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Ben Diamond

Ben is an annoyingly enthusiastic fantasy baseball player and Yankees fan, and he writes about those passions at Baseball Prospectus and The Dynasty Guru. There's a 95% chance he's ranting about Michael Pineda right now.

2017 Dynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty BaseballUncategorized

It’s been over two months since the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending the 2016 baseball season. But if you’re like most fantasy baseball owners, those two months probably feel like two years. Considering it’s still another month until Spring Training even starts, late January has

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2017 Dynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty BaseballUncategorized

It’s been over two months since the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending the 2016 baseball season. But if you’re like most fantasy baseball owners, those two months probably feel like two years. Considering it’s still another month until Spring Training even starts, late January has

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2017 Dynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty BaseballUncategorized

It’s been over two months since the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending the 2016 baseball season. But if you’re like most fantasy baseball owners, those two months probably feel like two years. Considering it’s still another month until Spring Training even starts, late January has

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2017 Dynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty BaseballUncategorized

It’s been over two months since the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending the 2016 baseball season. But if you’re like most fantasy baseball owners, those two months probably feel like two years. Considering it’s still another month until Spring Training even starts, late January has

Read More
2017 Dynasty Baseball RankingsDynasty BaseballUncategorized

It’s been over two months since the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending the 2016 baseball season. But if you’re like most fantasy baseball owners, those two months probably feel like two years. Considering it’s still another month until Spring Training even starts, late January has

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Dynasty BaseballGeneralUncategorized

Free agency is stagnating, the trade market is cooling, and, well, a whole lot of nothing is going on in the baseball world. Unless you’re a basketball fan, this is the worst time of the year for fantasy sports, and, at this point, hibernation is probably looking like a more

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General

Dear Faithful TDG readers, We’ve survived yet another wild season of fantasy baseball, and now it’s time to transition into what baseball fans might consider a dark period, but what we like to call ‘transaction season.’ While baseball slumbers, us dynasty baseball connoisseurs are wide awake and busy slinging deals,

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Unless it’s Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, or another small handful of superstars, every batter is going to have his warts. It can be in the form of a lack of speed, power, too many strikeouts, not enough walks, a low batting average, or another few hundred aspects of the game.

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This article is the second part of the “Splitting the First Half in Two” series. For simplicity’s sake, “first half”=April 1st to May 22nd, “second half”=May 22nd to July 14th. Disastrous first half, solid second half Russell Martin, .172/.180 vs. .273/.484 Seriously, a .180 slugging percentage? It’s almost hard to

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One of the more popular exercises after every season is to look at players with significant variance between their first and second halves. Given the sample sizes, this can be a very useful way to evaluate players, often better than looking at the season as a whole. Injury, luck, mechanical

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