Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 13

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Whether you play in head-to-head leagues, or are looking to pad certain stat categories, this column is your daily resource. DFS lineups can be built using the information here as well. Below are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Thursday, April […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/12/17): MLB DFS Advice

We have two slates today, as there is an early slate of five games and a late slate of 10 games. This article will include players from both slates, as they are both big enough to create lineups for.  In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/12/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy Tuesday night and/or Wednesday morning! Heck, maybe you're reading this Wednesday afternoon or early evening. In any case there are two early afternoon games and two late afternoon games along with eleven evening games on Wednesday. That's a total of 15 games on the slate for Wednesday, and I'm going to focus on all of them.  Yahoo has some […]

Week 2 Injuries and Waiver Wire: The Hit and Run with Joe Pisapia

In this "Hit and Run" Video, industry veteran Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17) examines key injuries to Josh Donaldson, Gary Sanchez and others and suggests some waiver wire stopgaps. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every Saturday and Sunday between 5-8 PM EST. You can find new […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 12

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Here are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Wednesday, April 12th. Since it's a full slate, most of the focus will be on pitchers. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (4/10/17): MLB DFS Advice

We have 10 games to kick off the week with. Five are in the early slate, and there is a five game main slate. I'm going to try and hit on a bit of both, just to cover the full range of players and options out there. Some big name arms on the mound today, […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/10/17): MLB DFS Advice

Monday brings another day with a few different slates on DraftKings. With games running from the afternoon till the evening, there will be several lineup options. However, with just 10 games on the docket, finding the right mix of players to use could be a bit more difficult. You'll want to find productive guys who […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/10/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

Happy Sunday night and/or Monday morning!  With five afternoon games and five evening games there's a total of 10 games on the slate for Monday. I'm going to provide options for all of the games. Yahoo has some great value options to choose from for DFS games so let's get down to business. In this article, […]

Week 2 Waiver Wire - Outfield

First, a programming note: This feature will now be published on Mondays, rather than Wednesday as it was last week. The content, of course, remains unchanged. In this space, we'll take a look at the best outfielders available in at least 50 percent of Yahoo leagues. Consider this column your recommendations for Week 2 outfields waiver wire pickups. […]

Week 2 Waiver Wire - First Base (1B) and Third Base (3B)

One week down, 25 more to go. It's still a bit premature to react to slow starts or big games, but you may have roster space that needs filling or end-of-roster players that don't need to be kept. The corner infield positions traditionally offer power with the potential for high averages, so you may want […]

Week 2 Start/Sit: MLB Starting Pitcher (SP) Matchups

Did you survive the first week of games? Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 2, 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 […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 10

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Here are your pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Monday, April 10th. It's a new week and a new opportunity for owners to build upon leads or dig out of the basement. Let's get to it.Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball […]

Week 2 Cut List: Players on the Chopping Block

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the 2017 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. […]

Buy or Sell - Underowned and Overowned Players for Week 1

The first week of the season is nearly at its end. Are you ready to cut bait on some of those later round picks already? Dying to scoop up that utility player off to a hot start? Itching to grab that setup man next in line for saves once the closer loses his job? It […]

ADP Champs or Chumps - Chris Devenski & Andrew Toles

The 2017 season is still far too short of a sample size to conclude anything using numbers, but the human element of player deployment is beginning to come into focus. If a player's role differs drastically from what we thought it would be during draft season, his value could explode. Getting these guys on your […]

FanDuel Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks (4/7/17): MLB DFS Advice

I can't really explain how excited I am that baseball is back. This week actually feels surreal with basketball, that big golf event down at Augusta, and the boys of summer returning to the diamond. Year after year, baseball sneaks up on me - despite me anticipating it! - and I think it's due to […]

Yahoo MLB DFS Advice (4/7/17): Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup Picks

We have quite a few games to choose from today and tonight. Every single team in the league will play today or tonight. Max Scherzer is taking the mound, which is very important. Find out who else is important. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/7/17): MLB DFS Advice

Friday features baseball all day. With games starting in the afternoon and running through evening, there will be several different contests to participate in on DraftKings. It's still very early in the season, but some players have already began to emerge as fantasy stars. Some of those guys will be in action Friday.  In this […]

Week 1 Waiver Wire Watch List

Welcome to the Week 1 Waiver Wire Watch List. Each week we’ll be updating this list full of players who may not be quite ready to be picked up (depending on your league size and format), but who need to be on your radar. We’ll look at eight players each week and keep tabs on players […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 7th

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Let's talk pitcher and hitter streaming targets for Friday, April 7th, some of which can be applied to DFS games as well. You're busy. I'm busy. Shall we get to it?Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

Week 1 Waiver Wire: Catchers

The first week of the baseball season is maddening in so many ways. The schedule stops and starts worse than a senior citizen driver who isn't sure if the light is turning red or not. Judging players in these first few days is difficult. It also means that people shouldn't make any snap judgments yet. […]

DraftKings Lineup Picks & Sleepers (4/5/17): MLB DFS Advice

It's always interesting to see how Coors changes teams owned percentages. For example, the Rockies had a great matchup last night, and they were only owned around 10-15%, but they always seem to be owned closer to 40% in Coors. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 6th

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your daily source of waiver wire and streaming advice. Below are some pitcher and hitter streamer targets for Thursday, April 6th, which can be applied for DFS games as well. You're busy. I'm busy. Shall we get to it?Be sure to check all of our fantasy baseball lineup tools and resources: Fantasy […]

2017 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 1)

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. We are officially underway in the 2017 Major League Baseball season! Who […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for April 5th

Over the offseason, there was much ado about the home run surge of 2016. Would it continue into 2017 or was regression looming? One game into the MLB season, and we already have 30 home runs - a 5,400 home run pace. Yasmani Grandal, Rougned Odor, and Khris Davis have already popped two apiece, as has […]

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

Good morning, fellow RotoBallers. It's the first Tuesday of the season. What we have on deck tonight is a lovely slate of baseball - specifically, daily fantasy baseball, for our purposes. The eight-game Main contest begins at 7:05 tonight, so get those lineups locked and loaded before your East coast guys take the field. FanDuel […]

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

Baseball is back, and we couldn't be happier. It's definitely very difficult to predict a player's performance this early in the season (granted it's always difficult) so I have focused heavily on past success. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for Yahoo on 4/4/17. The DFS lineup […]

Using Sabermetrics For Fantasy Baseball Part 13: Barrels For Pitchers

Last time, we looked at Barrels, a stat combining exit velocity and launch angle to measure how often a batter makes quality hard contact. As much as batters want to hit a Barrel every time, pitchers want to avoid them at all costs. Yet there is some evidence that pitchers do not have the same […]

Streaming Wars: Exploiting the Waiver Wire to Win Your League

Welcome to Streaming Wars, a new column offering waiver wire recommendations for the next day. Streaming goes by many names such as micromanaging, churn and burn, etc. Whatever you call it, the goal is the same - to fully leverage your weakest roster spots. Streaming is not for everybody, but it is for mostbody. Sometimes, you'll have […]

Week 1 Start/Sit: MLB Starting Pitcher (SP) Matchups

We're back Rotoballers! Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 1, 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 […]