There wasn’t a drastic amount of movement this week among the Grinders, so this rankings update will be brief. Nonetheless, the players who were able to make moves did so impressively. The week in rankings can be summarized with four new players on the leaderboard, two double-digit leaps, and one player moving his way up in the top ten. The week in sports can be summarized by a fairly uneventful Conference Semifinals so far in the NBA, an intriguing set up of NHL Conference Finals and the typical ebbs and flows of the long MLB season. So without further ado, here are your Grinder Rankings top headliners of the week. Read More

Another DFBC day is upon us. Last week, we basically gift wrapped a winning roster by suggesting an A’s stack. I don’t particularly see a similarly enticing opportunity this week, so we’ll have to try to hack something together piece by piece. The picks in this space have generally been pretty good of late. For my money, the best play on the board is the gentleman pictured to the left. He should have some fun with the Pirates tonight. Read More

Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E” from way back in 2001 is the theme song for today’s Daily Plays. Albert Pujols is STILL Albert Pujols, this week he is looking more and more like himself and the window to get him at a bargain price is closing. Who would have thought that Roy Halladay would be involved in a pitching match up where the starters have combined to go winless in 23 straight starts, sure 18 of those are the wangster Chris Volstad but The Doc (Halladay not Dre) has stuggled his past 5. He is STILL Roy Halladay and some payback against the Cubs is coming. Look for Arizona middle of the order hitters Justin Upton and Miguel Montero to prove they STILL got it also today in Coors Field. Hope you enjoy the daily plays and hopefully you have that Dre song now stuck in your head. (Read More)

We are hoping to bounce back with our daily picks after a rough day yesterday. The picks were bad right from the start as Strasburg got lit up and only lasted 4 innings. Then we had Nelson Cruz getting the night off and most of the other hitters contributing to the bad picks as best as they could. But that is just the nature of fantasy baseball, it’s very up and down. However, today’s picks are going to make up for yesterdays. (Read More)

As Grinders, we often dedicate significant time and effort into building our daily fantasy baseball lineups. We’re serious. We want to win every day. Sometimes, though, you just don’t have the time to scour all of the stats and angles before the lineup deadline. That doesn’t mean you can’t still field a lineup and get a little action on the day. Today, we’ll discuss a no-frills approach that, while unlikely to field the day’s optimal lineup, is likely to give you a competitive squad. (Read More)

DraftStreet and RotoGrinders are teaming up to offer Five free $109 seats on top of the $1000 prize pool of a $5 buy in tournament on Wednesday night. This is your best chance to qualify for the DSBC cheaply! Each player can enter three teams, and there is a 220 team cap, so go ahead and reserve your teams. Click Read More to access the link. (Read More)

We have 6 day games on the schedule today so for those of you who are bored at work or in class, it should provide you with some entertainment to make your day go by faster. We want to thank you for reading our daily picks, all of our hard work is worth it as long as we can help our Grinders out. Today’s picks are made based on Draftstreet’s salaries and scoring but should apply to other sites as well. Here are today’s picks: (Read More)

There have been fifteen closer changes since the opening of Spring Training. If your daily fantasy baseball is on DraftStreet or FantasyFeud, you need to be up to date on all of the latest, breaking closer news. This is the first edition of the Closer Report. The Closer Report lists Team, Player, Job Security, Second Option and if a change has taken place with its reasoning. Job Security is ranked on a scale of extremely low to extremely high. The changes in the closer role are split between performance based changes (P) and injury based changes (DL). Hopefully this chart can serve as a useful tool, but be sure to always check who has been over-used lately and that might be the right night to pick up a second option guy for dirt cheap. Good luck and keep on grinding. (Read More)

You might have heard of this Josh Hamilton guy, he’s currently terrorizing AL pitching and leading all triple crown categories with a staggering 18 homeruns to go with his .400 average. The price on Hamilton is rising and rising but when a player is this locked in you cant afford to miss out. Today’s daily plays will help with some value to mix in so that you don’t miss out on Hamilton.

The salaries will be tailored towards Daily Joust but most of these value picks should be cheap all around. With only one SP spot on Joust you can’t afford to blow that pick so the goal of today’s daily plays is to use Hamilton and a strong SP with a ton of lower priced value that hits in the top or middle of their batting order. (Read More)

Lots of great starting pitching options today, excellent match ups for Verlander, Hamels, Ricky Romeo, can’t go wrong with any of them. This could be a rough day for hitters, target some of the weaker starters and put a few bats in your line up against each of them. Which top hitter has 5 homeruns against his Sunday opponent? Be shocked to find out he is recommended today. (Read More)