With first-year player drafts starting soon, how can we best analyze the player pool? Here's some preliminary grouped evaluations (buckets) via BaseballHQ's potential rating grades.

We take another look at league, team, and player stolen base activity since the previous update in mid-May.

Spencer Strider heads into the All-Star break with a 3.44 ERA and 166 K in 105 IP. Could he be even better in the second half? Plus, Christian Walker, Marcus Stroman, Bryson Stott, and Garrett Cooper.

A look back at the top first-half producers who were afterthoughts on draft day. Spoiler alert: a ton of Reds!

Check out our Top 50 midseason prospect list!

Corbin Carroll may not be the most pivotal player across the entire league for the second half of the season, but he certainly is for ARI. Plus, a survey of the four other teams' most pivotal players.

BAL's Colton Cowser is one of the AL East's "pivotal players" in the second half of the season. Who are some of the others? Read on to find out.

Manny Machado can improve his BA, David Bednar offers strong skills as a closer, Seiya Suzuki has below-average skills, Hunter Harvey nabs some SV chances in WAS, and Evan Longoria offers power when he plays.

Allstar Break Edition is a roundtable with PD, Todd Zola and Ray Murphy discussing the fantasy landscape through the first part of the season...

All Star Break Edition of the weekly BaseballHQ chat. Bring questions on the first half, the second half, roster moves — or the Futures Game, MLB Draft or Midsummer Classic. Join BaseballHQ.com co-GM Brent Hershey at Monday noon ET, or view the transcript here afterwards.

Here is a fantasy look at the first round of the 2023 draft.