Nathan Dokken169 posts

It's impossible not to root for Jameson Taillon. Maybe not impossible like trying to run a combustion engine on pork gravy, but more like impossible if you have any sense of empathy. Following his second overall selection in the 2010 draft, Taillon missed years of development due to Tommy John and hernia surgeries. Then, in 2017, he was diagnosed with cancer.He had surgery to remove a cancerous testicle that season, and yet still made 25 starts. Considering the amount of physical and mental strain he was under, it's no…

The injury god has been a real meany to Andrew Heaney. Through his first four MLB seasons - if you can even call them that - Heaney amassed 162.2 innings across 31 appearances. He's battled through a myriad of injuries, as pitchers tend to do. Somehow he is still just 27 years old, however, and in 2018 he managed to string together 180 strong innings.If you're like us you can’t wait until spring to get the 2019 fantasy baseball season started? Well, you don’t have to. Leagues are already forming at Fantrax.com, so…

Shane Bieber first began turning heads in the minor leagues not because of what he did, but rather what he didn't do; walk batters. Bieber walked just 10 batters over 173.1 innings across three levels of the minors in 2017. That's a 0.50 BB/9. Let that sink in. He still wasn't considered an elite prospect since he wasn't striking out over a batter per inning, but he was firmly on the 2018 redraft radar due to his overall success.If you're like us you can’t wait until spring to get the 2019 fantasy baseball season…

I'm not sure it's possible for the starting center fielder of the New York Yankees to be considered a sleeper. The same could be said of the Yankees number three hitter. Or even a player who hit 27 home runs and stole 11 bases with a .366 OBP last season. So instead of saying "sleeper", I'll go with "weirdly undervalued" as my phrase of choice to describe Aaron Hicks.More than a few of us fantasy baseball folk have been trying to make Hicks happen for years now. He was a relatively highly regarded prospect coming through…

Time for a reality check. Will the real Brandon Nimmo please stand up.

We've been rolling through the early 2019 fantasy baseball positional rankings here at FantraxHQ, so this exercise was inevitable given the way my mind works. Once we've decided how the players stack up at their individual positions, we can't help but wonder - how do the positions play off of each other in 2019? For starters, we'll see the elite class of middle infielders peel off the board right away. There is incredible talent at the top of the Second Base and Shortstop ranks, but they'll go fast.Ace pitching is hard…

Like I mentioned in the Outfield recap, most of the preamble to this series can be found in Part One. Part One of my fantasy basbeall review is the Infield recap, Part Two is the Outfielders, and Part Three here is the Pitchers. For the first time, I even included Closers this year. The Dudes here were cheap during draft season as we searched for profit, while the Don'ts were being drafted too highly in my estimation. Let's see how things turned out.Sure the MLB postseason is still going on, That doesn’t mean you…

Nathan Dokken sorts through his hits and misses from the 2018 fantasy baseball season.

You were right. You were also wrong. So wrong! How could you be so wrong?! Yet also, so right. What the heck is this guy talking about, you may be asking yourself. I get that a lot. Well, this time specifically I am talking about what you thought about the players you drafted in the preseason. Call it a fantasy baseball recap if you will.Invariably, there will be surprises in each season. That's what makes this game fun, after all. If we all knew exactly what would happen, nobody would play because it would be too easy.…

One's not as good as he seems, and the other... well, something here is not quite right.