Overvalued, Undervalued Trade Targets - Buy/Sell for Fantasy Baseball (Week 5)

Making the right trades can be crucial to championship success in fantasy baseball, almost as much 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 then see their production improve that can really tip the scales in... Read More

Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (Week 5)

April is wrapping up soon so let's end the first month of baseball right with my weekly Top 101 Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks breakdown. It's still early but we've got some actionable intel to go off of! Let's jump into another edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks! There's still less than a month... Read More

Breakout Hitters Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Jack Suwinski, James Outman, and More

It is Week 3 of Breakout Hitters Watch, and so far I'm feeling pretty good about it. This post is one of my favorites to write because we really get into the data and locate some very interesting hitters to add. I learn a ton from this post every week, so I hope the rest... Read More

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 5)

While we didn't have quite the prospect promotion frenzy this past week as we did the week before, the top 25 prospects to stash list still saw some movement, including the call-up of electric right-hander Mason Miller and the recall of Taj Bradley. We also appear to have a few more arms on the cusp... Read More

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Sterlin Thompson, Tanner Bibee, Kumar Rocker, Evan Carter and more

With the NFL draft happening this week, we are adding a bit of a draft pick theme to this week's six packs. There are three players that were top-10 overall selections, including one prior top-overall pick in this week's player profiles. We will take a look at season-long leaders in a couple of statistical categories... Read More

Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts from Drew Smyly and Joey Lucchesi

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. It was good to be a lefty last week, and we'll be breaking down two... Read More

Week 5 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include: Mason Miller, Joey Gallo, Drey Jameson, Matt Strahm, Connor Joe

RotoBallers, we are almost through the end of April, and it's already Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season. Offenses and the weather are heating up, and we are back with our latest waiver wire rankings article. Today is the fourth article of the weekly waiver wire rankings series as of April 23rd. Week 5... Read More

The Cut List - Time to Let Go? Week 5

Welcome back to The Cut List. 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 the hot seat... Read More

Potential Breakout Hitters for Fantasy Baseball - Early Plate Discipline Improvers

Early in the fantasy baseball season, it's so easy to overreact to what we see on the field. We want every early home run barrage or max velocity to be a sign of a pending breakout, but the truth of the matter is that a lot of it is just noise less than 20 games... Read More

MLB Prospects Breakout Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Matthew Liberatore, Nolan Jones, Brandon Pfaadt, Michael Busch and more

With the passing weeks, we get more and better data to use. This year, we have more and better data for all of AAA (that is the International League and the Pacific Coast League). With the International League adding in the Statcast infrastructure, we can now know a whole lot more about the players down... Read More

Overvalued, Undervalued Trade Targets - Buy/Sell for Fantasy Baseball (Week 4)

Making the right trades can be crucial to championship success in fantasy baseball, almost as much 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 then see their production improve that can really tip the scales in... Read More

Breakout Hitters Watch for Fantasy Baseball - Jarred Kelenic, Luis Garcia, Brent Rooker, more

We are back for the second week of the breakout hitter watch. Every week, I look into the data to find some hitters that really seem to be improving. There will be different player profiles included in all of this. I try to keep the majority of the names as hitters that are available on... Read More

Top 300 Fantasy Baseball Rankings - Nick Mariano's Rest-of-Season Outlooks for Alek Manoah, Max Muncy, Luis Arraez, more

Welcome back RotoBallers, Week 4 has arrived, and it's time for another rankings check-in. Below is another edition of Nick Mariano's updated 2023 fantasy baseball rankings and tiers for roto leagues (5x5 mixed leagues) as of April 19, 2023. These rankings are being released in mid-April and are looking at rest-of-season fantasy baseball rankings and player values... Read More

Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts from Domingo German and Johan Oviedo

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 some exciting players to break down this week. We'll  be looking at Domingo... Read More

Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (Week 4)

Welcome back to the bump as we tap the PitchCom for my weekly Top 101 Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks breakdown. It's still early but some images are coming into focus under the microscope. Let's jump into another edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks! I'm still not going to frame this with a heaping... Read More

Do These Prospects Matter for Fantasy Baseball? Peyton Burdick, Mason Miller, Jordyn Adams, Masyn Winn and more

Reviewing the publicly-available Statcast data for Triple-A and the Florida State League in Single-A, there are plenty of hitters and pitchers that stand out this week across minor league baseball. However, do those big numbers translate to a fantasy-viable player? After the first full week of lower-level minor league play and the second full week... Read More

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 4)

What a week. The promotions have been coming quickly so far here in 2023 and last week was no exception. We had six names from last week's top 25 get the call, including Brett Baty, who will make his 2023 season debut on Monday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. We even received a surprising... Read More

Week 4 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include: Zach Neto, Brett Baty, Garrett Cooper, Taj Bradley, A.J. Puk

RotoBallers, we are halfway through April, and it's already Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season. Offenses and the weather are heating up, and we are back with our latest waiver wire rankings article. Today is the third article of the weekly waiver wire rankings series as of April 16th. Week 4 features players such... Read More

Eric Cross' Top 50 Dynasty Prospect Rankings for Fantasy Baseball

Baseball is back in full swing at all levels and rankings are in full swing as well. We've already seen the top two prospects in Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson graduate, leaving us with a brand new #1 and #2 overall prospect atop my rankings. These rankings are geared toward standard 5x5 leagues (AVG) and... Read More

Top 101 Starting Pitchers: Rest-Of-Season Rankings for Fantasy Baseball (Week 3)

What is up, pitcher people? It is that grand time of the week when I get to check in with my weekly Top 101 Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks breakdown as we're all scurrying about pretending like we can play it cool and not overreact. Let's dive into the second 2023 edition of my weekly Starting... Read More

Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects To Stash - Updated Rankings for 2023 Redraft (Week 3)

The MLB season is already humming along into its second full week and all full-season minor league levels are now in full swing as well with Single-A and Double-A kicking off late last week. Although it's still very early, we've already seen prospects making an impact at the MLB level with several high-profile promotions already.... Read More

RIVAL Fantasy MLB DFS Prop Picks: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

Welcome to our new series covering RIVAL Fantasy picks for MLB! We will focus on two fantasy contest types offered on RIVAL; Challenges and FantasyBook (Over/Under). Challenges are H2H matchups between two MLB players. You choose which one you think will score the most fantasy points, then place a bet to back it. If another... Read More

Are You For Real? Surprising Pitcher Starts from Week 2

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're looking at a pair of pitchers who've had shaky track records up... Read More

RIVAL Fantasy MLB DFS Prop Picks: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

Welcome to the first installment of RIVAL Fantasy picks for MLB! We will focus on two of the fantasy contest types offered on RIVAL; Challenges and FantasyBook (Over/Under). Challenges are H2H matchups between two MLB players. You choose which one you think will score the most fantasy points, and then you place a bet of... Read More

Week 3 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include: Joey Wiemer, Michael Fulmer, Oscar Colas, Pierce Johnson

Can you believe it RotoBallers? It's already Week 3 of the fantasy baseball season. Today is the second article of the weekly waiver wire rankings series as of April 9th. Week 3 features players such as Joey Wiemer, Michael Fulmer, Orlando Arcia, Oscar Colas, and Pierce Johnson. Read more to see where these players rank... Read More

Overvalued, Undervalued Trade Targets - Buy/Sell for Fantasy Baseball (Week 2)

Making the right trades can be crucial to championship success in fantasy baseball, almost as much 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 then see their production improve that can really tip the scales in... Read More

Eric Cross' Dynasty News and Notes: James Outman, Joey Wiemer, Francisco Alvarez, Grayson Rodriguez and more

In the blink of an eye, the first week of the MLB regular season has come and gone, along with Triple-A Opening Day last week and Double-A/Single-A Opening Day on Thursday. In the dynasty world, news and notes articles take on a whole new meaning. Not only are we discussing short-term value with these players,... Read More

Closers and Saves Waiver Wire Report for Fantasy Baseball - Week 2

Another week of baseball, another week of bullpen news. With now nearly all fantasy leagues playing games that count (catch up, tardy turtles!), we'll have our weekly Closers and Saves Report to make sure we help you fully keep up with all the latest bullpen moves and all the latest waiver wire guys who could... Read More

The Baller Ranks: Weekly Top 101 Starting Pitcher Rankings

Admirers of starting pitching assemble, as it is once again time for my weekly top 101 SP Baller Ranks breakdown to hit the press. We've survived the offseason, enjoyed our draft days, and now it is time for battle. Here we go with the first 2023 edition of my weekly Starting Pitcher Baller Ranks! This... Read More