Top Five Injured Players To Stash In Fantasy Baseball - Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18
Welcome back to our top fantasy baseball injury stashes for Week 18, looking at IL players as of July 28. Today's list of injured MLB players to consider stashing off the fantasy baseball waiver wire includes Michael Wacha, Esteury Ruiz, Ke'Bryan Hayes, Thairo Estrada, and Liam Hendriks. In case you're not yet familiar, this list... Read More
Mid-Week Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups: Triston Casas, Nick Pivetta, Edouard Julien, Kevin Ginkel, more
Welcome RotoBallers to our mid-week fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings list for Week 19 - July 24 through July 30 to help you stay on top of the waiver wire, especially in leagues that allow daily moves. The MLB trade deadline is Monday, and we have seen significant roster shakeups, such as the Angels acquiring... Read More
Top 300 Fantasy Baseball Rankings - Nick Mariano's Rest-of-Season Outlooks for: Edouard Julien, Kenta Maeda, more
Welcome back, RotoBallers! We are a few days away from the beginning of August and two months from the regular season being over. The MLB trade deadline is Monday, as some teams will make major moves to gear up for a World Series run. It's time for another rankings check-in. Below is another edition of... Read More
Post-Hype Fantasy Baseball Breakouts - Outlooks for CJ Abrams, Triston Casas, Alex Kirilloff, Mickey Moniak
The 2023 MLB season hasn't just seen the debuts of multiple big-name rookies, but other young sluggers take big steps forward offensively and become solid fantasy contributors. These four names are all former first-round draft picks, and some have been held back by injuries or simply needed a change of scenery in order to find... Read More
Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds - Advanced Metrics Leaders for WHIP+ (Week 18)
Welcome back to another edition of RotoBaller’s Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds article series! Each week, I will select one advanced metric, choose two pitchers with strong values and two with poor values, and analyze what those values may mean for future performance. Most fantasy managers are familiar with WHIP, as it is usually a... Read More
The Cut List - Time to Let Go? Week 18
Welcome back to The Cut List for Week 18. This is our weekly article looking at players who fantasy managers might be considering cutting from their teams and struggling players who need a closer look. We'll look at players who are worthy of a drop, players who are worth monitoring for replacing, and someone on... Read More
Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Graham Ashcraft and Dean Kremer
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. The second half began with a bang on Friday night, and we saw some quality... Read More
Pitcher Buy-Lows - Second Half Fantasy Baseball Outlooks for Zack Wheeler, Nick Lodolo, Yu Darvish, more
The annual All-Star break offers fantasy baseball managers a great chance to assess and revamp their rosters for the stretch run. With both the fantasy and real-life trade deadlines looming, this stage of the season signifies one of the last key opportunities to make a potentially league-winning swap. These buy-low picks consider a combination of... Read More
Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (Week 16)
Are you taking it easy over the All-Star break, fellow RotoBallers? Well, buckle up because the second half is right around the corner so let's kick that off with another edition of my biweekly Top 101 Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks breakdown. As it is later in the season, these updates will come every other week.... Read More
Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Matt Manning and Alek Manoah
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. While most of the baseball world is focused on the best of the best at... Read More
Week 16 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include Francisco Alvarez, Mickey Moniak, Tarik Skubal, Colton Cowser
Welcome back RotoBallers, to another edition of the fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 16 -- July 10 through July 16. The Al-Star break is here, and the first half of the 2023 regular season is officially in the books. More top prospects are being called up to the big leagues, and some are... Read More
The Cut List - Time to Let Go? Week 16
Welcome back to The Cut List for Week 16. This is our weekly article looking at players who fantasy managers might be considering cutting from their teams and struggling players who need a closer look. We'll look at players who are worthy of a drop, players who are worth monitoring for replacing, and someone on... Read More
Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 15)
Happy Independence Day and 4th of July to everyone reading this on the holiday. I'm hoping you all had a great time with family and friends, eating too much food at cookouts, and watching some baseball of course. The baseball and fantasy baseball seasons are past the halfway mark at this point and the All-Star... Read More
Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Jackson Chourio, Harry Ford, Heston Kjerstad, Kyle Manzardo, Joey Cantillo, more
The 2023 Futures Game rosters have been announced. With a break in the minor league baseball schedule before this event, this seemed like a good time to focus on those players on the Futures Game rosters that have not yet been covered in this space this season. The next two weeks will feature extended names... Read More
Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Jack Flaherty and Tommy Henry
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. We had some awesome interleague action this weekend, including two surprising starts from NL arms... Read More
Florio's Bullpens and Saves Report for Fantasy Baseball - Trades are Coming!
Happy Fourth of July! Hopefully, you get to spend the holiday doing whatever it is you like to do to celebrate! Whether that’s by eating an absurd amount of hot dogs, watching the pros do that, viewing fireworks, or with a few adult beverages – I hope it’s an enjoyable day spent with whoever you... Read More
Top 250 Dynasty Prospect Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (July Updates)
Welcome back RotoBallers to the July update of our MLB team's dynasty fantasy baseball prospects rankings for the 2023 season. With three months of the MLB season in the books, it's time to check in on some fantasy baseball dynasty prospects! Below in this article, you can find our updated top 250 MLB prospect rankings... Read More
Breakout Hitters Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Jordan Walker, Patrick Bailey, Mike Tauchman
Welcome RotoBallers to our fantasy baseball breakout hitters article for Week 14. As always, we are here to bring you a few MLB hitters whose advanced metrics are popping out. My name is Joshua Costello and I will be giving you 3-5 hitter names that seem to have sustainable improved production this season. Most of... Read More
Second Half Breakouts for Fantasy Baseball - Eric Samulski's "My Guys"
One of the more fun traditional pre-season fantasy baseball columns is the "my guys" article where analysts provide players that they have considerable shares of for the upcoming season. It's a good way to identify potential value based on a writer's analysis and also track the writer's process by seeing if the results pan out.... Read More
Overvalued, Undervalued Trade Targets - Buy/Sell for Fantasy Baseball (Week 14)
Making the right trades can be crucial to championship success in fantasy baseball. It's almost as important as the draft, if not more. While most trades can have a significant impact on your fantasy team, it’s the deals where you acquire undervalued players and witness their production improve that can truly tip the scales in... Read More
Florio's Bullpens and Saves Report - New Fantasy Baseball Closers in Arizona, St. Louis
You go on vacation for one week and bullpens around the league lose their mind! In just a week, we have seen numerous teams make changes to the backend of their bullpens. That is not even factoring in that we have yet to see trades happening, but we are just days away from July. Then,... Read More
Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Griffin Canning and Kenta Maeda
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. We've got two AL right-handers to break down this week. First, we'll take a look... Read More
The Cut List - Time to Let Go? Week 14
Welcome back to The Cut List for Week 14. This is our weekly article looking at players who fantasy managers might be considering cutting from their teams and struggling players who need a closer look. We'll look at players who are worthy of a drop, players who are worth monitoring for replacing, and someone on... Read More
Overvalued, Undervalued Trade Targets - Buy/Sell for Fantasy Baseball (Week 13)
Making the right trades can be crucial to championship success in fantasy baseball. It's almost as important as the draft, if not more. While most trades can have a significant impact on your fantasy team, it’s the deals where you acquire undervalued players and witness their production improve that can truly tip the scales in... Read More
Potential Hitter Breakouts for Fantasy Baseball - Samulski Custom Leaderboard
When the summer months hit, it can sometimes be hard to think of where to look to find fantasy diamonds in the rough. Should we still be looking at year-to-year changes? Should we be using the last month's surface-level stats? Should we use Statcast x-stat leaderboards or the rolling windows? Instead of doing any of... Read More
Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts From Bryan Woo and Julio Teheran
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. We are looking at two pitchers with very different styles who've taken different paths to... Read More
Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds - Advanced Metrics Leaders for WAR (Week 13)
Welcome back to another edition of RotoBaller’s Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds article series! Each week, I will select one advanced metric, choose two pitchers with strong values and two with poor values, and analyze what those values may mean for future performance. Last week, I looked at a general metric for expected performance. This... Read More
The Cut List - Time to Let Go? Week 13
Welcome back to The Cut List for Week 13 - June 19th through June 25th. This is our weekly article looking at players who fantasy managers might be considering cutting from their teams and struggling players who need a closer look. We'll look at players who are worthy of a drop, players who are worth... Read More
Breakout Hitters Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Evan Longoria, Tommy Pham, Anthony Rendon, Miguel Rojas
Welcome RotoBallers to our fantasy baseball breakout hitters article for Week 12. As always, we are here to bring you a few MLB hitters who's advanced metrics are popping out. My name is Joshua Costello, and I'll be filling in for Jon Anderson with this weekly article, giving you 3-5 hitter names that seem to... Read More