This Monday once again features a solid nine-game slate for daily fantasy baseball players. Among the best matchups are the Dodgers in St. Louis in a battle of first-place NL teams, and a pair of division rivalries as the Tigers visit the Indians and the red-hot Braves travel to Washington to face the Nationals and […]

DraftStreet Sunday Selections - MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball - August 4, 2013

Guillermo Moscoso takes the mound for the Giants as they finish up a three-game set in Tampa Bay. The 29-year-old will be making his first start in the Majors since August 15, 2012. After a very solid campaign with Oakland in 2011, the right-handed native of Venezuela has struggled his way through just 52.2 innings […]

Fantasy Baseball Musings: Underowned Stretch-run Sleepers

If you don’t read past the next paragraph of this article, that’s fine by me. In it, I ask one simple question: Why in Bill James’s sacred sabermetrical name is Hector Santiago so grossly under-owned? Santiago is so widely ignored it blows my mind. Sure, his 3-7 record is ugly on the surface, but how […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 2: Greedy Boppers

There were homers galore on Thursday-- twenty-one to be exact. Some guys ONLY hit one, psshh, slackers. The following one-uppers went back for a second helping: Justin Upton topped off an 8-for-18 series against the Rockies with two moonshots for his 17th and 18th long-balls of the season. He’s been a sleeping giant since April. It seems the […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Third Base (August Update)

The first two-thirds of the 2013 fantasy baseball season are in the books, and the fantasy baseball landscape is becoming very concrete.  As with the first week of each of the previous months, RotoBaller will be updating our positional rankings over the next couple of days. Today, we're revisiting the  first base rankings we initially published in April and have […]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups Review

RotoBaller writer Chris Lacey highlights a handful of players on most of your waiver wires to keep track of. You can find many of these players and recommendations, along with many more, in our Daily Updated Waiver Wire Pickups List.   STANDARD MIXED-LEAGUE VIABLE PICKUPS Daniel Murphy. Murphy is having an amazing season for the Mets with a 122 […]

MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball (Fanduel) - August 1, 2013

Well yesterday's performance was just one of those days that everything went wrong. So what did I do? Did I sulk?  No way, Jose! Sometimes things like that just happen!  So, I sat down last night and searched and studied harder than ever to come up with ideal situations for our hitters today.  I'm going […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 1: Gold Minor

Gold Minor Braves lefty Mike Minor started 30 games for the Braves last season but carried a 4.12 ERA and 1.29 WHIP at year’s end with 162 K over 195 IP. Minor has taken the next step in 2013 and is enjoying a true breakout campaign.  Through 22 starts and 144 innings pitched, Minor now […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: First Base (August Update)

The first two-thirds of the fantasy baseball season are in the books, and the fantasy baseball landscape is becoming very concrete.  As with the first week of each of the previous months, RotoBaller will be updating our positional rankings over the next couple of days. Today, we’re revisiting the  first base rankings we initially published in April and have updated […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis July 31: Change Your Sox, Jake

The Vacation Rant Vacation is supposed to be a time we get to spend away from work and stress and the rigors of daily life, right? For some reason we Americans feel the need to work our lives away and leave ourselves with about 30 minutes a day to actually unplug and relax. If we’re […]

MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball (Fanduel) - July 31, 2013

Happy Wednesday! I've got to say how much I absolutely LOVE Tampa right now.  They are as hot as fire, and they dominate interleague play, as you'll no doubt see today.  I wouldn't be shocked to see them put up 10+ runs tonight, so load up your roster with Rays and ride it all the way to […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Catchers (August Update)

The first two-thirds of the 2013 fantasy baseball season are in the books, and the fantasy baseball landscape is becoming very concrete.  As with the first week of each of the previous months, RotoBaller will be updating our positional rankings over the next couple of days. Today, we’re revisiting the catcher rankings we initially published in April and have updated […]

Fantasy Baseball Prospects Primer for Week 18

Welcome to the weekly Fantasy Baseball Prospect Primer.  In this space, we will inform you about prospects who have recently been called up or who might become fantasy contributors in the near future. Especially good for Keeper leagues, you'll want to check in weekly to get the latest news and advice for the coming week about prospects of […]

DraftStreet Deals - MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball - July 30, 2013

One of the best ways to succeed in your daily salary cap league over at DraftStreet is by discovering the best bargains for a given day. A couple of typical guidelines when attempting this feat is to look at batter/pitcher match-ups and righty/lefty splits. The thought process for today's picks is easily noticeable. Here are […]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Three Up for Week Eighteen

With seventeen full weeks of the 2013 season in the books, today RotoBaller casts a critical eye on three players who are on the rise heading into Week 18: 1) Jayson Werth (OF, WAS): Even at the time the Nats signed Werth to a 7-year $126M, deal the consensus was that Werth couldn't possibly play […]

MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball (Fanduel) - July 29

Monday's nine-game MLB schedule isn't as jam-packed as some days, but there is still plenty of punch for fantasy baseball daily leaguers in a schedule that highlights divisional play. The Cardinals-Pirates and Red Sox-Rays are the headliners, but there's plenty of other intriguing matchups as well throughout the night. Since the game at Fenway starts […]

Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Make Smarter Moves and Maximize your Value

As the calendar gets ready to turn to August, the stretch run is coming into sight.  Rotisserie fantasy owners must look at where they'll be able to pick up ground in their leagues and where they have room to give. The concept is simple but very often overlooked. Not all fantasy stats (HR, R, K, […]

Fantasy Baseball BOLD! A Second-Half Predictions Thread (UPDATED)

UPDATED: July 29th Looks like Ryan Rufe hit the nail on the head with this one: "Albert Pujols will go under the knife in August and miss the remainder of the season"... And it seems like this is also coming to fruition: "A-Rod will do almost nothing of substance to help the Yankees."... Wow, I wonder what […]

MLB Closers and Saves Update (Week 18)

Raged on Roids I want to start off by saying that what Ryan Braun did is wrong, especially the fact that he lied about using steroids, HGH or any PED.  The point of all of this is that I am completely exhausted with the media's constant obsession with the the latest PED news. Do we […]

Fantasy Baseball Musings: Rehabbing Roster Help and More

I’m trying my best not to sing the chorus of Randy Travis’s “I Told You So”, but if you didn’t take my advice two weeks ago to dump Ryan Braun and get what you could out of him, well... I told you so. I know a guy who got Josh Hamilton for Braun the day […]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Under-the-Radar Two-Start Matchups for Week 18

There are a bunch of two-start guys for Week 18, so this week I'm going to break down some of the fringier ones.  At least a few of these guys should be available on your waiver wire, so if you need an option for your stretch run or a pre-playoff matchup, this is the place! […]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups Review

RotoBaller writer Chris Lacey highlights a handful of players on most of your waiver wires to keep track of.  You can find many of these players and recommendations, along with many more, in our Daily Updated Waiver Wire Pickups List.   STANDARD MIXED-LEAGUE VIABLE PICKUPS Brett Lawrie - Lawrie is not doing well with Toronto this season, as he has […]