Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 21

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. This is your one stop guide to address lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Friday, April 21st. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/20/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Thursday morning, early afternoon, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there are four afternoon games and seven evening games. That's a total of 11 games on the slate and I'm going to focus on the evening games that are connected to the large prize pools.  Yahoo has some great value […]

Champ or Chump: Eric Thames & Francisco Lindor

Fantasy championships are never won in April, but it still feels good to be at the top of the standings. Eventually things will stabilize, making it more challenging to make a significant jump in a short period of time. When that happens, you definitely want to be in the hunt instead of an also-ran. Chances […]

Digging Deeper: Week 3 AL Waiver Wire Targets

Welcome back to Digging Deeper! I'll be taking a look at some deeper AL waiver wire options for Week 3 of the fantasy baseball season. Once again, I'm going to try to find some low-owned players in the American League that you deep-league players can look to add to your fantasy baseball rosters. Whether you […]

Digging Deeper: Week 3 NL Waiver Wire Targets

Welcome to our Week 3 edition of Digging Deeper, our weekly column where we will focus on deep league waiver wire options. My counterpart Tom Bellucco will be handling the American League while I focus on the National League. For those that have played in limited size leagues, you are well aware that at-bats and innings are […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/19/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Wednesday morning, early afternoon, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there is a full slate of games on Wednesday. There are four afternoon games and 11 evening games. That's a total of 15 games on the slate as the whole league is in action.  Yahoo has some great value options to […]

Contact Rate Risers and Fallers: Week 3

Welcome, fellow RotoBallers! We now have a decent enough sample size in the early MLB season to look at some key offensive trends. Among those trends we will follow each week is contact rate. A sudden increase or decrease in contact rate could signal the beginning of an extended hot or cold streak. Each week […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 20th

Happy tax day and welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. This is your one stop guide to plug lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Thursday, April 20th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 19

Happy tax day and welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. This is your one stop guide to plug lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Wednesday, April 19th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/18/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Tuesday morning, afternoon or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there is a full slate of games on Tuesday. That's a total of 15 games on the slate as the whole league is in action.  Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for DFS games so let's get down to […]

Ender Inciarte (OF,ATL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 43 % of Yahoo! leagues ANALYSIS: Is Ender Inciarte the next Brady Anderson? Nostalgic reference aside, Inciarte has shocked everyone, probably himself included, by jacking four home runs in a four-game span. For context, he hit three all of last season and has a single-season career high of six. […]

Points League Waiver Wire Week 3

Let's look for some Easter eggs this week! Week 3 is where we're beginning to get that point in the season where you can see who is poised for a breakout, and who is just a flash in the pan. Now, since we're looking at points leagues, we don't mind those flashes in the pan, […]

Week 3 Waiver Wire: Outfield

Welcome back to the Outfield Waiver Wire, where we take a look at the best outfielders available in at least 50 percent of Yahoo leagues. Consider this column your recommendations for Week 3 outfield waiver wire pickups. Any and all advice at this point in the year carries the implicit caveat of "It's April." Don't get carried […]

Week 3 Waiver Wire Watch List

Welcome to Week 3 of The Watch List. We introduced this piece last week, but here’s a friendly reminder for those who forgot. Each week we’ll be updating this list full of players who you aren’t quite ready to be pick up, but who need to be on your radar. We’ll look at eight players […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 18

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. This is your one stop guide to plug lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Tuesday, April 18th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools […]

Trey Mancini (DH, BAL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues, Monitor in All Leagues OWNED IN: 6% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Trey Mancini has gotten off to a record breaking start at the plate to begin his career. On Easter Sunday against the Orioles, Mancini got the start at first base and went 3-for-5 with two home runs and four RBI. Dating […]

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

Happy Easter Sunday! Or Happy Monday morning and/or Monday afternoon or whenever you're reading this. In any case there is one afternoon game and nine evening games on Monday. That's a total of 10 games on the slate for Monday so I'm going to focus on the nine evening games.  Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for […]

Podcast: After Hours With RotoBaller Radio - Week 2 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Pickups

RotoBaller co-founder Real Talk Raph and esteemed co-host Anthony Aniano of RotoBaller Radio discuss Week 2 fantasy baseball waiver wire targets and general team management strategy. Be sure to tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every Saturday and Sunday between 5-8 PM EST. You can also find new weekly shows on BlogTalkRadio live or on […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 17

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Use this column to plug lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Monday, April 17th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: […]

Champ or Chump: Kendall Graveman & Amir Garrett

It is so easy to overreact to a small sample. Kendall Graveman is 2-0 with a 2.00 ERA this year, and fantasy owners are falling all over themselves to acquire his services. Why? Amir Garrett is also 2-0, inspiring the fantasy world to collectively ask, "Who is that?". It is time to take a closer […]

Week 3 Cut List: Players on the Chopping Block

Welcome back to the Cut List. Each weekend from now until the end of the season, I’ll be offering my thoughts on players who don’t deserve to keep drawing a nonexistent salary on your fake baseball teams. A column like this can be a tricky thing so early in the year. We’re looking at a […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/16/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy Easter! In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/16/17. 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 […]

Hitter Streamers (Week 3): Head-to-Head Leagues

Welcome back, RotoBallers! The streamers are off to a good start thus far, and the week three options are looking even better. As a reminder, in this piece we're looking for weekly streamers, which means players who are less than 50% owned in Yahoo! leagues and who have a good chance to play a full […]

Buy or Sell - Underowned and Overowned Players for Week 3

After two weeks, we're starting to get a sense of which players had a couple of good games early on and who is legitimately off to a hot start in 2017. I'm all in on the Reds at the moment, but since I've already advocated for Eugenio Suarez and Jose Peraza plenty, I'll look for […]

Domingo Santana (OF, MIL) – Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 28% in Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: It’s no secret that Santana packs plenty of power in his swing, as his career HR/FB rate is 28.4%. He has displayed that with two early season home runs and three doubles. However, he has been too passive at the plate […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/15/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Every team in the MLB is playing today. This should be a fun and interesting slate. There are a couple higher priced pitching options, as well as some lower priced pitching options. Let's get down to business. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/15/17. […]

Week 2 Waiver Wire - Deep 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 deep points leagues, one at each position to consider for the […]

Power Risers and Fallers: Week Two

Hello you rabid RotoBallers, and welcome to this little look in at some early power risers and fallers. This isn’t a blind checkup on who is crushing the ball, but rather people who are making waves with a changed batted-ball profile or need a hot/cold start given some context. You don’t need me to tell […]

2017 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 2)

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. The season is still young, but already there have been some major […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/14/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Forget about the little early slate. No one wants to play that. This article is going to focus solely on the main slate, which starts at 7:05 PM EST. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/14/17. The DFS lineup picks will range from some […]