Brandon Belt (1B, SF) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Brandon Belt has quietly emerged as one of the more productive (11th-ranked) first basemen in the last week of live action. He has recorded a hit in each of his last five games dating back to July 9, while sporting a .stellar .353 BA and .529 OBP. Just […]

J.P. Arencibia (C, TOR) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add In Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: In case you owned J.P. Arencibia at any point during the 2013 season while he was surging at the plate, then you know just how giddy checking your stats at night and seeing him hit yet another dinger or drive in some runs on a double can make […]

Eric Young - (NYM, OF) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Young has been blazing hot lately. His line over the past two weeks is: .300-0-3-12-7. No power, but enormous speed, very solid BA, and high-end run production. Young has performed like a 2nd round player over the two weeks before the ASB, and if you need speed going […]

Danny Salazar - (CLE, SP) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Salazar was great in his first start for the Tribe, going 6 IP with 7 K, just 1 ER and 3 baserunners allowed. He throws ridiculous gas in the upper 90s and has very solid, above average control. Considering his K-rate in the minors was over 10 per […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis July 18: The Not-Roundup

Lunch-time, Deadline Crunch-time Today marks the beginning of trade-talk crunch-time for MLB teams looking either to unload contracts or to upgrade before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. We've heard names galore, player A going to team X, Y or Z. For mixed-league fantasy purposes, these trades usually mean little more than a possible shift […]

Jhoulys Chacin (P, COL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: Chacin sits at the midway point of the season with a 9-4 record, 3.50 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. He's been dominant in his last seven starts, going 6-1 while allowing more then two earned runs in just one of those starts, shaving a full point off of his ERA in […]

Kelly Johnson (2B/3B/OF, TAM) - Waiver Wire Analysis

BALLER MOVE: Continue Scouting ANALYSIS: Kelly Johnson is now owned in fewer than 50% of leagues despite a recent short streak that saw him put up 2 HR, 5 RBI and 5 R in his last six games played. However, outside of those couple of games, he's put up a lot of 0-fers. Given his […]

Gordon Beckham (2B, CHW)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues. ANALYSIS: Beckham was always considered a highly touted prospect, but has never really been able to put it all together. 2013 might be that year, as he's been consistently hitting when healthy. At this point, Beckham owns a solid .335/.357/.443 stat line for the year. And although his HR […]

Brad Ziegler (RP, ARI) - Waiver Wire Analysis

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues. ANALYSIS: The Diamondbacks bullpen situation is a mess right now, and the dreaded closer-by-committee is in place. Ziegler has been steady all year, rocking a stat line of 2.44 ERA / 1.04 WHIP and 24 Ks over 44 1/3 IPs. More importantly, Ziegler has been called upon to close […]

Corey Kluber (SP, CLE)

BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: Kluber has 94 K in 95 IP with 7 W, a 3.88 ERA and 1.24 WHIP. That is basically 5th starter material in any league. He is the 55th ranked starter in the 5x5 game. So why is he owned in only 19% of leagues? Could it be his extremely […]

Luke Scott (1B, TB)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Over the past two weeks, Luke Scott is the 58th ranked player in 5x5. He is mashing with a .405-3-8-6 line at the plate and has a 10 game hit streak with 15 hits over that span. Over his past 4 games he has 2 HR and 5 […]

Brett Wallace (1B, HOU)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: It seems like Wallace has been around forever, but he's still only 26 years old. There's still time for him to fulfill his post-hype sleeper ceiling, and we may be seeing the start of that right now. Since his callup from Triple-A, Wallace is batting .351 with 3 […]

Justin Smoak (1B, SEA)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Justin Smoak has been pretty terrible this year, but we saw him put up a very nice stretch in 2012, and it seems he's finding his groove at the plate just in time for the 2nd half. Over the last 8 games of the 1st half, Smoak had […]

Fantasy Baseball Prospects Analysis: All-Star Break Edition

Welcome to the weekly Fantasy Prospect Primer. This article is to inform you on prospects that might be contributing in fantasy in the near future or has been called up to the majors. Especially good for Keeper Leagues, you’ll want to check-in weekly to get the latest news and advice for the coming week regarding […]

Home Run Derby Special Edition: YO KNOWS the Long Ball

SPECIAL EDITION: Home Run Derby: YO KNOWS the LONGBALL On a day without any fantasy implications, we all get to sit back and enjoy the glorious wonders of power hitters and the one thing chicks (and grown-ass-men) dig more than anything: the long ball. With a star-studded lineup of power-hitting prowess, this year’s Home Run […]

Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis July 15: Staying Power

Staying Power OK, so by now everyone knows what Chris Davis and Miguel Cabrera are doing. Davis’s 37 homers before the break are the second-most all time, second only to Barry Bonds's 39 in 2001 (the year he broke the single-season home run record with 73 dingers in a season). However, when Bonds hit 73 HR, […]

Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Outfield (July Update)

The first three months of the 2013 fantasy baseball season are in the books, and now we’re really starting to get a feel for the fantasy baseball landscape. RotoBaller will be updating our positional rankings over the next week. Today, we’re revisiting the outfield rankings we initially published in April and have updated in May and June. All the ranks […]

Fantasy Baseball Advice: Three Up for Week Sixteen

With fifteen 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 16:     1) Kyle Seager (2B/3B, SEA): Up through mid-June, Seager played up to his draft position. Recently he’s taken off, playing himself into a higher […]

Wily Peralta (SP, MIL)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Peralta followed up his dominant CG shutout against Cinci with a great 7 IP 8 K 2 BB 1 ER effort vs. the D'Backs. He's pitching as well as he ever has in his young career, and considering he was one of the more highly touted young pitchers […]

Chris Archer (SP, TB) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Archer threw the best game of his career last night with a CG shutout vs. the Astros. He had 8 Ks, 0 BBs while allowing just 5 hits en route to the W. Archer hasn't allowed more than 3 ER in 8 starts, is striking out more batters […]

Fantasy Baseball Musings: Ryan Braun's Risk, B.J. Upton and More

Do yourself a favor:  stop thinking about what will happen to Ryan Braun and dump him today! We’ve heard anywhere from a 50-game suspension to a lifetime ban as potential punishment for the wide-eyed Brewer.  I don’t own Braun in any of my leagues (we were all given a heads up on his situation in […]

Martin Perez (SP, TEX)

BALLER MOVE: Continue Scouting ANALYSIS: Perez has pitched well for the Rangers with a 2.08 ERA in 30.1 innings pitched. He has only surrendered two home runs while striking out 16 and allowing just two runs in his last 18 innings pitched. The opposition is hitting .279 against him this season, though lefties are hitting […]

Wily Peralta (SP, MIL)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Peralta has not looked very good this season, with an ERA of 4.82 in 19 games. He has thrown 106.1 innings with a WHIP of 1.50 for Milwaukee. The right-hander is holding righties to a .267 average, while lefties hit him at a .291 clip. However, he is […]

Marlon Byrd (OF, NYM)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Byrd is having a career renaissance with the Mets this season. He has hit 14 HR to go along with 49 RBI, and he’s on pace to set career highs in both categories. Byrd isn’t quite hitting for a robust average at .268, but his OPS is solid […]

Michael Saunders (OF, SEA)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Saunders is having a difficult season to say the least, with him only hitting .220 in 214 at-bats to go along with only five HR and 21 RBI. He does have 10 stolen bases, so that’s certainly a positive. Over the last two weeks, though, he has gotten […]

Torii Hunter (OF, DET)

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Hunter is having a good season for the Tigers, with six bombs and 42 RBI in 341 at-bats. The power part of Hunter’s game looks to be completely gone this season, but he is a solid run-producer and he scores a fair amount of runs, as well, hitting […]

MLB Closers and Saves Update (Week 15)

Mid-Summer Homerun Derby Before I get into my normal column about the soap opera of closers, I wanted to take a few moments to at least acknowledge the Classic Homerun Derby.  And I might be in the minority on the homerun derby, but I happen to enjoy watching this event. Every year we hear the […]

MLB Daily Lineups - Fantasy Baseball Advice (Fanduel)

We’ve switched things up a little bit in our MLB Daily League Lineups column:  Instead of giving you an exact lineup for Fanduel, or another daily league site, we’ll be sharing top positional plays with quick analysis about why we like these guys.  There is no set budget for these picks, so they may be star-studded– […]

Custom Fantasy Baseball Advice: Harvey or Harper in Dynasty League?

The following article was written by RotoBaller.com’s team of expert analysts, in response to a question asked by one of our RotoBaller readers.  You can click here for more info if you’re interested in having RotoBaller’s experts answer a custom fantasy baseball question.   Question Submitted to RotoBaller I was proposed the following: I give Bryce Harper […]