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RotoBaller   Mar 22nd, 12:30pm ET
BALLER MOVE: Draft target ~pick 270CURRENT ADP: ~290 overallANALYSIS: All of Manaea's ERA indicators suggest that his 4.96 ERA was not entirely his fault. His xERA of 4.05 and xFIP of 3.96 are both in line with his 3.9 SIERA. Home runs were a big problem as...
RotoBaller   Mar 7th, 9:41am ET
BALLER MOVE: Draft target ~pick 290CURRENT ADP: ~310 overallANALYSIS: Carrasco topped 150 innings for the first time since 2018 and put forward a 15-7 record with a strikeout per frame to offer us. After a shoddy 2021 with a poor 5.22 FIP behind the 6.04 ERA...
RotoBaller   Mar 5th, 8:00am ET
Statcast is a valuable tool for fantasy baseball analysis, and it can be easy to look at a stat called "Expected Batting Average" and blindly use it as your projection moving forward. Of course, proper use of these metrics is a little bit more nuanced than...
RotoBaller   Mar 3rd, 3:57pm ET
BALLER MOVE: Draft target ~pick 205CURRENT ADP: ~220 overallANALYSIS: Okay, a preseason injury last year ruined this but we're back for more. As a reminder, Jung turned 342 plate appearances split between Double- and Triple-A last year into 19 homers with...
RotoBaller   Mar 3rd, 8:30am ET
When you're evaluating a pitcher by Pitch Info on FanGraphs, sometimes you see pitches that don't seem to accomplish anything. If Pitch X is seldom a strike, rarely chased outside of the zone, and not generating whiffs or a favorable batted line against, why...
RotoBaller   Feb 27th, 7:30am ET
Statcast metrics such as Barrels and Brls/BBE are great ways to evaluate a fantasy baseball batter's performance, so it is only natural to assume that the metrics would be predictive for pitchers as well. As much as batters want to hit a Barrel every time,...