The evolutionary process has begun!
While the re-direct is still in the process, some of you may still find your way here to RotoBuzz.com. But the changeover has taken place and from now on, RotoBuzz will be known as The Fantasy Baseball Buzz. It’s a completely different URL so you’ll have to make the changes in your “Favorites” section and your RSS feeds, but the content is just the same. The look and feel of the site will be new, but it’s still me, giving the same high quality advice and insights into the fantasy baseball world. Hopefully this transition process will be as seamless as possible, but on the chance that it’s not, thank you all for staying with me.
So come on over to The Fantasy Baseball Buzz!! It’s your number one source for free fantasy baseball advice! I’ll be doing reviews of all the fantasy baseball magazines, updating all of the 2010 fantasy baseball player rankings, bust out some fantasy baseball sleepers for you, evaluate the 2010 fantasy baseball rookies, and give you as much fantasy baseball help that I can to assist you in building a first rate fantasy baseball strategy and guide you to your fantasy baseball league’s championship!
Thanks for reading and enjoy the new site!
While RotoBuzz’ Fantasy Baseball Position Tiers and Fantasy Baseball Cheat Sheets are fantastic tools for your draft, it has been requested that I compile a Top Players Overall list as well. In most fantasy baseball snake drafts, your first few picks are usually about the best player available on the board. Sure you take into consideration things like position scarcity, but when you’re grabbing your guy in the third round, you’re looking for overall proven talent more than you are upside or, sometimes even, position. Fantasy baseball auctions work a little differently, but this compilation should help you as well, so that you are bidding accordingly (fair market value) as opposed to “making it rain” for Adam Lind at your draft. So with that, here comes the list. I’ve taken into account things like age, upside, past performance, injuries, and position scarcity, so this list should do you right. I’ll give you the player, the team, and the position. We’ll save the commentary so that this sheet is an easy print for you to take with you. Read More…
It’s been said over and over again throughout the years of fantasy baseball, and should continue to be reiterated for those that maybe just don’t get it yet. Fantasy studs are fantasy studs, no question about it. Your top draft picks and the bulk of your fantasy baseball auction dollars go to the studs. They go towards Albert Pujols and Hanley Ramirez. You use them up on Ryan Braun and Tim Lincecum. These picks are used to build the core of your team, your foundation. But as most of us already know, fantasy baseball championships are consistently won later on in your draft. It’s your value picks that do it for you. It’s the guys that you pick up in the 21st round that perform like a second round pick. That’s where the magic happens and that’s what wins it for you. Sure, without your studs, your team is a joke, but who’s going to pass on Ryan Howard because they have a hunch that this could be Adam LaRoche’s year? No one worthy of playing this game, that’s who.
So with that, it’s time to start making lists of potential late round steals; players to watch during Spring Training that your competition may not be following just yet. Keeping tabs on position battles, rising stars and even players who may start in the minors but have the potential of hitting the majors by midseason is integral to your fantasy baseball draft prep. We’re talking fantasy baseball sleepers here. Anyone can scour the waiver wire during the season, but it’s the savvy owner, and usually the winner of your league, that finds these players late in the draft before anyone else has a chance to pick them up. And as one of your fantasy baseball reference points, it’s time I started sharing some of my lists with you. To start, here are 5 guys that I’ll be tracking this Spring with the hopes of snagging them late in my draft and using them to win another championship this year. Read More…
Since the last set of Position Tiers I did was for the relievers, I figured it was the perfect time to update the Closer Report. I will be going back to this page as often as needed this year and will offer continuous coverage as to who is handling the ninth inning duties for each team. I’ll cover who the main guy is for saves and who could be next in line if injury or failure should occur. I’ll also be throwing out a few names that you should probably be keeping track of, especially on teams that may have a suspect closer situation. This shoudl be a valuable tool for you, not only in your pre-draft work, but for mid-season pick-ups as well. Good luck and enjoy.
As we inch closer and closer to Spring Training (only 18 days left!!!), there’s still plenty of offseason activity. For the most part, the bulk of the news involves teams negotiating with their players to avoid the ugliness of an arbitration hearing, but there are still a number of MLB free agents out there that are looking to sign on for the 2010 season. While most of the big names are off the boards, there are still plenty of guys that should have a strong impact on your 2010 fantasy baseball season. Let’s just do a recap of some of the latest important signings and then sprinkle in a bit of rumor and conjecture as well… Read More…
Time to wrap up the 2010 Fantasy Baseball Position Tiers and what better way to finish it off than with our 9th inning firemen. Now, as I’ve said before, there are usually two schools of thought when it comes to closers and relief pitchers: 1. Get yourself atleast one high end closer and another lower tiered guy who may not cost as much and 2. Don’t worry about closers and just fish in the bargain bin for low end guys that are likely to grab you some saves. As someone who has tried both routes, let me just say that I am a firm believer in the first philosophy. Last year was really the first season I tried to go cheap on closers and it really bit me in the ass. I’m sure I’ve referenced this article I did for Addict Fantasy Sports before, but just in case you missed it, check out “Why Didn’t I Take a Closer?!?!?” and learn from my mistake. And after that, check out the tiers for this season… Read More…
While RotoBuzz is normally a fantasy baseball site, every now and again, something happens in the baseball world that compels me to deviate from the usual content and discuss real baseball happenings that have nothing to do with the fantasy aspect. Today is one of those days. When the Oakland A’s signed Ben Sheets to a one year, $10M contract plus incentives, I was astounded. Of course because it was such a ridiculous offer, but also because of the horrible precedent it now sets for small market teams. Read More…
Ah, starting pitching. While it’s always important to build yourself a solid pitching staff, we all know that it’s offense that really wins you the fantasy baseball leagues. Because starting pitching is always the deepest position out there (think about it…30 teams with 5 man rotations, not counting injury replacements and call-ups?) it’s easy to see that you can build a quality staff without breaking the fantasy bank. Quality hitting is much more difficult to find the deeper you look, but pitching is always abundant. In fact, most “experts” will tell you that you can wait on starting pitching in snake drafts and, in fantasy baseball auctions, you should split your budget, basically 65% hitting and 35% pitching. Now that’s obviously a guesstimate, depending on your league, but the fact remains, you can be very economical when choosing your pitchers. You don’t always need an ace to compete. You can go with a collective group of lower tiered starters and still outperform the guy who broke the bank on Tim Lincecum but is then stuck with guys like Ross Ohlendorff and Kyle Davies in his rotation. It takes a lot of research to find those hidden gems so paying attention now and finding names to keep on your radar is imperative to weeding out the pretenders come spring time. Here’s how I see the Starting Pitcher Tiers today… Read More…
I’m going to interrupt the 2010 Fantasy Baseball Position Tiers for a moment to discuss a couple of changes at RotoBuzz.com that you’ll see over the next two weeks. But before I do, I just want to take a quick moment to thank all of you that have been loyal followers of the site since its first inception over at Blogspot.com. Without your support, your emails, and your time invested in reading, this site would not be growing the way it has, let alone even remain in existence. For that, I am truly grateful.
Now onto some of the changes… Read More…
It finally looks like the outfield has returned to being one of the deepest positions in fantasy baseball. In years past, we’ve had so many former infielders moving into the outfield but had fantasy owners drafting them at their former positions. The results made things tough in fantasy baseball leagues, particularly ones that require you to draft 5 to 6 outfielders for your roster. Between guys being held at their infield positions and the number of platoons that were being used, there just simply weren’t enough bodies to go around. Well, that seems to have changed this year. There are plenty of quality outfielders to draft; so much so that, after grabbing yourself a top tier guy or two, you can probably wait a little while on the rest and ensure yourself a bulked up infield or maybe even an extra front line starter. Here’s how the outfield tiers are looking to me… Read More…
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