2015 Dynasty / Keeper Fantasy Baseball Rankings: First Base rotoballer.com Sun 1/25/15 10:46 AM
This article references Adam LaRoche, Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Pujols, Anthony Rizzo, Billy Butler, Brandon Belt, Brandon Moss, C.J. Cron, Carlos Santana, Chris Carter, Chris Davis, Edwin Encarnacion, Eric Hosmer, Freddie Freeman, Ike Davis, James Loney, Joe Mauer, Joey Votto, Jose Abreu, Josh Harrison and more! Dynasty Rankings at First BaseOver the past few weeks, we have gone through our dynasty fantasy baseball rankings for catcher, third base, and shortstop. Today we bring you the top dynasty / keeper league first basemen.First Base is one of the deepest positions in fantasy baseball. There is an abundance of power to draft at first in the early, middle and late rounds of a dynasty draft. Also, since the majority of the game's top rated first base prospects are largely at Sing[...]
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2015 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: First Base (1B - January Edition) rotoballer.com Fri 1/9/15 9:24 AM
This article references 2B, Adam Dunn, Adam LaRoche, Adam Lind, Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Pujols, Allen Craig, Anthony Rizzo, Billy Butler, Brandon Belt, Brandon Moss, Brian McCann, Buster Posey, C.J. Cron, Carlos Santana, Chris Carter, Chris Davis, Daniel Murphy, David Ortiz, Edwin Encarnacion and more! This is RotoBaller's third Fantasy Baseball season, and we are bringing you a special treat this year for our Fantasy Baseball rankings. We've asked nine of our esteemed writers to submit their own rankings, and we have calculated composite fantasy baseball rankings for all positions. [...]
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Chris Davis: 2015 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper or Bust? rotoballer.com Wed 1/7/15 8:00 AM
This article references Chris Davis, DEF, Koji Uehara, Nelson Cruz, SP, Steve Pearce, Tommy Hunter, willie, WR and more! After Chris Davis's wildly successful 2013 and equally disappointing 2014, what will the 2015 Chris Davis look like?History When Chris Davis was traded to the Orioles along with Tommy Hunter for Koji Uehara in 2011, he had nearly a .970 OPS (mostly in hitters' leagues and parks) in the minors over 1999 minor league plate appearances. Davis showed age-appropriate consistency in the minors for a player of his level, never posting an OPS below.876. Despite initial success in the m[...]
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Top 5 Hitter Streamers: Waiver Wire Targets For Week 25 rotoballer.com Mon 9/15/14 5:05 AM
This article references 2B, Chris Davis, David Freese, DEF, Dexter Fowler, Jedd Gyorko, SP, Steve Pearce, Wil Myers and more! I'm sad to say it, but this week will be this year's final installment of my weekly streamers article. I hope that you all have enjoyed these pieces and that I've been able to help at least a few of you make up ground in your leagues and weekly matchups.For now though we still have one more week to play, so I'll get down to business. As always I'll be highlighting five sleepers who I think are in the right situation to make an impact for fantasy owners next week. All of these sleeper hitte[...]
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Fantasy Baseball Players Trending Up and Down (Week 20) rotoballer.com Sat 8/16/14 4:55 AM
This article references 2B, Adam Jones, Anthony Rendon, Charlie Blackmon, Chase Utley, Chris Davis, Clayton Kershaw, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jose Altuve, Robinson Cano, SP, WR, Zack Greinke and more! The march to the fantasy playoffs continues. Either you're in the thick of the race, or hopefully you're in a keeper/dynasty and thinking about next year. If you're in the playoffs, you probably want to stick with the guys you have, but if your league's deadline hasn't passed yet, let me highlight some possible trade targets for you. These players are the risers/fallers of the past couple weeks, so let's get rolling! Fantasy Baseball Players Trending UpRobinson Cano (2B, SEA) E[...]
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BOLD! - A Fantasy Baseball Second-Half Predictions Thread rotoballer.com Wed 7/23/14 10:06 AM
This article references Aaron Harang, Alex Wood, Allen Craig, Arismendy Alcantara, Bartolo Colon, Billy Hamilton, Brett Lawrie, Bryce Harper, Carlos Gonzalez, Chase Whitley, Chris Davis, Colby Rasmus, Corey Dickerson, Craig Kimbrel, Danny Salazar, Darwin Barney, Dee Gordon, Domonic Brown, Edwin Encarnacion, Ervin Santana and more! Calling All RotoBallers!The MLB All-Star break has come to pass, which means it's time again to make some BOLD! fantasy baseball predictions for the second half of the season. Perhaps the loyal and long-time RotoBallers will remember performing this same exercise last year? I'll admit to making some unreasonable and fairly absurd predictions in 2013, but as your resident FantasyPros rankings guru, I'm making an effort to improve my accuracy after my final BOLD! Prediction Score last year[...]
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Getting Saber Smart: Fantasy Baseball Stats and Terms Glossary (Par... rotoballer.com Sat 7/19/14 9:45 AM
This article references Chris Davis, Gregory Polanco, Jack Cust, Jayson Werth, Jose Abreu, Ryan Howard, SP and more! In this series of articles, we'll take a look at some sabermetric stats which you'll hear tossed around many RotoBaller articles and many other sites as well. The goal of these glossary pieces is to help you understand these statistics and how to use them in your fantasy baseball analysis. In Part 1 of this series, we'll look at BAPIP, Line Drive Rate, and HR/FB Rate. Hitting Sabermetric StatisticsBABIP: Of all the advanced metrics, BABIP is almost certainly the easiest to understa[...]
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Buy and Sell: Biggest First Half Disappointments for Fantasy Baseball rotoballer.com Fri 7/18/14 9:40 AM
This article references Alcides Escobar, Bryce Harper, Carlos Gonzalez, Chris Davis, Domonic Brown, Jean Segura, Jedd Gyorko, Jim Johnson, Justin Verlander, Ryan Zimmerman and more! You were pretty excited and confident after your draft. You bragged to your buddies about your awesome fantasy baseball team full of sleepers and counted your winnings before the first pitch. Now, with the All-Star break upon us, you're left thinking, why me?If you feel this way, you probably drafted one or more of the below players who make up RotoBaller's 1st half All-Disappointment team. Some of these players could breakout and have huge second halves, some may be available on [...]
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Fantasy Baseball Hitters to Buy and Sell for Week 13 rotoballer.com Fri 6/20/14 6:15 AM
This article references Adrian Gonzalez, Brett Lawrie, Chris Davis, Evan Gattis, Matt Carpenter, Robinson Cano and more! I'm going to change things up a bit for you guys this week. I've decided it would be more beneficial for the readers if I wrote four buys and only two sells in my articles. I'll discuss additional players who are overdue for a hot-streak, and spend less time on guys whose value depends largely on the league's preference.Also, since we are approaching the midway point of the season, I'm going to begin to focus my articles on bigger named players with the occasional waiver wire sleeper[...]
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Top 5 Hitter Streamers For Week 9: Waiver Wire Targets rotoballer.com Sat 5/24/14 7:00 AM
This article references Chase Whitley, Chris Davis, Chris Sale, David Phelps, Giancarlo Stanton and more! Some Of Your Best Trades Are The Ones You Didn't MakeI almost traded for Prince Fielder two weeks ago. If I had done that trade, I might be sitting in a dark room crying right now, so if you're a Fielder owner out there in despair, trust me I have all the sympathy in the world for you. It's been a really tough season for injuries this year, not just because there have been a lot of them (though there have been), but because they've been the types of injuries that derail a player for months o[...]
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