Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Rob Neyer, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT.  Derek Ambrosino
John Burnson Derek Carty Marco Fujimoto Eriq Gardner Matt Hagen Jonathan Halket Rob McQuown Troy Patterson Mike Silver Paul Singman Michael Street And here's the full roster. Got a question for our fantasy baseball experts? Email us:
Heater MagazineAdd 10 MPH to your fantasy team — see for yourself
HEATER MAGAZINE Winner, 2008 CBS Sportsline Fantasy League of Experts  Plus our Statistical Definitions Most Recent Comments
Waiver Wire Offseason: AL (7)
Waiver Wire Offseason: NL (4) Approaching unconscious competence (25) Waiver Wire Offseason: AL (5) Top 10 prospects for 2010: Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles (5) Monthly Archives
November, 2009
October, 2009 September, 2009 August, 2009 July, 2009 June, 2009 May, 2009 April, 2009 March, 2009 February, 2009 January, 2009 December, 2008 November, 2008 October, 2008 September, 2008 August, 2008 July, 2008 June, 2008 May, 2008 April, 2008 March, 2008 February, 2008 January, 2008 December, 2007 November, 2007 October, 2007 September, 2007 August, 2007 July, 2007 June, 2007 May, 2007 Gear up for baseball season with Chicago White Sox tickets and New York Yankees tickets. LA Angels tickets, Houston Astros tickets, and Atlanta Braves tickets are hot sellers! You can get Boston Red Sox tickets, San Diego Padres tickets or Chicago Cubs tickets for your favorite baseball fan. Coast to Coast Tickets has the best MLB tickets like Minnesota Twins tickets, LA Dodgers tickets, Milwaukee Brewers tickets, New York Met tickets and St. Louis Cardinals tickets. Find premium Chicago Cubs tickets and other Chicago tickets at JustGreatTickets.com. Chicago Cubs Tickets Chicago Tickets  All content on this site (including text, graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License. |
Most Recent Posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2007Strategy: Efficiently using the Waiver WirePosted by Derek Carty at 8:53pmWe'll make it quick today and go heavy tomorrow. As I mentioned in one of my strategy articles (Trading strategy: Value), at this point in the year the standings are starting to get sorted out. Certain categories you have little room to improve, but in others there is a lot of wiggle room and plenty of possible points to pick up. I talked about this last time as part of a trading strategy... to target those players who can best help you gain points. Since many trade deadlines have passed, that route may now be closed. If you weren't able to get what you needed, it isn't necessarily time to panic yet. It is possible to find some gems on the Waiver Wire that would serve your purposes. It's likely most of these players will hurt you in other categories — that's why they're sitting on the wire in the first place — but if the categories a certain player will hurt you in are irrelevent now (there's little chance of you moving up or down), it might be worth picking that player up to help in the category that you can move upward vertically in, even if it means replacing a player that is generally considered to have more value. The Waiver Wire articles will remain the way they are, giving a player's full value instead of highlighting players that can only help certain teams in certain situations. Those types of players will be tackled separately over the next few days. We'll look at maybe three categories tomorrow, take a break on Friday and Saturday for the Waiver Wire, and then tackle some more categories on Sunday — and Monday if there are any left to cover. Anyway, we'll talk more about this tomorrow before we dive in. Derek Carty is a 22-year old fantasy baseball analyst residing in New Jersey. In addition to writing for THTF, his work has appeared at Rotoworld (NBC), Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, and Heater Magazine. In his two years competing in expert leagues, he has won 2 titles with 4 four top three finishes, including a LABR NL title in 2009, making him the youngest person to ever win a major expert league title. Derek is a proud graduate of the MLB Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program and is a firm believer in the importance of combining stats and scouting. He welcomes questions via e-mail. CommentsNext Post: Waiver Wire efficiency: Home runs>> <<Previous Post: Prospect highlight: Clay Buchholz |
