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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Saturday’s games

Here’s a look at Saturday’s top streaming options, focusing on players rostered in less than 50% of ESPN leagues. Create or join a league today >> Cheat Sheet Central >> Trevor Cahill (R), rostered in 6% of ESPN leagues, San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks: Cahill hasn’t faced the staunchest of lineups, but he’s been […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Saturday’s games

Here’s a look at the day’s top streaming options, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues. Create or join a league today >> Cheat Sheet Central >> Alec Mills (R), rostered in 39% of ESPN leagues, Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals: Friday’s game between these division rivals was postponed due […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Saturday’s games

Here’s a look at the top streaming plays of the day, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues. Pitching Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Everything you need to compete >> Rich Hill (L), rostered in 58% of ESPN leagues, […]

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Fantasy baseball forecaster for Week 1: July 23 – Aug. 2

Hitter matchup ratings for the next 10 days Week 1 hitting ratings Week 1 pitcher rankings Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Everything you need to compete >> The 2020 Major League Baseball season begins Thursday with a pair of games on ESPN: New […]

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Milwaukee Brewers to give Brandon Woodruff first Opening Day start

Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced Friday that Woodruff will get the start when Milwaukee begins the season July 24 against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Kyle Hendricks will be starting for the Cubs. “It’s kind of like the All-Star Game, one of those things they can’t take away from you,” Woodruff said. “It’s a […]

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Baseball’s top 60 storylines for a 60-game MLB season

There is going to be a baseball season after all, one of 60 games, following a month of ugly public negotiations between the players and owners over how to navigate through the money of the shortened season. In the words of Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, “COVID-19 already presented a lose-lose-lose situation and we’ve somehow found […]

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Sources: Players balk at MLB’s proposal to cut salaries

Major League Baseball drew the ire of the players’ union Tuesday with an economic proposal that called for a significant cut in salaries that would affect all players and particularly the game’s highest paid, sources familiar with the proposal told ESPN. The long-awaited plan, the first volley in an expected back-and-forth that will determine whether […]

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Who is the team to beat in the NL Central? It just might be the Cincinnati Reds

Earlier this winter, I researched free-agent spending over the past decade and discovered the Cincinnati Reds had committed just $121.1 million in free agency during the 2010s, the lowest total of any team. Less than the Rays. Less than the Marlins. Less than the A’s. The Reds do not spend in free agency. That’s why […]

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Gerrit Cole watch, big spenders and more: Passan answers 20 winter meetings questions

Editor’s note: This story published on the morning of Monday, Dec. 9 before Stephen Strasburg agreed to a seven-year, $245 million deal to return to the Nationals. SAN DIEGO — The winter meetings, once the domain of blockbuster trades and megabucks free-agent signings, have in recent years gone into the sort of hibernation typically associated […]

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