Anthony Kates
I'm a husband, father and fantasy sports fanatic. I've been playing some fantasy sport or other since the fall of 1996, thanks to one of my childhood best friends, Brent. I enjoy watching all major sports, reading fantasy novels, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and writing about fantasy baseball. I started at Sports Ethos in 2023, just writing one article a week and cutting my teeth in fantasy sports writing and I am now a co-lead of the Fantasy Baseball department, co-host of the Fantasy MLB Today podcast and the author of two weekly articles, our dynasty baseball rankings and a handful of random articles a year. I support the Houston Astros, Dallas Mavericks, Tennessee Titans and all things Texas Longhorns.
Fantasy MLB Today: My Favorite 2025 Fantasy Baseball Rookies
Join Anthony as he discusses his eight favorite fantasy baseball rookies for the 2025 season. From stateside newcomer Roki Sasaki and I’ve-missed-two-years Andrew Painer, to already-been-there-done-that Dylan Crews and by-far-the-number-1-prospect-in-all-of-baseball Roman Anthony, he has a list of known quantities and one fun afterthought.
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Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 12/8
Welcome to Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 12/8! A busy Sunday for once, with two-thirds of the league active. Joel Embiid returns a day after fantasy managers lose Franz Wagner for weeks and the same day Evan Mobley twists his ankle (raise your hand if you have all 3 like me), which will all send reverberations through their teams’ lineups. Let’s walk through the games and see what kind of value we can find.
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Fantasy Baseball Team Year in Review: Arizona Diamondbacks
Anthony Kates takes a look at the Arizona Diamondbacks 2024 season from a fantasy perspective.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Top Outfield Prospects: Part 2
Today, Anthony examines the top outfield prospects at two minor league levels, Double-A and Triple-A, in part two of his two part series, and offers up some insight into their 2025 fantasy value and beyond.
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Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 12/1
Welcome to Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 12/1! If you’re like me, you’re still fighting through a turkey or ham induced coma and have done nothing by lie around the last three days, watching football and basketball. But tomorrow is a new matchup week, so let’s check the waiver wire and see if there are any impact adds for the week ahead.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Top Outfield Prospects: Part 1
Today, Anthony examines the top outfield prospects at two minor league levels, Low-A and High-A, and offers up some insight into their 2025 fantasy value and beyond.
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Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 11/24
Ty Welcome to Sunday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 11/24! We have a shallow slate of games today, with only six matchups total. That’s barely 90 players to comb through to find the best pickups for your fantasy teams. Let’s comb through them anyways and see what diamond might be hiding in the rough.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Top Second Base Prospects
Today, Anthony examines the top three second base prospects at each minor league level, from Low-A to Triple-A, and offers up some insight into their 2025 fantasy value and beyond.
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Fantasy Baseball Team Year in Review: Seattle Mariners
Anthony Kates takes a look at the Seattle Mariners 2024 season from a fantasy perspective.
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Fantasy Baseball Team Year in Review: Miami Marlins
Anthony Kates takes a look at the Miami Marlins’ 2024 season from a fantasy perspective.
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Fantasy Baseball Team Year in Review: Minnesota Twins
Anthony Kates takes a look at the Minnesota Twins’ 2024 season from a fantasy perspective.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Scavenging Outside the Top 100 – Pt. 3
Today, Anthony Kates leads the pod as he discusses his five prospects outside the Top 100 Prospects List that he believes will join the list in the near future. He has three bats and two arms, with names for fantasy players in shallow and deep leagues alike.
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Thursday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 11/07
Welcome to Thursday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 11/07!! Thursdays during the NBA season tend to have the lightest slates, which means less basketball than we’d like, but also makes it easier for us to track all of the action. With less than 70 players setting foot on the court tonight, let’s see if we can find some under-rostered gems that can provide us with future value.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Perusing the Top 100 Prospects
Today on the podcast, Anthony Kates takes the time to go through his Top 100 Fantasy Baseball Prospects rankings and discuss some of the players within. He goes over his favorite prospects in the top 100, players who need to fix some holes in their game or find themselves sliding down the rankings, a few players who haven’t met expectations just yet, a few that have and any of the players he expects to make their MLB debut in 2025.
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Thursday Night Pickups: Fantasy Basketball Adds for 10/31
Today, as we celebrate the scariest holiday of the season, we should consider what kinds of tricks and treats the waiver wire might be playing on us. As we watch the few games, listen to Shaq talk about “them rangz Erneh” and eat up all of the “bad” candy that our kids got while trick or treating, let’s take a look at a few of tonight’s performances and see if we can’t scare up a productive player or two. Because sometimes, early season pickups are just to die for.
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