Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for May 3

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop shop for streaming and waiver wire advice. Use this column to address your problem categories. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Wednesday, May 3rd. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: Our friends at Fantrax have even more fantasy baseball advice columns and videos to help improve your teams. Be […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (5/1/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Monday morning, or whenever you happen to be reading this. There are eleven games on the docket Monday night and the start times range from 7:05 to 10:10 EST. All of those 11 games are connected to the GPP's so they're the ones that I'll be focusing on as a result. Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for May 2

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop shop for streaming and waiver wire advice. Use this column to address your problem categories. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Tuesday, May 2nd. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: Our friends at Fantrax have even more fantasy baseball advice columns and videos to help improve your teams. Be […]

Waiver Wire Points Leagues - Week 5

May is finally here and just like the weather, we can only hope that some bats heat up too! After the first month, we definitely have a better feel of the players on our rosters we absolutely do not want to cut, and some of the "on the bubble" guys. Points leagues are nice because we're […]

Week 5 Waiver Wire - First Base (1B) and Third Base (3B)

If you don't see top prospects and recent call-ups Cody Bellinger or Christian Arroyo on this list, there are two good reasons. Bellinger will be sent back down to Triple-A as soon as Joc Pederson is off the DL, so you won't get much more use out of him. Arroyo only qualifies at SS in […]

Week 5 Waiver Wire Watch List

Welcome to Week 5 of The Watch List. We have had a few iterations already, but here’s a friendly reminder for those who forgot: Each week we’ll be updating this list full of players who you maybe aren’t quite ready to pick up (depending on league size, of course), but who need to be on […]

Week 5 Waiver Wire - Deeper Points Leagues

Points leagues are a different beast compared to rotisserie leagues, as you are looking for someone who can fill the whole stat sheet, and when you can find some of those guys on the wire, they are golden. Here are a few guys who can contribute in deep points leagues, one at each position to […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for May 1

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop guide for streaming and waiver wire advice. Use this column to address your problem categories. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Monday, May 1st. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: Our friends at Fantrax have even more fantasy baseball advice columns and videos to help improve your teams. […]

Week 5 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 […]

Hitter Streamers (Week 5): Head-to-Head Leagues

Welcome back, RotoBallers! 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 complement of games in the week. There are a lot of teams with seven games this week, so I […]

Podcast: After Hours With RotoBaller Radio - Week 4 Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Pickups

RotoBaller co-founder Real Talk Raph and esteemed co-host Anthony Aniano of RotoBaller Radio discuss Week 4 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 […]

Power Risers and Fallers: Week Four

Welcome back to this investigative piece where we examine players who have seen some notable changes in their power profiles -- for better or for worse -- in 2017. As usual, you don’t need me to tell you that Miguel Sano or Aaron Judge are strong or that Jarrod Dyson and Billy Hamilton are toward […]

Now is the Time to Sell High on Eric Thames

Eric Thames has been, undeniably, the hottest hitter on the planet over the first month of the season. Fresh off a three-year stint in the Korean Baseball Organization, the 30-year-old has shown off his new swing and approach, smashing 11 homers to go along with 27 runs, 19 runs batted in and a remarkable .370 […]

Week 4 Rookie Roundup: Recently Promoted Prospects

Welcome to the 2017 edition of the Recently Promoted Prospects! Here I discuss some recently promoted prospects and what to make of their production for fantasy owners. What a week for prospect promotions huh?! Cody Bellinger, Dan Vogelbach and Christian Arroyo! Pretty cool stuff for fantasy owners. I’m sure those owners who stashed Bellinger at […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 28

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop guide for streaming and waiver wire advice. Use this column to address your problem categories. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Friday, April 28th. Let's get to it. Editor's Note: Our friends at Fantrax have even more fantasy baseball advice columns and videos to help improve your teams. […]

Digging Deeper: Week 4 AL Waiver Wire Targets

Welcome back to Digging Deeper! I'll be taking a look at some deeper AL waiver wire options for Week 4 of the fantasy baseball season. As we round up the first month of the season, we are beginning to see which small sample sizes are real, and which players will bounce back from rough starts. Take […]

Digging Deeper: Week 4 NL Waiver Wire Targets

Welcome back to our Week 4 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 the […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/27/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Thursday morning, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there are eleven games total on the docket today and they are spread from the early afternoon on into the late evening. Two of those games are a day night doubleheader with Toronto playing at St. Louis. There are 4 evening games happening at 7:10 […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/26/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Wednesday morning, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there are two afternoon games and 13 evening games for a total of 15 games on the slate. That said there are 12 games happening at 7:05 or later and those games are the ones that are connected to the GPP's and also the ones that […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 27

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop guide for streaming and waiver wire advice. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Thursday, April 27th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball draft tools and resources: Fantasy baseball draft kit Fantasy baseball rankings Team Sync platform and Draft Assistant Fantasy baseball […]

Contact Rate Risers and Fallers: Week 4

Welcome back, 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 […]

2017 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 4)

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. What a crazy week for prospect promotions it has been thus far. […]

Cody Bellinger Could Impact Fantasy Teams Immediately

Dodgers top prospect Cody Bellinger has finally gotten the call, and will suit up for his new club Tuesday night against Ty Blach and the Giants. Don Mattingly’s outfielders— Yasiel Puig, Joc Pederson, Andrew Toles, Scott Van Slyke, Kike Hernandez, Brett Eibner, Franklin Gutierrez and Trayce Thompson — are a combined 56-for-253 (.221) with 10 […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 26

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily resource for streaming and waiver wire advice. This is a one stop guide for all of your categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Wednesday, April 26th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball draft tools and resources: Fantasy baseball […]

Cody Bellinger (1B/OF, LAD) - Prospect Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues OWNED IN: 12% of Yahoo! leagues ANALYSIS: According to Dodgers beat reporter Ken Gurnick, super prospect Cody Bellinger has been called up today: Source: Cody Bellinger is being called up by Dodgers. — Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) April 25, 2017 For now, we are recommending adding him off the waiver wire for […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/25/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

It feels like baseball never left us. Arguably the best pitcher in the world is ready to take the mound, while an old rivalry, consisting of some of the game's newest talent, kicks off this week as well. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on […]

Week 4 Waiver Wire Watch List

Welcome to Week 4 of The Watch List. We have had a few iterations already, 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 picked up (depending on league size, of course), but who need to be on […]

Points Leagues Waiver Wire - Week 4

As we close in on the last week of the first month of the season, let's remember one thing: there is a lot of baseball left to be played! A lot of waiver wire guys are out there for a reason, so let's try to find some diamonds in the rough. Maybe some of these […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/24/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Monday morning, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there are zero afternoon games and nine evening games for a total of nine games on the slate. Math is fun. I'm going to focus on the evening games that are connected to the large guaranteed prize pools.  Yahoo has some great value options to […]

Week 4 Waiver Wire - First Base (1B) and Third Base (3B)

Believe it or not, April is almost coming to an end. Before it does, we'll look at some of the men at first and third base who have made a good early impression, but are still underowned in fantasy leagues. The corner infield positions traditionally offer power with the potential for high averages, so you […]