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Too Expensive? Second Base Fantasy Baseball ADPs That May Be Overvalued
As MLB teams ramp up through spring training, fantasy baseball players are likewise getting their research reps in and gearing up for the best part of this game we play: fantasy baseball draft season. Some of us have been drafting for weeks if not months, and one of the clearest trends we’ve discovered is the weakness […]
Michael Cecchini 3 weeks ago
Fantasy Baseball Hitter Sleepers: Mid-To-Late Round Draft Targets (2025)
It’s a new year, football titles have been won, and pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training shortly. It’s time to get into fantasy baseball mode. Some of us fanatics — or obsessive fantasy gamers if you aren’t feeling charitable — have been drafting for 2025 since November (ok, maybe even October, but keep […]
Michael Cecchini 1 month ago
Juan Soto’s 2025 Fantasy Baseball Outlook - Top Landing Spots and Fantasy Analysis
As even casual baseball fans know, superstar outfielder Juan Soto is a free agent and about to command one of the most lucrative contracts in sports history. Just 26 years old and coming off his best overall season, with career production that compares favorably to the incomparable Ted Williams, the buzz around baseball has Soto […]
Michael Cecchini 4 months ago
Steamer Surprises: Projection Values For 2025 Fantasy Baseball
Welcome back to The Lookahead; this week, we take an early look at the first projections of 2025. It’s the most wonderful time of the year… No, this isn’t yet another column decrying the perpetually accelerating Christmas creep phenomenon. Instead, we fantasy baseball fanatics have two events to celebrate. First, drafts for 2025 are open […]
Michael Cecchini 4 months ago
Lessons Learned For Fantasy Baseball 2025
Welcome back to the Lookahead; this week we apply lessons from 2024 to our 2025 draft prep. One of the primary, overarching goals with this column is simple: how can we improve as fantasy players? Just as a shop owner doesn’t know what to order next without taking inventory, so too should we reflect on […]
Michael Cecchini 5 months ago
The Biggest Fantasy Baseball Busts Of 2024
There are technical, precise ways to measure a fantasy “bust,” but we know one when we see one. We lived through it, after all. These players slowly but surely sabotaged our fantasy teams despite high expectations. For those who want firm parameters, we have, with one exception, spotlighted players drafted in the top 150 who […]
Michael Cecchini 5 months ago
The Best Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Pickups Of 2024
We saw several big breakouts in 2024, from Brent Rooker to Jack Flaherty to Seth Lugo—but those players at least got drafted in most leagues, if very late. No, here we want to celebrate the true difference makers, the guys who came out of left field (not literally; we aren’t confined to just outfielders). Here […]
Michael Cecchini 5 months ago
The Lookahead: Seven Bold Predictions For 2025 Fantasy Baseball
Welcome back to The Lookahead. This week, we make seven (eight, really) bold predictions for the next fantasy baseball season. One of the best parts about playing fantasy games is dreaming about what could be, the process of taking what we think we know to predict the future. At the same time, as Niels Bohr […]
Michael Cecchini 5 months ago
The Lookahead: Three Breakouts Who Could Bust (2025 Fantasy Baseball)
It happens every season: player X breaks out while flashing enticing upside, rides the small sample goodness to a relatively high draft cost the next year, and then busts. We want to avoid repeating those mistakes. There are often warning signs with these players. For example, one perilous archetype is the power/speed guy with dubious […]
Michael Cecchini 6 months ago
2025 Fantasy Baseball Rankings - The Lookahead: Who Are The Top 12 Players?
Welcome to The Lookahead, a weekly Fantasy Baseball column. This week we rank the 2025 first-rounders. As American icon and fount of homespun wisdom Dolly Parton once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” As we move into mid-September, the writing is on the wall that most fantasy managers […]
Michael Cecchini 6 months ago