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Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jesse Winker is not in the starting lineup on Monday night against Dodgers left-handed starter Clayton Kershaw. Matt Kemp will draw the start in left field against his old team and bat third. Catcher Curt Casali is also hitting leadoff in this one. [...]

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jesse Winker continued his hot hitting in a 9-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Winker went 2-for-5 with a three-run homer in the losing effort, his second round-tripper in as many games. [...]

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Managers continue to slide through the waiver wire at alarming rates. Try not to overreact and make rash decisions. Let the underperforming stars get into a groove. Their numbers will normalize.Some outfielders would be better suited to stream for a hot bat. Others need to be replaced just because they are no longer on the field (IL). That is a situation that is affecting many owners, and there is nothing you can do except find a decent replacement as quickly as possible or risk losing valuable [...]

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Fantasy baseball is very much a what have you done for me lately environment. If players are playing poorly, fantasy managers will give up on them. All too often players are getting dropped that have no business being on the waiver wire. Some guys are just down on their luck and end up tossed into the dumpster. There is always the opposite spectrum where players are on a roster that should have been discarded long ago. However, we are thankful to those managers for keeping our waiver wire a litt[...]

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jesse Winker went 2-for-5 with a solo homer, two runs, and three RBI in a 14-0 blowout win over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday. Winker, who came into the game with just one hit in his first 24 at-bats, finally came to life in the big win. Despite the painfully slow start, the Cincinnati leadoff batter is a much better hitter than he has shown over the first two weeks of the season. [...]

Power is perhaps the best fantasy baseball attribute(and is all the better in OPS leagues) because it's also the best way to pick up runs and RBI--a home run guarantees at least one of each, naturally. So you will want to be on top of power trends throughout the season. For this first 2019 edition, all stats are full season through Monday, April 8th.Statcast will come up a lot in discussions about power, for obvious reasons. It's better to hit a baseball at 100 miles per hour than 90, at 25 degr[...]

Although we are only one week into the baseball season, some of the players you may have drafted in the mid-to-late rounds of standard 10 and 12-teamers are probably not quite working out. Because you didn't spend too much draft capital on them, you don't have to worry about sunk costs and you can, if you wish, cut loose to pick up someone of more promise on the waiver wire.In this series, we won't tell you who to pick upcheck out the fabulous RotoBaller Waiver [...]