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. […]

Week 4 Waiver Wire: Catchers

Although the temperatures and the rain haven't been indicative, the calendar is, indeed, flipping to May. The grace period for players and teams off to a slow start is beginning to wind down. "It's early" will soon not be a valid excuse anymore. It's still tough out there in catcher-land. Trying to sift through these […]

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 […]

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 lineup tools and weekly lineup resources: Fantasy baseball injury reports Fantasy baseball trade analyzer Daily MLB starting lineups for […]

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. […]

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 lineup tools and weekly lineup resources: […]

Trey Mancini (DH/OF, BAL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues, Monitor in All Leagues OWNED IN: 20% of Yahoo! leagues ANALYSIS: It took a pair of two-HR, four-RBI games to get our attention, but Trey Mancini is now on the fantasy radar. He barely saw the field the first week of April, but has been in at DH most nights since […]

Checking In: Top MLB Prospects to Make Fantasy Impacts

It's hard to believe that the Major League Baseball season is almost a month old. And while it's still very early, and sample sizes are still extremely small, certain trends are starting to develop. In addition, minor leaguers are starting to establish themselves as players worthy​ of call-ups. Last season, I regularly took a look […]

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 […]

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

We have a nice game slate to kick off the week, and Coors Field is in play. Not only is Coors Field in play, but the ever powerful Washington Nationals offense will be there. Those players are all in play, but they are super expensive, so I tried to give you some other options, so you […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/24/17): MLB DFS Advice

It's a smaller slate Monday with just nine games scheduled. There are no afternoon games on the docket, so DraftKings will offer the standard evening contests. With limited targets, finding the right combination of popular plays and sleepers will be key.  In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 25

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of 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 Tuesday, April 25th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and weekly lineup resources: […]

Week 4 Start/Sit: MLB Starting Pitcher (SP) Matchups

Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 4, and will be updated as more starters are announced. If you've got any questions about which pitchers can capitalize on a juicy matchup and which ones might be worth putting on the pine against […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/23/17): MLB DFS Advice

This Sunday has a full slate of games, so it's time to build some lineups. With several different contests being offered on DraftKings, you'll have lots of different lineup options. For our purposes, the following picks have been made for contests running all day.  In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy […]

Week 3 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 April 24

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of streaming and waiver wire advice. This is your one stop guide to address lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Monday, April 24th. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and […]

2017 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 3)

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. Talk about some big news on just a normal Tuesday, Starling Marte […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (4/22/17): MLB DFS Advice

Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have 15 games, split into a five game early slate and a 10 game main slate. The only weather concern on the forecast today is the first game of the slate in Cincinnati. It will more than likely be delayed due to rain, making Jake Arrieta a risky play in […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/22/17): MLB DFS Advice

Welcome to the weekend, RotoBallers. Today we have 15 games, split into a six game early slate and a nine game main slate. The only weather concern on the forecast today is the first game of the slate in Cincinnati. It will more than likely be delayed due to rain, making Jake Arrieta a risky […]

Two-Start Pitcher Streamers (Week 4): Head-to-Head Leagues

As a new week is upon us, it's time to get rid of that bench bat or middle reliever you have hanging around. Instead, maximize your roster slots with some pitchers who have two starts this week and are probably still available in your league. Here are the top two-start pitchers to stream for Week […]

Hitter Steamers (Week 4): 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. I usually stick to players who have seven games, but because I do […]

Buy or Sell - Underowned and Overowned Players for Week 4

At this juncture, two things are becoming very clear: Eric Thames was a bargain in fantasy drafts and Byron Buxton is an albatross on your team. If you bought low on Thames or managed to snag him off the waiver wire, congrats. If you've had the misfortune of watching Buxton rack up Ks in your […]

Travis Shaw (1B/3B, MIL) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED IN: 55% Fleaflicker ANALYSIS: Eric Thames is getting a lot of attention in Milwaukee, and deservedly so - but he isn't the only Brewer swinging a hot bat. Travis Shaw has hit four home runs in his last five games, bringing his overall line to .254/.309/.635. His 16 RBI are tied […]

Fantasy Baseball Week Three Waiver Wire: Starting Pitchers

With almost 10 percent of the season in tow, we've got more than enough statistical firepower to make wide, sweeping statements about every single player! Well, alright, so we're not going to do that. Keep a level head, folks. It's still just April. Breathe. Now exhale sharply and read on about some April arms we […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (4/21/2017): MLB DFS Advice

Happy Friday, my dear friends and fellow daily fantasy sports aficionados. We have a completely full slate of action set to begin tonight at 7:05 EDT. All 30 teams will be in play and for one of the first times this season, they'll all be participating in the Main contest in FanDuel. That means more player […]

Week 4 Head-to-Head Category Pickups

Playing in weekly head-to-head category leagues requires a different strategy than other formats. Depending on your league size, you can tip the balance of your lineup week after week by making shrewd pickups off the waiver wire. In some leagues, a difference of one or two, say, steals can win the category for the week. […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/21/17): MLB DFS Advice

There are no afternoon games Friday, meaning it's a normal evening slate of games on DraftKings. With 15 games on the docket, there will be plenty of options to choose from. While some expensive pitching targets exist for Friday, the key will be to find value on the mound in order to afford some big-time hitters.  In […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 21

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. This is your one stop guide to address lineup holes, stream pitchers, or target categories of need. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Friday, April 21st. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/20/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy  Thursday morning, early afternoon, or whenever you happen to be reading this. In any case there are four afternoon games and seven evening games. That's a total of 11 games on the slate and I'm going to focus on the evening games that are connected to the large prize pools.  Yahoo has some great value […]

Champ or Chump: Eric Thames & Francisco Lindor

Fantasy championships are never won in April, but it still feels good to be at the top of the standings. Eventually things will stabilize, making it more challenging to make a significant jump in a short period of time. When that happens, you definitely want to be in the hunt instead of an also-ran. Chances […]