Cesar Hernandez

Each week, I have taken a look at ownership percentages to highlight players who should be considered for potential New Player Claims in Fantrax’s Bronze Points Salary Cap Challenge game. This week, I am also going to add total points into the mix. Please note that using total points rather than points per game will eliminate players like J.T. Realmuto and Yuri Gurriel from the equation. But I still prefer total points for now because points per game is still such a fluid metric at this juncture in the young season. On April…

Fifteen games and 50 at-bats are hardly enough of a sample size to draw definitive conclusions from. Even so, this won’t prevent your league mates from jumping on or off a bandwagon based on how a player has fared in his first 10 or so games. Baseball went nuts last year when Eric Thames hit 11 home runs in April. On the other side of recency bias, some of us were giving up way too early on hitters like Anthony Rendon and his .551 OPS through his first 60 plate appearances of 2017.Rendon would go on to have the 13th-best…

MLB Fantasy Tips What is the purpose of picking up hitters from the free agency pool?One of your hitters is struggling; You took a chance in your draft which didn’t pan out; One of your hitters was sent to the infirmary room commonly known as DL.Depending on the situation you either need a long term or a short term solution. I’ll try to cover both bases in this list. Before that I’ll provide you with a couple of general rules (more like guidelines):Rule #1 – Don’t panic if injury strikes There are…