Pitcher Profile: Michael Fiers Is On Fire, Don’t Have No Fears

July 17, 2012 | Pitcher Profiles | 16 Comments

Looking at his name, I would certainly think it’s pronounced more like “fears,” but it’s actually pronounced “fires.” Infinitely cooler, and certainly appropriate for his immensely successful rookie campaign.

With a Brewers starting rotation dealing with an early season-ending injury to Chris Narveson, then Marco Estrada pulling his quad rounding first, Michael Fiers, the Brewers 2011 minor league pitcher of the year, finally got his call up after an inconsistent stint to start his 2012 campaign in AAA. Please, blog, may I have some more?

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Votto Owners Seeing Red Since His Bad Knee, WTF Me

July 17, 2012 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 421 Comments

by: Grey

First Stanton, now Joey Votto. I got two good knees. Take my knees. Please! I take my knees everywhere and they always find their way home. I will attempt to put into words how distraught I was over losing Votto, but Autocorrect tried to change put into pout, so even it knows this isn’t going to be easy. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Creeper of the Week: Stephen Drew

July 16, 2012 | Creeper of the Week | 13 Comments

by: Feeding the Abscess

Quick recap of last week’s Creeper:

When I wrote last week’s post, the Red Sox hadn’t yet set their rotation, leaving some of Adam Lind‘s value for this week up in the air. That’s now changed, and Boston’s throwing Clay Buchholz, Josh Beckett, and Aaron Cook against the Jays. Please, blog, may I have some more?

RCL Roundup: July 16

July 16, 2012 | Our Leagues | 10 Comments

by: VinWins

The Fugs (Epic Beardmen Division) were joined atop the overall standings by Rank Railheads (RCL 40), each with 112 points. The Fugs have managed to overcome the lengthy absence of their number 1 pick (7th overall), Evan Longoria. The Railheads, with the 2nd pick, started their team with Miguel Cabrera. Please, blog, may I have some more?

The Dread Pirate Is A Swashbuckling Mofo

July 16, 2012 | Uncategorized | 403 Comments

by: Grey

Andrew McCutchen went 3-for-4 with his 21st homer yesterday, and now has five homers in his last 4 games. On the year, he’s batting .371. For s’s and g’s, I went back to look at April comments about McCutchen when he had zero homers and only 7 RBIs through the first month. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Deep Impact: The Waiver Man Cometh, Part Deux

July 15, 2012 | Uncategorized | 11 Comments

by: Jay

I have a small leather-bound notepad on me at all times, always there for the moments of divine inspiration to be written, recorded, and later used as material for my posts here at Razzball. I can never quite remember when or why I wrote each tidbit, though I’m pretty sure about the steps I followed to get ink on the paper. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Minor Accomplishments for Week 14

July 15, 2012 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 16 Comments

by: Scott Evans

Many saw Mark Appel as the odds-on No. 1 overall pick in last month’s First Year Player Draft. Signability concerns, however, caused his stock to slip, and the tall, athletic RHP out of Stanford fell to Pittsburgh at No. 8 overall. Please, blog, may I have some more?

How I Spent My All Star Break

July 14, 2012 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 14 Comments

by: Dan Pants

Four full days without fantasy baseball!? I know, it was brutal. How are we possibly supposed to keep ourselves occupied when we’re not refreshing our team pages every two minutes? In all seriouslyness, there are plenty of alternatives to constantly monitoring your team, for example: speak to a loved one, watch the All-Star Game (yaaaawn), go outside, play real baseball (have a catch with the old man?), Please, blog, may I have some more?

2012 Fantasy Baseball Two Start Pitchers, Week 16

July 14, 2012 | Fantasy Baseball Two Start Pitchers | 21 Comments

by: Smokey

What happened to baseball? It was here, then we were put to sleep by that snoozefest they call the all-star game. Now, I don’t know about you, but the all-star break is like sports hell; best option to watch was the WNBA, really. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Teixeira: 2nd Half > 1st Half > V. Padilla

July 13, 2012 | Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell | 363 Comments

by: Grey

Vicente Padilla had this to say recently to Telemundo about Mark Teixeira, “He should play a women’s sport. When he hits a home run, he can take off his jersey and slide on his knees around the bases… Then, while he’s on his knees, well, let’s just say in my home country, we’d make him a bucket… And, if he wants to cry about me pitching him inside, he can cry into a sanitary napkin. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Fantasy Razzball Roundup: July 13th

July 13, 2012 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

by: Higgins

Hey, I’m Higgins and I’m going to be posting updates about our Fantasy Razzball leagues. If you are not familiar with Fantasy Razzball, it is a league format where us truly masochistic fantasy baseballers try to build the worst fantasy baseball team possible. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Grey and Rudy Expert League Update – All-Star Break 2012

July 13, 2012 | Our Leagues | 67 Comments

by: Rudy Gamble

It’s halfway through the season so it’s time to share how well (or poorly) we’re doing in our various fantasy baseball expert leagues. Rather than rehash good/bad draft picks (you can see that in our last update), I’ve just noted what place we’re in, who’s in 1st/last, a twittersque summary of how each team is doing, and then, to show we’re good sports, some praise (and unintentional jinxing) to the current 1st place teams. Please, blog, may I have some more?