Waiver Wire Claims for Your Fantasy Baseball League
By Jim Turvey
Your fantasy baseball draft is done. Now it’s time to scour the waiver wire for the best names available in your league. We’ve got a full roster for you.
With the start of the baseball regular season comes the start of the fantasy baseball season. Unlike fantasy football, fantasy baseball is a game decided by skill (not luck) that rewards studious offseason players (instead of random dudes who show up not knowing anything about the sport). I’m definitely not bitter about another lost fantasy football year or anything.
Back to fantasy baseball, it truly is the best fantasy sport due to the nature of baseball. The 162-game sample size, the history of the sport being so intertwined with statistics, games on every day, and quite often in the afternoon – it all makes fantasy baseball just so wonderful.
With Opening Day in the books, everyone should have already drafted their team, so hopefully they found a few good articles on sleepers/breakouts/some-other-buzzword before they drafted. This article will deal with players who are available on the waiver wire for when you need to make the inevitable first moves to your roster for 2017.
Over the next several slides, we’ll be looking at the best players likely to be available to add to your roster in 2017. All of the following players are available in at least 60 percent of ESPN leagues. This doesn’t guarantee all these players will be up for grabs in your league, but hopefully a few of these players are, because they should all have nice value in the upcoming season. There’s one player highlighted per position (and three outfielders), so you should be all set no matter where you need a pick up. Good luck to all this fantasy season!