Lineup Analysis (6/5/26)
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American League
Angels
• Wade Meckler (vs RHP) and Jose Siri (vs LHP) form a left field platoon.
• Donovan Walton (.693 OPS, 0 HR, 0 SB) started in 10 of the last 12 games.
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Big Kid Adds (Week 10)
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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even larger entry fees ($2.5K to $15K). They are named Elite leagues (previously called High Stakes Leagues), and there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain every advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Mining the News (6/2/26)
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American League
Angels
• Vaughn Grissom has been starting at first base.
Vaughn Grissom, who hit a grand slam and had six RBIs in Tuesday’s 10-6 win, started at first base again on Wednesday. He’s expected to get the bulk of the playing time there in Schanuel’s absence, although Oswald Peraza and Donovan Walton could see time there as well.
“For the most part now, he’s going to fill in and get the majority of the time over there at first base,” manager Kurt Suzuki said of Grissom. “But I could see Peraza or Donnie playing some first base, so we have options.”
Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat
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: Welcome
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: Here are the winning bids from the two 15-team Tout Wars redraft leagues
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: any hope for framber? or drop him for taj/ginn?
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: My projections have Taj first as a 4.08 ERA talent, then Framber at 4.12, and then Ginn at 4.38.
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: Is River Ryan going to save my season?
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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report: Pitchers (Week 10)
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My son competed in the State Track Meet this weekend, so I’ll only had time to cover the pitchers while Jack Dorfman covered the hitters.
In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now, while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.
The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »
Big Kid Adds (Week 9)
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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even larger entry fees ($2.5K to $15K). They are named Elite leagues (previously called High Stakes Leagues), and there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain every advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Evaluating Rookie Hitters
In this weekend’s chat, I was asked the following question, shared below with my response:
7:37 Beano: So many call ups this week! Can you help with a bid pecking order? Alcantara, Torrens, Garcia, Valdez, Ramirez, Troy …
7:38 Jeff Zimmerman: I’m not really high on any of them. I’m sure one will be useful, but they seem like fill-ins.
I looked through the players and wasn’t interested for various reasons. But valuing recently promoted hitters is a challenge for everyone, so today I want to expand on that short answer by sharing a bit of my process. In addition to the five players above, I included two other recent call-ups: Sterlin Thompson and Colt Emerson. This year’s edition of The Process includes my work on this topic.
Sunday Night Waiver Wire & FAAB Chat
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: Welcome
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: Tout Wars FAAB has not run tonight, so no values, sorry about that.
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: Jeff,
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: Yes Bubba …
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: Where would Bryan Torres and Jackson Holiday have ranked on your waiver hitter list? Thx!
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: Holliday is pretty low, probably at the bottom of the other platoon bats.
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FAAB & Waiver Wire Report (Week 9)
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In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now, while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.
The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »
Lineup Analysis (5/22/26)
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American League
Angels
• Oswald Peraza’s (.775 OPS) playing time dried up with just two starts in the last five games. Read the rest of this entry »