On Wednesday, the Atlanta Braves announced that right-handed starting pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach was being placed on the 15-day injured list due to a fractured elbow. While the team did not specify a specific timeline, he is expected to remain sidelined for at least the next few months and potentially for the remainder of the season.Earlier in June, the Braves also placed the reigning NL Cy Young winner, Chris Sale, on the 60-day injured list due to a fractured ribcage.With two of their top ...

School is out, summer is here, and the weather has surely let us know that. Just as the weather heats up, so do our fantasy baseball standings. This is the time of year when a lot of us go on vacations, and sometimes our fantasy teams could take a back seat. If your team is in contention, this is not the time of year to let off the gas.When playing in fantasy leagues, paying attention to pickups and drops is sometimes easier to do during the months not named July and August. We all try to win ...

Welcome back for another week of our updated rest-of-season rankings. Below is another edition of Nick Mariano's updated 2025 fantasy baseball rankings and tiers for roto leagues (5x5 mixed leagues) heading into Week 7. Use these rest-of-season roto league rankings to identify risers and fallers from preseason rankings and identify potential buy and sell candidates moving forward.While we're still in the early stages of the fantasy baseball season, you should start to notice trends and get an ...

Like anything in life, everything has a price. When something becomes higher priced, we tend to be careful when investing based on our preferences. However, the interest rises when we find a similar product for a cheaper price. That's the case with fantasy sports, especially when drafting teams.Injury risk aside, it's tricky to identify starting pitcher busts and avoids because we can usually find a path for optimism. A quick example would be Chris Sale, who averaged nearly 130 days on the ...

Welcome to another edition of RotoBaller's Statcast Pitcher Studs and Duds article series for Week 16 of the 2024 fantasy baseball season! Today we'll be taking a look at Chris Sale, Jake Irvin, Chris Bassitt, and Kevin Gausman. Each week, I will select one stat, choose a few pitchers with strong metrics and poor metrics, and analyze them to determine how their future performance may change.Most fantasy managers are familiar with WHIP, as it is usually a pitching category in roto leagues and ...

Welcome back, RotoBallers, to my weekly "Starting Pitcher Arsenal Changes" article series for Week 12 of the 2024 fantasy baseball season. Today's article will discuss Chris Sale and Taj Bradley. For those new to this column, each week we cover a few starting pitchers and their arsenal changes via pitch mix, velocity, and movement. We're at a point where the pitch movement, arsenal, and velocity should tell us a story with several starts under their belts. With more injuries likely coming soon, ...

Another week and Shota Imanaga, Ranger Suarez, and Seth Lugo are all still going strong. Marcell Ozuna collected two more RBI Sunday to bring his league-leading total to 40. However, it didn't matter as Brandon Nimmo hit a 2-run home run in his only at-bat of the game in the bottom of the ninth to win it for the Mets on Sunday Night Baseball.For those keeping track of some of last week's topics, Alec Bohm's hit streak finally came to an end, the Chris Sale "revenge game" narrative came to ...

Injuries aside, starting pitchers have blown up the ratios. That's especially true for some higher-end starting pitchers based on ADP and expectations, including Jesus Luzardo, Luis Castillo, George Kirby, and Chris Sale. One quick way to examine whether the struggles might be luck or skill issues involves scraping the FanGraphs data over the past week or two. The data below is from starting pitchers from April 7 through April 16, sorted by the largest difference in FIP and ERA as a starting ...

BALLER MOVE: Target in drafts ~pick 127CURRENT ADP: ~134 overallANALYSIS: As with the last several seasons for Atlanta Braves starting pitcherChris Sale, 2023 was marred by injury. The lanky lefty missed more than two months with a shoulder issue, however, when he did pitch he showed he could still be very effective. His final line was 6-5 with a 4.30 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 22.6% K-BB%, and 125 K in 102 2/3 IP. The 7x All-Star still had an elite-level K% at 29.4% and the FIP of 3.80 (3.72 xFIP) ...

We're a mere week or so away from spring training as it's the most important time of the year for fantasy baseball managers.The MLB offseason isn't exactly flight of foot, but we have still seen some big moves this winter. Numerous high-profile pitchers changed uniforms this offseason, whether it be due to trade or free agency. Often, these moves can have a seismic impact on the respective teams involved but a player can also improve or regress from their current fantasy baseball status in a ...