
Andres Gimenez (2B/SS, CLE) - 2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Sleepers
Andres Gimenez burst onto the scene in the shortened 2020 season. Originally expected to spend the year at the alternate training site for the New York Mets, Gimenez worked his way into a roster spot in spring training with his baserunning instincts and highlight-reel defensive plays, and then soon overtook the slumping Amed Rosario to […]

Tanner Houck (SP, BOS) - 2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Sleepers
The Red Sox haven’t developed a legitimate MLB starting pitcher since Clay Buchholz, but Tanner Houck has the potential to be just that. Houck was the Red Sox’s first-round pick back in 2017 and steadily climbed the system since then, never putting up eye-popping numbers but always holding his own at every level he was […]

MLB Live Chat @ 4 PM - Draft Prep Q&A
It's officially draft season... do you know who to draft? RotoBaller's Eric Samulski (@SamskiNYC) will be hosting a live Q&A chat session on Thursday March 18th at 4:00 pm ET. Come join in on the fun and get your fantasy baseball questions answered, or just stick around for some MLB talk! All throughout the MLB preseason, […]

Bubba and Bat Flip 75 - Relief Pitcher Review - Benched with Bubba (Episode 352)
Bubba (@bdentrek) is joined by Bat Flip Crazy (@BatFlipCrazy). With the position reviews almost over, the guys wrap them up with their relief pitcher review. They go over some ADP debates, some questionable bullpen situations, a bunch of listener questions, and more. Be sure to subscribe to the Benched With Bubba Podcast, part of RotoBaller Radio's Podcast […]

MLB Live Chat @ 12 PM - Draft Prep Q&A
It's officially draft season... do you know who to draft? RotoBaller's Doug Goldring (@DougGoldring) will be hosting a live Q&A chat session on Thursday March 18th at 12:00 pm noon ET. Come join in on the fun and get your fantasy baseball questions answered, or just stick around for some MLB talk! All throughout the MLB preseason, […]

Daily MLB Injury Roundup for March 18th, 2021
RotoBaller has assembled a list of daily MLB injury updates to help you prepare both your seasonal and daily fantasy baseball (DFS) lineups, every day of the MLB season. Below is our updated list of injured MLB players for March 18th, 2021. Only players on teams that are scheduled to play today will appear below […]

Home League Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategies: Ep. 25 of The Operating Room
Host Kev Mahserejian (@RotoSurgeon) and Nick Pollack (@PitcherList), founder of PitcherList, link up to discuss fantasy baseball and the strategies that should go into typical of home leagues. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, and Saturdays from 8-10 AM ET. […]

Sam Chinitz's 10 Bold Predictions For 2021
The 2021 MLB regular season is less than one month away, so it’s time for some bold predictions. Last year’s bold predictions didn’t pan out too well for me; if we’re being generous, two out of the ten predictions hit -- and that’s including Corey Kluber posting a sub-3.00 ERA (which technically happened, even if […]

MLB Spring Training Notebook (3/17) - Jorge Polanco Leaves Game
Welcome to the 2021 edition of RotoBaller's Spring Training Notebook. Thankfully, we have real, live baseball being played every day again, and while it doesn't count for anything, these exhibition games gives us the smallest glimmer into players and teams heading into the new season. We're into our third week of spring training games and […]

Starter Prospects that Could be Impact Relievers in 2021
In many ways, Major League Baseball is getting back to normal in 2021. Most importantly for sports fans and fantasy baseball fanatics, this means that the season will be 162 games after experiencing a stunted 2020 season. However, the sudden spike back to 162 games from 60 contests creates headaches for MLB managers. Lance Lynn […]

2020 Breakout Infielders Who'll Keep Improving
In a recent article, I outlined a methodology to determine which breakout 2020 seasons from hitters would be built off of into 2021. Upon further reflection, however, I’m unconvinced that that methodology the best way to spot breakouts that will continue to improve, in large part because of its reliance on evaluating the stickiness of […]

2021 Keeper Value Rankings - Third Base
Many many years ago, I noticed the managers in my long-time keeper league were consistently making terrible keeper decisions year after year. Instead of taking their money every year thought I would help them out and find a good set of Keeper League Rankings to share with them. What I found was quite disturbing. There […]

Daily MLB Injury Roundup for March 17th, 2021
RotoBaller has assembled a list of daily MLB injury updates to help you prepare both your seasonal and daily fantasy baseball (DFS) lineups, every day of the MLB season. Below is our updated list of injured MLB players for March 17th, 2021. Only players on teams that are scheduled to play today will appear below […]

Starting Pitcher Rankings, NFL Free Agency - The King and Pocket Aces Episode 6
In this episode of The King and Pockets Aces, RotoBaller's Scott "The King" Engel and Anthony "Pocket Aces" Aniano share their highly charged Fantasy insights. They look at the latest and upcoming NFL player moves, the Hot Stove headlines, provide Fantasy Basketball player breakdowns, and ready you for the DFS NASCAR season with strategy tips. […]

MLB Spring Training Notebook (3/16) - Luis Robert Scratched Monday
Welcome to the 2021 edition of RotoBaller's Spring Training Notebook. Thankfully, we have real, live baseball being played every day again, and while it doesn't count for anything, these exhibition games gives us the smallest glimmer into players and teams heading into the new season. We're into our third week of spring training games and […]

Fantasy Baseball Spring Training Injury Updates
Injury updates tend to change often during Spring Training. "Soreness" is a common theme as players get back into game shape. I will be giving the most recent available injury updates from the offseason. These updates will undoubtedly change as Spring Training continues. As we get closer to Opening Day, some injuries are much more […]

Later-Round First Basemen - Targets and Avoids
Once you reach the middle-to-late rounds of drafts, everyone wants to draft some upside fliers that can provide a great return on value. You can take a risk or two on a variety of different players, including a prospect, forgotten veterans, players returning from injuries, or even players with skills but have playing time concerns. […]

Daily MLB Injury Roundup for March 16th, 2021
RotoBaller has assembled a list of daily MLB injury updates to help you prepare both your seasonal and daily fantasy baseball (DFS) lineups, every day of the MLB season. Below is our updated list of injured MLB players for March 16th, 2021. Only players on teams that are scheduled to play today will appear below […]

2021 Starting Pitcher Rankings - 5x5 Mixed Leagues (Part 1)
We now move on to starting pitcher in our mixed-league rankings analysis series. If you missed them, here is our review of Catcher, First Base, Second Base, Third Base, Shortstop, and Outfield. RotoBaller's rankers, JB Branson, Pierre Camus, Nick Mariano, and Ariel Cohen have updated our 2021 Mixed League rankings once more based on early spring training action. You can […]

Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball: Pitch Info
One of the most fundamental questions in fantasy sports is if a player's current performance is sustainable. More than any other sport, baseball has a slew of statistical measures that can be dissected in numerous ways to analyze player performance. Pitch Info is a publicly-available pitch tracking system that provides a lot of different data to […]

Spring Training Lineup Takeaways: Recapping Week 2 - Bases Loaded Podcast
Continuing on to week two of Spring Training lineup coverage! Subscribe to the Bases Loaded podcast, part of RotoBaller Radio's Podcast Network. Like and Subscribe to the RotoBaller channel on Youtube to get all our latest podcasts and catch us on iTunes and BlogTalkRadio as well! Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, […]

Simon Dice Talks TGFBI and Razzslam - Draft Champions Podcast
In today's episode, Zack (@zackroto) brings on Simon Dice (@HonRonBaseball) as a guest to his Draft Champions podcast (@draftchampagne). They discuss TGFBI, Razzslam and more. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, and Saturdays from 8-10 AM ET. You can also find new […]

F.O.M.O - Bases Loaded Podcast
Mike and Jorge get together to discuss players they have a fear of missing out on this draft season. Subscribe to the Bases Loaded podcast, part of RotoBaller Radio's Podcast Network. Like and Subscribe to the RotoBaller channel on Youtube to get all our latest podcasts and catch us on iTunes and BlogTalkRadio as well! Be sure […]

Daily MLB Injury Roundup for March 15th, 2021
RotoBaller has assembled a list of daily MLB injury updates to help you prepare both your seasonal and daily fantasy baseball (DFS) lineups, every day of the MLB season. Below is our updated list of injured MLB players for March 15th, 2021. Only players on teams that are scheduled to play today will appear below […]

Top 20 Outfielders - Dynasty Prospect Rankings
If you’ve played fantasy baseball for a while, you know how hard it can be to find enough quality outfielders to field a competitive team all year long. The good news for fantasy managers is that there are some big names on the way, thanks in part to the 2020 amateur draft which had a […]

Launch Angle Analysis - Potential HR Risers
With the onset of Statcast data, we can now better predict which hitters may be due for a power surge. Before recent years, we only had things like hard-hit rate and home runs per fly ball ratios to look to as predictors of future changes in home run rates. Now that we have launch angle, […]

Top 10 Tips for Fantasy Baseball Snake Drafts
Before I begin, let me caveat everything I say with this: I don't consider myself to be some sort of expert master fantasy player. I've only been playing fantasy baseball for a little under a decade. But as soon as I started to immerse myself into this game we all love, my main focus was […]

Spring Training Lineup Takeaways - Week 2 Lineup Trends
Welcome back RotoBallers! We are entering week three of Spring Training already, and with that came a lot of things we saw in week two. But of course, my week one review also still has very relevant information as well. Just a reminder, in my Lineup Takeaways series we are focusing 100% on lineups, news and […]

Catcher Preview: Fantasy Baseball 2021 ADP Analysis
Host Anthony Aniano of RotoBaller discusses 2021 fantasy baseball catcher rankings and catcher draft sleepers who can be sneaky later-round picks. He breaks down and compares the ADPs of five different MLB players at the catcher position. Fantasy players should consider picking up these players for their drafts this MLB Season. Be sure to also tune […]