If you’re a little light in the speed department, then a couple of situations have opened up that might interest you. If you’re in an NL-only league, then my apologies. Feel free to move along. Nothing left to see here. But if you’re in an AL-only or mixed league, then these guys just might be able to help you out. Read the rest of this entry »
When an organization decides to give a player an opportunity to play every day and take over a starting position, fantasy owners need to stand up and take notice. Especially if the player qualifies at a position that is either thing to begin with or has been decimated by injuries through these first two months of the season. Here are two prime examples that are likely sitting on your waiver wire just waiting to be claimed.
Josh Bell, ARI |3B| Ownership: ESPN – 0.5% Yahoo – 1.0%
Right on the heels of my last Kicking Rocks piece which clamored for Bell’s call-up, the Diamondbacks finally said enough to the Cody Ransom/Ryan Roberts platoon they had working the hot corner this season. With little or no legitimate production at the position, it made perfect sense for the team to give Bell a shot, if not for anything but to at least just kick the tires and see what they had. It’s not like things could get worse, right?
Round and round she goes; where she stops, nobody knows. This closer carousel that keeps spinning around this season is starting to become downright unbearable. They say never to pay a premium for saves on draft day because they’ll be abundant on your waiver wire, but this is ridiculous. Now it’s getting to the point where you shouldn’t be spending so much of your FAAB dollars either because the shelf-life of a closer in 2012 is about a week. Here’s a look at who’s getting the baton passed to them now… Read the rest of this entry »
If your league’s waiver wire looks anything like the ones in my leagues, then you know how slim the pick’ns are out there. Even the slightest inkling of a quality bat, and your league is jumping on it like a fat kid on cake. But if it’s saves you’re looking for, then the waiver wire is your friend as the revolving door of closers is making more rotations than most fantasy owners would like. Here’s a look at two of the most recent options to explore… Read the rest of this entry »
When he slid into second and immediately grabbed his knee, my heart dropped. The sickening taste of bile crept up my throat and into my mouth as I anxiously awaited for him to stand up, dust himself off and signal to the trainers that he was fine. When that didn’t happen and he gingerly limped off the field, immediate thoughts of a torn ACL raced through my head. In three different leagues I grabbed Evan Longoria at the tail end of the first round and until that moment, I wasn’t giving third base another thought. Now, with news of a partially torn hamstring and a six to eight week recovery period, I’m left here staring at my computer screen, feeling like Kramer when the Kenny Rogers Roasters sign was finally turned off. Read the rest of this entry »
With a full month of baseball in the books, you’d have to think that your league’s waiver wire has been picked clean. However, between the recent rash of injuries and rookie call-ups, there are certainly a few names that have slipped through the cracks. Here are two guys you might want to consider depending on the holes in your roster. Read the rest of this entry »
As we wrap up the month of April it’s time to go back to your waiver wire and sift through some of the names of players that have been dropped over the last few weeks. Usually they are players who were taken in the later rounds of your draft and, with an early season slow start, have been discarded by their owners and forgotten on the free agent scrap heap. However, a number of those players are now starting to turn things around and could be timely adds to your roster, whether it’s for a starting position or even just quality depth. Here are a pair of just such examples and, even better, at thin positions.
Between all of the injuries and slow starts, it’s expected that everyone in your league is scouring the waiver wire and looking for players to fill in the gaps. The trick though, is to do it on the cheap this early in the season. There are far too many people blowing their FAAB budget too soon or wasting a decent waiver priority on a quick-fix band-aid that won’t be playing in a month’s time, so while you need to stay active, you need to be smarter than the next guy in the way you do it. Read the rest of this entry »
Lots of roster tweaking going on right now as fantasy owners everywhere are trying to put together the perfect squad. But while most of your league has scooped up the top post-draft talent remaining, there are obviously a few strays lying around that could serve as quality bench guys for you to plug in when needed. With the middle infield positions sitting so thin, you might want to start there. Read the rest of this entry »
In the real world, “in the hole” means I’m standing at the top step of the dugout, helmet on, bat in hand, waiting to get into the on-deck circle. In the fantasy world, it means I’ve screwed the pooch. Let’s face it. There’s nothing worse than starting the fantasy season with a bunch of your guys on the DL. Not only do you have to replace players you drafted and hoped would bring you much joy throughout the season, but you also have to fight off an entire league of eager beavers for said replacements.