Week 18’s AL Waiver Wire assesses the value of several newcomers to the AL following a less-than-exciting trade deadline.

One man’s analysis of the deals and non-deals.

Mining for rest of season value by looking at the at the best/worst xWHIP guys in baseball, courtesy of the xWHIP calculator.

We assess the fantasy value of some over/underperforming stocks, and Matt Wieters makes a surprise visit.

How will he do in the rest of the season?

On week 16, we assess the fantasy value of Jayson Nix, Matt Thornton/J.J. Putz, Scott Sizemore, Luke Scott, Chris Perez, Austin Jackson, Cliff Pennington and Jack Cust.

All strikeouts and walks are not the same.

An explanation of, and file link to, the xWHIP calculator.

Week 15 in the AL Waiver Wire series assesses the fantasy value of Cliff Lee, Chris Carter, J.P. Arencibia, Yunel Escobar, Brandon Morrow, Chris Davis, Justin Smoak and Scott Baker . . . plus Jose Bautisa watch continues!

Week 14 in the AL Waiver Wire series assesses the fantasy value of Matt LaPorta, Kila Ka’aihue, Michael Brantley, Brennan Boesch, Daniel Hudson, Joshua Bell and my boy Marc Rzepczynski. . . plus Jose Bautisa watch continues!