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This column is a mid-week review of the most relevant fantasy baseball nuggets and trends. The goal will be to keep you informed about the fluidity of playing time, batting orders, pitching rotations and bullpens to help guide fantasy lineup and roster decisions. Let’s dive into some of the recent hitter value changes based on batting order adjustments in the American League. Stats are through Tuesday’s games. The Braves are eighth in runs scored, seventh in the NL (yep, the AL is bad).

Start with a Top-3 Guy in Genesis Scottish Open DFS Overseas we go! The Genesis Scottish Open may be billed as a preview of the Open Championship, but it’s every bit as exciting from a DFS puzzle perspective as next week. We have an intense and favorable CF Model and pricing that’s putting a lot of the field into a mental pretzel. Let’s dig in. No picture this week because the Renaissance Club fit is as straightforward as it gets: Distance dominates.

James Wood going under pushed our article record down to 9-6 but we’re going right back to the HRR market and looking to start a new win streak. (-140) Max Muncy and his googles are rocking a .268/.361.504 slash line with a .364 wOBA and 137 wRC+. He’s behind only Shohei Ohtani in runs and home runs on the team this season. Most of the damage he’s done this season has come against right-handed pitching, including 12 of his 17 dingers. He faces one with an ERA just below seven Tuesday in LA.

Every year, millions of fantasy managers spend hours studying rankings, reading articles, listening to podcasts, and watching videos. Then draft day arrives… and the plan disappears. Someone reaches for a player two rounds early. A rookie start climbs up the board. Your league mates make unexpected picks. Before you know it, you’re chasing the draft instead of controlling it. That’s exactly why I created The Process.

July 7, 2026

We’re fully out of rookie draft season and, with the onset of July, we’re starting the buildup of best ball/redraft season. As training camp news breaks, depth charts shake out, and hype trains leave stations, the opportunity to make crafty dynasty trades remains as high as ever. Can you make moves now to set up a championship run in 2026? Or to pick up 2027 capital at a still-so-far-away discount? Yes, you can.

July 2, 2026

This column is a mid-week review of the most relevant fantasy baseball nuggets and trends. The goal will be to keep you informed about the fluidity of playing time, batting orders, pitching rotations and bullpens to help guide fantasy lineup and roster decisions. Let’s dive into some of the recent hitter value changes based on batting order adjustments in the American League. Rookie outfielder Henry Bolte started as a platoon bat.

June 30, 2026

Summary Top four picks largely clean with Gibbs, Robinson, Chase and Nacua taking early ADP spots: Mock aligns with ADP in Round 1, with safe RB1s and WRs leading the early cadence. Onesie strategies spark debate among builds with QB/TE targeting early vs late: Three teams grab both QB and TE by Round 5, while others stream later-round options.