In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting 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. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. BattersRead the rest of this entry »
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 “High Stakes Leagues,” and there are eleven of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain any 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 »
Happy Friday, and welcome to the last Pitcher Playing Time Changes of August! We’re running out of time on the regular season, which means a lot of pitchers are running out of time to return from injuries. Others, however, like Chris Sale, will come back and at least get the consolation prize of ending the year healthy and having pitched in MLB games.
Change in Projected % of Team’s Remaining GS, 8/22 to 8/29
The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.
These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.
Board tonight, comments in the AM!
This is being put together before Thursday evening’s games even start since I have a fantasy football draft tonight, so I’ll try to stay on top of any switches in the morning since I’m locking the board so early but never hesitate to let me know if someone is switched out.
Skenes & Javier in for Burrows/McCullers Jr.
Can’t say I’ve ranked Skenes lower than 1 more than 2-3x this year (the day he and Skubal both went in the PIT-DET doubleheader, but not v. each other was one such day), but Kirby’s matchup is just SO much better
Peralta has a rough draw in TOR, but aces play v. anyone
Eury emerged from 3-start blip (6.14 ERA) w/TOR gem (6 IP/2 ER), instilling confidence to trust him everywhere again
Littell has failed to go 5 IP in 2 of his L3, but still has a fantastic 3.23 ERA/1.11 WHIP in his L20 starts (120 IP)
I’m probably finding the start for Biebs in 10 teamers, too, but I didn’t want to get toooo drunk on the 1 great start
Tolle/Tang debuts are going to be super interesting as both have major upside but also substantial risk
On Monday, Gelof, Hernaiz and Harris were all in the A’s starting lineup, with Hernaiz manning third base and Harris at first base on a rare day of rest for Nick Kurtz. Those three will likely shuffle around the infield over the final month of the season as the A’s seek to get a closer evaluation of the trio of homegrown players.
“Wilson will also need some rest as we go,” Kotsay said. “There will be enough opportunity to utilize a rotation. It’s about performance, and we’ll also look for the best matchups for those opportunities as well.”
The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.
These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.
Board tonight, comments in the AM!
Very light group of dependables and Ashcraft maybe shouldn’t even be there as a rookie, but I love the matchup
Love Warren but I’ll keep reminding to be careful w/the White Sox right now
Summer of George!! Alexander is probably more a Win chase than actual good ratio play
The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.
These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.
Board tonight, comments in the AM!
Fried & Framber get great matchups to flourish with and Framber in particular needs it!
Rasmussen has hit 6 IP in ea. of his L3 which is great and hopefully he can be a consistent 5+ down the stretch
Lauer has quietly had SUCH a fantastic season
Lodolo and Mize both have remarkably tough matchups in tough venues, I regret the 3-x on them and switched it to 2-x (I didn’t remake the board, but consider them both behind Priester, who also has a tough matchup).
The 1-x group is really interesting, but there’s a lot of uncertainty
McLean is a rookie v. PHI
Darvish just hasn’t pitched much this yr so he’s still a little scary start-to-start (Gems in 2 of L3, though)
Bergert is an intriguing young arm getting the upstart White Sox, who I don’t blindly start against anymore
BAL still scares me enough to stop short of 3-x on Bello, but I did jump to 2-x as he’s been mostly great of late
And then Shohei is just such a low bet to get 5 IP
Every week, I write an article looking over lineups before the weekend FAAB and waiver wire adds. While I find it useful to go through each line and take notes on each team, I wondered how helpful they are to readers. I examine each team, find changes, and note them. I feel the article may be too long, with around 60 total bullet points. I’m thinking of some possible changes. I can’t add much more because the article is already quite time-intensive to write.
It’s fine, don’t change a thing.
Should I go with just the top-10 movers (up or down) with more details on the players involved?
The same top-10 list, but keep the descriptions brief.
Highlight (i.e., bold) the top movers in the normal article?
Welcome to the last Position Player Playing Time Changes roundup of August, highlighted by Adley Rutschman’s injury leading to some rearranging with the Orioles.
Change in Remaining % of Projected Playing Time, 8/19 to 8/26
The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.
These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.
I know some of you use this for waivers so my apologies for the morning editions that render that usefulness moot. The target is always night before, but sometimes it ends up in the morning.
