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We’re now four months deep into the baseball season, and fantasy owners are in the heat of the stretch run. For many of those in contention, they will live and die on their starting pitching. RotoBaller has been updating our positional rankings over the past week. Today, we’re revisiting the starting pitcher rankings we initially published in April and […]
Full Story »Stephen Drew (SS, BOS) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Many owners lost Everth Cabrera or Jhonny Peralta today due to the Biogenesis suspensions. Are you one of them? I know I am. Shortstop is a thin position this year, so these same owners may be scrambling to find a replacement. Drew has been hitting better of late, […]
Full Story »Rajai Davis (OF, TOR) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Looking for some cheap steals? Well look no further than the SB specialist Rajai Davis. He swipes 3 bags last night in a single game, after swiping 4 bags against Houston just a few nights back. He now has 34 SBs in just 197 ABs! That's some serious […]
Full Story »Devin Mesoraco (C, CIN)
BALLER MOVE: Add In Deep Leagues (2 Catcher Leagues Must Add) ANALYSIS: Devin Mesoraco has quietly put together some stellar numbers over the the past 14 days at the Catcher position for the Reds and is owned in only 8% of Yahoo leagues. Over his last 46 at bats, he is posting a .308 batting […]
Full Story »George Kottaras (C, KC) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: With the news that Sal Perez will hit the seven-day concussion DL, savvy deep-league owners might consider a short-term investment in backup catcher George Kottaras. Kottaras's season numbers are not particularly pretty, with just a .169 BA coming into Monday's action, but it's worth noting that he's gone […]
Full Story »Danny Salazar (SP, CLE) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Salazar will get the nod to start on Wednesday at home against the Tigers. Salazar sparkled in his first and only start of the season so far, raking up seven strikeouts in six innings against Toronto. The Tigers are a much more potent offense than the Jays, but […]
Full Story »MLB Suspensions for PEDs (Biogenesis): Braun, A-Rod, Cruz & Others
Update - August 5th, 2013 (5:10 pm EST): A-Rod has officially been activated from the DL, and is batting cleanup tonight for the Yankees. Just a little while ago the MLB players association also stated that they don't expect a ruling on A-Rod's appeal until November or December. This means A-Rod could potentially play out the remainder […]
Full Story »MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball (Fanduel) - August 5
This Monday once again features a solid nine-game slate for daily fantasy baseball players. Among the best matchups are the Dodgers in St. Louis in a battle of first-place NL teams, and a pair of division rivalries as the Tigers visit the Indians and the red-hot Braves travel to Washington to face the Nationals and […]
Full Story »Wade Miley (SP, ARI) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: Miley hasn't allowed more than three ER over any of his past 11 starts, which has helped lower his ERA to 3.68 in 134.2 IP. The young lefty has won four of his last five starts, including shutting down the Tampa Bay Rays for 6.1 IP in his last start […]
Full Story »Andrelton Simmons (SS, ATL)
BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: The young shortstop for the Braves has a .252 average on the year, but over his last 14 games he is killing it with a .315 average and .925 OPS. He has some nice power for a SS with 11 HR and 40 RBI to go along with 28 extra-base […]
Full Story »Nick Franklin (2B, SS, SEA)
BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: The Mariners’ young second baseman is having a fine rookie campaign with a .267 average in 206 at-bats. He is showing the ability to drive the ball with 10 HR, 13 2B, and 32 RBI which would prorate to studly fantasy line of 30 HR, 40 2B and 96 RBI […]
Full Story »Erik Bedard (SP, HOU) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Bedard has pitched well for the Astros with a 4.28 ERA and 95 K in 103 innings this season. More importantly, he has 26 K over his last 22.2 IP, but he also has four losses in that span. So basically, Bedard won't win any games for you […]
Full Story »Khris Davis (OF, MIL) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Continue Scouting ANALYSIS: Davis is an interesting prospect. With Ryan Braun accepting his suspension for the remainder of the season, Milwaukee called up Davis to try to replace some of the lost production. So far, he’s pretty much just bench and pinch-hitting duty, but he has 2 HR in just 27 AB, and […]
Full Story »DraftStreet Sunday Selections - MLB Lineups Advice for Daily Fantasy Baseball - August 4, 2013
Guillermo Moscoso takes the mound for the Giants as they finish up a three-game set in Tampa Bay. The 29-year-old will be making his first start in the Majors since August 15, 2012. After a very solid campaign with Oakland in 2011, the right-handed native of Venezuela has struggled his way through just 52.2 innings […]
Full Story »Fantasy Baseball Musings: Underowned Stretch-run Sleepers
If you don’t read past the next paragraph of this article, that’s fine by me. In it, I ask one simple question: Why in Bill James’s sacred sabermetrical name is Hector Santiago so grossly under-owned? Santiago is so widely ignored it blows my mind. Sure, his 3-7 record is ugly on the surface, but how […]
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