Take Advantage of Your Competitors' Early Season Panic Attack

You are a savvy fantasy manager. You’re committed. Patient. You have the gumption to see a task to the end. You don’t have shaky nerves. You don’t run at the first sign of controversy. You lean in and charge forward. Unfortunately, or maybe I should say fortunately, not all fantasy players are created equal. How […]

Chris Sale Continues Worrisome Start To Season

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale lasted just four innings while surrendering five earned runs on seven hits, striking out three and walking none in a losing effort to Toronto on Tuesday. Things started out great for the southpaw, retiring the first seven Blue Jays he faced, while the Sox jumped out to an […]

Chris Sale Dealt With Illness Before Last Start

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora said that starting pitcher Chris Sale's diminished velocity in his last start was largely due to the fact that he was dealing with a stomach bug entering that outing. The left-hander wasn't able to throw on the side between his first and second starts. The velocity has been down […]

Catcher Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

We're a week and a half into the 2019 baseball season, giving us a larger sample size to assess the state of our fantasy rosters. If you were one of the advocates to punt the catching position to the late rounds of your draft, you might be looking for an upgrade at the position by […]

Dustin Pedroia Activated For Home Opener, Batting Seventh

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia (knee) was activated from the injured list before Tuesday's home opener against the Toronto Blue Jays. The 35-year-old will start at second base and bat seventh against Toronto's Matt Shoemaker. This will be Pedroia's first major league appearance since last year on May 29. However, he did appear […]

Chris Sale Set For Home-Opener Start

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale will open the home portion of the team's schedule on Tuesday against the Toronto Blue Jays. So far, Sale has had an interesting first two outings of 2019. After allowing seven runs in just three innings on Opening Day, he improved to span six innings and allow just […]

Statcast Hitter Studs and Duds - Exit Velocity for Week 2

Welcome to this year's first iteration of Statcast Hitter Analysis. Each week, I will select a different metric to evaluate unexpected names at the top and bottom of the Statcast Leaderboards. Even if you aren't well-versed in Statcast, you know exit velocity. Even the crustiest of old-school baseball announcers have incorporated this term in his […]

Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds - xwOBA for Week 2

Welcome to the first edition of Statcast pitchers analysis this season! Statcast provides a ton of interesting and insightful advanced metrics that we can use to predict future fantasy performance. Each week we will select one of these stats and choose two risers and two fallers to analyze and ultimately determine what those stats could […]

Strikeout Rate Risers and Fallers - Buy or Sell for Week 2

Welcome to the first edition of pitching strikeout rate risers and fallers this season! As fantasy players and analysts, we have many different advanced stats at our disposal, but some are more helpful than others for fantasy purposes. One of the more useful stats for analyzing pitchers is K%. Strikeout percentage holds direct fantasy value […]

FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (4/9/19): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice

What's up RotoBallers! Welcome back to another fun-filled Tuesday of DFS action and our daily fantasy baseball analysis. There is plenty of action tonight with almost a full slate of games as 28 teams are in action. Three of the 14 games are afternoon contests while eight of the contests will get underway between 6:30 […]

Big Inning Dooms David Price On Saturday

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher David Price went six innings and allowed four runs on seven hits while striking out four and walking one in a 5-4 loss to the Diamondbacks on Saturday. The southpaw's day wasn't all that bad except for a three-hit, four-run second inning by Arizona, giving them the 4-3 lead. Price […]

The Cut List (Week 2) - Time to Let Go?

Although we are only one week into the baseball season, some of the players you may have drafted in the mid-to-late rounds of standard 10 and 12-teamers are probably not quite working out. Because you didn't spend too much draft capital on them, you don't have to worry about sunk costs and you can, if […]

Brock Holt Heading To 10-Day Injured List With Eye Injury

Boston Red Sox utility man Brock Holt (eye) was placed on the 10-day injury list on Saturday morning. Holt has a scratched cornea on his right eye, but the ailment is not considered serious. Tzu-Wei Lin was recalled as a corresponding move. Holt has had a dismal start to the season, sporting a .063/.211/.063 slash […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks (4/6/19): MLB DFS Lineups

Saturday brings us a strange day for DFS. There are really no stand out pitchers on either of the two main slates. Yes there are good pitchers but their matchups mean that there is no must use option. That presents some interesting strategies for GPP, as we could see a lot of the big bats […]

Mookie Betts Comes To Life, Sox Fall Short In The Desert

Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts posted three hits, scored two runs and drove in two against the Diamondbacks on Friday. The reigning MVP is coming to life, as evidenced by a nice performance, including a two-run homer in the desert on Friday. The Red Sox failed to come away with a win despite Betts' […]

Blake Swihart Turns In Another Good Start

Boston Red Sox catcher Blake Swihart posted another two-hit bid on Friday in the Red Sox loss against the Diamondbacks. Swihart has made the most of his promotion so far, slashing .500/.571/.833 in his 12 at-bats for the Red Sox. This is what the Red Sox have been waiting for and fantasy owners will hope […]

Rick Porcello Can't Pitch Out Of Red Sox's Slump

The Boston Red Sox starters weren't projected to be their weak spot in 2019. Starting pitcher Rick Porcello allowed seven earned runs on 10 hits Friday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He managed to strike out five before turning the ball over to Brian Johnson after 4 2/3 innings. It's tough to trust anyone in the […]

Jackie Bradley Jr. Sitting In NL Park

Boston Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. is not in the starting lineup on Friday in an interleague series in a National League park without the designated hitter. Mookie Betts is in center field and batting second, while J.D. Martinez is in right field and is hitting fourth against Arizona starter Zack Godley. Bradley, known […]

Dustin Pedroia Has Two Hits In First Rehab Game

Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia (knee) went 2-for-3 with a single and a double in his first rehab game with High-A Greenville on Thursday, and he also walked and lined out in his other two plate appearances. He was perfect on his chances in the field, too, and even turned a double play. […]

On Injuries and the Illusion of Control

For this week's edition of The Friday Meta, I had planned to delve into the question of how owners approach the use of FAAB (free agent acquisition budget) in the early portion of the season. That's a worthwhile topic, but it can also wait a week. There are more immediate concerns at hand - namely, […]

J.D. Martinez Notches Third Long Ball Of Season

Boston Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez finished Thursday's game 2-for-5 with a solo home run, marking his team-leading third of the season. It's been a dreadful start to the season for Boston, as they sit at 2-6 heading into the season's second weekend. Martinez has been without a doubt the team's best player. He's […]

Eduardo Rodriguez Serves Up A Clunker In Oakland

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez lasted just 3 2/3 innings while allowing six runs on eight hits, fanning only two and walking three in a 7-3 loss to Oakland. Rodriguez is off to a rough start with the rest of the Boston rotation. A 12.38 ERA over eight innings with just seven strikeouts […]

Rafael Devers Out Against Lefty

Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers is taking a seat on Thursday with the team facing A's left-hander Brett Anderson. Eduardo Nunez is at the hot corner and is hitting sixth. First baseman Steve Pearce (calf), fresh off the injured list, is making his season debut and is batting third against the southpaw. Nunez […]

Steve Pearce Activated, Sam Travis Optioned

The Boston Red Sox activated first baseman Steve Pearce (calf) from the 10-day injured list on Thursday and optioned first baseman Sam Travis to Triple-A Pawtucket in a corresponding move. Pearce, last year's unlikely World Series MVP, is likely to slot in at first base and hit third immediately on Thursday against A's left-hander Brett […]

Red Sox Bullpen Shuts Down Oakland Late

Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Matt Barnes pitched 1 1/3 innings to earn the 6-3 victory over the Athletics on Wednesday. Barnes came into a tied game at three with two outs in the seventh. He also worked the entire eighth, striking out two and allowing just one hit in the appearance. Ryan Brasier earned […]

Blake Swihart Clubs First Homer Of Season

Boston Red Sox catcher Blake Swihart finished with three hits in Wednesday night's win over the Athletics. The backstop hit his first home run of the season in the fifth inning. While it was just a solo shot, it got the eventual comeback by the Sox started en route to the 6-3 win in the […]

Nathan Eovaldi Spans Five Innings In No-Decision

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi needed 96 pitches to get through five innings Wednesday night while allowing three runs on four hits, striking out three and walking four. The counting stats weren't pretty in this outing for the 29-year-old right-hander, but on the bright side he didn't get tabbed with a loss. Through […]

Mookie Betts Leads Charge In Ninth-Inning Rally

Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts' two-run double in the top of the ninth carried the Sox to a 6-3 comeback victory over Oakland on Wednesday. Betts finished 1-for-4 but drove in two, scored twice and also drew a walk. Boston trailed 3-0 after four innings, but they went on to score six unanswered, claiming […]

FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (4/5/19): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice

We've got three slates to choose from on Friday - the main slate starts at 7:05pm eastern and covers eight games. I'll be featuring players across all three slates. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for FanDuel on 4/5/2019. The lineup picks will range from some […]

MLB DFS Prop Picks for 4/5/19 - Monkey Knife Fight

Early in the baseball season, there are lots of trends to track as you try to find the best value plays on Monkey Knife Fight. One of the factors to keep in mind is that we are still dealing with very small samples right now. So, even if players like Mookie Betts and Charlie Blackmon […]