Wins Above Fantasy

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss end-game strategy for the last few weeks of the 2024 fantasy baseball season.

• Bowden Francis
• Bobby Miller
• Javier As…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) take their first look to 2025 as they give their picks for 2025 first rounders.

• Shohei Ohtani
• Bobby Witt Jr.
• Aaron Judge
• Gun…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) look for rest-of-season waiver wire heroes with a head-to-head matchup twist.

• Matt Wallner
• Nolan Schanuel
• Dylan Moore
• David …

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) breakdown the rest of season strength of schedule and look for favorable fantasy matchups.

• Favorable schedules: Cubs, Yan…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) give bold predictions for the second half as well as check in on their pre-season "chalkboard" picks as the All-Star Bre…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss the biggest surprises from the first half, as decided by the Pitcher List Discord.

• Rockies OF to Own: Brenton Doy…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) talk about pitchers who have the potential for big second halves.

• Grayson Rodriguez can become an ace
• Ben Brown a pitcher …

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss impressive first-half hitting performances relative to ADP.

• Gunnar Henderson
• Marcell Ozuna
• Jarren Duran
• Jurickson Pr…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss pitchers to target in trades.

• RIP Willie Mays
• Foolish Baseball Video on "The Catch"
• Pablo Lopez
• Jordan Montgomery
• Jes…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss hitters to target in trades plus answer your mailbag questions.

• Trade season is here
• Sky Kalkman's Article on Trad…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss players who have improved over the course of April to May.

• Month-over-month improvers
• Steve's Spreadsheet
• K-BB% imp…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) are joined by Kyle Bland (@blandalytics) to discuss the new bat tracking metrics as well as some struggling hitters and …

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) are joined by Lance Brozdowski (@LanceBroz) to talk pitching

• Lance's background
• Lance's Substack
• Lance's most recent YouTub…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) dissect the new Bat Tracking Leaderboard on Baseball Savant.

• Bat Tracking Overview
• Navigating signal and noise with new me…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) are joined by Thomas Nestico (@TJStats) to discuss under-valued and under rostered starting pitchers.

• Paul Skenes
• Christia…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) use rest-of-season projections and underlying process stats to find buy-low hitters.

• Process to find buy lows: projection…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818)  look at year-over-year improvers in Statcast and batted ball metrics.

• Importance of stabilization rates (Russell Carleto…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818)  discuss hitters off to slow starts and analyze why they could be good buy-low options.

• Francisco Lindor
• Julio Rodriguez
• Co…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818)  look for interesting low-rostered pitchers to replace high-end starters who recently went down with injuries.

• Keaton Win…

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818)  react to interesting performances from the first week of baseball games.

• Maikel Garcia
• Christopher Morel
• Will Benson
• Brenda…