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At “Stream Pies,” we are serving up gooey loads of knowledge. Here, we’ll provide invaluable streaming advice on SPs who are owned in less than 30-percent of Yahoo! leagues. We list the options in order of best option to “least-best” option (with the strongest recommendations starting at the top).

Think it’s too early to stream? ‘Fraid not sucka. Take a look at your innings pace. Unless you employ a fleet of SPs, there is a decent chance you may be falling behind. While streaming is synonymous with September, everyone is trying to stream SPs late in the season. Better to pick up some innings now, when there are a lot more options to pick from. Fantasy baseball is a marathon, but innings in June count every bit as much as innings in the fall.

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The masses are thrilled “Stream Pies” is back
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At “Stream Pies,” we are serving up gooey loads of knowledge. Here, we’ll provide invaluable streaming advice on SPs who are owned in less than 30-percent of Yahoo! leagues. We list the options in order of best option to “least-best” option (with the strongest recommendations starting at the top).

OK, you can breathe out now. “Stream Pies” has returned to help you maximize your innings. Last year, we recommended 205 stream starters. They turned in 1,214.2 innings, 71 wins, a 4.18 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, and a 6.14 K/9. Not bad for pitchers owned in less than 30 percent of Yahoo! leagues, eh? And by “not bad” I mean “fucking incredible.”

Yet we’re not comfortable with a mere repeat of last year’s success. No, this year we are aiming big. We are looking to post a season ERA under 4.00, while getting our K/9 to the 6.5 territory. Sounds impossible considering we are assembling this pitching staff from dudes who are just sitting on waivers, but we like a good challenge here at Sons of Roto.

So without further ado, sit back, open wide, and taste the gooey goodness that is... “Stream Pies.”

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Outside of setting your lineups every day, shuffling in hot bats from the waiver wire, and spot starting pitchers with great matchups, you should be constantly working on trades to improve your squad. So make moves you lovable degenerates, and see below for some buy-low/sell-high candidates.

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Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head. I form like Voltron.
 

Hey party peoples. Back from the woods of Northeastern Minnesota, smelling worse than ever, MDS, who is completely oblivious to your league's waiver wire, knows there is a top notch quality Starting Pitcher just sitting there... kinda. If you want top 10 SP production, for free, read on my friends.

Got a hole? Let Matt Adams fill it (pause).

I first brought up the legend of Matt Adams in the first base edition of “Tiers, Not Fears,” pointing out the massive power potential and the slew of aging, possibly fragile position players sitting on St. Louis’ active roster. Now that Lance Berkman is out, the Matt Adams era is finally underway.

Find out why he needs to be owned in all 12-team leagues after the jump:

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It’s getting to the point of the fantasy baseball season where your boy Daddy Starbucks starts to grow listless with writing about the sport. Don’t get it twisted, I still plan on winning all my leagues and will follow the game closely, but posts from me on fantasy baseball will begin to become more infrequent. The reason? There’s just not that much cool shit to write about that the smart readers of this website won’t already know.

I thought about doing an MLB Real Talk post on Joe Blanton for fuck’s sake. Look, I like the Philly Blant enough to trust him as a spot starter (or a solid SP in deep leagues), but when suckas like this start gracing the covers of Starbonell posts, it’s quite clear that there isn’t that much cool shit to talk about that hasn’t already been discussed on a million other sites. Here at Sons of Roto, we value outside-the-box analysis on players people may be overlooking. But we have to draw the line somewhere. Joe Blanton is that line.

Worry not fantasy baseball heads. “Stream Pies” will make its triumphant return around Memorial Day and that series will run until the end of the season. MLB Real Talk will also rear its head whenever an underappreciated commodity deserves a shout-out. And I’m sure “Lying, Whoring Numbers” will crop up when overzealous stat-wads get overexcited about a player. Still, we have to be realistic. Fantasy football is rapidly approaching and more time needs to be spent pimping what will be the greatest draft guide ever.

Don’t think of this as goodbye, for when the cool summer night settles down upon you, it will be my name you hear on the wind... “Sssstarbonell....”

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Make Money. Stay Pimpin'. 
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Just another public service announcement that the good folks at Daily Joust are trying to give you money... again. You are all probably aware of our partnership with this fine service, that allows you true gamers to battle dudes with a single fantasy lineup for one day in order to win money. Normally you need to put down a wager, but the Daily Joust heads are so confident that you'll love their game, that they are giving you a chance to enter a FREE team and win up to $250. This free contest starts today (Friday, May 11th) at 7:00 PM EST. Here are the deets:

- Create your team with a 1 million dollar salary cap: C, 1B/DH, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, SP.

- It's**FREE to enter and there are $250 in prizes up for grabs

Follow these two steps to play now:

1. CLICK HERE to register at DailyJoust and make your selections for the contest.

2. Watch the live scoring on DailyJoust to see how your team stacks up against the competition.

But wait, THERE'S MORE (damn I feel like a Billy Mays infomercial). If you do decide to put some money down and play even more games, Daily Joust will give you a 40 percent deposit bonus! If you haven't played these daily leagues yet, you are missing out. They are the future of fantasy sports and it's easy way to make quick cash for true fantasy gamers. Do work SoR readers... do work.

In Italy, admiring the statue of David
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Welcome to “John Travolta Numbers.” You know, because John Travolta lies (naked, for potentially gay masseuses) and whores (naked, for potentially gay masseuses). Think that joke is a stretch? Well, my retort is that I stretched your moms out last night, and I didn’t even need to pose as a masseuse (though if I did, it would be a totally hetero disguise complete with beef jerky and matted-together issues of “Greasy V’s” magazine).

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Emerging from the clutter of the A’s outfield, Josh Reddick has become a serious option for owners even in three-outfield formats. Find out why it is your civic duty to help bump his ownership rate up... after the jiz-ump:

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Although baseball is well underway and the season is chugging along as usual, there are a number of absolute studs that have been seriously underperforming. Obviously everybody and their mother knows of Albert Pujols’ struggles, but Jose Bautista and Robinson Cano are also putting up duds on the regular nowadays. Moving down the totem pole a bit, guys like Jose Reyes, Ben Zobrist, Brandon Philips, and Nelson Cruz are also punishing owners for taking them early in the draft. Find out what the future holds for these dudes.

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