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 […]
Full Story »Alex Avila (C, DET) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Avila has been en fuego over the past two weeks, with a .344/.400/1.025 triple-slash with 2 HR and 11 RBI in his last 29 at-bats. If you need a boost at your second catcher, or you own Yadier Molina and need a replacement, Avila is a good option […]
Full Story »Alex Wood (SP, ATL) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: With the fall of Paul Maholm and Tim Hudson to recent injuries, it appears Alex Wood will remain in the Braves rotation for the foreseeable future. Wood has impressed so far with a 3.51 ERA and 1.23 WHIP with 38 strikeouts in 33.1 innings. Barring the unlikely scenario […]
Full Story »Xander Bogaerts (SS, BOS) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add Immediately ANALYSIS: Bogaerts is the top infield prospect in baseball at this point and now that he's started a handful of games at 3B his call up could be imminent with the Red Sox. This is a guy you really want to own because he has the ability to put up a […]
Full Story »Yoervis Medina (RP, SEA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues. ANALYSIS: On Friday, Seattle's manager said that Tom Wilhelmsen is out for now as the Mariner's closer. On Thursday, Wilhelmsen gave up 4 ER without getting an out - Oliver Perez then came into the game and gave up 2 ERs himself. It looks like Yoervis Medina is the […]
Full Story »Logan Morrison (1B, OF, MIA) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues (NL Only Must Add) ANALYSIS: We all know that this twitter machine monster has often tweeted better (and more) than he hit, but since his return from injury earlier in 2013, he is actually having a very nice campaign for the fish hitting .273 with 4 HR, 17 RBI […]
Full Story »Cody Ross (OF, ARI) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues. ANALYSIS: Cody Ross has been on a roll recently, and that's grabbed my attention. He's a streaky hitter, and when he heats up he can hit HRs in bunches. After a mediocre season, he may just be heating up now. Last night Ross went 4-for-5 with a HR, 3 […]
Full Story »Daily Fantasy Baseball Analysis August 2: Greedy Boppers
There were homers galore on Thursday-- twenty-one to be exact. Some guys ONLY hit one, psshh, slackers. The following one-uppers went back for a second helping: Justin Upton topped off an 8-for-18 series against the Rockies with two moonshots for his 17th and 18th long-balls of the season. He’s been a sleeping giant since April. It seems the […]
Full Story »Kyle Lohse (SP, MIL) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Lohse just somehow continues to get hitters out. He isn't doing it very sexily, as the strikeout rate is not what we'd like it to be, but he limits the walks and induces enough ground balls to keep the WHIP down nonetheless. He can be valuable as a […]
Full Story »Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Third Base (August Update)
The first two-thirds of the 2013 fantasy baseball season are in the books, and the fantasy baseball landscape is becoming very concrete. As with the first week of each of the previous months, RotoBaller will be updating our positional rankings over the next couple of days. Today, we're revisiting the first base rankings we initially published in April and have […]
Full Story »Fantasy Baseball Advice: Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups Review
RotoBaller writer Chris Lacey highlights a handful of players on most of your waiver wires to keep track of. You can find many of these players and recommendations, along with many more, in our Daily Updated Waiver Wire Pickups List. STANDARD MIXED-LEAGUE VIABLE PICKUPS Daniel Murphy. Murphy is having an amazing season for the Mets with a 122 […]
Full Story »Paul Konerko (1B, CHW) - Waiver Wire Pickups
BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues ANALYSIS: Yes this is likely Pauly Konerko's (AKA The Small Hurt) swan song and yes he has been injured and largely ineffective all year, but this is exactly the time to buy in on a waiver wire add for a guy that is available in plenty of Yahoo leagues […]
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