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ATH | ATL | BAL | CHW | CIN | HOU | LAD | MIN | TB | TEX | TOR | WSH | ARI | BOS | CHC | CLE | COL | DET | KC | LAA | MIA | MIL | NYM | NYY | OAK | PHI | PIT | SD | SEA | SF | STL
[brid autoplay="true" video="1296008" player="13959" title="2023%20Razzball%20BUY%20SELL%20HOLD%20for%20Fantasy%20Baseball%20Week%206" duration="201" description="It’s the Razzball BUY, SELL, HOLD for 2023 Fantasy Baseball Week 6!00:52 Jose Abreu 1:31 Matt Chapman2:20 Nick Lodolo" uploaddate="2023-05-03" thumbnailurl="https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/1296008_th_6452e7787e0ab_1683154808.jpg" contentUrl="//cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/sd/1296008.mp4" width="480" height="270"] "My wrist, well, guys and gals, chicks and *icks, you're not gonna believe this, but, it's 100%. My wrist is healed. It's the best it's ever felt. My wrist feels like Elton John during his imperial phase. My wrist is playing Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, and people aren't hearing crap, but they're hearing a masterpiece. My wrist is Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, doing all kinds of crazy judo chops in the supermarket aisle, and people are believing it, and are riveted. My wrist is Ty Cobb without the racism. My wrist is perfect!" This was a quote from Alex Kirilloff this year, and last year, and the year before. He was called up by the Twins, and played 1st yesterday (1-for-2). Kirilloff has been struggling with wrist issues since 2021. Almost exactly two years ago, he tore ligaments in his wrist. Those are the worst kind of after-dinner mints. Why do we care? If he's healthy, he's a 40-homer hitter with a .280 average. Sadly, we don't know if we're ever getting the purported strong-wristed Elton John or a limp-wristed Kirilloff. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

Happy Sunday, Barflys! Welcome back to another edition of the Two-Start Dive Bar! This week’s tables look a lot different from last week’s tables, and there are many more very good reasons to run your double-dippers out there this week. Only two pitchers (Kyle Freeland and Jake Irvin) warranted the absolute lowest of my considerations, and The Well is chockablock with good, if not great, choices for your weekly rosters. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Welcome to the month of May.  As the quote goes “All things seem possible in May”.  From a fantasy manager perspective, that is likely great news as nothing has gone to plan for your 2023 season.  Whether that is a demotion of a budding young star like Jordan Walker.  Maybe it is an injury that kicked you before you even started, like Jose Altuve.  Or simply it could be an investment not paying off, like Jose Abreu.  Many fantasy managers are glad to be running into May.  Speaking of running, we have a new leader atop our Top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2023 fantasy baseball season.  That guy is none other than Ronald Acuna Jr. who leads the league in stolen bases and has already amassed a combined 50 Runs + RBI.  All of this with a massive leap forward in approach at the plate with his strikeout rate dropping ten points to land below 15%. At this point, we could be looking at a 25 homerun and 50 stolen base season for the Brave.  Move over Trea Turner, the top spot belongs to Ronnie.

After a rough showing in Week 4, we bounced back last week. Our most helpful section has been the SAGNOF portion of the article because we’ve stumbled into some great closers over the last two weeks. Will Smith and Carlos Estevez are scattered across all my leagues, and this article helped me to make those moves. Please, blog, may I have some more?

We all have bad days.  Weeks. Months. Years. It happens.  Nothing to do but peel yourself off the pillow next morning and try again.  Just this week, my last day of classes for the year was a total shitshow. We had to squeeze in the last few speeches from the last few stragglers and foot-draggers. Didn’t even have time to say goodbye. Just four life-draining speeches then welp, that’s our time, see you around, maybe. So it goes. I’ll try to do something to prevent that next year. Live and learn. Then get Luvs. In case you keep shitting yourself in the clutch the way today’s featured players have been so far in 2023.  Sitting next to me on the struggle bus is Giants LHP Kyle Harrison owns a 1.98 WHIP through six Triple-A starts. He’s walked 21 batters in 15.2 innings. Get this man some Dramamine. He seems dizzy from motion sickness. 

Now that the first month of the season is completed, it’s time to size up leagues and analyze which stat categories are going to be troublesome as the season rolls along. Of course, finding well-rounded players like Ronald Acuna Jr. or Gerrit Cole, the top batter and pitcher in our Player Rater currently, isn’t going to happen via the waiver process right now. Please, blog, may I have some more?

When putting together a dynasty team, you should always have a blueprint to how you want to build that team and maintain it. But that doesn't mean you sometimes make exceptions to those plans. I tend to shy away from young pitchers because they are so volatile as they get their feet wet on the major league level. But some pitchers quickly show they deserve a spot on your roster. Hunter Brown is one of those pitchers. I had Brown ranked at 198 in the preseason Top 200 Dynasty Keepers, so his performance is not a total shock. However, he is making me eat my words about avoiding young pitchers until they are proven. While he has only two full months of major league experience along with a month of postseason experience, he has more than shown that he can get major league hitters out. Very Good, Not Great Brown didn't race his way to the majors. After not being drafted out of high school, the right-hander went to Wayne State University in his hometown of Detroit. While there he showed off his great fastball but also his propensity for not being able to command the strike zone. In three seasons at Wayne State he appeared in in 41 games and made 25 starts, going 14-3 with a 3.33 ERA. He had an outstanding 10.0 K/9 rate, whiffing 178 batters in 159.2 innings of work while allowing only 139 hits. But he also walked 72 batters, or 4.1 per nine innings and had a 1.322 WHIP. Obviously, scouts weren't demanding that Brown be drafted as he lasted until the Astros selected him in the fifth round in 2019. Perhaps the fact Brown went to a small college instead of a power school played a part in him dropping to the fifth round. But it appears the Astros struck gold in Brown.
"Ding Dong ain't got shizz on me!" That's a famous quote from Denzel Washington after my autocorrect gets done with it. See, my autocorrect keeps changing Nick Senzel to Nick Denzel, and I've tired of ducking changing it. I called AppleCare and asked them how to change my autocorrect settings to "Not stupid" and they laughed, then, when they were done laughing, I asked again and they said, "Oh, you're serious?" Ding Dong ain't got shizz on me with how serious I am! No, this isn't the star of Antone Disher, and it's Antwone Fisher! This isn't Robbin Carter, and it's Ruben Carter! The Boner Collector? Why does my autocorrect even know that word?! I've never in my life typed such a thing! So, Nick Senzel aka Nick Denzel was once a top prospect. That ship sailed so long ago it's reached its destination already at: Port U-A-Bust. He's sipping Mai Tais with Garrett Hampson and Bubba Starling, but the DJ just announced there's one final dance, because he's playing Last Dance by Donna Summer, not Michael Jordan's The Last Dance, and Senzel is the only one going to the dance floor to move his hips. Hopefully, he doesn't hurt himself! He is capable of a nice combo of power and speed and never struck out much, so he could hit .280. Can he stay on the field? I have my doubts, but I could see adding him in all leagues. He is after all a two-time Oskar winner. Damn it, autocorrect! Oscar is the more common spelling! Why would you change that? Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:

I thought we’d do something a little different this week… instead of highlighting a handful of potential deep-league pickups, let’s take a slightly more global view of the current state of fantasy baseball. There have already been more injuries, gut-punch demotions, and surprise breakouts than I can count, and sometimes we need to just take a moment to re-group and figure out how to approach managing a fantasy team while incorporating all of the new information we now have, that we didn’t have when we drafted it. Please, blog, may I have some more?