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.
Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review – June 10th
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 pretty much guaranteed to be 5000 or more words and will cover pretty much every main fantasy statistic and impact players. And it comes at you every Monday morning.
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Risers & Fallers: Yankees Pitching Up, Braves Offense Down
In this week’s edition of risers and fallers, we have returned to the standard format, with both risers AND fallers. On the risers side of things, we have the knuckleballing Matt Waldron figuring it out more often than not (he’s having the best knuckle season since RA Dickey was around), every starting pitcher in the Yankees rotation has been phenomenal since the calendar turned to May, and the Guardians sophomore utility-man breakout hitter, David Fry, who’s been the second best hitter on the team since the start of May. The fallers features a pair of Astros starters on their way to Tommy John Town (Cristian Javier & Jose Urquidy), the struggling-so-bad-he-was-demoted-after-a-31-home-run-season Spencer Torkelson and the incredibly underwhelming Braves offensive unit as a whole.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review – June 3rd
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 pretty much guaranteed to be 5000 or more words and will cover pretty much every main fantasy […]
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Pickups of the Day for June 3rd
That makes it difficult for us to find some real gems, especially on the hitting side, sitting on the waiver wire. When offense is down league wide, it affects us all, so the only way to truly stand out is either already have those awesome waiver wire pickups or use this article (which we do every single day of the MLB season) to find the hottest, shiniest gems and profit from our savvy pickups.
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Top 100 Fantasy Baseball Prospects – June Update
This month’s prospect update didn’t see nearly as much turnover and turmoil as last month’s, as we had less players graduate to the majors, so less to replace. There are some new faces in the top 100 (especially on the backend) and a handful of faces that I may be hanging onto for a few […]
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05/31/2024 Risers & Fallers: We All Fall Down
Last week, risers and fallers was all risers, so it’s only fair this week that we look at only fallers. If all risers was like a celebration, than all fallers will be more akin to a mourning. Be it not living up to their own lofty standards, injury or father time creeping on by them, all of these players have lost something that once made them great.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review – May 27th
The week in review covers all the start 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 pretty much guaranteed to be 5000 or more words and will cover pretty much every main fantasy […]
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Pickups of the Day for May 27th
We are just about one-third of the way through the fantasy season and dealing with injuries, whether they be to superstars or your 28th round pick, is just one part of the game. Searching the waiver wire, finding a budding fantasy producer or star and being the first one to make a move is also a crucial part of the game. So, because the loss of Acuna is so huge (I mean, he was the first pick in like 99.99999999% of all drafts), I have four outfielders to recommend, in hopes that one of these guys will help dry up our collective tears just a little bit.
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Risers & Fallers: All Risers. No, Seriously, All Risers.
Look, this week, we’re talking pause-uh-tiv-uh-tee. Positivity. Only the good this week. Next week we can be a little negative, focus on players whose stock has fallen. But this week, I want the sun shinin’, the birds singin’ and the stocks risin’.
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Pickups of the Day for May 20th
Every Monday, fantasy managers are teetering between two emotions: Joy, because they won their prior match-up, and sadness, because they did not. To continue to boost the ego of the winners and massage the ego of the losers, I’ve put together a special edition of my Monday Daily Pickups. It’s the “Oops, All Outfielder Eligible” edition, featuring an aging slugger, a possible 20/20 sophomore Rockie, the Blue Jays new leadoff man and a strong-side platoon, left field bat out of Seattle.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review
Each Monday I will be dropping my fantasy baseball week in review, where I cover all 30 teams’ weekly fantasy performance and share the stats we need to know.
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Risers & Fallers: Hitters Edition
Last week on risers and fallers we focused exclusively on pitchers, so this week the focus will be on hitters. There are plenty of good, young bats that are seemingly finding another level they didn’t have before or solidifying breakouts that we’ve been waiting for. On the flip side, determining the bats that are falling and struggling was tough, because there were far more than I care to admit. So let’s buckle in and get to it.
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Anthony’s Fantasy Baseball Week in Review
I just want to kick this off by stating the obvious: I am not Joe Orrico. So these week in review articles will feel very different, but very much the same. I’m definitely not trying to replace Joe, just fill in the gap that is now here.
Each week, my goal will be to hit all 30 teams and go over fantasy relevant stats, notes, news, etc. to make it easier on you, the reader, to hopefully not miss anything vital. Some teams will get more words, some teams will get less, it all depends on what exactly happened last week.
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Pickups of the Day for May 13th
It’s Monday, which means a new matchup and another shot at a win. Everyday we are looking to find new players that can help lead us to victory, which means scouring the waiver wire for any player that can be impactful.
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Risers & Fallers: Pitching Edition
This week we talk about Paul Skenes (finally) getting the call to the majors, Nick Lodolo looking like he did as a rookie and Mason Miller’s dominance closing, on the rising side. On the falling side, we’ll discuss Tanner Bibee’s sophomore stumble, Hunter Brown falling off of the cliff of startability and what to do with Joe Musgrove.
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