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Strategy Section: NL LABR Breakdown

Gameplan going in
- Catcher focus
- Low-dollar pitching
Billy Hamilton and his in-season tradeability
David Dahl’s injury
Favorite buy on your team
Biggest regret
Favorite buy leaguewide
League Trends
- Cheap Reliever market
- Corner Infielders
- Middle Infielders
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Market Watch: SBs Rising in Cost

by Paul Sporer

March 7, 2017

I’ll be tracking differences in the NFBC average draft that is referenced regularly throughout the community and can be found here. Each Sunday I’ll pull the data, compare it to the previous week, and then deliver my key findings. You will still need to synthesize the data into something applicable for your leagues, especially if you don’t play in the NFBC, but this is the game’s sharpest market so I think it’s worth following. Last week I tried the positional thing, but there isn’t always something to discuss at every position so I’m going back to free form.

PREVIOUS EDITIONS:

BIGGEST RISER: Jeanmar Gomez | +27 spots to pick 378

Gomez dethroned Neftali Feliz (+23), who was going for a three-peat as the biggest riser. Gomez was named the closer by manager Pete Mackanin instead of an open competition with Gomez, Joaquin Benoit, and Hector Neris. However, despite the jump, Gomez sits only 10 spots ahead of Benoit and is actually 140 spots behind Neris. The Phillies might be showing some confidence in Gomez, but the market isn’t following suit.

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 434 – AL LABR Deep-Dive

by Paul Sporer

March 7, 2017

3/6/17

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Strategy Section: AL LABR Breakdown

Speed market
Closer market
Shiny new toys
David Price
Positional review

LABR Links

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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – March 3rd, 2017

by Paul Sporer

March 3, 2017

Chat transcript is below!

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 433 – Phillies Phinally Phormidable?

by Paul Sporer

March 2, 2017

3/2/17

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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Leading Off: Question of the Day

How do you utilize Spring Training for fantasy gain? (1:15)

Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play

David Price scratched w/elbow (5:20)
Hanley Ramirez out of WBC bc of shoulder
Andrew Cashner shut down w/bicep injury (16:00)
Nats could release Derek Norris

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Rotographs Rankings Spreadsheet-February 2017

by Paul Sporer

March 1, 2017

With relievers now available, our first run of every position is posted so I’ve compiled those rankings into a handy-dandy spreadsheet! It will be updated in March when we update the positional rankings.

Enjoy!

Click here for the spreadsheet.

FYI: This post is updated from 2016’s version, hence the older comments

February Rankings – Relievers

by Paul Sporer

March 1, 2017

We’re going position by position this week and next with our initial roll out of rankings. We will update these in March based on Spring Training activity and injuries.

We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. We can also be reached via Twitter:

There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.

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