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: Are You Rea-dy for the Festa-val
Join Anthony as he goes over Paul’s streams and fades for Saturday before diving into his recommendations for Sunday. Plenty of pitfalls abound on the final day of your weekly matchups, as Anthony has more fades than streams for Sunday.
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Risers & Fallers: Sophomore Hitters
As I was searching through the ranks and looking over the stat lines of some top performers this year, I started to notice a trend of sophomore names popping out near the tops of each position, guys like Brenton Doyle in the outfield, or Zach Neto and Elly De La Cruz at shortstop. Notably, there were some high performing rookies that were missing from the tops of these lists, either due to performance (like James Outman) or due to long injuries (like Triston Casas, Josh Jung and Matt McLain).
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Fantasy MLB Today: Can We Be A Littell Civale
Today, Anthony reviews Nathan’s pitching suggestions for Thursday before diving into his own recommendations for Friday. He has a full hand of streamers and two pitchers you should avoid.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Between a Stone and a Hard Place
Join Anthony as he quickly reviews Paul’s Tuesday streamers before going into a deeper dive of his Wednesday streamers. He’s got four streams and two fades, including a very unlucky lefty making his second start for his new team.
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Pickups of the Day for August 5th
With the summer temperature soaring as we enter the first full week of August, the heat is on, as fantasy managers fight to find valuable contributors from the waiver wire. Though at times it may seem like there is no value to be had, if you look wide enough and deep enough, winning pieces can be found. Sticking to the summer heat, I found some valuable players in the Arizona desert and the high humidity of South Beach.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review – August 5th
The week in review covers all the starts by the starting pitchers, what the bullpens did (saves, holds-wise), how did the offense perform (runs scored, walks, strikeouts) and who stood out with the bat, if anyone did. It’s guaranteed to be 4000 or more words and will cover pretty much every main fantasy statistic and impact players. And it comes at you every week.
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Pickups of the Day for August 4th
The later we get into the season, the more vital productive waiver wire finds become. Losing a player to injury can be even more difficult to replace, especially as fantasy league trade deadlines loom and the real life trade deadline has passed. Today I have two players who were affected by the trade deadline and find themselves in more productive roles than before, plus a Seattle outfielder whose production we can no longer ignore.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Tobias Fünke in a Full Nelson
Listen in this Saturday morning as Anthony reviews Paul’s Saturday streams before providing a full run down for his choice Sunday matchups. He has another full slate, this time with seven names, but only two fades. You’ll have to listen to the end to find out who they are and why you should avoid them.
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Risers & Fallers: Trade Deadline Edition
The 2024 MLB trade deadline has come and gone, with a flurry of trades made in the final hours. From the Dodgers trading for Jack Flaherty to the Royals beefing up their bullpen, teams at all levels of contention made some moves. So, in this edition of risers & fallers, we are going to look at the players that I believe were most impacted, either positively or negatively.
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Sports Ethos MLB Trade Deadline Fantasy Baseball Losers – Dynasty Edition
Now that the MLB trade deadline is over and the dust has settled, tens of players have moved from one team to another, while some never left home, with greener pastures just out of their reach.
We’ve gone over who the winners were after the trade deadline was over, so today we will be going over the losers. Remember, this is from a fantasy perspective, not an in-real-life perspective, so it doesn’t matter if a player joined a good team if the ballpark negatively affects their ability to hit home runs, it matters because the park can hurt their overall fantasy production.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Mr. Anderson In The Big Apple
Anthony is back on the podcast, reviewing Nathan Baker’s streams for Thursday before providing his choices for a fully booked Friday. He covers eight pitchers for Friday and you’ll have to listen in to find out which five he is streaming and which three he is not.
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Sports Ethos MLB Trade Deadline Fantasy Baseball Winners – Dynasty Edition
The MLB trade deadline day ended up being a very busy day, ending what was a very productive five day period of trading.
Some teams were winners, some teams were losers, but all told, they completed well over 30 total trades.
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Fantasy MLB Today: Mackenzie Was Gore’d by the Snakes
It’s trade deadline Tuesday and Anthony has a few streamers (and some fades) for the upcoming hump day. He managed to give you three names he believes can produce positive numbers, but the outlook overall is bleak for Wednesday streams.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review – July 29th
The week in review covers all the starts by the starting pitchers, what the bullpens did (saves, holds-wise), how did the offense perform (runs scored, walks, strikeouts) and who stood out with the bat, if anyone did. It’s guaranteed to be 4000 or more words and will cover pretty much every main fantasy statistic and impact players. And it comes at you every week.
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Pickups of the Day for July 29th
The big league trade deadline is this week and, in many fantasy leagues, is coming up in the next week or two as well. But, if you can’t find yourself a willing trade partner, I am here to tell you that the waiver wire is always willing to trade it’s value for your failing players. So let’s take a look into that wonderful sea of available players and see if we can find a few that can help you along the way.
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