Jonathan Lucroy

The season is finally here. After months of draft preparation, hours of pouring through stats, reading articles and listening to podcasts, it only took one Ian Happ home run for the hype train for early season breakouts to pull back into the station. Some of these hot starts from hitters will fade into irrelevance as soon as their next 0-for-12 stretch hits and another waiver period passes. Others will be legitimate, and knowing the difference could be the key to finding fantasy baseball success in 2018.Predicting…

If you've ever purchased a scratcher ticket at your local convenience store, you know the odds of hitting on a cheap lottery ticket are pretty slim. But what if I told you the tickets were free and you still could keep the money if you won? Sound like a good deal? That’s kinda how I fell about these seven players. Their ADPs and ownership levels are so low it’s almost like they are FREE. Each of these guys is being taken late in drafts or may be sitting on waivers in your league for one reason or another. They each have…

The calendar is changing. Winter is trying to keep its grip on large part of the country, but that will soon be over. Hope is in the air. Baseball season is nearly upon us. Spring Training is here, which means it’s the best time of the year. Many of us compare this time to the days and weeks leading up to Christmas. Like keeping track of the big sales at Christmas, there is also a lot of news going on in Arizona and Florida.After his intersquad start on March 8, Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke said he has a nagging…

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…