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Fantasy Baseball: Why You Should Play Salary-Cap Challenge Games

Thousands of teams signed up on Fantrax last year to play a wide variety of draft leagues, with even more expected to play this season. Leagues are filling up every day, and countless fantasy players will spend the next two months analyzing Average Draft Position (ADP) trends and hoping against hoping that they get the chance to own Mike Trout or Jose Altuve. I have a bit of advice for these people: You're doing it all wrong! You need to give the one of the salary cap challenge leagues a try. Join or start a fantasy…

Dynasty Dugout: Outfield Dynasty/Keeper Rankings

You better get used to a lot of the names on these rankings because you're going to be seeing a lot of them for many years to come. The outfield position has long been known for its overall talent and star power. Eash and every year it seems to get stronger and stronger, especially when it comes to dynasty and keeper formats. Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are still locked in at the top. And the scary part? They're still just 26 and 25, respectively. In fact, there's only one man over the age of 30 in my top-10 and just…

The Baseball Show, S2.E13 Rob Silver [Video]

Only a few people in this world know the feeling of taking down the entire field in a Fantasy Baseball contest. Our guest this week, Rob Silver (@RobSilver) was the 2016 NFBC Main Champion (7:45). That achievement comes with a great deal of respect, and commands your attention in his thoughts on the upcoming #TGFBI (10:20), as well as Draft Strategy thoughts in general (11:50); the How and Why of having a Plan (17:25), does he label anyone as Must Have Pitchers for 2018 (19:20), does Logan Morrison move the needle (22:31),…

The Baseball Show, S2.E12 Al Melchior [Video]

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…

2018 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Outfield Part 1 (1-25)

Join or start a fantasy baseball league at Fantrax today! Keeper, dynasty, re-draft. Fully customizable. A+ customer service. Play for free! We've covered some incredibly talented players so far in the infield, but let's be honest, this is where the big boys play. The outfield is home to the two best players in all of baseball, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, as well as the bash brothers. No, I don't mean Dean Portman and Fulton Reed from the Mighty Ducks movies. I'm obviously talking about the two wrecking balls in the Bronx.…