This article references Adrian Beltre, Albert Pujols, Brian Dozier, Evan Longoria, J.J. Hardy, Jimmy Rollins, Nick Swisher, Robinson Cano and more! Power Drought Coming? Each MLB season, the power numbers of certain hitters decrease. As fantasy players, we wish we could have seen it coming. In 2014, big names like Evan Longoria, Adrian Beltre, and Robinson Cano saw large dips in their home run numbers, each falling by more than 10 round trippers. Role players like J.J. Hardy and Nick Swisher saw even bigger declines of 16 and 14 respectively. Hopefully this season we can prepare for those drop offs.There is reason to believe that the [...]Keep on reading: Three Batters Who Will See a Home Run Decline in 2015

This article references Alexei Ramirez, Erick Aybar, J.J. Hardy, Jhonny Peralta, Jimmy Rollins, Starlin Castro and more!   What's up RotoBallers. I'm here today to try and unearth some shortstops that you can get later in your drafts, and will also provide similar value to other shortstops who are being drafted earlier on average.   If you’re looking to make a splash on draft day, you should give RotoBaller’s ADP Draft Sleepers Tool a long, hard look. The tool allows you to compare a player’s expected production against his top comparables going later in the draft.   Frankly, it's a gr[...]Keep on reading: Hidden Shortstop Draft Gems and ADP Value Picks

This article references 2B, Adeiny Hechavarria, Alcides Escobar, Alexei Ramirez, Andrelton Simmons, Arismendy Alcantara, Asdrubal Cabrera, Ben Zobrist, Brandon Crawford, Chris Owings, Danny Santana, Dee Gordon, Didi Gregorius, Elvis Andrus, Erick Aybar, Eugenio Suarez, Everth Cabrera, Hanley Ramirez, Ian Desmond, J.J. Hardy and more! Last month we brought you RotoBaller's preliminary shortstop fantasy baseball rankings. The February update is here. We'll be releasing all the other positional rankings updates this week, with analysis from all the RotoBaller writers on their favorite risers and fallers at each MLB position. Make sure to also check out our MLB Fantasy Baseball Rankings blog, along with all of RotoBaller shortstop rankings content.  2015 Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Rankings Brad Johnson (Lead MLB [...]Keep on reading: 2015 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Shorstop (SS) – Part 2

This article references DEF, Hanley Ramirez, J.J. Hardy, Javier Baez, jose reye, Jose Reyes, SP, Xander Bogaerts and more! BALLER MOVE: Target as SS2 or MIANALYSIS: When identifying a fantasy baseball draft sleeper, I like the guy to be "under the radar," but I also need there to be proof that there's potential upside.J.J. Hardy is entering his age 32 season and his fifth with the Orioles, but is coming off a season in which he hit just nine home runs and a .372 SLG.Hardy didn't hit the ball any shorter than in past years, but his total number of batted balls was down, thanks to a 18.3% K rate. Howev[...] Keep on reading: J.J. Hardy (SS, BAL) -- 2015 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper

This article references Brian Dozier, Chris Carter, DEF, Hanley Ramirez, J.J. Hardy, Javier Baez, Jose Bautista, jose reye, Jose Reyes, SP, Xander Bogaerts and more! Hardy's Track Record Makes Him a Late-Round SleeperWhen identifying a fantasy baseball draft sleeper, I like the guy to fit a few different criteria. First among those is being "under the radar," but also I need there to be some proof that there's potential upside when looking beneath the surface.In our 2015 shortstop rankings, J.J. Hardy had a composite ranking of 14.6 and was mentioned exactly zero times in the narrative section. Nine of RotoBaller's finest baseball analysts sk[...] Keep on reading: J.J. Hardy: 2015 Fantasy Baseball Shortstop Sleeper

This article references J.j. Hardy, SP and more! BALLER MOVE: Add In Most LeaguesANALYSIS: J.J. Hardy is owned in just 67% of Yahoo! Leagues which is surprising considering the lack of fantasy depth at the shortstop position. Fantasy Baseball Owners may have avoided picking him up due to Hardy's sudden lack of power. For a guy who has hit at least 22 bombs five times during his career the fact that he didn't hit his first homerun until 6/21 had to be troubling. The good news is that he has hit four homers since that time, and given [...] Keep on reading: J.J. Hardy (SS, BAL) -- Waiver Wire Pickups

This article references Ian Desmond, J.j. Hardy, Troy Tulowitzki and more! BALLER MOVE: Add in Deep Leagues, Continue Scouting in Shallow LeaguesANALYSIS: Did you know you can count the number of shortstops that have 20 or more home runs in 2012 and 2013 on only two fingers? No it's not Troy Tulowitzki (though he'd probably make the third finger if he wasn't hurt in 2012). The honor belongs to Ian Desmond and J.J. Hardy. Unfortunately, this has been a down year for Hardy power wise. He doesn't even rank among the top 20 shortstops in most league. In fact besides hi[...] Keep on reading: J.J. Hardy (SS, BAL) -- Waiver Wire Pickups

For some reason I have to write about Zack Cozart every year. I've got nothing against Zack. He doesn't hate puppies, he didn't break my sister's heart, and I'm sure he's an all-around nice fella if you get to know him. But I do have one major problem with Cozart, an issue that most [...]

Sometimes unlikely sources of production pop up and help you to overcome the failures of players that you were counting on in the fantasy game. Today I'll touch on both ends of that spectrum. Dustin Ackley hit .226 last season, and he's batting .233 this year for the Mariners. Why? Good question. Not only has [...]

Daily baseball is all the rage in the fantasy sports world, so I will be covering the game a couple of times a week here at BaseballGuys.com. To that end, I've partnered with DraftDay.com to give all my wonderful followers, that's you, the chance to play the game on a daily basis. On Tuesday and [...]