Injuries are commonplace in all sports. Baseball has seen the rate of injury continue to rise over the past few years. In fantasy, if someone is not in the medical field, it is hard to gauge how long a player will be out and whether they need to be replaced in a lineup. Sometimes this […]
Full Story »Evaluating MLB Rookie Performances for Fantasy Baseball - Week 9
If you’re looking for a newcomer to boost your rotation or lineup down the stretch, there could be a few recent call-ups worth considering. As for dynasty owners, whether you’re competing down the stretch or building for next year, there will certainly be several names to keep on your radar through the season’s final stretch. […]
Full Story »The Cut List (Week 9) - Time to Let Go?
Welcome back to the Cut List. In recent weeks we switched up the format of this article a bit, to cover a larger pool of players and to discuss trends being seen by fantasy baseball managers across a large number of leagues, based on ESPN's 25 most dropped players in the past week. Injuries have always […]
Full Story »Gardner Minshew II (QB, JAX) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: All hail the 'stache! Garden Minshew II took the game just where he left him last season, put on the superhero suit again, and completed a masterpiece to the tune of completing 19 of 20 attempts for 173 yards, 3 TDs, and no […]
Full Story »Teddy Bridgewater (QB, CAR) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Teddy B finished Week 1 as the QB15 through Sunday's games and top-34 player overall in PPR leagues. More than that, and even although you might not believe what I'm about to say: Bridgewater completed 22 of 34 attempts for 270 yards, the ninth-highest […]
Full Story »Willie Snead IV (WR, BAL) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We all know the top-three guys walking around Baltimore these days, one per skill position: TE Mark Andrews, WR Marquise Brown, and RB Mark Ingram. Well, while Andrews was the best Raven in Week 1, it turns out that both Ingram and […]
Full Story »Kirk Cousins (QB, MIN) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED: 34% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It is hard to trust Kirk Cousins as a weekly QB1 if only because Minnesota should be a run-first team. Last season, the Vikings set some low-volume records on the passing front through the first weeks of the year, and that shouldn't change all […]
Full Story »Adrian Peterson (RB, DET) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 45% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The talk regarding Detroit's backfield during the offseason was focused on its two prime assets: Kerryon Johnson and rookie D'Andre Swift. Even after adding uber-veteran Adrian Peterson from Washington in time for the start of the season, it never made much sense to […]
Full Story »Jimmy Graham (TE, CHI) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 5% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Last season, playing for Green Bay, Jimmy Graham's fantasy outcomes were all over the table. He had days of multiple targets and putrid scores, and others in which just a few passes allowed him to rack up goodies in bunches. For any […]
Full Story »O.J. Howard (TE, TB) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 17% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think there is any need to introduce O.J. Howard to you by talking about his past seasons here. That is already a well-known story and one we don't want to remember, but rather forget as soon as possible. Just to put […]
Full Story »N'Keal Harry (WR, NE) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ PPR Team Leagues ROSTERED: 32% of Leagues ANALYSIS: I must admit that I was really high on N'Keal Harry last season, in his rookie year and the last with QB Tom Brady playing for the Patriots. And what did Harry do? Let me know, that is. Over his seven played […]
Full Story »Preston Williams (WR, MIA) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 38% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Some fantasy GMs will check the Week 1 fantasy-point leaderboard and deem Williams as a bust and not worth waiver wire addition. And they will be super wrong with that approach. Don't be that guy, please. First of all, Miami faced New England […]
Full Story »Larry Fitzgerald (WR, ARI) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 23% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Cardinals kicked off the 2020 season finishing their Week 1 game this close to putting two players (with Monday's games still to be played) in the top-10 of PPR leaderboards. QB Kyler Murray racked up 29.3 and WR DeAndre Hopkins reached 29.1 […]
Full Story »Danny Amendola (WR, DET) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED: 2% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Danny Amendola has me excited. Actually, the Lions as a whole have me excited. Matthew Stafford is back healthy and although he only completed 24 of his 42 pass attempts he still threw for 297 yards, of which 81 came from Amendola's […]
Full Story »Allen Lazard (WR, GB) - Week 2 Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED: 42% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Only one week into the season, sure, but I am already celebrating Aaron Rodgers getting back to his 2011 vibes! Yay! This is not about Green Bay's quarterback, though. It is about who seems to have solidified himself as the Packers no. 2 […]
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