Mario Mergola

For as much as we want to identify sleepers and value picks who can help us win a fantasy baseball league, we need to give equal respect to those players who can sink a team. They are the busts. This … read more »

Every season presents a new opportunity for how to attack a specific draft. In many of the prior years, a top-three pick carried the possibility of reaching for a starting pitcher — e.g. Clayton Kershaw, Jacob deGrom, Gerrit Cole — … read more »

There will always be discrepancies when it comes to asking two groups of people about the value of fantasy baseball players. These discrepancies aren’t problematic, though. They simply highlight the collective view of different sources, and these sources have their … read more »

Winning a fantasy baseball league usually comes down to value. When all else is equal, did your players outperform your opponents’? Were you able to identify those who were about to reach their potential? Put another way, did you find … read more »

We perform mock drafts because we know the practice can only help. In this case, we’re about to enter a mock salary cap draft for the second time this preseason, which means that we must learn from what we did … read more »

By nature, one-league formats are generally thin in talent. Of course, there are the players who transcend all league styles and would be worthy of a roster spot under any condition, but we are effectively slicing the player pool in … read more »

Every year, I make the same plea: if you enjoy the draft process for fantasy baseball, try a salary cap — also known as an “auction” draft. Even if it’s only a mock draft, it will still highlight what makes … read more »

It’s no secret that generating more strikes will lead to a higher chance of strikeouts, but is there a way to correlate a pitcher’s swinging strike percentage with the final strikeout rate? If we use last year’s qualified pitchers as … read more »