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What's the Catch?
Brenden O'Brien-Cockson is one of our new additions to the FantasySquads.com team for the 2015 season. Devin Mesoraco, Cincinnati Reds – BUY After a breakout 2014 campaign and an All-Star nod,...
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Player Profile: George Springer
A warm welcome to WC Thompson (@mrbigscore)! George Springer Houston Astros RF Age: 25, 2 YR Minors, ½ YR Majors 2014: 78 Games, 295 AB, 27 2B, 20 HR, 5 SB, .231/.336/.468 Hype is an addiction in...
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ADP Overvalued Hitters
Welcome back Andrew Barney with his first article of the 2015 season! He'll be handling our Waiver Windup every Friday here at FantasySquads.com. In order to kick-start your 2015 fantasy baseball...
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Reliever Roundabout: American League Central
Via Greg Jewett (@gjewett9) Continuing our preseason tour around the bullpens, the focus this week shifts to the American League Central. While this is a fairly stable division in regards to the...
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Two Up, One Down: Second Base
Via Brendan O'Brien-Cockson (@FantasyRam) Kolten Wong, STL – BUY Born in Hilo, Hawaii, Kolten Wong was gifted with some serious baseball pedigree in his family. His father, Kaha, played college...
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Player Profile: Corey Dickerson
Via Brendan O'Brien-Cockson (@FantasyRam) Corey Dickerson, OF, COL 2015 Fantasy Baseball Preview I recently offered Corey Dickerson as my breakout candidate for the upcoming season. Now this...
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Polarizing Players: Jake Arrieta
Via David Kerr (@askROTOBaseball) Polarizing Player: Jake Arrieta Each preseason, FantasySquads.com recognizes five "polarizing players" and takes a stand on their worth for the season. This is the...
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Undervalued Hitters: Chris Carter, Brian Dozier, Starling Marte
Via Andrew Barney (@a_barney6) In order to kick-start your 2015 fantasy baseball draft prep, I am writing a four-part series here at FantasySquads. I will be taking a look into overrated hitters...
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Safe Targets: The Offense
Via David Kerr In fantasy baseball, everyone loves to get hype for his or her draft. Hell, it is the best part of the season for the majority of players. While many tend to lose interest as the...
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Positional Buy/ Avoid: Shortstop
Via Brendan O'Brien-Cockson (@FantasyRam) Starlin Castro, CHC – BUY At the young age of 24 and already with five seasons under his belt, Starlin Castro is ready for a great upcoming season with...
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Reliever Roundabout: American League West
Via Greg Jewett (@gjewett9) Our final stop on the tour of the American League features a look at the West division and, although there is some uncertainty in Texas with the Astros, most of the teams...
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Overrated Pitchers: Wainwright, Jansen, Lynn
Via Andrew Barney (@a_barney6) In order to kickstart your 2015 fantasy baseball draft prep, I am writing a four-part series here at FantasySquads.com which looks into overrated and underratedhitters...
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Player Profile: Phil Hughes
Via Brendan O'Brien-Cockson (@FantasyRam) A towering 6-5 and 240 pound Mission Viejo, California native, Phil Hughes was once one of the most highly anticipated prospects in baseball, but his career...
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Third Base: Draft and Avoid
Via Brendan O'Brien-Cockson (@FantasyRam) Nick Castellanos, DET – BUY First of all, happy birthday, Nick! The Tigers third baseman will be turned 23 last week and with his rookie campaign behind...
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Fantasy Baseball: Underrated Pitchers
In order to kick-start your 2015 fantasy baseball draft prep, I am writing a four-part series here at FantasySquads.com. I’ll be taking a look into overrated hitters & pitchers and underrated...
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2015 Outfield Targets
Starling Marte, PIT Yet another Dominican-born stud, Starling Marte grew up with his grandmother in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The Pittsburgh Pirates signed him at...
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Reliever Roundabout: NL East
While the volatility of the closer position is in full swing in the American League, the National League appears much more settled. Of course, there are tenuous holds on the ninth inning but as our...
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Pitching Prospect Stashes
Feel free to shoot David a message (@askROTOBaseball) throughout the season with any Fantasy Baseball-related questions! As year-by-year owners, we like to dig deep for the next gem that will...
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Olivera Signs: Now What?
The Dodgers inked Hector Olivera to a six-year, $62.5 million dollar deal on Tuesday ending speculation that he could become a member of the Padres or Giants. Unlike the Boston's signing of Yoan...
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Fantasy Baseball: Five Bold Predictions
01. Carlos Gomez Will Finish as the #2 Hitter Behind Mike Trout The Brewers outfielder is an absolute stud in every sense of the word, and he brings 25/25 potential at the plate every season while...
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Waiver Windup: Preseason
By now, most (probably all) of you have already drafted and have been counting the seconds until the first pitch is thrown Sunday night. If you play in leagues like mine, chances are managers have...
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2015 BOLD Predictions: American League
We are less than 24 hours away from the first pitch of the 2015 Major League Baseball season. All of the rankings, the prepping, the podcast preview shows, and fantasy drafts are mostly finished and...
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American League Division Winner Forecast
I teamed up with my good friend Austin Swaim (@BlakeStBlogger) in order to bring our MLB division winner predictions for the upcoming 2015 season. This may not be "fantasy-specific," but such is the...
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2015 BOLD Predictions: National League
This is part two of my BOLD Prediction series for the 2015 season. Yesterday I tackled the American League, so it is only fitting that I give you 15 predictions for every National League team...
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National League Division Winner Forecast
National League East Brendan says… Washington Nationals This is the obvious pick here, and why not? I am not sure about you, but as the Nationals, I would like my chances with Max Scherzer...
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Week One: Streaming Pitchers
Jesse Hahn, OAK Hahn has a great two-start week ahead of him, and he is only owned in eight percent of ESPN leagues. The Oakland hurler faces a Texas team that has plenty of questions surrounding...
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Week One: Waiver Windup
Consider this your annual reminder that it’s Week 1: do not panic! If your team batting average is below the Mendoza line, do not panic. If your ace pitcher was hit around in his first start, do not...
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DraftKings Plays Monday, April 13, 2015
I had a strong weekend on DraftKings, cashing in all 50/50s except for Saturday night. Clayton Kershaw let me (and many others) down, but that is not something that will be said many times this year....
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Week Two: Streamer's Special
Danny Duffy – KC Although he is coming off a shaky start against the Chicago White Sox where he allowed five earned runs in his five innings pitched, the Royals southpaw looks to be a great...
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MLB DFS Advice for Tuesday, April 14
Starting Pitcher: It’s a gross looking pitching slate on Wednesday, for the all-day and night slates, so it’s hold your nose and pick your poison in cash games for starting pitching. In single...
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MLB DFS Advice for April 16, 2015
Short slates have high overlay among rostered players, but with only one tasty setup (Tampa at Toronto), it may leave some margins to be exploited in all-day games. Starting Pitcher Unlike...
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Week Two: Waiver Windup
Let me repeat what I said last week for those of you that were not paying attention: DO NOT PANIC. Just because a proven hitter you drafted has struggled for the first two weeks of the season, that...
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MLB DFS Full Lineup for Monday, April 20
We hope you enjoyed your weekend and made plenty of cash with your #DFS lineups. If you used our Premium Weekend Pass from FantasySquads.com, you would have cashed with ease on DraftKings.com on...
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Week Three: Streamer's Special
Jonathon Niese, NYM Niese has a favorable two-start this week, with his first bout coming Tuesday against the Braves. He will conclude the week with a showdown with the rivals of the city, the New...
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MLB DFS Lineup Advice for Wednesday, April 22
Where tonight you have all of the aces… Starting Pitcher: Do yourself a favor and don’t overthink in your cash games when you have a bunch of aces like Kershaw, Bumgarner, Price and Cueto. Pick the...
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MLB DFS Lineup Advice for Thursday, April 23
Where it’s the quality of the players and not the size of the slate that matters. Starting Pitcher: Healthy slate of games on travel day in the MLB, with 12 games ready to go and feature a wide array...
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Waiver Windup: Week 3
Week 3 is upon us, the season is in full-swing and I have another set of fresh pickups in this week’s Waiver Windup! Also, congrats to those who held on to Chris Carter, who finally went deep,...
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Streamer Special: Week 3
Ubaldo Jimenez, BAL Still available in nearly 69% of ESPN leagues, the former Rockies flamethrower is an excellent two-start candidate that can help out your team for the upcoming week. Jimenez has...
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MLB DFS Advice for Wednesday, April 29
Starting Pitcher: Odd split slate on Wednesday, so we looked at the early only and evening games, leaving the oddball 6pm eastern games out of contention because most contests on FanDuel, for...
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MLB DFS Advice for Thursday, April 30
Starting Pitcher Sometimes you just shouldn’t overthink your starting pitcher. You can over analyze to the point where you miss the forest for the trees or some saying like that. It’s like that...
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Waiver Windup: Week 4
Welcome to the Week Four edition of the Waiver Windup! If you’re new to this, I make a few recommendations on who to drop and who to add in their place and provide some statistical basis for doing so....
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Streamer's Special: Week 5
Jesse Chavez, OAK Chavez is currently unowned in 90% of ESPN leagues and he has a nice two-start week coming up against Minnesota and Seattle. In the A’s hurler’s first two starts of the season...
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MLB DFS Advice for Wednesday, May 6
Starting Pitcher Rain may play a factor in Wednesday’s pick for starting pitcher because the clouds are gathering in more ways than one for the Reds when they take on the Pirates. For one, they are...
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MLB DFS Insight for Thursday, May 7
Starting Pitcher: Chris Archer (FD-$8,900, DK-$9,400) let us down the last time out, but Archer is still a top 10 SIERA SP and the Rays have the pleasure of taking on the Texas Rangers and Nick...
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Waiver Windup: Let's Drop Mesoraco
As the season wears on and on, more and more fantasy managers of struggling teams begin to panic and lose faith in the team they drafted. Don’t be that manager, we are still early enough in the...
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Streamer Special: Duffy Worth the Risk
Alex Colome – TB Currently only owned in 12% of ESPN leagues, Colome has been a hot add coming into this week because of his attractive two starts against the Yankees and Twins. Colome has been eased...
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MLB DFS Advice for Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Starting Pitcher Corey Kluber (FD-$9,300, DK-$9,000) His price has come down even more due to his 5.00+ ERA, but he’s due to regress back to his mean as his SIERA shows a 3.20 pitcher and his...
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Waiver Windup: Sorry, Yadi
Welcome to another edition of the Waiver Windup! By this point in the season some underlying stats have begun to stabilize (BB% & K%) while other stats remain in small-sample-size purgatory (see...
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DFS Advice for Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Last night was a rough one if you owned either Francisco Liriano or Anibal Sanchez. Hopefully these pitching picks bring forth a better fortune for you. Let's hit it! Starting Pitcher Tyson Ross...
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MLB DFS Advice for Thursday, May 21, 2015
With Thursday being a travel day for some, we’re going to focus on the 3pm games and later. Starting Pitcher Clayton Kershaw (FD-$11,200, DK-$12,400) vs. Madison Bumgarner (FD-$10,100, DK-$10,500)...
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