The 2024 Major League Baseball season is now just three weeks old, which means we finally have numbers that count to start evaluating our fantasy squads. With only 26 weeks in the fantasy baseball season, even a few weeks of information should help guide us to decisions about who deserves a valuable roster spot on […]
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Ryan is a 20-year veteran of fantasy baseball, football, and basketball leagues. He has been writing about fantasy sports, sports betting, and DFS since 2018 and is a member of the FSWA and IBWAA. A native of Houston, he is a die-hard fan of the Astros, Rockets, and - reluctantly - the Texans. When he is not buried under sports analysis, he works full-time in higher education and can be found pursuing his other passions: drinking coffee and writing about television and comic book investments.
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The 2024 Major League Baseball season is one week old, which means we finally have numbers that count to start evaluating our fantasy squads. With only 26 weeks in the fantasy baseball season, even one week of information should help guide us to decisions about who deserves a valuable roster spot on our teams and […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Major League Baseball has now played two of its 2,430 games this season with the South Korea series ended, which means all we really have are Spring Training stats to evaluate who we need for our fantasy baseball squads. With March about to wrap up, who deserves a better or worse spot in our drafts […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?No Major League Baseball team has played more than 13 games as of March 6, and none of them have actually counted for anything, but what else are we going to use to evaluate who we need for our fantasy baseball squads? In the aggregate, Spring Training stats are mostly meaningless, but things like playing […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? Mitch Keller Got Himself The Pirates’ Booty
February 22, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Draft Strategy | 4 Commentsby: CableBoxScore
What a day for Mitch Keller, man. First, KellARRRRRRR was named the Pirates’ Opening Day starter for the second year in a row, which – yay, whatever – but the bigger news came in the form of eight figures headed his way. Keller signed a five-year, $77 million extension, which (if you know much about […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? 2024 MLB Risers And Fallers: Free Agency Fallout
February 8, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell | 2 Commentsby: CableBoxScore
Who were the real fantasy baseball risers and fallers from the 2024 MLB free agency this offseason, you ask? The real winners of the offseason, of course, were Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the devil since the Dodgers clearly made a deal with him to get Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow, Teoscar Hernandez, and Yoshinobu […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Don’t look now but the fantasy baseball playoffs are just around the corner. Your trade deadline has likely passed and you have about a week or two left to get into that coveted playoff position in head-to-head league. This week’s list is focused on some players who miiiiiight just be available in your standard 12-team […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? MLB Risers And Fallers: Where Jordan?
August 10, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 3 Commentsby: CableBoxScore
With the trade deadline well behind us, that means the next major event on the fantasy baseball calendar are the playoffs. Likely one month away in most leagues, we have to come to grips that the performance of the players we have are what we are going to be stuck with for the remainder of […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Now with the All-Star Break come and gone, some of these players shouldn’t fooling us anymore. It used to be funny that Joey Meneses was batting .275 with three homers, but now it’s downright horrific. We used to dismiss the fact that Willy Adames was hovering around the Mendoza Line, but now (.206 average) he […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?It’s unlucky season in fantasy baseball right now. We have official and terrible news on players like Lance McCullers, Vinnie Pasquantino, Yordan Alvarez, Chris Sale, and Jazz Chisholm this week. There are no less than five dozen players on the MLB injured list right now. With the dog days of summer officially upon us and […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? MLB Risers And Fallers: Manoah Massacre
May 18, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Commentsby: CableBoxScore
Remember the hype around the Blue Jays offense this offseason? They added Daulton Varsho and Brandon Belt. They also had emerging players like Alejandro Kirk in the core of the lineup. Yeah, those players haven’t exactly worked out yet. Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. were due for bounce-back seasons, right? Remember the hype on […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Sometimes when I write about fantasy baseball (and certainly when I play fantasy baseball), I feel a lot like Ruth Langmore. You’ve seen the meme from Ozark by now. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know s*** about f***. Case in point. Some dummy wrote in the preseason that the new park dimensions in Camden […]
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