Top 20 Catchers for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

January 20, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 100 Comments

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Deep Thoughts: Buccaneer Blowout Sale! Everything Musgrove!

by: Coolwhip

The Cubs are cleaning house even though they are a big market team. The Reds are seemingly red-tagging the store after going all-in for half a season. The Brewers have made zero moves to improve their lineup around Yelich. The Cardinals, too, have also done absolutely nothing. And now the Pirates have jumped on board with the neighborhood garage sale to boot, after offloading Josh Bell. In a year when the entire NL Central feels like sellers or doing nothing, of course, the Pirates go into full teardown mode again... after, well... never emerging from the last full teardown or the one before that. Does anyone want to win this thing?

Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Top 20 For 2021 Fantasy Baseball

January 19, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, All Podcasts, Razzball Podcast |

by: Geoff

January Grey is back and in full effect, he's taken the Flo-bie to the lettuce, shaved his Tom Hanks Castaway beard down to a meticulously manicured mustache and he's chockful of rankings for the good people of the Fantasy Baseball Republic. Who's number one? Tildaddy, Fun The Jewels, Mike Trout? Who is it? You already know the answer, but let Grey explain why. Rankings season is upon us and we're kicking it off right with the most anticipated Top 20 list in the industry.

Top 20 for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

January 19, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 121 Comments

by: Grey

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Welcome to the hardest post to write each year. *jamming out to The White Stripes' The Hardest Button to Button while looking at the 'Submit' button* This post can go a dozen different ways. This is merely how I landed on the top 20 for 2021 fantasy baseball, but I can't stress enough that who you drafted in the 1st round could change this. Empirically, this is who I like for the top 20 for 2021 fantasy baseball. This also can change depending on the depth of your league. There's still tiers to help you wade your way through the top 20, and, when I'm done with all the rankings, I will do a pairings post to help with who to draft in the 2nd round if you took so-and-so in the 1st round. All the positional rankings will live under the 2021 fantasy baseball rankings. The projections in this post are, as always, mine. For Steamer’s 2021 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Hitters and 2021 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Pitchers, click those thingie-whosies. Anyway, here’s the top 20 for 2021 fantasy baseball: NOTE: All 2021 fantasy baseball projections are based on a 162-game season, and will be until we hear definitively there will be less games. NOTE II: All my rankings are currently available on Patreon for the price of a Starbucks coffee, if you get one of those extra grande frappuccino jobbers. Don't wait for the rankings to come out over the next month, and get them all now.

Kluber Kai — Deal or No Deal?

January 18, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, Pitcher Profiles | 9 Comments

by: everywhereblair

The New York Yankees signed two-time Cy Young award winner Corey Kluber to a one-year contract worth $11 million dollars this weekend. Immediately the fantasy sports sphere on Twitter -- which is really more of a rounded mound of a shape -- well, analysts went Klu-razy with the news. A big-time player on a big-time team! Hooray! Stonks up and let care fly to the wind! I'm looking through rankings from various sites on Kluber, and people are absolutely Ku-losing it (let's see if I can get one more pun in before the jump!). Even Razzball's 2021 Steamer Projections have Kluber as SP22 at this point in the pre-season. With some big time sites considering Kluber in the 30s for SP -- in other words, your 3rd starter in a 12-team league -- it's absolutely worthwhile to see if the stats are Klean or Kluttered. Ha! Four of 'em!

Patreon Podcast: The John Dillermand Show

January 18, 2021 | All Podcasts |

by: B_Don

Razzball Patreon members receive our weekly podcast where Grey cackles about the funniest news stories we’ve found over the past week, plus you get that warm fuzzy feeling of supporting your favorite fantasy sports site in all the land. While Donkey Teeth is away at his retreat, B_Don fills in as the podcast host for another hour of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Not News with Billy Hurley and Grey Albright. We start with a conversation about just what exactly DT is doing while he's away and how flexible he may be when he returns. Then, the guys move on to the story that DT teased before he left where a man has been charged with operating an international table tennis crime syndicate. While fixing ping pong matches is pretty ballsy, it's got nothing on our next story about John Dillermand who is the lead character in a children's show from Denmark where a man uses his penis to perform all sorts of tasks. Next up, James Blunt gets scurvy? No, that can't be right, did he right a song about being curvy? No, James Blunt did get scurvy. The last story comes from Australia where a naked fugitive was found by 2 fisherman

Top 10 for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

January 18, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 135 Comments

by: Grey

[brid autoplay="true" video="704331" player="10951" title="RZBL 2021 DraftKit LAUNCH 010320"] "Today is a day that will live in infinity," as FDRRRRRRRRR....said. It will also live in your hearts and minds for the next few months as you constantly check the 2021 fantasy baseball rankings for updates on projections, rankings and just other little fun bits of tid. Before we get into the top 10 for 2021 fantasy baseball (though I imagine every single one of you has skipped this intro), I’m gonna lay down some exposition. Here’s where you follow us on Twitter. Here’s where you follow us on Facebook. Here’s our fantasy baseball player rater. Here’s our fantasy baseball team name generator. Here are all of our 2021 fantasy baseball rankings. Here’s the position eligibility chart for 2021 fantasy baseball. And here is a picture of my son. What a punim! You may not get all of those links in such a handy, easy-to-use format again this year, so make proper note. (Unless you just go to the top menu on this page that says “Rankings” and click it, but semantics, my over-the-internet friend, semantics.) Also, here’s Steamer’s 2021 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Hitters and 2021 Fantasy Baseball Projections for Pitchers. Rudy’s on top of it this year! Sorta, he says to note it’s Version 1.0, and tweaks will happen over the course of the next few weeks.

Top 10 Oakland Athletics Prospects for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

January 17, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 16 Comments

by: The Itch

Compiling this piece as Billy Beane’s tenure in Oakland reportedly draws to a close, I could not help but wonder what his career would have looked like had Jeff Lunhow never come to Houston. The rest of that division has not been formidable these past few cycles. Do the A’s win the division and skip the Wild Card game every year? Does that help them get over the hump? I realize this sort of speculation is all but useless to the functioning of a society, but when we were tallying up the tab on trashcan gate, I don’t think we stopped to measure the cost of that scandal on the memory of Billy Beane. We didn’t know his days in baseball were numbers in the hundreds at the time, but now that we do, I’m thinking his legacy was more impacted by the banging in Houston than just about anyone’s. Makes me think a lot of fans, myself included, would like to see this team catch all the lucky breaks some October, is all I’m saying. Perhaps these prospects can help.

Hitter Profiles: Playing Not to Lose!

January 16, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 22 Comments

by: Jeremy Brewer

Back in my playing days, coaches would always talk about playing to win. If you are trying not to lose, then you have already lost the game as fear has let itself in. They were right and maybe if I had listened, I would be dominating the little league circuit rather than writing this article. Alas, here we are and playing not to lose is finally coming in handy! There are three categories that can ensure a team does not win a championship at the draft table. These categories are not sexy enough or simply forgotten in the draft before it gets too late. For that reason, I take a specific yet simple strategy on these categories…Do Not Draft Player X! Within the first 10 rounds of a draft, I will intentionally avoid certain players to ensure the floor of my team is where it needs to be going into the later rounds of the draft where I must fill out my roster. I do not care how far a guy falls, he damages the overall picture I am trying to paint with my roster. Here is the breakdown of those categories:

The Saturday Morning Post: l.i.am A White Sock Now

January 16, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 5 Comments

by: JKJ

Howdy, folks. No real blockbuster-type stuff this week after last week's doozy of a trade, I'm afraid, but we have had a few big signings and plenty of trade/free agent rumors fluttering about in the breeze. Really, it's just a slow offseason so far, all things considered. Going by ESPN's list, six of their top 10 FAs are still on the market. Only 12 of the top 50 have been signed. Spring Training is supposed to ramp back up in less than two months from now, but a vast majority of players are still standing on the sidelines with one thumb in the air, hoping someone stops by and opens their passenger door. Anyhoodles, let's get caught up on the past week:

Anthony Rizzo, Boring (But Good!)

January 15, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 9 Comments

by: Torres

I’m a pretty boring guy. Like if we met in a bar and randomly struck up a conversation, you probably wouldn’t walk away from that interaction with an overly positive or negative impression of me. I don’t have many hobbies (outside of fantasy sports), I listen to the same two albums on repeat, I have nothing but black and dark blue shirts in my wardrobe, and 9 times out of 10 I end up having sex in the missionary position. I guess that’s why it’s fitting that my first article for Razzball is about Anthony Rizzo, a player that won’t get the ol’ juices flowing when you’re doing your 2021 draft prep.

Chris Bassitt, 2021 Fantasy Sleeper

January 15, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Sleepers | 73 Comments

by: Grey

True story: I looked at my fantasy baseball sleepers from last year and decided since I wrote a Ryan Yarbrough sleeper last year, I wouldn't write one this year, and instead focused on Chris Bassitt, who I wrote as a 'guy to target' but necessarily a full sleeper post. Coming off such a weird year, it's honestly difficult to have my opinions on starters change that dramatically. I'm trying not to cover ground I covered as recently as last year (which might explain my Nathan Eovaldi sleeper), because I was covering that ground as recently as last July/August. Ryan Yarbrough is still 100% a guy I like, and I have no idea why he's ranked so low in ADP. He doesn't have huge strikeouts, but he doesn't walk anyone, and is good for a mid-3 ERA, which is nothing to sneeze at unless you're allergic to quality starters. See that, I was able to give you a quick Ryan Yarbrough sleeper inside my Chris Bassitt sleeper. Also, one more thing that needs to mentioned prior to talking about Chris Bassitt and after this awkward intro to this sentence, I'm taking 20-30 innings off all my starter projections this year. I don't know how to handle guys only throwing 40-60 IP other than just dock them all. It's worth keeping that in mind when drafting starters this year, and looking at projections. It means there's gonna be a lot of sixth, seventh and maybe even eighth starters on teams getting upwards to 50 IP, because someone is going to need to replace the missing innings. Without reading anything about docking starters this year, it seems to me people are already doing this. Using Gerrit Cole as an example, he usually is projected for 220+ innings, and this year I see him being projected for ~200 IP. My guess is maybe one starter gets 200 IP this year. You're gonna read something similar from me in my starter rankings, so quickly forget what you just read so it seems new in a few weeks. By the way, my 2021 fantasy baseball rankings start on Monday. All of them are already available on our Patreon. So, what can we expect from Chris Bassitt and what makes him a sleeper?