Power Risers/Fallers for Week 12: Buy or Sell?

Welcome to Week 12 of the 2018 MLB season and a new week of our investigation into the steepest power trenders in baseball, whether those trends are positive or negative. As the season steamrolls through June, the window of opportunity to snag a surging slugger or to deal a down-and-out disappointment grows shorter with every […]

Martin Perez Hoping To Begin Rehab Assignment Monday

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Martin Perez is hoping to head out on a rehab assignment on Monday. Perez threw live batting practice to Carlos Tocci and Robinson Chirinos ahead of the game Wednesday. Plans for a rehab assignment have not been confirmed by the Rangers, who may want to take it slowly with their left-handed […]

Carlos Tocci Starting, Delino DeShields Sitting Wednesday

Texas Rangers outfielder Carlos Tocci will start in center field for just the ninth time this season on Wednesday. Tocci has struggled in the major leagues in 2018 with a .077 batting average, and he has yet to record a single steal, home run, RBI or run scored. However, the Rangers need to get Delino […]

Joey Gallo Starting, Ronald Guzman Sitting Wednesday

Texas Rangers infielder/outfielder Joey Gallo will get the start at first base Wednesday. Gallo sat for Tuesday's game as the Rangers are looking for ways to get Adrian Beltre time as the designated hitter. Ronald Guzman is the man who misses out Wednesday, and it appears as though Guzman, Gallo, Rougned Odor and possibly Jurickson […]

Isiah Kiner-Falefa Starting At Catcher

Texas Rangers utility player Isiah Kiner-Falefa will make his first major league start at catcher Wednesday. With Robinson Chirinos receiving a day off, Kiner-Falefa is the only other player on the active roster who has logged time in 2018 at catcher, having started three games there in Triple-A. Kiner-Falefa is looking at reduced playing time […]

Rougned Odor Returns To Lineup Wednesday

Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor will return to the lineup and play second base on Wednesday. Odor was supposed to play second Tuesday night but was later scratched from the lineup. With Jurickson Profar currently floating as the utility infielder, he is going to take at-bats away from Odor and Joey Gallo. Odor will […]

FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (6/20/18): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice

We're back to a pretty balanced split-slate Wednesday. Five games are taking place under the sun at the 12:35 Early Only slate, and there are seven games being played under the lights for the 7:05 Main slate. A nice handful of quality pitchers are taking the bump in each slate, too! You can also read […]

DraftKings Daily Fantasy Baseball Picks (6/20/18): MLB DFS Lineups

There are 14 games today, but once again they are broken down into two seven games slates. This article will be focused around the later slate, which has been labeled as the "featured" slate. In this article, I will be providing you with my daily fantasy baseball lineup picks for DraftKings on 6/20/18. The lineup picks […]

Streaming Wars - Waiver Wire Targets for June 21

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop shop for streaming the waiver wire all season long. This article, now in its second year, runs seven days a week. We're coming up on the halfway point of the season, but there's still plenty of options on the waiver wire to aid your championship quest. For those who are […]

Contact Rate Risers and Fallers for Week 12: Buy or Sell?

Welcome to Contact Rate Risers and Fallers! Our premium tools allow us to get out ahead of trends in player performance, including contact rate. Every Wednesday, we'll be looking at some players that have seen an increase in contact rate and some that have seen it decline. Contact rate can foretell a player's batting average […]

2018 Prospects: Top 30 Impact Rookies for Fantasy Leagues (Week 12)

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. The Juan Soto hype train has seemed to gone off the rails […]

Isiah Kiner-Falefa Starting at Third on Tuesday

Texas Rangers infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa will draw the start at third base against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday. He will bat sixth and replace Rougned Odor, who was a late scratch from the starting lineup. Jurickson Profar will slide over to second base for this contest. Kiner-Falefa has not been awful this season, but […]

Rougned Odor Scratched From Starting Lineup

Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has been scratched from the starting lineup on Tuesday. Manager Jeff Banister declined to give a reasoning for Odor's absence in the lineup. Jurickson Profar will likely draw another start at second base and is clearly outplaying Odor this season. It's hard to imagine Odor being outright benched in […]

Austin Bibens-Dirkx To Start Wednesday

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Austin Bibens-Dirkx will get the start for the Rangers on Wednesday. The opportunity for Bibens-Dirkx arises after Yohander Mendez was optioned to Triple-A for violating team rules. This will be the right-handed pitcher's third start of the season. So far he has been unsuccessful with a 6.55 ERA and 17 hits […]

Yohander Mendez Optioned To Triple-A

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Yohander Mendez has been optioned to Triple-A for violating team rules. Mendez is not the only player being disciplined but he is the only player being removed from the roster. Mendez had a terrible outing in his first career major league start, giving up six earned runs in three innings against […]

Joey Gallo Sitting Tuesday

Texas Rangers infielder/outfielder Joey Gallo will receive a day off Tuesday. Gallo is the odd man out as the Rangers try to keep Jurickson Profar, Adrian Beltre and Shin-Soo Choo in their lineup. Gallo has not been having a great season, but against right-handed pitchers he has at least been palatable, so it is a […]

Rougned Odor Back At Second Base Tuesday

Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor is back at second base on Tuesday. Odor was on the bench for Monday's game as Jurickson Profar played second. However, it appears Profar will be the utility infielder, as he will man third base Tuesday with Adrian Beltre as the designated hitter. We would expect Odor to play three […]

Streaming Wars -- Waiver Wire Targets For June 20

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop shop for streaming the waiver wire. This article, which began last season, runs seven days a week. We are always ready to stream. For those who are newcomers to this feature - use this column on a daily basis to improve upon your weakest categories, and target players who may be […]

FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (6/19/18): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice

There are a plethora of games tonight, and they are all on one slate. That does not happen often, but it always makes for a fun night when it does. It leaves the door open for multiple different forms of lineup construction, as well. If you're looking to stack tonight, there are a few elite […]

Statcast Pitcher Risers/Fallers - Fastball Quality (Week 12)

Welcome back to RotoBaller's series using Statcast to extrapolate, dig into, and commiserate over data to examine pitching performances. The weekly series will be dynamic as we fine-tune our findings and enlighten ourselves on the information and tools at our disposal. Chicks dig the fastball. At least that's how this pitching-friendly column remembers the classic […]

Are You For Real? Surprising SP Starts (Week 12)

Welcome to our surprising starts series. Every week we’ll be going over a few surprising starting pitcher performances around the majors to determine whether these starts were smoke and mirrors or something more. This week we saw the big league debut of Jonathan Loaisiga, the first career win for Shane Bieber, and Wade LeBlanc's best […]

Jose Trevino Optioned To Double-A

Texas Rangers catcher Jose Trevino has been optioned back to Double-A. The move comes less than 24 hours after Trevino was the hero in a walk-off win Sunday. This move now makes Isiah Kiner-Falefa the Rangers back up catcher, likely until Carlos Perez is activated early next week. Kiner-Falefa has hit .244, with two home […]

Rougned Odor Sitting, Jurickson Profar Starting Monday

Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor is not in the Rangers lineup Monday. Interestingly, this is the first day of Elvis Andrus' return pushing Jurickson Profar out of an everyday role at shortstop. Profar will take Odor's place at second and hit fifth. Profar has been significantly better than Odor so far this season, with […]

Elvis Andrus Activated From Disabled List Monday

Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus (elbow) was activated from the disabled list Monday. Andrus has been out since he was hit by a pitch from Angels reliever Keynan Middleton back in April. Expect the Rangers to be somewhat hesitant starting Andrus everyday initially. However, it should not be long until the star shortstop is playing […]

Streaming Wars: Waiver Wire Targets for June 19

Welcome back to Streaming Wars, your one-stop shop for streaming the waiver wire. This article, which began last season, runs seven days a week. We are always ready to stream. For those who are newcomers to this feature - use this column on a daily basis to improve upon your neediest categories, and target players who may be […]

FanDuel MLB DFS Lineup Picks (6/18/18): Daily Fantasy Baseball Advice

We have a nice medium sized slate for Monday with a number of viable pitching options. As a result, a lot of the hitters worth targeting are concentrated on a few teams. Equally important will be hitting on value plays and there a few punt-plays worth considering, with a few youngsters in Kansas City highlighting […]

Trading Up - Edwin Diaz

If you've read this column before, you know my standard guidance is to sell rather than buy closers. Today we take a look at the number one closer I'd actively target in a trade. I’m working on another article right now titled: “If You Only Buy One.” The idea behind it is that if you […]

Strikeout Rate Risers and Fallers for Week 12: Buy or Sell?

Due to a combination of harder throwers and hitters focusing on hitting for power, strikeouts are at an all-time high in baseball. For pitchers, this is an ideal trend. The ability to generate swings and misses is the most important skill to possess, as it's the only true way to control what happens after the […]

Week 12 Start/Sit Matchups - Starting Pitchers

You know what it is--it's my updated starts/sits column for Week 12! Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back again this year with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. This is our fifth year now writing this weekly column, helping fantasy baseball managers pick the best pitchers weekly. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 12, which […]

Week 12 Waiver Wire - Second Base (2B) and Shortstop (SS)

Rejoice Rotoballers! It’s Week 12, and they’ve given control of Rotoballer’s 2B/SS Waiver Wire column to me for safe keeping while Kyle vacations. Considering how amazing my work has been on the Outfield Waiver Wire, I’m frankly not surprised that they begged me to provide my incredible, awe-inspiring insight for Rotoballers needing help in the […]