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Yahoo DFS Baseball: Wednesday Picks

Yahoo DFS Baseball: Wednesday Picks

There are some early start times across baseball on Wednesday, including an afternoon matchup between the Pirates and Brewers in which Brandon Woodruff will start for Milwaukee. As far as the night games go, the matchup between the Mets and Giants has the potential to be a great pitchers duel between Carlos Rodon and Chris Bassitt. The two have combined to allow three runs over 24 innings this season. The Blue Jays and Red Sox will also take the field against each other in a matchup between… Source link

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Fantasy Baseball: Trade tips for April

Fantasy Baseball: Trade tips for April

The regular season is less than two weeks old, but fantasy trade talks are already flying fast and furious in Yahoo! leagues. Here are some of my best tips for making April deals. You don’t need to wait I have never been able to relate to the manager who says that they need to watch at least one month of regular-season action before considering trades. Let’s be honest: If you had drawn a different draft slot, you would have drafted different players, especially in the early rounds. For… Source link

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Yahoo DFS Baseball: Saturday Picks

Yahoo DFS Baseball: Saturday Picks

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. The holiday weekend is upon us and there’s plenty of baseball to look forward to. There are another 15 games on tap for Saturday and we are finally seeing some pitchers get stretched out a bit more with higher pitch counts. Let’s take a look at who we should consider in the DFS world. PITCHERS Julio Urias ($47) is a solid favorite at home and should bounce back from an ugly first outing in Colorado. He averaged over a strikeout per… Source link

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Clayton Kershaw matters more to baseball than a perfect game

Clayton Kershaw matters more to baseball than a perfect game

Clayton Kershaw looked jovial in the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout, slapping backs and shaking hands. The scoreboard showed it was the eighth inning, and zeros remained in every slot except errors for the Minnesota Twins, but Alex Vesia was taking the mound. A bid for MLB’s first perfect game since 2012 was abandoned. By the time many heard that a living legend was throwing a perfect game on a Wednesday afternoon, Kershaw was done throwing anything at all. If you scrambled to a television or… Source link

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More Undervalued Players Using Yahoo ADP (2022 Fantasy Baseball)

 Knowing your fantasy baseball host site’s ADP can help you find overvalued and undervalued players in the pool. Today we will compare Yahoo’s ADP to FantasyPros Expert Consensus Ranks (ECR) and FantasyPros ADP. The FantasyPros ECR is comprised of rankings from experts across the industry. The FantasyPros ADP combines six sources from the most popular fantasy baseball platforms to find a consensus. In doing this, you can find outliers on different platforms…. Source link

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Analyzing Yahoo ADP for Undervalued Players (2022 Fantasy Baseball)

Sandy Alcantara shows up as significantly undervalued by Yahoo ADP. Knowing your fantasy baseball host site’s ADP can help you find overvalued and undervalued players in the pool. Today we will compare Yahoo’s ADP to FantasyPros Expert Consensus Ranks (ECR) and FantasyPros ADP. The FantasyPros ECR is comprised of rankings from experts across the industry. The FantasyPros ADP combines six sources from the most popular fantasy… Source link

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What to expect next for fantasy baseball

Phew! After months of playing with the emotions of their most loyal fans, MLB owners and players have finally ended the lockout by coming together on an agreement on Thursday for the 2022 season and beyond. We will soon see baseballs flying out of stadiums in Florida and Arizona, with Opening Day to be salvaged in early April. [Batter up: Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for free today] The lack of news during the past two months may have been frustrating, but the end result of a… Source link

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Fantasy Baseball 2022: Second base positional preview

Say this for the fantasy baseball second base pool in 2022: It’s a handy group. Of the top-20 second basemen in Yahoo ADP, 17 of them carry multiple-position eligibility. Ozzie Albies, Jose Altuve, and Jonathan India are the three exceptions. Yahoo position eligibility requirements are lower than other industry thresholds, so make sure you’re up to speed on some of the surprise qualifiers. Mookie Betts isn’t just an outfielder, he also carries the 2B tag. Brandon Lowe has an outfield… Source link

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Google honors first woman to play professional baseball with animated doodle

Wednesday’s Google Doodle honors Negro Leagues’ second baseman Marcenia “Toni” Stone, who overcame gender and racial discrimination to become the first woman in history to play professional baseball full-time in a men’s major baseball league. Google began to pay tribute to Black historical figures on its homepage on Feb. 1 as part of its celebration of Black History Month. Wednesday’s illustration was created by San Francisco-based illustrator and animation director Monique Wray, Google Source link

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