MLB Seasonal Articles
2026: H2H Baseball: How to Win
I may not be a fan of the head-to-head game of fantasy baseball, but I know a whole bunch of you are, so it is our duty here at FantasyGuru to discuss the topic. To that end, here are some tips to keep in mind to give you the best chance to emerge victorious in Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026: The Ideal H2H Setup
I don’t play H2H fantasy baseball anymore for reasons I have previously discussed, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have strong opinions about what the ideal way is to set up a H2H league just might be. We shall see if you agree with my thoughts – and I honestly believe you should – Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB SABERMETRIC PRIMER
Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence focusing specifically on statistical information. The term itself is derived from the acronym SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), which comes from the group of baseball historians who were the originators of most of these “fancy math” equations (the term was coined by the most famous sabermetrician, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026: First-Year Player Draft Dynasty Rankings
Greetings, Mafia! For dynasty managers, this is the most exciting time of the year. The First-Year Player Draft (FYPD) is where championships are quietly built years in advance. I recently completed my annual FYPD in my dynasty league, and what follows are my official top-25 dynasty rankings heading into the 2026 season. These rankings are Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB Rookie Scouting Report: Hitters
Rookie performance is nearly impossible to predict, a fact we discussed the historical study of rookie that you can find in this guide. The can’t miss kids can miss – and often do – while someone we are barely talking about in the preseason could end up the bell of the ball and win the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB Rookie Scouting Report: Pitchers
Rookie performance is nearly impossible to predict, a fact we discussed the historical study of rookie that you can find in this guide. The can’t miss kids can miss – and often do – while someone we are barely talking about in the preseason could end up the bell of the ball and win the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026: The History of MLB Rookie Production
I have spent about two and a half decades warning people about the perils of drafting and depending upon first year players in fantasy baseball. This study, going on 12 years, unequivocally produces data to suggest that we are terrible at the rookie prospecting games. Sure there are hits, we will get to that, but Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
A Look Back at 2025 Rookies
Before we move forward, we always should look back. Predicting rookie success is always a dicey proposition, and that roller coaster ride is part of the every year experience in fantasy baseball. In this piece we will do just that focusing on the youngsters that were in our preseason top-50 for rookie eligible players in Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB Rankings Per Category: Pitchers
In our quest to provide you the most relevant tools to help you to gain an edge on your competition, we’ve created multiple personalized rankings sets in 2026. Let’s quickly detail what those areas are. First off, we have our rankings page where you can find Mixed, AL/NL Only Rankings and Auction Values. Those rankings pages include projections Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB Rankings Per Category: Hitters
In our quest to provide you the most relevant tools to help you to gain an edge on your competition, we’ve created multiple personalized rankings sets in 2026. Let’s quickly detail what those areas are. We have our rankings page where you can find Mixed, AL/NL Only Rankings and Auction Values. Those rankings pages include projections from our Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026: MLB Park Factors
We know Coor is a bad place to pitch and that T-Mobile is where offense goes to die, but let’s dive deeper than water cooler talk by looking at Park Factors. We will look at ballparks from a variety of angles to help set your baseline understanding of what to expect for the players in Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review: STUFF+
There are many new tools at our disposal when analyzing baseball players. On the mound, this is particularly so. In this article we will dive in to Stuff+ and the accompanying measures. We will be reviewing all pitchers who threw 90-innings in 2025. Here is a video from Eno Sarris explaining Stuff+. It is worth Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review: K%-BB% & Workload
Strikeouts are good. Walks are bad. The fantasy game isn’t as simple as balls and strikes for pitchers, but they are certainly a great place to start your fantasy baseball analysis. This article will speak to which pitchers had success as punchout out fools while limiting walks last season, as well speaking to the fact Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review: SWIP – Strikeouts & Walks
In virtually every fantasy baseball league since the start of the roto game, leagues have used WHIP (walks + hits divided by innings pitched). It’s a solid way to look at pitching performance. Another way to look at how pitchers performed is to pay direct attention to strikeouts and walks. To that end we’ve got Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review ABA: It Is Time To Replace WHIP
WHIP was an innovation when it was created at the dawn of the game of fantasy baseball. It is the old standby that is used in nearly every roto league in the land. As much as it is part of the fabric of the fantasy game, it no longer should be. What is this heresy Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026:The History of the 1st Round
I know a few things with certainty, and one of those things is the following… Every year we spend way too much time talking about the first round. It’s not even a question if I’m right. I am. It is just that simple. All preseason, question after question after question comes in… and they are Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
I’m An Ace
There are a lot of ways to break down pitchers in 2026, but let’s keep things simple in this piece. In this article we will review ERA and ERA-type metrics of ERA+, xFIP and SIERA numbers from 2026. Who were the leaders in each category and which hurlers were top-30 in all four measures? *Minimum Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Fantasy Baseball Projection Models in 2026
If you are over 45 years of age, I’m past the half century mark myself now, tell me if the following story sounds familiar to you. You’re 15 years old. You knew what the internet was. Kinda. You may or may not have heard of Wikipedia. The calendar flipped to February. You rode your bike, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
How to Analyze a Pitcher – Year 9
This is the ninth year of this piece dissecting how to analyze pitchers in fantasy baseball. This article is, if you will, the secret sauce you should be using to break down the outlook of hurlers. Removing all the white noise, this piece will attempt to describe the framework that is needed to understand who Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2026 MLB Dynasty League Rankings
We have all kinds of rankings at Fantasy Guru for the 2025 MLB season, but what if you are looking a bit further down the road than just 2025, well, we’ve got you covered there too. In what follows, we will list the top-200 hitters and top-200 pitchers, but before we get to those dynasty Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
How to Analyze a Hitter – Year 9
This is the ninth year of posting this how-to piece. Basically, I’m going to spend 5,000 plus words trying to lay out the blueprint to follow if you are interested in getting to the core of who a player is and what that might mean for their production in the coming season. Why am I Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Pitcher Workloads: 2023-25
The game ain’t the same no more. Hurlers used to throw 89 mph and toss 240-innings. Now they throw 98 mph and struggle to reach 140-innings pitched. It is what it is. We want the pitcher to take the ball and to go deep into games. In fact, those high-end workload arms are often worth Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review: Matrix Of Leadership – Pitchers
Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots, of Transformers fame. Optimus is the leader because of bravery, his selfless attitude and his leadership qualities. He also in possession of the Matrix of Leadership. The Matrix is the conduit of the creator-god of the Autobots, and it has the power of life and offers an Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2025 Review: Matrix Of Leadership – Hitters
Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots, of Transformers fame. Optimus is the leader because of bravery, his selfless attitude and his leadership qualities. He also in possession of the Matrix of Leadership. The Matrix is the conduit of the creator-god of the Autobots, and it has the power of life and offers an Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.