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Top 100 Hitters: The Early Days

April 23, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 22 Comments

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Just two weeks or so into the regular season and it is time to start jostling those rankings.  We have some big moves in the early going with some big names.  While it certainly is early and not the time to overreact to small sample sizes, there are a few guys that are moving up due to delivering on early promise such as Seiya Suzuki.  However, the biggest surprise in our rankings this week might be a year-over-year first rounder that seems to be trending in the wrong direction.  Will fortune favor the bold or will you and I regret moving on from Mookie Betts.  In this week’s article we run down the Top 100 Hitters for the rest of the 2022 fantasy baseball season and see who is moving up, who is moving down and where we need to keep a watchful eye over the coming weeks.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: The Early Looks

April 16, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 5 Comments

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We are officially 11 days, 22 hours and 37 minutes into the regular season.  Is that accurate?  No, but we should not be counting days or stats at this point in the season.  There are early season upstarts like Steven Kwan and Owen Miller and slow starters like Marcus Semien and Bryce Harper.  To really assess potential at this point in the season we have to look at playing time behaviors and the early indications of who has a full time job and who is actually going be a platoon player (looking at you Jo Adell).  For this week we are going to look at some hitter profiles and what we should think for rest of the season potential.  So hold on and let us dig in!

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Let the Season Begin!

April 9, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 4 Comments

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It is that time!  Opening day has passed and that means it is time for our first Top 100 Hitter rankings for the rest of the 2022 season.  Every other week we will be looking at the movers and shakers for rest of the season value.  This will be the place to be every Saturday throughout the season to get your rankings fix.  For this first version, we will discuss where some of the young upstart rookies fit such as Bobby Witt Jr.  We will also look at a few Spring Training performances and where guys like Cody Bellinger and Francisco Lindor land after springs heading in opposite directions.  As always, thanks for reading and good luck to you this season.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: The Top 60

April 2, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Rest of Season Rankings, Top 100 Hitters | 6 Comments

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Welcome back to the third week in our series to introduce the Top 100 Hitters for the 2022 fantasy baseball season.  We have covered the top 10 here and the next 20 here over the past few weeks.  This week we jump in with two feet to explore spots 31 through 60.  At this point, we are starting to explore the fourth and fifth rounds of the draft and hoping to round out our early round moves.  There are certainly some upside picks in this section (Brandon Lowe or Wander Franco) to go alongside steady veterans (J.D. Martinez and Nolan Arenado) and the introduction of true high risk/high reward profiles (Adalberto Mondesi and Giancarlo Stanton).  Read on for the next 30 spots in our countdown.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: The Top 30

March 26, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters, Rest of Season Rankings, Top 100 Hitters | 7 Comments

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Last week, we jumped right into our our first look at the Top 100 Hitters for the 2022 Fantasy Baseball Season.  If you missed that article then please pause the current programming and give us a quick read to catch up.  This week we continue to jaunt down the rankings by looking at the next 20 hitters on the list.  This week’s edition is smattered with risky bets like Ronald Acuna and Mookie Betts, solid producers like Freddie Freeman and Ozzie Albies, and upside potential with Eloy Jimenez and Tyler O’Neill.  So let us kick this off with a #11 who really should be #1, but thanks to a the injury risk he is our headliner at the end of the first round.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: The Top 10

March 19, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters, Rest of Season Rankings, Top 100 Hitters | 12 Comments

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Throughout the 2022 fantasy baseball season, I will be posting your in season Top 100 Hitters.  These rankings will be kept up to date and posted every other week with a continuation of deep dives on the movers and shakers in the off weeks.  As we roll up to the season, I will be slowly introducing the Top 100 Hitters and adjusting them for all the spring training action.  To get us started as we dig into these rankings, we will preview the Top 10 hitters for the 2022 fantasy baseball season.  This will be a mix of the usual suspects and up and coming stars.

As we dive into the top 10 there are a few notes we need to call out about the general shifting of the landscape in traditional 5×5 fantasy baseball.  The game has continued to changed and therefore how we need to value players shifts as well.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Lockout Shuffle!

March 5, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 3 Comments

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I always try to look at things with a glass half-full.  Unfortunately that glass has a large hole in it right now where the MLB owners have drained my confidence in their love of the game.  However, the savy fantasy baseball manager is always looking for an edge.  This week our hitter profiles focus on impacts from the lockout and what it should mean for our expectations.  Whether it is recovery from injury or time away due to suspension and off the field struggles, there is always an angle to investigate.  Today we try to turn a Manfred into a Lemon and hope we end up with Lemonade.  Here are three hitters that stand to see a change in value the longer the lockout progresses.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: The Mezzanine Seats (200 Level ADP)

February 26, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Comments

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You know when you go to a baseball game and you get to look down at the seats you wish you could sit in but we both know you cannot afford.  At the same time you look up at the cheap seats and laugh.  Who is paying five dollars for a ticket when you can shell out ten dollars for the Mezzanine level?  In this week’s article, our hitter profiles focus on that 200 level in the outfield and what guys are landing at 200 above ADP.  These guys can be of value for you later in the draft in what is shaping up to be a deep field of veteran hitters.  So let us go deep and gone for this week’s dive in our hitter profiles.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Diamond in the Ruf

February 19, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball |

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While collective bargaining is going about as well as my teenage driving tests, there are a few things we can expect with a level of certainty.  We will see increased minimum salaries, the removal of the qualifying offer system, and most notably for our 2022 fantasy baseball season the implementation of the universal DH.  While this is not a shock, the lockout has made it a challenge to narrow in on how those positions will be filled.  A number of teams will simply rotate through their bench to keep players fresh but a handful already have their tailor-made DH in-house.  The increased playing time means increased intrigue for the observant fantasy owner.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Rapid Fire ADP Wars – Outfielder Edition

February 12, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 5 Comments

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Each week our Hitter Profiles dig into two to three players and what we can expect for the 2022 Fantasy Baseball Season.  This week, we will divert from the previously scheduled program and look to hit some rapid-fire decisions.  Think of this as that league where the commissioner has better things to do and sets the draft clock to twenty seconds per pick.  Come to think of that, I would not be surprised if that was in the next collective bargaining agreement offer from MLB that is due today.  So, in the spirit of all things Rob Manfred, let us jump into the outfield and look at four groups of players starting on the west coast with two outfielders going in opposite directions with Cody Bellinger and Mitch Haniger.

Cody Bellinger (ADP 99) vs. Mitch Haniger (ADP 109)

Which line would you rather take:

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Hitter Profiles: Build-A-Hitter (Do Splits Matter?)

February 5, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 16 Comments

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Buckle up for some analysis as we look to answer once and for all the question that all daily league managers contemplate themselves:  Do splits matter?  The concept has been around for years and hinges on some real-world strategy in the major leagues.  Many hitters have strong splits which is seen in major league lineup construction and pinch hitter selection.  So, logic would follow, that fantasy managers can look up splits and simply draft two less sexy names and play the lineup game.  With the ability to select which games a player starts; we can take two unheralded guys (say Adam Duvall and Austin Hays) to build an all-star hitter (maybe Aaron Judge).  It sounds so easy!  Time to (dis)prove that notion in this week’s hitter profiles.

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