Yankees fans put on A Tribe Called Quest and sing, “We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…We’ve got the Jazz…” Of course, the Yankees have great players; they always do. Please, blog, may I have some more?
When I started writing this column, I assumed the thing that would bother me the most was having pitchers not perform according to how I ranked them. As it turns out, yes, it is obnoxious when guys who I expected to be good go out and lay an egg. Please, blog, may I have some more?
With the MLB trade deadline looming, fantasy baseball managers know it will soon be time to look beyond blockbuster trades for hidden gems. As teams recalibrate and make their final playoff pushes or look to test young talent for the future, an influx of minor league talent often comes to the forefront. At this juncture, we start to see some surprise callups that can be real difference-makers, injecting fresh energy and unexpected production into our fantasy lineups. In this week’s Hitter Profiles, we dive into a selection of under-the-radar minor league prospects poised to receive the call and make an impact during the crucial stretch run. Whether you're contending for a title or searching for keeper league gems, these lesser known names could be key to your future success.
This is always an interesting week to evaluate streamers. We have the trade deadline on Tuesday, and that always makes these rotations unpredictable. It feels like we might have a crazy trade deadline, too, because there are dozens of teams that feel like they have a chance. Please, blog, may I have some more?
1. Guardians 2B Travis Bazzana | 21
With Bazzana, the Guardians get their most polished draft prospect in a long time, but he’s not a floor play by any means. At six foot even out of Australia, Bazzana has gotten stronger throughout his career in college ball and added significant impact to his plus-contact profile, homering 28 times in his junior season after hitting 11 as a sophomore and six as a freshman. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Those trade engines are fired up early for the July 30 deadline and might just make this entire piece worthless by the time those FAAB runs hit on Sunday night. Hell, just the flurry of moves in the last few days between Randy Arozarena going to Seattle, Austin Hays and Seranthony Dominguez swapping mid-Atlantic locales, and A.J Please, blog, may I have some more?
Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of Up-and-Coming Dynasty Players.
The player I want to focus on this week is not the prototypical player that I highlight. That is because Michael Toglia of the Colorado Rockies is basically a one-tool player.
But that tool - his power - is pretty solid. And when you are looking to add players with upside to your team at this point of the season, you are not going to find too many multi-tool players sitting on the free agent wire or even the trade block unless a team is trading a star for a big haul of prospects/young players.
That is not the case with Toglia. Right now he is owned in only 27% of Yahoo leagues and 9% of ESPN leagues. I think the time is right to jump on Toglia and enjoy the power he is going to add to your team.
Let's look into Toglia a bit more to see why I consider him an Up-and-Coming Dynasty Player.
The Baltimore Orioles made a huge stride in bolstering their starting pitching staff Friday trading for Rays starter Zach Eflin. About Eflin time! Eflin has struggled with consistency all season long with an unsightly 4.09 ERA, 1.16 WHIP and underwhelming 87/13 K/BB, but there have been flashes of the pitcher we saw in 2023 (3.50 ERA, 1.02 WHIP 186/24 K/BB) that made many of us so hype to draft him in 2024. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Hello there Razzball Fam!
It was only a year ago that Jarred Kelenic did a dance with a water cooler and lost. You might say he….lost his cool.
Just a few days after the one year anniversary of Kelenic’s Cooler Dance, Oakland’s Mason Miller became the most recent loser in a battle with an inanimate object. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Pat Murphy, the Brewers’ manager and the head of the MLB’s Irish-American Anti-Defamation League, Take A Walk After BB (Beaucoup Beverages) is on the phone with his chapter, “Hey, Seamus, I’d like to send this new Giants’ kid, Tyler Fitzgerald, a personal greeting from Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson dressed as leprechauns to welcome him to the major leagues. Please, blog, may I have some more?
Greetings friends and readers, hope you are enjoying your summer both in real life and in the fantasy baseball realm. I honestly wasn’t expecting there to be so little trade news or even rumblings with less than a week to go before the deadline, but I suppose with the new playoff rules and the relative lack of obvious sell candidates, that is to be expected. Please, blog, may I have some more?