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There is a 32-year-old relief pitcher in Baltimore who has allowed one hit in the field of play through his first 20-plus appearances of the 2026 season. His BABIP is .000. His ERA is 0.00. His WHIP is 0.36. He entered this season with a career MLB ERA of 5.27 across seven organizations, three ...
Everyone was watching Paul Skenes. Braxton Ashcraft snuck in the back door. While the Pirates' marquee arm has absorbed the national spotlight that comes with being one of baseball’s most discussed pitching prospects, his rotation-mate has been quietly building one of the more compelling breakout ...
Let's get the curtain call out of the way. Colt Emerson debuted with the Seattle Mariners on May 17 at age 20, became the youngest player in the organization since Felix Hernandez was a teenager causing problems in 2005, and arrived carrying the largest contract ever handed to a drafted player ...
Ronald Acuña Jr. has now visited the injured list five times in three seasons, which is more than my Aunt Edna and her bum hip has had to miss book club in that time. But like Edna, Acuña will be stealing fewer bases this season. Your league has either not done the stolen base math, or doesn’t ...
I’m going work hard to remain composed as I write about Manny Machado’s disastrous start to the 2026 season, but it might not be easy since his disappointing early season numbers are directly hurting my TGFBI (The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational) fantasy baseball team. Machado has gotten off to ...
You would think that being one of the hottest-hitting catchers in the league would put a player on every fantasy manager’s radar. But that somehow isn’t the case for Dillon Dingler. The Detroit Tigers’ backstop has gotten his 2026 campaign off to a red-hot start, and he has the stats to prove he ...
Back when we were all drafting our teams in the cold winter — oh how we remember those days fondly — we held on to ADP like a compass in foreign territory. It would guide us and lead us to the promised land. But now, at the end of May — Fernando Tatis has no homeruns, Jordan Walker is an MVP ...
Carson Benge arrived in Queens with all the fanfare a top prospect deserves. He hit .366 with an .874 OPS in spring training, made the Opening Day roster, and homered in his first big league game. The future had arrived right on schedule. Then the present showed up. From March 28 through April 22, ...
When you look up the term “post-hype sleeper” in the fantasy baseball dictionary you might find a photo of JJ Bleday right next to it. The Marlins drafted Bleday in the first round of the 2019 MLB Amateur draft and after years of failing to live up to his top prospect pedigree, Bleday has finally ...
The current landscape of starting pitching in fantasy baseball is in an absolute state of emergency.
While everyone obsesses over launch angles and hard-hit rates, savvy fantasy managers are looking for the season’s most generous batteries and treating them like an all-you-can-steal buffet.
Zack Wheeler was supposed to be a question mark. Instead, after four starts, he’s an emphatic exclamation mark. Thoracic outlet surgery, blood clot, rib removal: that's not exactly a recipe for ace-level production. After missing the first few weeks of 2026, the real question wasn't whether he'd ...
They don’t make fantasy baseball assets as polarizing as Shohei Ohtani. But fantasy managers are questioning whether he will return on his value for 2026. The 31-year-old phenom entered this season as a two-way player, promising massive returns across different fantasy platforms. Meanwhile, the Los ...
Lining up your 2-start pitchers prior to weekly waivers is a strategy that wins fantasy baseball leagues. This is especially true in head-to-head leagues, in formats where roster moves are limited, and in leagues in which the scoring rules highly reward starting pitching. The pitchers below are ...
Fantasy managers hoping to get Roman Anthony back out on the field may not get their wish just yet. And his unclear status has everyone wondering what to do next. The 22-year-old outfielder was heating up at the plate before he sustained a wrist injury on May 4. His stint on the IL was expected to ...
It’s clear that Shohei Ohtani will not always hit on days he pitches. Ohtani was on the pitcher’s mound, but not in the Dodgers’ lineup, during his Wednesday start and per manager Dave Roberts, he’ll only be available to pinch hit on Thursday. With Ohtani scheduled to make at least one start as a ...
I’ve got to hand it to Jackson Chourio: He really launched when he returned from injury. That’s his 2026 fantasy baseball story in a nutshell—a hand injury and launch angles. But which will keep his power ceiling lower than most owners were envisioning? Chourio came back from a fractured metacarpal ...
There’s such a thing as starting the season off strong at the plate. And then, there’s Oneil Cruz in 2026. Saying the longtime Pittsburgh Pirate is on a heater is an understatement. Novice fantasy managers may just see a .255/.320/.473 slash line. Seasoned owners know Cruz has improved at the plate ...
Whether you’re dealing with the loss of two-time reigning Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal for several months or underwhelming performances from pitchers like Jesús Luzardo, Logan Webb or Garrett Crochet, who is also on the IL, your fantasy team needs able-bodied hurlers to survive. The waiver wire is often a sea of streamers who might...
When assessing fantasy baseball rosters, the catcher position is often treated like a “set it and forget it” chore.
Louis Varland has quietly become one of fantasy baseball’s biggest bullpen value swings entering May. The Toronto reliever owns a 0.53 ERA with four saves while steadily separating himself from every remaining committee argument. Yet many fantasy managers still treat the role as unsettled, creating ...
Parker Messick was hiding in plain sight. Now that we all see him, the acquisition cost has risen. But how good is he, really, and how should you price him? He was a waiver wire whisper two weeks ago. Now DraftKings has him slotted alongside Max Fried and Dylan Cease, your league's most annoying ...
Shout out to the fantasy baseball managers who kept their cool through April and didn’t make any impulsive changes to their rosters. Your reward: Making the first big roster decisions in early May. As April fades in the rearview mirror, several high-profile players have created immediate ...
Jacob Misiorowski is about to miss 15-30 days. Oh, that got your attention for sure. Let me explain. No he’s not headed for the IL. But he is headed for extra days of rest and shorter starts. The innings leash is already tightening, and if you are carrying Misiorowski in your fantasy rotation ...
