Marco Estrada

With less than a week's worth of games having been played, it's more than a little too soon to be drawing conclusions about our fantasy teams based on their results. We may be tempted to take comfort in owning Mitch Haniger, Matt Davidson or Tyler Skaggs, all of whom are off to surprisingly good starts, or be bummed out that we are getting next to nothing out of Yu Darvish, Paul Goldschmidt or Willson Contreras. These players' histories strongly suggest that we not get too confident or distraught based on their tiny samples…

The newest member of the Fantrax family and industry titan Al Melchior (@almelchiorBB) stopped by The Baseball Show this week to discuss how he got involved in Fantasy Baseball (1:30), his three mus- own players from the Top 100 (7:33), some of his favorite sleepers (9:58), his rookie sleepers to target (13:22), some veteran pitchers he's looking at (15:05), what Joe Musgrove's move to Pittsburgh could mean (19:02), concerns about the new humidor at Chase Field (20:50), reaction to the Steven Souza three-way trade and how it…

Sleeper lists are a staple of each year's draft prep, and so are the discussions and debates about what a sleeper is. It seems only fitting to get my feet wet here at Fantrax by writing my first column about my top sleepers for the coming season. While I'm at it, I will explain what I mean when I label a player as a "sleeper."There are bargains, late-round fliers and deep sleepers, and as far as I'm concerned, they're all sleepers. However, I think the most generally understood definition is the middle one -- players who…