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Ah, the last series before the All-Star Game is finally here. DraftKings owners will want to get in on the fun before MLB takes a four-day hiatus. Before the long drought without DraftKings begins, make sure to get in on the action this Friday. With a full slate of 15 games scheduled for Friday, here’s a look at the best players to target at a variety of price points for…

Hyvinkää, Finland The fastest-moving baseball game on earth is played almost 4,000 miles from the nearest major-league stadium. It hums along in rural towns so small that spectators sometimes outnumber local residents, on fields so far north that the only lighting required is the nighttime sun. It is called pesäpallo, an obscure version of baseball that is little known outside the Finnish countryside. And for anyone who has ever grumbled…

Baseball is the shittiest sport in the world, and the people in charge of it have not made it better because they are too stupid. That’s where we come in! This week, I simulated a baseball game with about 1,500 of you. We were on a quest to construct the greatest game of baseball ever played. I gave y’all a form to fill out. First, you gave your name,…

Relaxation poured from Ozzie Guillen’s pores Wednesday afternoon as he sat on a couch in the living room of his Bucktown home, reliving some memories from the 2005 World Series championship season. The only tense in the former White Sox manager/shortstop’s peripheral is the present and the future. But he hears his past knocking. “I miss baseball,” he said. Nearly 10 years removed from the miracle on 35th Street season,…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for July 10 2015 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 71 Madison Bumgarner L Phi 8-5 3.34 1.08 1-2 3.86 0.96 64 Gerrit Cole R StL 12-3 2.28 1.11 2-1 4.10 1.22 64 Cole Hamels L @SF 5-6 3.02 1.13 0-1 3.32 1.21 63 Danny Salazar R Oak 7-4 4.10 1.19 1-2 5.91 1.31 57 Noah…

Jul 7, 2015; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar (2) is congratulated by designated hitter Kendrys Morales (25) after scoring against the Tampa Bay Rays in the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Rieger-USA TODAY Sports As Major League Baseball heads into the final weekend before the All-Star game, there are three different windows for daily fantasy baseball players to get into contests today….

Hyvinkää, Finland The fastest-moving baseball game on earth is played almost 4,000 miles from the nearest major-league stadium. It hums along in rural towns so small that spectators sometimes outnumber local residents, on fields so far north that the only lighting required is the nighttime sun. It is called pesäpallo, an obscure version of baseball that is little known outside the Finnish countryside. And for anyone who has ever grumbled…

Relaxation poured from Ozzie Guillen’s pores Wednesday afternoon as he sat on a couch in the living room of his Bucktown home, reliving some memories from the 2005 World Series championship season. The only tense in the former White Sox manager/shortstop’s peripheral is the present and the future. But he hears his past knocking. “I miss baseball,” he said. Nearly 10 years removed from the miracle on 35th Street season,…

Jul 7, 2015; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar (2) is congratulated by designated hitter Kendrys Morales (25) after scoring against the Tampa Bay Rays in the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Rieger-USA TODAY Sports As Major League Baseball heads into the final weekend before the All-Star game, there are three different windows for daily fantasy baseball players to get into contests today….

Relaxation poured from Ozzie Guillen’s pores Wednesday afternoon as he sat on a couch in the living room of his Bucktown home, reliving some memories from the 2005 World Series championship season. The only tense in the former White Sox manager/shortstop’s peripheral is the present and the future. But he hears his past knocking. “I miss baseball,” he said. Nearly 10 years removed from the miracle on 35th Street season,…

0 Shares Print It’s the midway point of the season, however you choose to look at it: mathematical (this past Saturday) or traditional (the upcoming All-Star break). That makes it an ideal time to reflect and perhaps hand out midseason hardware. For today’s edition, though, I’m taking the optimist’s approach to seemingly pessimistic situations: the first half’s fantasy disappointments, but taken from the angle of measuring their bounce-back potential. Robinson…

For an article on FiveThirtyEight today, Mike Lopez and Noah Davis charted the relationship between spending and win percentage for every baseball season since 1985. They found that the relationship between money and winning in baseball is as strong now as it’s been any time in the free-agency era. Below you’ll see that relationship for each team in the majors. Each season is one dot in the figure, and the…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Welcome to the free late DFS MLB Playbook for Wednesday, July 8, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It’s a great place to start your MLB DFS research for the day, but there’s much more behind the…

The Red Sox farm system is stockpiled with future big-league standouts, at least in the eyes of Baseball America. Boston placed five prospects in Baseball America’s midseason Top 50, best in Major League Baseball. Second baseman Yoan Moncada leads the way at No. 11 overall. The 20-year-old from Cuba signed with the Red Sox for a $31.5 million bonus in March. “Scouts who have seen him in Greenville have been…

Jul 7, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo (44) hits a two run home run during the eighth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals in game one of a baseball doubleheader at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Caylor Arnold-USA TODAY Sports Wednesdays in summer usually mean a full day of MLB action due to afternoon baseball games.  Today continues that trend with eight teams ready for daytime action while…

It’s a full 15-game slate today for the boys in the big leagues and the men and women playing the big-money daily leagues on draftkings.com. However, there’s a severe-weather warning, and many of the day’s games are in danger of a delay or cancellation. At 7:30 a.m. ET, draftkings.com is listing six games with the little rain icon. Beware the little rain icon! No player is more affected by a…

The Red Sox farm system is stockpiled with future big-league standouts, at least in the eyes of Baseball America. Boston placed five prospects in Baseball America’s midseason Top 50, best in Major League Baseball. Second baseman Yoan Moncada leads the way at No. 11 overall. The 20-year-old from Cuba signed with the Red Sox for a $31.5 million bonus in March. “Scouts who have seen him in Greenville have been…

When Giancarlo Stanton, Major League Baseball’s home run leader, was diagnosed late last month with a broken bone in his hand and proclaimed out of action for at least six weeks, Miami Marlins fans didn’t need to be told they were screwed, but an objective way to convey a level of actual screwedness? Ah, this surely can be done. Sidebar WTF MLB? Baseball Strikes Out With Its Streaming Policies…

Monday night’s Blue Jays-White Sox game was a remarkable 1 hour, 54 minutes long, the shortest major-league game in four years. lRelated Chicago White Sox Strikeout streak ends, but Chris Sale outduels Mark Buehrle See all related But what is the fastest nine-inning in MLB history? That would be the Sept. 28, 1919, game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies in the Polo Grounds. Behind pitcher Jesse…

There are just four games on the afternoon baseball schedule Wednesday, but it’s not advisable to stack your DraftKings lineup with players from any one team. A number of great matchups from the scheduled games are available to DK players. The Baltimore Orioles’ Manny Machado is the best daily fantasy play of the day. The 23-year-old third baseman has had great success against the Minnesota Twins’ Tommy Villone, and the latter…