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# MLB Starting Lineups For Thu 8/21
ATH | BAL | BOS | CHC | COL | HOU | KC | LAD | MIL | MIN | NYM | NYY | SD | SF | STL | TB | TEX | WSH | ARI | ATL | CHW | CIN | CLE | DET | LAA | MIA | OAK | PHI | PIT | SEA | TOR

Greetings all, and welcome to that special time of year we call draft season. No, not fantasy baseball draft season, but it’s much more popular (yet much more boring in my humble opinion) cousin, fantasy football draft season. The reason I mention it, is that it always seems like the first week of August or so, which may coincide with time spent prepping for the football season, there is a particularly big drop off in folks paying attention to their out-of-it-in-2024 baseball teams. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Those who read my first article will hopefully remember that I did a deep dive into the merits of wOBA and xwOBA while attempting to illustrate how they can be used together to help identify underperforming hitters. 

As great as it is to have two stats that can give you a quick snapshot view of every hitter’s effectiveness and expected effectiveness, after tracking both wOBA and xwOBA for long enough you’ll likely notice a couple important trends:

First, sample size matters. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Brewers rang the bell of Ding Dong City and said, “Ding Dong, we’re home. We’re now the Mayors here. Hit the bricks. Yes, we have paperwork to prove it! What do we look like? Squatters?” Then the Brewers pulled out yesterday’s box score and showed them their paperwork for the keys to Ding Dong City. Please, blog, may I have some more?

Hello my dear friends. I apologize for the absence, but I was getting my butt into a master's program (because one masters wasn't enough), and then some family stuff popped up. There will be no grand introduction today, as I'm already seven minutes past my deadline. I'm happy to be back, but burdened by teams populated with Julio Rodriguez, Carlos Correa, and Nolan Jones.

The 2024 Major League Baseball season is about 20 weeks old (only two months left in the season!), 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?

What is up party people? Few things are worse than seeing a guy in the midst of a breakout season go down with injury. Jordan Westburg was that guy and it sucks that he may miss the rest of the season. Naturally you will need a replacement. He may not be available in your league but if he is he should be your top add. Luis Garcia has come out of the break on a mission, just to be clear, I mean the Luis Garcia who plays second base for the Nationals and breakout season he is having. He's about to pass last year's point totals and we still have two more months. And over the past month he has really turned it on, batting over .350 with 6 home runs. That's a very nice month but he's actually been pretty good all year long. How has he accomplished this you might ask. Well he's making better contact and hitting the ball harder more often so his batting average is about 20 points higher than last season. He has also unlocked his speed and the 18 bags he's swiped have more than doubled his career total. And while his 19 doubles don't put him anywhere near the top of the leader board he is very close to surpassing his previous career high. Power is a similar story, although he has already set a career high in that department. Roll all that together and you end up with a pretty solid player. If he's still available, you might want to change that, he can help your ream down the stretch.

In our 54th episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer open by discussing the latest wave of prospect callups and injuries affecting our fantasy teams. Then we pick cards to enter the Player of the Month (POTM) PC pantheon from July.

You can find us on twitter (X) at @cardscategories@mcouill7, and @jbrewer17 and on bluesky at @mcouill7.bsky.social Please, blog, may I have some more?

Look at that mountain
Look at those trees
Look at that Bum over there, man, did that ex-Giants pitcher retire?
Trout’s down due to his knees
Look at these Schwarbombin’
There ain’t nothing like ’em nowhere

Kyle Schwarber‘s 4 hits (we love it)
Kyle Schwarber three dongs (we love it)
25th, 26th and 27th homers (we love it)
Seven ribbies (we love it)
.261 average and .390 OBP (we love it, we love it)
Kyle loves L.A. Please, blog, may I have some more?