There are plenty of roster decisions to go over in today’s Roto Riteup, but that doesn’t mean we’re too busy to include some arbitrary endpoints.
On today’s agenda
1. Tanner Scheppers gets Rangers’ Opening Day nod
2. Nicholas Martinez makes Opening Day Rotation
3. Marcus Semien makes the White Sox
4. Clayton Kershaw to miss Sunday’s start
5. Erasmo Ramirez to start game two for Seattle
6. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
Today’s Roto Riteup is brought to you by this inspired Groundskeeper Willie compilation, as well as this tranquil image, which should help you to relax on this Wednesday morning.
On today’s agenda:
1. Marco Scutaro’s ailing back
2. Roenis Elias makes Mariners’ rotation
3. Vance Worley heads to Pittsburgh
4. Lance Lynn’s weird spring
FanGraphs The Game is back for 2014! If you haven’t played before, you should start a player or two this season and join in on the fun. Today, I’m going to present some tips for winning in FG: The Game, but only at one position. I was the top reliever in all the land last year, so hopefully you feel I’m qualified to provide some expert analysis.
Welcome to the first Monday edition of the 2014 Roto Riteup. I was hanging out with my nearly five-year-old cousin, so I asked him to write up an introduction for today’s edition.
“You should say something nice. You should write everything is awesome. Kung-Fu Panda. You should write Po. You should write something on wrestling.”
On today’s agenda:
1. Jurickson Profar out 3 months
2. Joe Kelly as fifth starter, dream ruiner
3. Tanner Roark vs Jenrry Mejia
Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Roto Riteup. The season may not actually begin for another few days, but we’re back early to brief you on some of the goings-on.
If you’re new to the program or need a refresher, you’ll find the Roto Riteup on RotoGraphs every day during the 2014 season. Here, Professor Pony (you may know him as David Wiers) and I cover interesting tidbits going around the realm of fantasy baseball at an ungodly hour of the morning. If you have suggestions for what you’d like to see out of the 2014 Roto Riteup — other than an award, because we’ve already thought of that — please let us know in the comments.
On the agenda:
1. Yordano Ventura to get 180+ innings
2. Mike Minor to miss at least a couple weeks
3. Jhoulys Chacin to miss a month
4. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Roto Riteup. The season may not actually begin for another few days, but we’re back early to brief you on some of the goings-on.
If you’re new to the program or need a refresher, you’ll find the Roto Riteup on RotoGraphs every day during the 2014 season. Here, Professor Pony (you may know him as David Wiers) and I cover interesting tidbits going around the realm of fantasy baseball at an ungodly hour of the morning. If you have suggestions for what you’d like to see out of the 2014 Roto Riteup — other than an award, because we’ve already thought of that — please let us know in the comments.
On the agenda
1. Wishing on the Diamondbacks’ SS battle
2. Still a battle in Washington’s rotation
Since tomorrow marks the beginning of a busy drafting weekend, many of you readers will have some questions you’d like answered. In an effort to help, I am giving you a chance to get your questions answered today.
All reasonable questions posted in the comments by 8:00 PM EDT will be answered. What makes a question reasonable? Glad you asked.
The 2013 fantasy baseball season has come to a close, so it is time to look back at the season past and determine which players were the most valuable at each position. This week focuses on relief pitchers.
The players were ranked based on their 2013 production, using the evaluation system explained and updated on this site some time ago. To keep things manageable and avoid skewing the numbers, players were only considered if they amassed 40 innings over the course of the year. The replacement level was also adjusted to account for players eligible at multiples positions. The valuations are built for $260 budgets and traditional 5×5 roto fantasy leagues, where only one catcher is started.
One important thing to note is the premium (or lack thereof) placed on the position a player occupies in your lineup. For example, while a first baseman may be able to accumulate superior overall numbers, the availability of such production lower in the rankings severely dampers the amount the player was worth.
These rankings are meant to reflect a player’s value should he have occupied this spot in your lineup for the entire year. So, a player who missed time due to injury but put up great numbers during his time on the field would be worth less.
With all this in mind, here are your rankings. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2013 fantasy baseball season has come to a close, so it is time to look back at the season past and determine which players were the most valuable at each position. This week focuses on starting pitchers.
The players were ranked based on their 2013 production, using the evaluation system explained and updated on this site some time ago. To keep things manageable and avoid skewing the numbers, players were only considered if they amassed 140 innings over the course of the year to be factored into the baseline stats, but pitchers with 100 innings or more are shown below.. The replacement level was also adjusted to account for players eligible at multiples positions. The valuations are built for $260 budgets and traditional 5×5 roto fantasy leagues, where only one catcher is started.
One important thing to note is the premium (or lack thereof) placed on the position a player occupies in your lineup. For example, while a first baseman may be able to accumulate superior overall numbers, the availability of such production lower in the rankings severely dampers the amount the player was worth.
These rankings are meant to reflect a player’s value should he have occupied this spot in your lineup for the entire year. So, a player who missed time due to injury but put up great numbers during his time on the field would be worth less.
With all this in mind, here are your rankings. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2013 fantasy baseball season has come to a close, so it is time to look back at the season past and determine which players were the most valuable at each position. This week focuses on outfielders.
The players were ranked based on their 2013 production, using the evaluation system explained and updated on this site some time ago. To keep things manageable and avoid skewing the numbers, players were only considered if they amassed 400 plate appearances over the course of the year. The replacement level was also adjusted to account for players eligible at multiples positions. The valuations are built for $260 budgets and traditional 5×5 roto fantasy leagues, where only one catcher is started.
One important thing to note is the premium (or lack thereof) placed on the position a player occupies in your lineup. For example, while a first baseman may be able to accumulate superior overall numbers, the availability of such production lower in the rankings severely dampers the amount the player was worth.
These rankings are meant to reflect a player’s value should he have occupied this spot in your lineup for the entire year. So, a player who missed time due to injury but put up great numbers during his time on the field would be worth less.
With all this in mind, here are your rankings. Read the rest of this entry »