Mike Mager's Articles

FTN's Mike Mager offers up his first in a two-part series breaking down how to approach auction fantasy baseball drafts for 2025.

FTN's Mike Mager walks you through Part 2 of his positional series on which players to target in fantasy baseball drafts.

FTN's Mike Mager walks you through Part 1 of his positional series on which players to target in fantasy baseball drafts.

FTN's Mike Mager finalizes his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

FTN's Mike Mager continues his Drops & Disasters series, highlighting players to move on from during the fantasy baseball season.

With the first full week of MLB games completed, and many crushing injuries to address, this should be a busy FAAB weekend. Fantasy managers will be evaluating potential acquisitions, ranking targets within FAAB strings and deciding how much to bid on each player. While doing so, managers would be advised to give due consideration to […]

This is the inaugural article on drops and disasters. Because this is the first big FAAB weekend, there will be a lot of attention on potential pickups and bids, and rightfully so. For every FAAB string, however, there also must be a drop, and this is where fantasy managers need to be careful. In my introductory […]

Fantasy baseball drafting season has concluded. With the start of meaningful MLB games, important considerations that have occupied an outsized portion of our collective consciousness – positional ranks, tiers and targets, sleepers and busts, and ADPs and AAVs – are fading into the deepest recesses of our minds. Now, the real grind begins.    We […]

Cue music from Field of Dreams. Me: “Is this heaven?” Hotel receptionist: “No, it’s Robbinsville.” March 16, 2024, I had the extreme pleasure of traveling to Robbinsville, N.J., to draft in my highest stakes live event of the year, the MTM Ultimate. Administered by the NFBC, the MTM Ultimate is the brainchild of Mike “The […]

Your fantasy baseball snake draft has been going on for hours, or maybe you just finished a long, 23-round auction. At this point, you might be getting a little tired — if not physically, then mentally. You can almost taste that post-draft dinner, or drinks, or dinner and drinks. All that remains is to draft […]