Once the season gets underway Caveball will be featuring an ongoing post, “The Sickhouse”, to let you know which players are injured or could be missing games in the coming week and which ones will be coming off the DL.
Sleepers – Fantasy Baseball 2015 – Bats
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Caveball has now made a clearcut distinction between Sleepers and Breakouts.We have noticed a lot of experts have a tough time explaining the difference between a breakout player and a sleeper. It is high time we make a tangible benchmark to differentiate the two terms. So, for the purposes of trying to keep things as simple as possible, Caveball has now made a clearcut distinction between Sleepers and Breakouts. A Breakout is considered to be any player who is currently ranked in the top 168, while a sleeper is any player ranked 169, or higher. (We could call it the B/S line, but something doesn’t sound quite right about this) So, in a 12-team snake draft, for instance, sleepers don’t enter the fray until around the 15th round.
A sleeper can be a relatively unknown minor league prospect or a veteran who has fallen in the ranks, just as long as his ranking has dropped below 168. So, now that we have this cleared up, let’s see which hitters might have more fantasy value than their plus-168 ranking suggests:
Tiers for Relievers (Closers) – Fantasy Baseball 2015
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Every Tuesday and Thursday for the next 4 weeks Caveball will sort out the 8 tiers for all 8 Fantasy positions. The following week at the end of February we will release our unique “Chartfelt Tiers”, the ultimate Cheat-sheet for Fantasy Baseball – unique because it allows you to easily cross-reference players in different positions who have similar value.
During that same week we will offer up our General Draft Strategy, which will then be followed by a specific strategy for 2015, which you can use in tandem with our “Chartfelt Tiers”.
Here now are Caveball’s Tiers for the ever-shifting Closer position:
Busts – Arms
Almost as important as knowing who to target on Draft Day, is knowing who to avoid. In other words, the busts. A bust is a player who will perform noticeably worse than his Average Draft Position. Here are Caveball’s top ten pitchers we think are overrated for the upcoming 2015 campaign:
Tiers for Starting Pitchers – Fantasy Baseball 2015
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Every Tuesday and Thursday for the next 4 weeks Caveball will sort out the 8 tiers for all 8 Fantasy positions. The following week at the end of February we will release our unique “Chartfelt Tiers”, the ultimate Cheat-sheet for Fantasy Baseball – unique because it allows you to easily cross-reference players in different positions who have similar value.
During that same week we will offer up our General Draft Strategy, which will then be followed by a specific strategy for 2015, which you can use in tandem with our “Chartfelt Tiers”.
Here now are Caveball’s Tiers for Starting Pitchers: