Tony Cingrani is pitching so well that he is causing a problem for both fantasy managers and the Cincinnati Reds. What should they do with him? This is a good problem to have. The 23-year old pitcher has started three games filling in while Johnny Cueto recovers from an injury. In his first start he struck [...]
If you are lucky enough to have Todd Frazier on your fantasy baseball team, you have a pretty valuable trade chip right now. Three key 3Bs are on the DL: Ryan Zimmerman, Aramis Rameriz and Hanley Rameriz. Three others are having slow starts: David Freese, Mike Moustakas and Trevor Plouffe. So there probably are a few managers in your league looking for a [...]
Christopher Ivory might be getting his shot at being a feature back after his trade to the New York Jets. So this means he could again be an RB of interest in fantasy football this season. Ivory has been a curiosity in fantasy circles, due to his potential and his explosiveness off the line. But his history [...]
In a previous article, I gave you some details of the Sports Writers Fantasy Baseball League. The managers are 12 sports writers, six of whom write here at Rant Sports. This is my first crack at a head-to-head fantasy baseball format; I have played only in rotisserie leagues prior to this. So, I thought it would be [...]
Today, for the third time in four starts this season, Barry Zito pitched seven scoreless innings and got the win. Yet he is available in about 50% of Yahoo! fantasy baseball leagues. Why is this? The reasons are numerous. Zito will turn 35 this year, his ERA last year was well over 4.0, and in 2011 [...]
After three weeks of play, three top outfielders have yet to find their stroke, to the dismay of the fantasy baseball managers. On one hand 16 games or so are too small a sample size to draw any meaningful conclusions. On the other hand, it is long enough to have managers getting antsy. [...]
Unless all of the batters on your fantasy baseball team are performing well, you probably need to be searching the waiver wire to see where you might get some short-term help. Here are three players that are generally available in a large percentage of leagues and are carrying hot bats right now. In the last [...]
Fantasy baseball managers must be wondering if they will get any production out of the corner infielders of the St. Louis Cardinals. While the Cards are at the top of the NL Central, they are doing it with little help from either Allen Craig or David Freese. Both players have been struggling to keep their [...]
Position scarcity has usually been an issue at second base in fantasy baseball leagues. But the situation is even worse this spring with the bad starts of a few players at the position. Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians was the team’s second round draft pick in 2009. Last year, in his first full season [...]
If you have Chase Headley on your fantasy baseball team, as I do, then you are certainly glad that he has returned to the San Diego Padres lineup. So are the Padres. They have missed his bat, as they have started the season off with a dismal 4-10 record. To put that into perspective, that [...]
