Singing Dan Hill’s Sometimes When We Touch, “You ask me if I love you, and I choke on my reply, and I rather hurt you honestly, then mislead you with a lie, and who am I to think you can hit like Aaron Judge!” Please, blog, may I have some more?
Ah, remember back to February, when all of our fantasy baseball hopes and dreams were alive and well, as we looked forward to what we imagined would be a beautiful season free of major injuries and disappointing performances from our top players? Please, blog, may I have some more?
Life’s full of the unexpected; that weather event like a tornado or hurricane that upends your life, that car accident, the medical diagnosis. On the flip (or less grim) side, the unexpected good deed from a stranger paying it forward, that gesture from a friend or loved one that changes the direction of your day, or that acquaintance of mine that just won $1 million from a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Friday’s slate is a doozy with 13 games that are hard to sift through and see much of anything standing out. There are no clear starting pitcher plays (are there ever?) and there are very few offensive spots where you could justify a 5 man stack. Please, blog, may I have some more?
To succeed in chaos, one must embrace chaos. The chaos of the universe, the chaos of the atom. It’s all chaotic. None of it as chaotic as the Mets, however. In the Metiverse, they take their worst hitter and make him their leadoff hitter. Please, blog, may I have some more?
I’ve always been fascinated by garage sales, Storage Wars, and Antique Roadshow. All have stories of people discovering treasure in what many assume to be trash. Some may be in plain sight while others were buried under something. A little cleaning and digging sometimes makes it all worth it, although the probabilities are low that winning lotto tickets are discovered. Please, blog, may I have some more?
What is up party people? I’ll be honest, I’m getting really tired of all these outfield injuries. At the risk of jinxing things, I hate that it feels like every week I have to find a replacement for an outfielder. There is no replacing Ronald Acuna Jr and that’s a fact you didn’t need me to tell you. Please, blog, may I have some more?
The 2024 Major League Baseball season is about 10 weeks old (a third of the way done!), which means we finally have meaningful numbers that count to start evaluating our fantasy squads. With only 27 weeks in the fantasy baseball season, even a few weeks of information should help guide us to decisions about who deserves a valuable roster spot on our teams and who deserves the bench or deserves to be cut. Please, blog, may I have some more?
In our 46th episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer open with banter on the latest moves and news including injuries to Ronald Acuna Jr. and Xander Bogaerts along with the Angel Hernandez’s retirement and the inclusion of Negro Leagues stats in the MLB record book. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Pirates’ doubleheader didn’t start well with Jared Jones going 4 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 3.69. Hey, Regression Fairies, I hate you. The first game was all Tarik Skubal (7 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 2.01). Please, blog, may I have some more?
Been a downbeat week around the fantasy game. Nobody likes to see a star like Ronald Acuña Jr. lose another season to injury. Baseball is just a tick less interesting today. For our game, there’s not much one can do to replace an Acuña. In a 15-teamer where I’ve gotten off to a fast start and am in first place, I traded Kodai Senga, Landon Knack and Abimelec Ortiz for Brandon Nimmo. He’s not going to approximate Acuña, but he should fill an outfield spot and help me hold down the Runs category. He’s batting third this season and is on pace for his best RBI season by a long ways, even as his batting average has tumbled. He’s painting the statcast bars red, and his career outcomes suggest he’s got upside in the batting average category. Now I just need to replace a few dozen stolen bases. No big deal, right?