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Pickups of the Day for June 7th

Fantasy is a fickle hobby and the only way to consistently find success is to consistently find the tiniest of competitive edges. With that in mind, today we'll look to emulate the Rays' famous mantra of finding "The Extra 2%" by examining some players who may not be contributors right now, but will be able to provide you that 2% edge come playoff time.

Bombs Away for Brent Rooker

The career of Brent Rooker finally took off last year after being claimed by the Athletics, and then controversially winning a spot on the opening day roster ahead of former blue-chip prospect Cristian Pache. After…

Risers & Fallers: Yankees Pitching Up, Braves Offense…

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.

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.