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NYC-based teacher, writer and filmmaker. Former collegiate and professional baseball player. Lifelong Bills fan.
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Eric Samulski - RotoBaller has written 412 articles so far, you can find them below.
Catcher's Corner Exam Room: Jose Urquidy
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Jose Urquidy, analyzing the Houston Astros starting pitcher and explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in but maybe lowering their pre-season expectations. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, Saturdays... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 12 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Is Streaming Catchers a Smart Strategy?
The common adage is that you should be streaming at catcher, but sometimes I think we cling to that a little too tightly. We buy into the easy narratives of "Catchers can't hit" and "Don't waste high picks or FAAB on catchers" but I've always believed it was an oversimplification. Yes, the deeper your league... Read More
Streaming Starters - Catcher's Corner Episode 10
Eric (@SamskiNYC) and Sami (@Believe_Sami) chat with Michael Simione (@SPStreamer) about why people should stream pitchers and how to choose the best one. Then they discuss a few pitchers who might be close to graduating from streaming status before closing the episode by playing Stream It or Leave It with some pitchers for the week... Read More
Daily MLB DFS Value Plays for FanDuel, DraftKings for 6/10/21 (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's Thursday, so you know what that means, Day Baseball! As has become the norm, DraftKings has created a split slate but this time we have only four games in the afternoon and six at night. The night slate has a few elite pitching options,... Read More
I Could've Been a Contender: Re-Evaluating Top Pitching Prospects
We get sucked in every year. Even if we try to talk ourselves out of it, we don't seem capable of following through. We see the GIFs of nasty strikeouts or read about dominance at the minor league level and we start fawning over the next big pitching prospect. We follow his progress as he... Read More
Stephen Vogt Interview - Catcher's Corner Episode 9
Eric (@SamskiNYC) and Sami (@Believe_Sami) talk with Arizona Diamondbacks' catcher Stephen Vogt (@SVogt1229) about his path to the majors, the way Statcast has changed game-planning for catchers, what has led to the rebounds for some of his veteran pitchers, and much more. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87)... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 11 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Which Pitchers With New Pitch Usage Should We Care About? Part Seven
One of the things we are constantly reading about during the early stages of the baseball season is pitchers adding new pitches or making major changes to their pitch usage. However, as the season goes on, those changes can be abandoned and pitchers go back to what they do/know best. So it's important to continue... Read More
Daily MLB DFS Value Plays for FanDuel, DraftKings for 6/3/21 (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's Thursday, so you know what that means, Day Baseball! As has become the norm, DraftKings has created a split slate but this time we have only four games in the afternoon and eight at night. The night slate has elite pitching options, like Yu... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 10 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Pitch Mix Exam Room: Luis Garcia
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Luis Garcia, analyzing the Houston Astros starting pitcher and explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in despite the Astros rotation getting healthy. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, Saturdays... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 9 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Barrel-Aged: Hitters With Biggest Barrel Gains
Lately, I've been focusing a lot on barrels when trying to evaluate which hitters are off to the most note-worthy starts. I recently covered Blast Rate, which is a sub-section of barrels that aims to tell us who is making the "best" good contact. Today, we'll focus on who has shown the best growth in... Read More
The Power of Youth - Catcher's Corner Episode 8
Hosts Eric Samulski (@SamskiNYC) and Sami Akleh (@Believe_Sami) chat with Fantrax prospect hound Eric Cross (@EricCross04) about what we can expect from some young starting pitchers for the rest of 2021, and then "E.C." gives some predictions of when some of the top prospects in baseball may be up in 2021 and if fantasy managers... Read More
Daily MLB DFS Value Plays for FanDuel, DraftKings for 5/20/21 (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's Thursday, so you know what that means, Day Baseball! As has become the norm, DraftKings has created a split slate with only 4 games in each of the day and night slates. While I'll focus most of the analysis on the night slate here,... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 8 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Pitch Mix Exam Room: Logan Gilbert
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Logan Gilbert, analyzing the Seattle Mariners starting pitcher's debut and explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in but expecting bumps along the way. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET,... Read More
Pitch Mix Exam Room: Tyler Anderson
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Tyler Anderson, analyzing the Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher and his new pitch mix, explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, Saturdays from 8-10... Read More
Blast Off: Which Batters Are Hitting the Most Impactful Barrels?
Last week I read a great article by John LaRue breaking down Alex Chamberlain's offensive stat known as Blast Rate. As John pointed out, Alex took the barrel stat we know and love and split it into a subset known as "Weak Barrels" and "Blasts." This may seem like a knit-picky exercise to some, but... Read More
Daily MLB DFS Value Plays for FanDuel, DraftKings for 5/13/21 (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's Thursday, so you know what that means, Day Baseball! With so many games happening in the afternoon, DraftKings has created a relatively split slate with 7 games at night and 6 during the day. While we'll focus mainly on the Night Slate here, I'll... Read More
Fix This Pitcher! - Catcher's Corner Episode 7
Hosts Eric Samulski (@SamskiNYC) and Sami Akleh (@Believe_Sami) discuss how and when to make trades in fantasy leagues and then dive into the inaugural game of Fix This Pitcher! They end the show by Calling Pitches and giving you a few guys they're currently looking to add off of waiver wires. Be sure to also... Read More
The Relief Pitcher Landscape - Catcher's Corner: Episode 5
Hosts Eric Samulski (@SamskiNYC) and Sami Akleh (@Believe_Sami) talk with Greg Jewett (@gjewett9) of The Athletic to discuss the relief pitcher landscape in baseball and how we should be building our roster to account for timeshare bullpens. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 7 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Return to Form: Veteran Pitchers to Believe In
We're always told that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but sometimes I think we're selling old dogs short. With increased age brings wisdom and the know-how to attack life's problems in new ways. Nowhere is that likely more the case than with MLB pitchers. Often young pitchers are prone to relying simply... Read More
Which Pitchers With New Pitch Usage Should We Care About? Part Six
Throughout all Spring Training, we hear about pitching adding new pitches, or making major changes to their pitch usage. We even get to see those new pitches in action and dream about their potential impact. However, when the regular season starts, those changes can be abandoned and pitchers go back to what they do/know best. So... Read More
Daily MLB DFS Value Plays for FanDuel, DraftKings for 5/6/21 (Premium Content)
All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. It's a Day Baseball Day! With so many games happening in the afternoon, DraftKings has turned the main slate into an afternoon slate. There's nothing quite like day baseball, but we should also be prepared for some players who played extra innings yesterday or had... Read More
Pitch Mix Exam Room: Daniel Lynch
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Daniel Lynch, analyzing the Kansas City Royals starting pitcher and his first major league start, explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, Saturdays... Read More
Catchers to Stream - Week 6 Waiver Wire
It's your resident catcher advocate here, with my weekly defense for baseball's most maligned position. Instead of giving into easy narratives about the lack of talent at the catcher position and how they're the kickers of fantasy baseball, I'm here to create a place where catchers are celebrated for how they can help our teams.... Read More
Pitch Mix Exam Room: Shane McClanahan
Eric Samulski of RotoBaller does a deep dive on Shane McClanahan, analyzing the Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher and his first major league start, explaining why fantasy baseball managers should be buying in. Be sure to also tune into RotoBaller Radio on SiriusXM (channel Sirius 210, XM 87) - every weekday morning between 6-7 AM ET, Saturdays... Read More
