Ketel Marte

Have your sleeper picks fizzled out? Al Melchior says it may not be too late for these four hitters to reward your faith.

We're still on the April page of the calendar, so the appropriate response to most fantasy-induced panic is still "it's too early." The phrase "small sample size" might be getting on our nerves, but it's still applicable. Yet this is not to say that there is no reason to dabble in some roster moves.Take my industry league teams (please). After the third weekend of play, my Tout Wars mixed auction squad has staggered its way to 10th place out of 15 teams, and in TGFBI, I am sitting in 11th place. The two rosters share…

After only one week of MLB play, every stat comes with a number of sample size caveats. Players’ actual results mean very little for the rest of the season (sorry, Matt Davidson and Yolmer Sanchez). On the other hand, there is a full season’s worth of potential value to be had for owners who identify sustainable early-season breakouts, so it’s worth examining some players who have shown interesting underlying skills, which are more likely to be meaningful than a player’s batting average or home run total to this point.…

The season is finally here. After months of draft preparation, hours of pouring through stats, reading articles and listening to podcasts, it only took one Ian Happ home run for the hype train for early season breakouts to pull back into the station. Some of these hot starts from hitters will fade into irrelevance as soon as their next 0-for-12 stretch hits and another waiver period passes. Others will be legitimate, and knowing the difference could be the key to finding fantasy baseball success in 2018.Predicting…

We'd like to dedicate this week's episode, and ask you to please keep the lives of Michael Davidson, Chris Zanetis, and Chris Raguso in your thoughts and prayers. The Baseball Show, guest Steve Gardner Opening Day has arrived for the 2018 Major League Baseball season, and we've got USA Today's Steve Gardner (@SteveAGardner) in the building for some chatter.Steve shares his background on getting into sports writing; additionally his role in TOUT and LABR leagues; and some Draft strategies he employed for this season…