RCL Update: The Year That Was, 2017

Well, that’s a wrap on the Razzball Commenter Leagues everyone. Twenty-six weeks down and now we have twenty-six more until the start of next year’s fantasy baseball season. It’s perfect symmetry, because fantasy baseball is the perfect fantasy sport. Speaking of perfect, Returning Champ went near perfect on us in route to an overall Championship. This ties for the second highest finish in RCL history with Rank Railheads of 2012 Championship fame. Returning Champ really rakes it in, winning themselves a $250 Best Buy gift card! More importantly though, Returning Champ gets a Razzball T-Shirt and RCL glory. Who can put a price on that? Oh, it’s $25, well then, moving on. I don’t believe Returning Champ has checked in via comments at all this year, but now would be the time. It’s time to heap on the praise and accept your congratulations. Personally, I’ve been curious all year where the Champ has returned from. Is this a previous RCL winner or were they just lost at sea? I have questions! Either way, Returning Champ fended off some very tough competitors this year to claim the RCL crown. Cram It gave it a run, Grey was pushing for a top spot for awhile there and an army of RCL robots invaded the standings as well. This is Returning Champ’s moment though, so hopefully they show up, take a bow and soak it up, they earned it. Here’s what else what happened this year and this final week of the RCLs:

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Top 20 Catchers, 2017 Fantasy Baseball, Recap

October 4, 2017 | Uncategorized | 100 Comments

by: Grey

It feels like just the other day the baseball regular season started. You wrote "I heart baseball" in permanent marker on your arm, then you met a girl who wrote "I heart guys who heart baseball" on her arm, then, during sex in July, you screamed out, "Give it to me, Giancarlo!" and now you don’t have baseball or a girlfriend. C’mon, calendar, make like a soldier and turn to March. The only cure for the post-baseball season blues — recapping the preseason top twenty lists and being hand-fed Doritos. First up, Cool Ranch and our preseason Top 20 Catchers for 2017. It’s important to look back before we look ahead to 2018. To paraphrase the one and only B-Real, "How do you know where you’re at, if you don’t know where you’ve been? Understand where I’m coming from?" (If you missed it, I interviewed B-Real last year on our podcast, though that might not have been as good as our Jose Canseco interview.) It wouldn’t be fair for me to preseason rank the players, then rank them again in the postseason based on my opinion, so these postseason top 20 lists are ranked according to our Fantasy Baseball Player Rater. It’s cold hard math, y’all! Please, for the love that all is holy, don’t ask me if this is for next year. Anyway, here’s the top 20 catchers for 2017 fantasy baseball and how they compared to where I originally ranked them:

Fantasy Baseball Podcast: 2017 Season Review

October 3, 2017 | All Podcasts, Razzball Podcast | 2 Comments

by: Halp

“The waiting is the hardest part” -Tom Petty Tom Petty might not have been a fantasy baseball fan, but I think the above quote can accurately sum up the feelings of a majority us with the 2017 fantasy baseball season officially over. I’m already strategizing for my hometown dynasty auction draft that is six months away. I was going to open this write-up with another one of Petty’s famous lyrics, “It’s time to move on, time to get going,” but Razzball isn’t going anywhere over the off-season, starting with today’s podcast which recaps the 2017 fantasy baseball season. Grey Albright, Ralph Lifshitz, and myself discuss our fantasy MVP’s, LVP’s, and Cy Young’s. And of course, we talk about our love for Tom Petty. Finally, please make sure to support our sponsor by heading over to RotoWear.com and entering promo code “SAGNOF” for 15% off the highest quality t-shirts in the fantasy sports game. It’s the latest edition of the Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast:

The 9th Annual Razzballies

October 3, 2017 | Y to Z | 135 Comments

by: Grey

Welcome back for another star-studded event! Assuming you hack into your favorite online dictionary and replace the definition of 'star' with "guy who lives in his mom’s basement and screams when someone finishes his Doritos," and next to the definition of 'stud' you put a picture of yourself. The Razzballies are the only award show where it’s totally fine to show up in sweatpants, and for your fingers to be orange from Cheetos. We don’t judge. We will occasionally mock. Mock-judge, tomato-tomahto. Get over it! But don't mock Judge, that's not all right. I hope you enjoyed the clip show where I inserted myself into various baseball clips from this year. How about the clip where I was Jason Kipnis watching his team win every game he missed? Hee-lar-e-us! So, before I’m talking to no one but a room full of seat-fillers, here’s the year-end awards for the best and worst of fantasy baseball:

If I Just Woke Up And 2017 Was All A Dream, How Did Giancarlo Get In My Bed?

October 2, 2017 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 229 Comments

by: Grey

Yesterday….yesterday….yesterday…. All my fantasy baseball championship titles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though one is here to stay *sung in a very fast voice* oh, crap, nope, because I didn't draft Daniel Murphy because he didn't believe in the lifestyle of a gay, Oh, why didn't I believe in Murphy like he didn't believe in a…gay…gay…gay. Suddenly! David Price’s arm is not half of what it used to be. There’s a shadow hanging over me, Oh, it’s Giancarlo’s groin that I made of plaster of Paris to admire and it just exploded in paste on me...Suddenly! Why the season had to go, I don’t know, it wouldn’t say… because it can’t talk, it’s a baseball season that ended yesterday...yesterday...yesterday! Fantasy Baseball was such an easy game to play, Now I need a mother’s basement to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday…day…day. *sniffles* Here, take a tissue. You have to excuse me, I don’t have any clean ones. What will we do for the next few months without an update on a Mets’ pitcher elbow? Will Rougned Odor reveal he was accidentally batting while crossing his eyes and that's why he barely hit .200? What will we do without a James Paxton injury update? WHAT? WILL? WE? DO? Prepare for next season, of course. But, first, let’s bask in the last day of the season. Today is the day when you realize you’ve spent 27,000 man hours this summer beating eleven other strangers to win a virtual trophy, and it feels great! Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

Prospect Rankings: Top 10 Prospects for 2018 Fantasy Baseball

October 1, 2017 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 57 Comments

by: Geoff

It's the last day of fantasy baseball. Bummer... I know, I don't want to talk about it either, but I've run out of ways to open posts at this point in the season. So, I'm going to just state the obvious, and awkwardly fumble into the purpose of this pointless, yet verbose opening. I have a surprise for you, a sneak peak if you will of my forthcoming memoir "Fights & Prospects: Life as a Crab & The Top 100 Prospect List". I've decided in an effort to market myself as a Rick Flair-esque persona, I'm going to write a tell all autobiography. Only I'm not going to talk about myself at all, but simply give you an updated Top 100 next Sunday. Today is the first ten from that list. So the Top 10 Prospects for 2018 Fantasy Baseball if you will. Titles are fun! It's drawing heavily from my Positional ranks that we just finished, and bridges the gap to the Top 100 and beyond. In closing, thanks for reading this season, and remember to check here for prospects rundowns for all 30 MLB systems throughout the off-season.