Updated 2022 Fantasy Baseball Rankings for Points Leagues - Matt Olson, Carlos Correa, Josh Donaldson, Justin Verlander and More

Welcome back RotoBallers! Spring Training is in full swing, and fantasy baseball draft season is about to pick up in a big way. Below you'll find our MLB team's updated 2022 fantasy baseball points league rankings, specifically catered and adjusted for for points leagues and head-to-head (H2H) points league formats. In the last few days […]

Carlos Rodon Has Successful Spring Debut

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Carlos Rodon fanned four batters on just 40 pitches and generated nine swinging strikes in 2 2/3 innings in his Cactus League debut on Thursday against his former team, the Chicago White Sox. The left-hander also gave up two hits and a run but didn't walk anyone while throwing 40 […]

Nick Mariano's 2022 Draft Sleepers List (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. I recognize that the term "sleeper" continues to lose its meaning in fantasy sports, becoming an SEO must for articles despite no real consensus on what it means. So let's get my definition out of the way first here! Sleepers are not necessarily meant […]

Nick Mariano's 2022 Late-Round Fliers List (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Howdy, RotoBallers! I hope you're ready to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy. We’re here to dig a little deeper into the draft room and look for players that would be wise to take a flier on in the late rounds. As of […]

Nick Mariano's Points Leagues Targets for Fantasy Baseball (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Fantasy baseball drafts (and their articles) are almost all about finding the next superstar and unearthing talent late, but points formats are typically lumped into rotisserie angles and/or ignored entirely. We can't have our pointy RotoBallers sad, so let us write with a different […]

Updated 2022 Fantasy Baseball Rankings for 5x5 Roto Mixed Leagues - Fernando Tatis, Jack Flaherty, Chris Sale, Kenley Jansen and More

Fellow RotoBallers, Spring Training is underway we are inching closer to Opening Day! Below you will find our MLB team's updated 2022 fantasy baseball rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen an incredible amount of moves and changes including trades, free agent signings and of […]

Updated Prospects Rankings for Fantasy Baseball Drafts (2022)

Welcome back RotoBallers to our ongoing coverage of fantasy baseball prospects. Today we're here with our updated preseason rankings for the top 50 MLB prospects who have a chance to make fantasy baseball impacts in 2022. Marc Hulet has been leading RotoBaller's fantasy baseball prospects coverage for several years, after spending several years at Fangraphs. […]

Top 250 Fantasy Baseball Prospects Rankings for Dynasty Leagues

Welcome RotoBallers to our first rankings article of the year about fantasy baseball prospects. Below you will find our early list of the top 250 MLB prospect rankings for fantasy baseball dynasty leagues. For those of you focused on this year's impact prospects, you can also check out our top 50 fantasy baseball prospect rankings […]

2022 NFBC Draft and Hold Strategy - Late-Round Hitting Category Boosters (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. We are in the heart of fantasy baseball draft season, and that means we are doing a whole lot of draft prep to get ready for the big draft days. A lot of that draft prep used to be mock drafts, but those became […]

2022 Keeper Value Rankings - Top 150 Overall for Fantasy Baseball

In case you missed it, all preseason long I've been breaking down the top Keeper Values at each position. To get insight on any individual position, simply choose here: First Base, Second Base, Third Base, Shortstop, Catcher, Outfield, Starting Pitcher, and Relief Pitchers. Now, for your convenience, here are the Top-150 Overall Keeper Values for 2022. Keeper Value Rankings are […]

Finding Over/Undervalued First Basemen Using Expected Draft Values

Welcome back for another year of the FSWA-award-nominated Expected Draft Values series, where we look at historical data to identify both overvalued and undervalued players of all types. Whether you're targeting power, speed, power+speed, batting average+power, and so on, we've got you covered. We'll start at first base and make our way around the diamond […]

Potential Home Run Risers: Fantasy Baseball Breakouts

Oftentimes in sports, we expect progression to be linear, and mainly with young players. However, as simple as it sounds, any player can get better. Particularly in baseball, which tends to be more skill-based than a sport such as football or basketball, development can happen at any time. Just take a look at the San Francisco […]

Nick Mariano's 2022 Early-Round Overvalued List (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Fantasy baseball drafts (and their articles) are almost all about finding the next superstar and unearthing talent late, but we can't forget that surrendering value by over-drafting can be just as crucial. In order to evaluate overvalued players here, we're going to utilize Average […]

Mike Yastrzemski Avoids Arbitration

The San Francisco Giants avoided salary arbitration with outfielder Mike Yastrzemski on Tuesday by agreeing to a one-year, $3.7 million deal. Yastrzemski will come at a discount in the late round of fantasy drafts after he hit just .224/.311/.457 with a .768 OPS, although he did have a career-high 25 home runs, 71 RBI and […]

Darin Ruf, Giants Agree To Extension

The San Francisco Giants and first baseman/outfielder Darin Ruf agreed to a two-year, $6.25 million contract extension on Tuesday, according to sources. The deal includes a third-year club option. The extension buys out Ruf's final two years of arbitration and potentially one free-agent season. In his second year with the Giants in 2021, the 35-year-old […]

Late-Round Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Targets: ERA

The category targets are flowing! Today we're back to starting pitching, talking about ERA. This category proves to be one of the toughest ones to find help in later in the draft. That is not to say that there won't be great ERAs coming out of the late-round pitchers, but it's very hard to identify […]

Jon Anderson's "My Guys" For 2022

It's "My Guys" time! I love seeing articles like this where we people who claim to be experts plant the flag on players we love for the year. It offers a good chance for review and accountability as well. I wrote this piece last year as well. If I'm being honest, I can't say it turned […]

Where to Draft Injured Pitchers in Fantasy Baseball

In this article, I'm going to discuss pitchers who ended last season injured and discuss how comfortable I believe we should be in drafting them. We'll look at the nature of their injury, their projected recovery timeline, and whether a start in early April should make you less inclined to draft them or not. There […]

2022 Dynasty Leagues: Players to Trade Away (Premium Content)

The MLB regular season is nearly upon us after and it's officially draft season. In dynasty leagues, that means making trades that could swing the balance in your favor. Bartering is always a matter of risk vs reward. No one truly knows what the future holds, but the more value you can acquire, the better. […]

K-BB% Gainers: Starting Pitchers to Watch in 2022

If I were on a desert island and had to pick just one statistic to take with me to evaluate starting pitchers for fantasy baseball purposes, I would choose strikeout-to-walk ratio. Would I have bigger problems than picking the best pitchers for my fantasy team if I ever found myself alone on a desert island? […]

Giants Designate Austin Dean For Assignment

The San Francisco Giants have reportedly designated outfielder Austin Dean for assignment on Sunday, according to MLB.com's Maria I. Guardado. Dean spent parts of the last two seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, hitting .233 with a .342 on-base percentage and a home run in 38 plate appearances at the Major League level last season. […]

Carlos Rodon Signs With the San Francisco Giants - Fantasy Baseball Impact

Man, how good does it feel to have baseball back to normal? With players heading to Spring Training, free agents signing deals and some significant trades going down, this past week has been quite a spectacle to witness after the complete silence of the past few months.  One of the first major pitching acquisitions to […]

Giants Sign Taylor Williams To Minors Deal

The San Francisco Giants signed free-agent right-hander Taylor Williams to a minor league deal on Sunday. Williams, a former fourth-round pick of the Milwaukee Brewers in 2013 out of Kent State, had a 4.63 ERA, 1.71 WHIP and nine strikeouts in 11 2/3 relief innings split between the San Diego Padres and Miami Marlins in […]

2022 Keeper Value Rankings - Starting Pitchers

Many many years ago, I noticed the managers in my long-time keeper league were consistently making terrible keeper decisions year after year. Instead of taking their money every year, I thought I would help them out and find a good set of Keeper League Rankings to share with them. What I found was quite disturbing. […]

Closers and Saves Report for 2022 Fantasy Baseball Drafts

We're back! Baseball is back and we're still getting all 162 games, so there can be good news in 2022! While there are still some big-name relievers looming in free agency and likely some trades left to come, it's never too early to take a look at where each team's bullpen stands. Once the season gets […]

Updated Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings (Part 2) - 5x5 Mixed Roto Leagues

Earlier, we broke down the first few tiers of starting pitcher rankings for 2022 fantasy baseball drafts. It's time to look at the rest of the starting pitchers that may be fantasy-relevant and worthy of a draft pick. RotoBaller's rankers, JB Branson, Pierre Camus, Ariel Cohen, Nicklaus Gaut, and Nick Mariano, have updated our 2022 […]

Universal DH - Biggest Fantasy Baseball Risers

The battle lines have long been drawn between baseball traditionalists (i.e. grumpy old men) and revisionists (those who realize we are in the 21st century). It appears progress has won out and both leagues will finally play under the same rules over a full season going forward. Although nothing has been officially settled in the […]

Matthew Boyd Heads To Giants

The San Francisco Giants signed free-agent left-hander Matthew Boyd to a one-year, $5.2 million deal on Wednesday evening. The deal includes $2.3 million in incentives. Boyd becomes the fifth starting pitcher signed or re-signed by the Giants this offseason following Anthony DeSclafani, Alex Wood, Alex Cobb and Carlos Rodon. The 31-year-old southpaw had surgery to […]

Mid-Round Starting Pitchers - Fantasy Baseball Draft Values and Targets

Welcome officially to the 2022 fantasy baseball season! Now that an MLB deal is in place, a lot more fantasy drafts will be taking place -- and we're here as always to guide you through it. Once you reach the middle rounds of drafts, everyone is looking to draft players with upside that can provide […]

Joc Pederson Inks One-Year Deal With Giants

The San Francisco Giants have signed outfielder Joc Pederson to a one-year contract worth $6 million. The 29-year-old left-hander seems destined for something of a platoon role with the Giants, based on how the franchise has typically handled their lineup over the last few years. Pederson has a career .832 OPS against righties but his […]