We were cruising with our streamers going into last week, but that wasn’t my best showing. Trevor Rogers really crapped on our week with that Saturday stinker but the rest of the results were okay. That will happen every once in a while when evaluating streamers because they guys are naturally volatile players. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Monthly Archives: May 2024
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Having opened the season on a nine-game losing streak, the Marlins started swimming against the current early in 2024 and have apparently grown tired of the effort, swapping almost two full seasons of Luis Arraez for a package of four decent Padres’ prospects: OF Dillon Head, OF Jakob Marsee, 1B Nathan Martorella, and RHP Woo-Suk Go. The Marlins will reportedly also cover Arraez’s salary (down the minimum) for 2024. It’s the first big move by Miami’s new head of baseball operations, Peter Bendix, who comes to South Beach via Tampa and has experienced his fair share of high-wire trades. On the other side of the country, we find AJ Preller doing what he does best, flipping an assortment of imperfect prospects for someone he can play tomorrow.
Now that we have a full month of baseball action behind us, it’s time to start reviewing some of the broader trends affecting our little fantasy baseball game. We are quickly approaching the time when sample sizes start becoming “real,” but I like this first month delineation because on a larger, team-wide scale, there is a good sense of directionality. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Hello everyone. Glad to see you back for another week of Up-and-Coming Dynasty Players. This week I want to focus on Brenton Doyle of the Colorado Rockies.
I just hope that talking about Doyle won't put a jinx on him. The last weekend of March I talked about Chase Silseth and as soon as I did that, he pretty much landed on the 60-day IL. After talking about Garrett Crochet, he has had a rough two weeks, posting a 10.50 ERA and 1.58 WHIP over his last 12 innings of work.
However, players are going to have their ups and downs, especially younger players. If you are starting to waiver on players like Silseth and Crochet, or a Will Benson or Chas McCormick, don't. I still see the value in these players and others I have talked about and maintain they will be good dynasty players.
In fact, now might be a good time to try to acquire a player like Crochet as the other owner may be willing to sell low.
Enough about that. Let's get back to Doyle. He's a player I've been holding back in featuring him in order to see how he would do over the first month of the season. I took a chance on him this offseason by adding him in several leagues and I am more than happy that I did.
Let's see why I think Doyle is an up-and-coming dynasty player.
Padres Looking For ArraEZ Fix
May 4, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 42 Commentsby: Dan Pants
The San Diego Padres make a major big boy move on Friday acquiring Miami Marlins second baseman and back-to-back batting champ Luis Arraez. Luis batted .354 in 147 games in 2023 and .316 in 144 games in 2022. The .354 was the highest season average for a player since 2010 and my dude holds an extremely impressive .324 career average. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Friends, welcome back to Razzball Ambulance Chasers, your weekly fantasy baseball injury report.
Either this week’s batch of injuries were less devastating than usual or my new emotional baseline around baseball injuries is “terror”. I mean, sure, Mike Trout and Byron Buxton are injured again (expected). Please, blog, may I have some more?
Hey, look at this! I got two tickets for the Astros’ Broadway remake of Weekend at Bernie’s! How cool is this? You know I’ll be seated! Later, the lights dim and the curtains go up. On stage, there’s a home plate with an impatient ump and catcher. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Rolling In The Deep: Tyler, The FAAB Bid Creator
May 3, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball | 8 Commentsby: Laura Holt
It’s finally a new month! That shouldn’t really mean anything in terms of baseball statistics and how they impact my fantasy teams, but if any of the slow-starting hitters that I’m rostering think that changing the calendar page will help them get going, maybe it actually will help them get going, which would be fine by me. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Expect The Expected Using xStats; Quick, Find Nimmo!
May 3, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball | 7 Commentsby: Hoove
Now that it’s May, we can stop saying “It’s only April” when we look at our teams and get frustrated that our guys aren’t producing as expected. This is a great time to make some moves, however, as the stats are starting to get “sticky” in that there are enough accrued to make some judgments on guys. Please, blog, may I have some more?
DFS: Freddie Dreamin’ About Some Revenge
May 3, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, DraftKings, Fantasy Baseball DFS |by: Professor P Rich
Sometimes, less is more. My recent articles have been lengthy and if you can check out some of the teaching points in those, you will likely benefit and understand today’s thoughts a bit better.
The Cardinals get to face B(r)ad Keller whose one positive data point is his high ground ball rate. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Mets are promoting Christian Scott to the majors this weekend–[presses finger to ear] “Yes, I can hear you? What happened? As soon as they gave him the news he was promoted to the Mets Christian Scott became…bad? How does that happen? Please, blog, may I have some more?
One Man’s Trash: Hello, It’s Me…Jo Adell
May 2, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, One Man's Trash | 18 Commentsby: Son
Click HERE. Now sing this:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hello, it’s me. I was wondering if after all these years you’d draft me. To put the past aside. They say that time’s supposed to heal ya, but I ain’t done much hitting. Hello, are you still there?
