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Bench Bryce Harper? Chris Mitchell says it might be time to consider it.

Facing some tough lineup decisions this week? Chris Mitchell lends a hand.

Jose Ramirez and Lorenzo Cain have shown nothing in 2019. Is it time to bench them?

Week 11 has four teams and a multiple of players with impactful schedules or matchups that Fantasy owners need to consider before making their Start/Sit hitting decisions. Manny Machado is a high-profile name with a demanding ADP, but is he a starter in Week 11 with seven home games at Petco Park and Patrick Corbin, Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, and Aaron Nola on the bump staring him down? We'll also hit on a few noteworthy hot and cold batters for owners to be aware of in Week 11's Hitting planner. Week 11 Start/Sit…

Week 10 is a busy week in baseball. The majority of the league has at least six games on their schedules, while a significant portion have as many as seven and the Pittsburgh Pirates are doing extra duty with an eight-game slate on their plate. Then there are the Atlanta Braves with a five-game week. This kind of robust week of games creates a lot of home/road and left/splits to consider when making those difficult Start/Sit hitting decisions. I will examine who to Start/Sit due to the good’s and the bad’s of the schedule…

Prospect promotions are taking over Start/Sit hitting decisions for Week 9 after the waiver wire flood of week eight. Fantasy owners love potential and nobody's profile is filled with more potential than prospects. Owners that bid big to acquire them are going to want to start them and will feel pressure to justify those bids. Whether or not the matchups justify a start or not is the question I address with some of the hottest rookies.Week nine also has stars underperforming and teams with both really good and less than…

Hello everyone and welcome back. It’s Sunday and that means it’s Start/Sit hitting decision time. I looked closer at home/road and left/right splits this week than in the past and rather than focus on which Stars seats are hot, I looked at star players that may be worth benching for Week 8 based on either scheduling disparities or troublesome splits or trends. Sitting Stars has to be tempered with responsible judgment and based on an owner's alternatives, but it is something to look at each week. Stars aren’t immune. They…

A significant amount of my weekly Start/Sit hitting decisions column has been to focus on the scheduling disparity. Primarily, teams with five games versus seven games and the Fantasy impact of such a significant disparity, This week, we don’t have any teams with five-game schedules on the slate. What we do have is an odd number of teams with long home stands or extended road trips. Everywhere I look teams have either all home or all road games on their Week 7 slates. It’s like they decided, well in advance that, like…

Week 5 is in the record books and Week 6 is on the horizon. We have 11 teams with five games on the schedule, seven teams with seven games on their slates and 12 teams perfectly placed in the middle with six games to play. With the disparity in games to be played we have some players that typically would be starters that may be sitters due to a lack of upcoming at-bats and some borderline players that could slip their way into starting lineups. We have some Stars that are on the Hot Seat due to particularly poor play and we…

It is amazing how time flies. I remember like it was yesterday, fawning over ADP’s and overdrafts. Vlad Jr, I am staring directly at you with a grimace and a baffled brow my soon-to-be promoted friend. Now, it’s sell high, buy low and trade opportunities front and center. Seventy-five at-bats and some owners are already rushing to dump their “busts” while others are waiting in the weeds to pounce on an opportunity to take advantage of co-owners with weak stomachs. Chris Sale. I am staring directly at you my friend. How is…