It's the end of the year and we do as we always do at this time, bring on a guest and mock the first 30 picks for 2020. This year we had a surplus of carrots so we invited Donkey Teeth to join us. Little did we know the size of the eggplant DT was packing. Seriously it was the biggest eggplant I've ever seen in my life. So after the initial shock wore off, we started to mock. And mock we did, my friends, rolling through the top 30 players with some surprises mixed in as well. Ladies and gents, thanks for a great 2019, see you in 2020 (though, likely back for a Winter Meetings pod in December)!
Monthly Archives: October 2019
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Top 20 Catchers, 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Recap
October 3, 2019 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 69 Commentsby: Grey
*insert musical note* Hello, darkness, my old friend. It's something-something, me again. So, I don't know the words. Are you here for musical theory or for a recap of the craziest season in recent memory if one can only remember a year or two? I thought so! Today's jazz handsy recap is of the catchers. Please don't ask if this is ranking for next year. It's not a ranking for next year. It's me recapping last season. Please, for the love that all is holy, understand this. It's all I ask of you. Well, that and shower me with praise. The latter isn't hard, the former is. Also, remembering which is the 'latter' and which is the 'former' is hard too. Quibbles and semantics, my good man and five lady-mans. 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! Anyway, here’s the top 20 catchers for 2019 fantasy baseball and how they compared to where I originally ranked them:
RCL Update: The Year That Was, 2019
October 2, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Our Leagues, Razzball Commenter Leagues | 46 Commentsby: MattTruss
Start the drum roll! 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. Before we turn our eyes to next season we first have to recap this past season and with that, our overall Razzball Commenter Leagues Champion...Backdoor Splitters! It was a wild back and forth between Backdoor and FFB since week 16 or so. I’m pretty pumped for the Splitters for a couple reasons. Firstly, Backdoor has been knocking on the front door of an overall title for many seasons now. In 2018, they finished 6th overall, 2017 - 18th overall, 2016 - 3rd overall, 2015 - 5th overall and 2014 - 29th overall. Not too shabby, eh? This also marks the first time an ECFBL champ has won the overall title. I’m partial to the ECFBL, having taken over as commish of the league for the late, great Paulie Allnuts back in 2014 and being a member since 2013. In that time we’ve had a couple second overall finishes and a handful of top 20s but never an overall. It’s perennially one of the toughest RCLs with a high League Competitive Index that makes it tough to really run away with the league. Backdoor Splitters, in his first season in the league did just that though, running away with things with a 112 point score. That, coupled with the 108 LCI was enough to take the overall crown by 0.8 points. The Splitters really rake it in, winning themselves a $250 Best Buy gift card! More importantly though, the Splitters get a Razzball T-Shirt and RCL glory. Who can put a price on that? Oh, it’s $25, well then, moving on. You may know the Splitters more by their commenting handle of The Big Yabu, so the next time you see a comment (likely in this post) be sure to heap on the praise and congratulations. The Splitters fended off some very tough competitors this year to claim the RCL crown. The Fat Fuckin Babies were the toughest competition, I gave it a quick run as did a handful of others. This is The Backdoor Splitters’ moment though, so hopefully they pop in, 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:
Top 75 Prospects for 2020 Fantasy Baseball
October 2, 2019 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 41 Commentsby: The Itch
At some point in the process of curating these Top Prospects lists, I went to talk to Hampson.
I was allowed to see him but learned he's fresh out of prospect eligibility and busy showrunning for a Winter pilot on CBS called “Everybody Hates Hampson.”
I suggested he tweak the name to “Everybody Loves Garrett . . . Except His Boss.”
We’re in talks about a Sam Hilliard, Jorge Mateo spin-off/mash-up.
In the meantime, keep your TV Guides at the ready and enjoy these next few tiers of talent!
Review the top 25 here and the top 50 here.
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This year the Razzballies are going without a host. I, Grey Albright, Fantasy Master Lothario (don't abbreviate it) am merely a long-form presenter. Remember, you can't spell ghosting without host. You also can't spell hostage, but no one is forcing you to stay for the award show. You're going to want to, though, because without these awards, you'll have no idea who was the best and worst hitters and pitchers this year, and you'll be left giving out your own awards and no one cares if your "Low sodium tomato soup in a sourdough bowl" won your "Whitest Lunch Of All-Tme" award. Stop making up fake awards! For all of you winners and losers, I ask that you please keep your acceptance speeches down to a minimum. As a hero once said, "I'm going to thank everyone in private." 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:
