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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Monday

Here are Monday’s players in a favorable spot to help, with everyone available in more than half of all ESPN leagues. Jakob Junis (R), rostered in 12% of ESPN leagues, Kansas City Royals vs. Cleveland Indians: Four starts is hardly enough to declare Junis a new guy, but the early returns after a repertoire tweak […]

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Fantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Monday

Some prefer not to deploy both pitchers from the same game since only one can garner the win. Others contend it’s best to do so since there’s a better chance at least one of the starters is victorious. Maybe this matters later in the week in head-to-head when you’re trying to make up a big […]

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MLB Power Rankings Week 2: Which hot starts led to a big move up our list?

We are now two weeks into the 2021 MLB season, and one thing is already becoming very clear: It’s the Los Angeles Dodgers and then everyone else so far. L.A. is once again a unanimous No. 1 in our Week 2 MLB Power Rankings — but then things start to get interesting with movement throughout […]

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Braves rip ’embarrassing’ call at home plate that keyed Phillies’ win

A controversial lost replay challenge by the Atlanta Braves in the ninth inning on Sunday night was the difference in the game as the Philadelphia Phillies came from behind in a wild 7-6 victory. Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm slid home with the eventual winning run as Braves catcher Travis d’Arnaud attempted to apply the […]

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2021 MLB Opening Day lineups for every game

Major League Baseball is back for a full 162-game 2021 season after a very unique 2020. Not sure who is starting for your team on Opening Day? We’re tracking batting orders from across the league as teams start to play in front of their home fans again for the first time since the pandemic began. […]

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Fantasy Baseball mock draft H2H points: Trevor Bauer ascends to the first round

Hitters score a point for every base on hits (total bases), walk, run, RBI and stolen base, and lose a point when they strike out. Pitchers earn a point for every out they record (3 per inning) and an extra point for a strikeout, as well as 5 points for a win or a save. […]

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Fantasy baseball mock draft, 10-team head-to-head each category: Mookie Betts is the top pick

This draft was held on Tuesday, March 2 and included fantasy analysts Eric Karabell, Tristan H. Cockcroft, AJ Mass, Todd Zola, Derek Carty and Mike Sheets, researcher Kyle Soppe and ESPN editors Pierre Becquey, Joe Kaiser and Dan Mullen. If you’d like to conduct your own mock drafts, check out the Mock Draft Lobby, select […]

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How the Philadelphia Phillies botched their rebuild — and what it tells us about tanking

Since mid-2015, when the recent Phillies hit their lowest point — bad, expensive and with a barren farm system — they have had four managers, not to mention five hitting instructors and five pitching coaches. “Managers,” Roger Angell once wrote, “are changed whenever it becomes apparent that something must be done, even though it is […]

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One great moment of the 2020 MLB season for all 30 teams

Before the 2020 MLB season began, when we wondered whether the World Series champion would get an asterisk for the season being so short/anomalous/weird, I predicted this: The winner would be seen as just as legitimate as in any other year, especially with an extra round of playoffs making the October run that much harder. […]

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Barry Bonds, Pac-Man and the greatest baseball fun fact of all time

Baseball’s greatest fun fact was born in three stages: on the last day of the first half of the 2004 season, on the last day of the 2004 season and, many years later, when a young man was kicking stones along the river bank and discovered it half-buried by mud and shrubs. It is one […]

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