1. Fantasy Baseball: The Top Sleeper for 2013 at Every Position

    It's a weird thing being a fantasy baseball sleeper. It isn't exactly a compliment, but it isn't the worst thing in the world, either...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 8 months ago 7,547 reads 7 comments

  2. 10 MLB Players Who Will Turn Big Postseasons into Big 2013 Fantasy Years

    In fantasy baseball, postseason stats count for exactly as much as spring training ones—nothing. Still, that doesn't mean playoff performances are meaningless to your rotisserie bottom line...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 8 months ago 1,196 reads 0 comments

  3. Fantasy Baseball: Predicting 10 Breakthrough Hitters for the 2013 Season

    It's never too early to start planning for your next fantasy baseball draft—especially if the running backs on your fantasy football team are Chris Johnson and Steven Jackson...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 8 months ago 4,077 reads 5 comments

  4. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Biggest Surprise Stars of the 2012 Fantasy Season

    It's almost more satisfying than actually winning your league. While everyone else was auto-drafting or worse—drafting familiar but useless names like Jason Bay—you were ...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 9 months ago 363 reads 2 comments

  5. The 10 Most Common Reasons Your Fantasy Baseball Team Flopped This Year

    There aren't any easy answers when it comes to fantasy baseball. Ask anyone who drafted Tim Lincecum. But with the 2012 season at its end, you might be asking yourself just what went wrong...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 9 months ago 1,849 reads 6 comments

  6. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Players Who Will Overachieve in Fantasy Championship Weeks

    At this point in the fantasy baseball season, you're either on the brink of living the dream or watching reality crash back down around you...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 9 months ago 1,537 reads 1 comments

  7. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Ways MLB Trade Deadline Deals Impacted Fantasy Leagues

    For about a week, life imitates fantasy baseball. When MLB general managers are dealing with real players, real dollars and real sense, there's a world at stake when trading a player...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 11 months ago 1,449 reads 0 comments

  8. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Buy Low' Fantasy Trade Options

    Is your fantasy season half-over or half-started? It all comes down to your perspective (and probably whether or not you drafted Tim Lincecum)...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 11 months ago 2,626 reads 0 comments

  9. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Sell High' Fantasy Trade Options

    That's the thing about fantasy baseball: you can't really enjoy the small victories. Or, at least, you shouldn't. If you're an especially savvy owner, you don't have the luxury of kicking back when a player hits a hot streak...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 11 months ago 2,440 reads 1 comments

  10. Fantasy Baseball's All-First-Half Surprise Team

    Maybe our first round fantasy picks aren't quite as important as we think. Actually, maybe the same could be said about pretty much all our picks through, like, Round 13...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 11 months ago 3,247 reads 10 comments

  11. Pittsburgh Pirates: Why It's Finally Time to Believe in the Bucs

    Pirates fans have little sympathy for Cubs fans. Sure, the Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908. But the Pirates haven't won one since 1979...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 12 months ago 2,715 reads 8 comments

  12. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Buy Low' Fantasy Trade Options

    Fireworks and home run derbies: two signs that we've officially reached that point in the summer when a bad start for your fantasy team could turn into a bad season ...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 12 months ago 1,707 reads 0 comments

  13. MLB All-Star Lineups: If Fantasy Stats Decided the AL Starters

    Don't listen to Jonah Hill. There's a lot more to baseball than just numbers. It's the things that can't easily be calculated (things like heart, leadership and influence) that make us connect with our favorite players...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 12 months ago 872 reads 4 comments

  14. Aaron Hill: Fantasy or Reality?

    If Aaron Hill isn't already on your fantasy roster, there's almost zero chance you can add him now. He was either picked up weeks ago or as soon as someone in your league saw the highlights from Friday night...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 12 months ago 8 reads 0 comments

  15. 10 Ways to Tell That Your Fantasy Baseball Season Is Finished

    This was supposed to be the year. When everyone else was worrying about Christmas presents and snow blowers, you were poring over second-half splits, possible platoon players and middle relievers on the verge of promotion...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 12 months ago 1,241 reads 7 comments

  16. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Sell High' Fantasy Trade Options

    Look, Dee Gordon. It's not the worst thing in the world to be a sell-high candidate. Considering the season you've had so far, you should probably be a little flattered...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 2,327 reads 1 comments

  17. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Busts It's Time to Give Up on

    When you drafted your fantasy baseball team, you knew there were a few question marks. After all, it's the question marks at the beginning of the season that can turn into exclamation points by the end...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 8,173 reads 21 comments

  18. NBA Playoffs 2012: Why We Love Watching LeBron James Fail

    It’s nothing personal, LeBron. You’ve just been caught up in a societal shift that causes us as a culture to instinctively want to build up icons only to tear them back down...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 4,088 reads 6 comments

  19. Fantasy Baseball 2012: 10 Reasons Your Fantasy Team Lost Week 10

    Look, I don't know you. I don't know your fantasy team. I don't know which clever team name you went with (I hope it was "Ethier Said Than Dunn") and I don't know what Nomar Garciaparra is talking about most of the times he commentates games...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 937 reads 1 comments

  20. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Sell High' Fantasy Trade Options

    Just look at Johan Santana . He's on top of the world after throwing his first no-hitter at age 33. And it happened only a few months into his comeback season following serious shoulder surgery that some thought would cut short his storied career...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 1,476 reads 2 comments

  21. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Buy Low' Fantasy Trade Options

    Whether we like it or not, life imitates Storage Wars . And since fantasy baseball imitates life, it's reasonable to conclude that fantasy baseball imitates Storage Wars ...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 2,461 reads 7 comments

  22. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Latest 'Sell High' Fantasy Trade Options

    Fantasy baseball players are a lot like stray cats. The more attached you get to them, the harder they are to get rid of. And nothing attaches you to a third baseman (or a catcher or a shortstop or anyone on the Pirates) more than a seven-homer month...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 2,271 reads 1 comments

  23. Fantasy Baseball: 10 Injured Players Not Worth Wasting Your DL Slot on

    Depending on how you look at it, your DL spot is a lot like one of two things: a reinforced metal safe hidden behind a moderately valuable painting, or that shelf somewhere in your closet where you think your VHS copy of Jerry Maguire might be...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 4 reads 3 comments

  24. Fantasy Baseball: Re-Ranking the 2012 1st-Rounders

    You and your first-round pick share a special bond. You're probably not aware of it. And your player probably wouldn't want to know. But it's there...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 4,613 reads 7 comments

  25. Fantasy Baseball Advice: 10 Latest 'Sell High' Fantasy Trade Options

    You might have the wrong idea about selling high. Wanting to move one of your players at the height of his value isn't a damning indictment that he's playing over his head—just ...

    Tim Karan Written by Tim Karan about 1 year ago 3,019 reads 6 comments