Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 12

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Here are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Wednesday, April 12th. Since it's a full slate, most of the focus will be on pitchers. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 11

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Here are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Tuesday, April 11th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy baseball trade analyzer BvP matchups data (Batter vs. Pitcher) PvB matchups data (Pitcher […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/10/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy Sunday night and/or Monday morning!  With five afternoon games and five evening games there's a total of 10 games on the slate for Monday. I'm going to provide options for all of the games. Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for DFS games so let's get down to business. In this article, […]

Week 2 Waiver Wire - Points Leagues

Points leagues are a different beast compared to rotisserie leagues, because you're looking for someone who can fill the whole stat sheet, and when you can find some of those guys on the wire, they're golden. Here are a few guys who can contribute in points leagues, one at each position to consider for the next […]

Chris Owings (2B/SS/OF, ARI) – Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 10% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: It was unclear how much playing time Owings would get heading into 2017, but Ketel Marte’s Spring Training struggles and Nick Ahmed’s defense-only profile have cleared regular playing time for Owings. He will still be out of the lineup from time […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/9/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/9/17. The DFS lineup picks will range from some of the elite players to mid-priced options and value plays on Yahoo.  You can read our FanDuel and DraftKings DFS lineup picks as well. If you have any questions […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 10

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Here are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Monday, April 10th. It's a new week and a new opportunity for owners to build upon leads or dig out of the basement. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball […]

Hitter Streamers (Week 2): Head-to-Head Leagues

Welcome back to my hitting streamers column for Week 2, taking a look at hitters to add or stream off the waiver wire for this week's scheduled games. To keep things simple, I pick from players who are less than 50% owned and who play at least seven games in the week.  If someone jumps […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/8/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/8/17. The DFS lineup picks will range from some of the elite players to mid-priced options and value plays on Yahoo.  You can read our FanDuel and DraftKings DFS lineup picks as well. If you have any questions […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/7/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

We have quite a few games to choose from today and tonight. Every single team in the league will play today or tonight. Max Scherzer is taking the mound, which is very important. Find out who else is important. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for […]

Yangervis Solarte (2B/3B, SD) – Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 23% of FleaFlicker Leagues ANALYSIS: Those who enjoy both DFS and season long fantasy know that the Padres will be a favorite team to stream against thanks to their terrible pitching staff. That has also led many to believe that their lineup is equally bad, which isn’t […]

Week 1 Waiver Wire Watch List

Welcome to the Week 1 Waiver Wire Watch List. Each week we’ll be updating this list full of players who may not be quite ready to be picked up (depending on your league size and format), but who need to be on your radar. We’ll look at eight players each week and keep tabs on players […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/6/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy Thursday!  With nine afternoon games and four evening games there's a healthy slate of games. Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for DFS games so let's get down to business. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/6/17. The DFS lineup […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 7th

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Let's talk pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Friday, April 7th, some of which can be applied to DFS games as well. You're busy. I'm busy. Shall we get to it?Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

ADP Champs or Chumps: Yasmani Grandal & Rougned Odor

Isn't it amazing? We spend the entire offseason hatching grand plans about how we are going to dominate our leagues. No detail is left unexplored. When Opening Day comes around, we are mentally prepared to treat it as the first step in our inevitable march toward fantasy immortality. Then, a few games are played and […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 6th

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Below are some pitcher and hitter streamer targets for Thursday, April 6th, which can be applied for DFS games as well. You're busy. I'm busy. Shall we get to it?Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

2017 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 1)

Hello everyone, and welcome to my weekly Top-30 Fantasy Rankings for Impact Rookies. In this series, I will be going over the top prospects in baseball and discussing which ones figure to have an impact for the rest of this fantasy baseball season. We are officially underway in the 2017 Major League Baseball season! Who […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 5th

Over the offseason, there was much ado about the home run surge of 2016. Would it continue into 2017 or was regression looming? One game into the MLB season, and we already have 30 home runs - a 5,400 home run pace. Yasmani Grandal, Rougned Odor, and Khris Davis have already popped two apiece, as has […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/4/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Baseball is back, and we couldn't be happier. It's definitely very difficult to predict a player's performance this early in the season (granted it's always difficult) so I have focused heavily on past success. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/4/17. The DFS lineup […]

Using Sabermetrics For Fantasy Baseball Part 13: Barrels For Pitchers

Last time, we looked at Barrels, a stat combining exit velocity and launch angle to measure how often a batter makes quality hard contact. As much as batters want to hit a Barrel every time, pitchers want to avoid them at all costs. Yet there is some evidence that pitchers do not have the same […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/3/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy opening day! Hooray for baseball! This is going to be a very exciting season, especially with the huge increase in homers we saw in 2016. How will that play out this year? We'll watch and see.  Today, Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for DFS games. Let's get down to business. In […]

Tyler Saladino (2B/SS/3B, CHW) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Mixed, AL-only Leagues OWNED IN: 13% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Tyler Saladino has picked up some sleeper hype during a torrid spring, but he remains lightly owned. The versatile 27-year-old hit .282 with eight homers and 11 steals in just 319 plate appearances a year ago. Given his minor league track record […]

Cesar Hernandez (2B, PHI) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Mixed, NL-only Leagues OWNED IN: 8% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Cesar Hernandez looked like a utility man when he broke into the majors in 2014, but he’s developed into a player with relevance in many fantasy formats. His plate discipline, contact rate and contact quality have steadily trended up in the last three […]

Streaming Wars: Exploiting the Waiver Wire to Win Your League

Welcome to Streaming Wars, a new column offering waiver wire recommendations for the next day. Streaming goes by many names such as micromanaging, churn and burn, etc. Whatever you call it, the goal is the same - to fully leverage your weakest roster spots. Streaming is not for everybody, but it is for mostbody. Sometimes, you'll have […]

Week 1 Waiver Wire: 0-25% Owned Pickups

Baseball is finally back. In light of this, let's give that free agent pool one last look over before the stats start flying. Here are the best players who are owned in 0-25% of Yahoo leagues. You can see our column on 25-50% owned players as well. These are your deeper Week 1 waiver wire pickups and […]

Week 1 Waiver Wire: 25-50% Owned Pickups

Wow, we're really here. After all this time, baseball is truly back. Happy Opening Day RotoBallers! In light of this, let's give that free agent pool one last look over before the stats start flying. Today, we'll look at players who are owned in 25-50% of Yahoo leagues and see who stands out. You can […]

Baseball Award Predictions that (Probably) Won't Come True

My least favorite type of baseball articles to read are preseason predictions for awards. Nobody in their right mind is going to pick against Mike Trout for AL MVP and there's a very narrow population of players that are considered in the NL. It's not exactly informative to hear someone say, "Clayton Kershaw has a […]

Using Sabermetrics for Fantasy Baseball Part 12 - Barrels for Batters

If you've watched a baseball broadcast in the so-called Statcast Era, you have undoubtedly noticed the broadcasters commenting on a batted ball's exit velocity, or EV. Many have taken to using stats like Hard% and Soft% to forecast how a player should be performing, expecting larger Hard% rates to produce larger BABIP figures. There is […]

Neil Walker (2B, NYM) - 2017 Fantasy Baseball Draft Sleepers & Values

BALLER MOVE: Target ~215 CURRENT ADP: ~253 ANALYSIS: Neil Walker should feel downright disrespected these days. Once considered a top 10 second baseman who won a Silver Slugger award in Pittsburgh, his value took a sharp downward turn after one season in New York. Not that Walker was that much less effective, but injuries limited […]

Raul Mondesi (2B, KC) - 2017 Fantasy Baseball Draft Sleepers & Values

BALLER MOVE: Draft Late in Deeper / AL-Only Formats CURRENT ADP: ~375 ANALYSIS: Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost made it official on Monday when he announced that Raul Mondesi would be the starting second baseman for his team in the 2017 season. Mondesi has put together an impressive spring in which he has hit .367/.380/.612 with three […]