Gary Sanchez

It can often be difficult to place into context how well (or how poorly) certain players have performed recently. A glance at ESPN’s Player Rater, which attempts to quantify a player’s overall fantasy value by analyzing their performance in each facet of the game, can focus targets for fantasy owners looking for help on the waiver wire. Of course, when dealing with small sample sizes, a player’s results can be fluky, but placement at or near the top of these lists could be indicative of a substantive change to a player’s…

A lot of American League Only Fantasy Leagues use two catcher starting positions and that is not a good thing for owners as not many of them are hitting well this year.  If you have Salvador Perez, Brian McCann or Welington Castillo on your roster, you are sitting pretty.  Here is a look at each team's current situation in the American League at catcher: Baltimore Orioles - Welington Castillo is off to a really good start and he only gets days off once in a while.  He has played in 14 games for the Orioles this year and…

MLB Fantasy Injury Impact for Week 2 A lot if injuries happened in Week #1 that will effect Week #2 of the Fantasy Baseball season.  Here is a look at the most notable ones: Trea Turner, Washington Nationals - 23-year old righty swinging SS Trea Turner burst onto the scene last year for the Nationals!  He played in 73 games for the Nationals last year and he was 105 of 307 (.342 avg., .937 OPS) with 53 runs scored, 13 homers, 40 RBI, and 33 stolen bases.  The blend of speed and power he displayed last year had a lot of…