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Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the Monday-through-Sunday schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 9 of the fantasy baseball season, noting that every team will be playing at least four interleague games this week.

Mike Sheets lays out his Baseball Challenge roster and highlights some underowned yet very productive players.

A week ago, Josh Rutledge of the Colorado Rockies was among the top 10 second basemen on ESPN's Player Rater. Now he's on his way to Triple-A Colorado Springs. Talk about a swift fall from grace! Rutledge, a 23rd-rounder, on average, in ESPN live ...

Blog | May 23, 2013

A month ago, the focus on Texas Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland was on how he was the weak link in a strong lineup and should be replaced in the lineup by hotshot prospect Jurickson Profar. Ian Kinsler would slide from second base to first base ...

Blog | May 15, 2013

Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the Monday-through-Sunday schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 7 of the fantasy baseball season, noting that the schedule varies greatly in terms of the number of games played by each team.

Jim Callis updates his top 10 prospect rankings for the 2013 fantasy season and has short notes on some recent call-ups, including the Cardinals' Carlos Martinez.

Story | Conversation | May 10, 2013

Tristan H. Cockcroft offers up his hitter rankings and looks at the rather unimpressive crop of rookie hitters so far, but says the bigger bats are still on the way.

While many eyes in Monday's Atlanta Braves win over the Cincinnati Reds were on rookie catcher Evan Gattis making his debut in left field, the guy to his left handling center field continued to struggle and anger fantasy owners. B.J. Upton struc...

Blog | May 07, 2013

Eric Karabell recaps Monday's games from a fantasy perspective, offering his take on B.J. Upton, the Red Sox closer situation and more.

Blog | Conversation | May 07, 2013

Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Roy Halladay began Sunday owned in 100 percent of ESPN standard leagues, but that number is going to drop precipitously in the coming days. Halladay owners trusted him Sunday against the awful Miami Marlins, despite...

Blog | May 06, 2013

Eric Karabell discusses Roy Halladay's value now that he's admitted to shoulder woes, and ranks the top players currently on the disabled list.

Blog | Conversation | May 06, 2013

Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the Monday-through-Sunday schedule and offers helpful tips for Week 6 of the fantasy baseball season, noting that the schedule is surprisingly light in terms of number of games.

The original plan today was to open with a few paragraphs discussing just how great Chicago Cubs right-hander Kevin Gregg is, then head to notes. I would highlight Gregg's myriad positives as well as one or two negatives, if I could find any, an...

Blog | May 03, 2013

With so many interesting first-year players to watch this season, it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the top rookies for the month of April, as chosen by MLB, would be Atlanta Braves catcher Evan Gattis and Texas Rangers right-hande...

Blog | May 03, 2013

Mike Sheets offers up the best options for Week 6 of the season for Baseball Challenge.

Eric Karabell assesses every team's closer situation from this point forward.

Blog | Conversation | May 03, 2013