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Twins 2017 Preview Although it may seem foolish in retrospect, there was optimism in Minneapolis entering the 2016 season. The Twins were coming off of an 83-79 season, one in which they were in the wild-card hunt until the final weekend of the season with a surprisingly competitive young team. Most notably, top prospect Miguel Sano broke onto the scene with a fantastic 80-game debut season, in which he hit .269/.385/.530, good enough for a 150 wRC+ that made him 50% better than the average major-league hitter. Although…

One of my fellow fantasy league players once compared the process of tracking MLB prospects to playing the stock market. There is a lot of the same process involved for both as one needs to track progress, news, and other outside factors to determine when you decide to buy in or pass on the transaction. There is also the "kind of stock" that a person wants to buy into. That is why two catchers are included in this list as this position does not have a really deep pool of resources for a fantasy player. Finding good young…

The 2017 NBA Draft is one of the deepest since the famous 2003 draft that gave us LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Carmelo Anthony, among others. This year the household names are mostly guards, with fans and analysts falling in love with Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball, Malik Monk, and Josh Jackson. While these four players are top level talents and should be considered potential all-stars, many of us are missing the boat on a player who has been great all year and could turn into a star. That player is Florida…

Rookie Profile: Austin Meadows In a world where everyone is looking for the next big thing, Fantasy sports is no different. Most of us get intrigued by the new and flashy, which makes us forget about the solid, reliable options that have helped us in the past. Sometimes this works out, other times we get burned. One prospect who looks to be the real deal for years to come is Austin Meadows.Meadows has been a highly ranked prospect since the day he was drafted and has risen into the top ten of basically every prospect…

If you look up crapshoot in the dictionary, the word saves should be there right next to it. Saves are one of the most difficult statistics to predict in Fantasy baseball.  Closers are one-inning specialists who in most cases, throw as hard as they can to get three outs and as a result, often run into arm trouble. There are a grand total of five closers pitching for the 30 teams in MLB who began 2016 as their team’s undisputed closer and completed the season in that role without missing any time for injury. Inexperienced…

MLB Offseason Moves With just under a week until baseball is upon us again, draft season is in full swing. As dedicated fantasy players, we typically spend the time we should be spending with family or working, researching players and who we are going to draft. There’s a whole lot that goes into assessing and ranking players. An important factor that we have to take a look at is what the rest of the player’s team looks like. Obviously, players get sent all over the place throughout the offseason, so it’s important to take a…

Nick Senzel Rookie Profile As I see it, there are three ways how to decide whether a player is going to be good or not – statistics, watching him play on the field, and what I do. I call it scouting from a distance. I take the player stats (season/career) as my base and then if I like them, I start researching the player. I look at his build, face, position compatibility (whether he fits the profile of the position he plays and whether that position is a position of need for the organization he plays for), read articles,…

Year after year, most teams in a fantasy league get that random 12th round pick or waiver wire pickup that just explodes and becomes one of their top players. With the NHL season winding down and most fantasy leagues in their playoffs, I thought I'd look back and pick some players who went from sleeper pick to fantasy stud. Every fantasy league is different in its own way, so I've chosen some of the more popular categories from which to make my selections, in addition to using draft positions from Fantrax. When we consider…

39-year old Tom Brady was the 7th quarterback taken in the 2000 NFL Draft, which continues to amaze me.  Last year he became the first quarterback in NFL history to win 5 Super Bowls as a starter.  To me, he is the greatest quarterback to ever play in the NFL, sorry Joe Montana.  Brady has played in 237 games (235 starts) in his first 16 years in the NFL and he has completed 5,244 of 8,224 passes (63.8%) for 61,582 yards with 456 TD passes and 152 interceptions.  Those 61,582 yards passing and 456 TD passes are both 4th in…

With starting pitchers, it’s all about wins, strikeouts, and innings pitched so that the best plays for a rotisserie team are not necessarily the same as for a points team. We’re not concerned here with ratios such as WHIP and ERA except in how they might impact a hurler’s ability to pitch deep into starts and exit with a win. There is a wide range of starting pitchers available in every price category for the Fantrax Salary Cap challenge games, and most fantasy managers will choose starters from across the salary spectrum…