Jake Junis

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 less than a week's worth of games having been played, it's more than a little too soon to be drawing conclusions about our fantasy teams based on their results. We may be tempted to take comfort in owning Mitch Haniger, Matt Davidson or Tyler Skaggs, all of whom are off to surprisingly good starts, or be bummed out that we are getting next to nothing out of Yu Darvish, Paul Goldschmidt or Willson Contreras. These players' histories strongly suggest that we not get too confident or distraught based on their tiny samples…

Miss one week of doing trivia and some people lose their minds, So a tough trivia question will be included this week. However, we still need to discuss the issue at hand, which is to find a player to help your fantasy team. Players on the list this week include those who can help in your playoff stretch run as well as a few who can help those in keeper/dynasty leagues. Before we look at players who are owned in less than 50 percent of ESPN leagues with stats as of August 18, here is the promised trivia question in honor of…