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We've reached critical mass. Prospects shooting their shot on how soon they'll be drafted. NFL GMs claiming that they're willing to trade out of the top 10. Analysts, both amateur and professional, building and tearing down straw men at a moment's notice. The league and its fans need the draft to come. Immediately. Part I looked at the first 10 prospects expected to go early in the draft. Part II continues our inspection of the incoming class with some guys that could go on Day Two or later. However, keep the focus of the…

With a string of solid early-season starts, Nick Pivetta has already become a fixture in deeper leagues. After his latest effort, Pivetta is on the verge of entering the fantasy prime time. The Phillies' righty had a one-hit shutout against the Pirates through four innings on Sunday, and even with the subsequent blemish of a two-run homer by Elias Diaz, Pivetta had a fine afternoon. He finished with seven strikeouts and just two runs over 6.1 innings. Diaz's homer didn't just ruin Pivetta's shutout, though. Up until the…

Fantasy Football: Old Faces, New Places: Wide Receivers Most of the wide receivers below you'll recognize from the 2014 draft class: Sammy Watkins, Brandin Cooks, Jordan Matthews, Paul Richardson, Allen Robinson, Jarvis Landry, Donte Moncrief, John Brown and Ryan Grant. All of them, including Allen Hurns and Albert Wilson, who were signed in 2014 as undrafted free agents, will put on a new jersey in 2018. For some wide receivers, this will be their third NFL team already due to trades (Watkins, Cooks, and  Matthews).…

As much as I love offense, there's something special about watching a pitcher paint the outside corner with a fastball or drop a curve in at the knees. Offense might win fantasy championship, but that doesn't mean you can't dig a little deeper and grab some high-upside arms on the rise in dynasty leagues. Maybe I should've started with pitchers. I could've rambled on and on about Joey Lucchesi and his breakout potential, but by now, everyone knows how good he is after his first few starts with the Padres. Oh well, my…

No one said pitching in the NL East was going to be easy, but this? Super tough weekend for all bullpens involved. Putting the Mets' surprising 14-6 record aside for one moment, you could argue this is the toughest division in baseball right now. The Marlins' bullpen is a mess, and the Braves' situation hasn't looked much better, which really makes Jeurys Familia's rise back to Top 5 closer stardom all the more impressive. After 11.1 untouchable innings, though, Familia faltered over the weekend. Here we were thinking…

I usually do not record baseball games and watch them, but last Friday night was the exception. This was because the Dodgers were playing the Nationals, and the pitching matchup was Max Scherzer versus Clayton Kershaw. First, this was the first time two pitchers with three or more Cy Young Awards have matched up since 2006. Second, I took a little grief during the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational when I took Scherzer with the eighth pick over Kershaw. At least for one night, Scherzer was just a bit better, as he allowed…

With a couple of weeks of the season now in the books, some early-season performances can start to become meaningful predictors for the rest of a player’s season. While we have not quite hit the stabilization point for most batted-ball statistics, trends are beginning to emerge which may be predictive of the player’s future results. In this edition, one of the league’s hottest hitters, one of its coldest pitchers, and a post-hype prospect who is showing some signs of offensive maturation. Jed Lowrie, 2B, Oakland A's Lowrie…

It has been just over a week since the Dallas Cowboys parted ways with Dez Bryant, and the mercurial wide receiver has yet to find a landing spot. There are several reasons for this. First, the Cowboys did Bryant no favors by waiting a month into free agency to release him. Had he been let go following the season, I believe that some team (perhaps Carolina, Oakland or the Los Angeles Rams) would have attempted to acquire his services. Now Bryant finds himself on the outside looking in, as most teams have either already…

The Baseball Show, guest Jason Collette After a two week hiatus, The Baseball Show returns with guest Jason Collette! We are trying out a new format in which we release the full episode as an audio podcast. It will be available on our Soundcloud/iTunes feeds, and then we will present a condensed video montage. This week we welcome Jason Collette (@jasoncollette) of Fangraph's The Sleeper and The Bust podcast, as well as RotoWire, and ESPN's the Sweet Spot. We discussed Tyler O'Neill's promotion. Also we reviewed Hot…

Mother nature has certainly not been kind to baseball so far this season. As of Friday (4/20), there have been four games postponed, with more rain in the forecast this weekend. Weather obviously plays a big role in trying to predict two-start pitchers, as games aren't always made up the next day. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to do it anyway, though keep in mind that these are subject to change. *As always, keep in mind that these are the probable two-start pitchers as of Friday, April 20 and are subject to change. …