Andrew Painter ( 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 8 Ks) aka the prospect pitcher who I was interested in so long ago that I honestly just stopped caring about him aka Andy Dutchboy aka will Zack Wheeler knock him out of the rotation when he returns aka A. Painter of corners aka he looked better than his line, but it was against a weaker team aka these aren’t even aka’s aka other Phils pitchers looked worse vs. the Gnats so maybe Taijuan Walker is replaced when Wheeler returns and not Painter aka Andrew Benjamin Moore aka Painter was a top 50 prospect for Itch where he said, “At 6’7” 215 pounds with upper nineties heat and superb balance throughout his delivery, Painter is the platonic ideal of a power pitcher, featuring plus command of a plus slider and changeup along with the big fastball and developing curve. Or at least that’s how you’d have described him before Tommy John surgery sent him to the Medbed for a year. He’s still that guy, I think. Might just need the off-season to focus on thriving rather than rehabbing. He’s certainly better than the 5.40 ERA he logged in 106.2 Triple-A innings this year aka I’d like to crack a coconut over Grey’s head,” aka what? Pitchers reveal themselves in-season and Painter is one I like more now than ten days ago aka the shine wore off in the preseason simply because I grew bored of waiting for him to get to the majors, but he’s here now aka Goodbye Schmohawk who is at the back of my pitching staff, hello Andrew Painter! Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Kyle Schwarber – 1-for-3 and his 2nd homer. His home runs go about 600 feet and look effortless. Just gorging on the gorge.
Adolis Garcia – 2-for-3 and his 1st homer. He was my prediction for Comeback Player of the Year. Cust kayin’.
Pete Alonso – 2-for-4 and his 1st homer. Albombso!
Zach Eflin – Left the game with elbow discomfort, walking off with a trainer. Not “trainer” as in British slang, meaning he was rocking K-Swiss.
Jacob deGrom – 4 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 6 hits, zero walks, 7 Ks. Drafted him more than any other player, so I am bias, but put deGrom in the Hall of Fame. Sure, there were some blemishes — the 1st blemish was a home run to Alonso for a “Future of the Mets” on “Future of the Mets” crime — but if anything, deGrom was just too in the zone. His stuff is still so good. Please stay healthy, that’s all I ask.
Corey Seager – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Oh, wow, he’s about to hit nine homers in two weeks, then hurt his quad.
Jonathan Aranda – 1-for-4 and his 2nd homer. Nice start for Johnny Aranda, the Rays’ 1B and Copacabana’s newest act.
Shane McClanahan – 4 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks. He was perfect for three innings, then I went to get pho and why pho gotta be delicious and jinxy!
Brandon Woodruff – 5 IP, 2 ER, 4 hits, zero walks, 6 Ks. Aw, is his stuff not good enough for you? Ooh, poor baby!
Gary Sanchez – 1-for-1, 2 runs and his 2nd homer. Fine, hot schmotato alert!
Jake Bauers – 2-for-4, 2 runs and a slam (2) and legs (2). Okay, yes, hot schmotato alert!
Yordan Alvarez – 2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, and should have five. Captain Woo Cubano gonna be on so many of my teams next year when he’s garbage again. That’s how this works, doesn’t it?
Hunter Brown – 6 IP, 1 ER, 3 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 0.84. Someone complained after his 1st start that he’s not economical enough. Ya know, the guy with a sub-1 ERA. Oh…[stacks phone books to the moon]…kay.
Cam Smith – 2-for-3 and his 1st homer. I should’ve just ran back all my teams from last year.
Brayan Bello – 4 2/3 IP, 5 ER. I don’t think this is how math works, but Bello collecting regression from previous years.
Roman Anthony – 0-for-4, 4 Ks, hitting .190. Hunh, weird, okay.
Ceddanne Rafaela – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer. 0-for-4 with 4 Ks from Roman Anthony? Really? Hunh, just find it weird, okay.
Kodai Senga – 6 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners (3 BBs), 9 Ks. We’ve had so few pitchers collect nine Ks this year, especially ones not facing the K’s, that I don’t want to poo-poo Senga, but this was vs. the Cards. Streamonator says he gets the Giants next, and I would start him, but that’s also another cushy matchup.
Riley O’Brien – 1 IP, and his 1st save. So, that’s likely who the Cards’ closer is, and, like the Pope watching the White Sox, it’s hard to have faith in that.
Cody Ponce – Hit the IL with a ACL sprain and awaits medical opinions before deciding next steps. Literally.
Max Scherzer – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks.
No perfect view out of a hotel window exists—
— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) March 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Hunter Goodman – 1-for-4 and his 1st homer. Can’t find a better man, Vedder? Can I interest you in a Goodman?
Brandon Williamson – 4 2/3 IP, 6 ER. One love but he looked hideous. 91 MPH batting practice fastballs, getting beat by lefties like Oneil Cruz and Ryan O’Hearn (1-for-3, 3 RBIs, 2nd homer). Just awful.
Sal Stewart – 1-for-4 and his 2nd homer. Also, in this game, Elly De La Cruz (1-for-5) hit his 2nd homer. There was so much sexy in this game and I’m mostly talking about Noelvi Marte (0-for-2, 1 run) who started and got two walks! Woohoo!
Bryan Reynolds – 1-for-4 and his 1st homer. Another guy that beat Williamson. Just pathetic. I hate Williamson now, don’t talk me down. Williamson even made Ozuna look less cooked, though still pretty cooked.
Oneil Cruz – 3-for-4, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and his 1st and 2nd homer. Honestly, I don’t know how much longer he can play the field.
Oneil Cruz in center
— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) March 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Bubba Chandler – 4 1/3 IP, 0 ER, zero hits, 6 walks, 6 Ks. It’s pretty cool how has the same name as Mimi Rogers’s character on Bosch, but his command makes things Harry. Reds were impatient at times and bunted themselves out of one serious threat. Solid line at end of day for Bubba, due to the zero hits, but I didn’t love what I saw, if being honest. Against another team, he’s going to put guys on and hitters are gonna knock them home.
Jose Soriano – 6 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.00. I do not trust Soriano at all, but he has a 0.000000000000 infinity (!!!) ERA!!! You can’t fight that power, Flav. I would simple pick him up and see how long it lasts. It lasts long, then you’re in. If it lasts not-long, then you get out.
Jameson Taillon – 4 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners (4 BBs), 3 Ks, ERA at 0.00000000000. Sure, him too! But obviously I trust a guy throwing 4 BBs in 4 2/3 IP a lot less. Those BBs will shoot your eye out.
Jose Fernandez – 3-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 1st and 2nd homer, after being called up and played 3rd. Man, a Jose Fernandez playing baseball still bums me out. Somewhere, Dee Gordon just walked onto a Little League field, excused one kid from hitting, grabbed his bat and hit a home run off a 12-year-old. Could Jose Fernandez Wally Pipp Arenado? I doubt it, but he could take over for Ildemaro Vargas or Carlos Santana if he hits. He went 17/12/.272 with 20.4 K% in Double-A as a 21-year-old last year and doesn’t seem at all capable of MLB hitting, but maybe pitchers won’t know him and he catches on for a while. Two homers in a debut makes me want to try him everywhere, if being honest. He’s at least worth a deeper mixed league grab.
Brandon Pfaadt – 6 IP, 5 ER. Should’ve been sent down roughly 36 months ago.
Casey Mize – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 9 Ks. That Mize makes Tyra Banks smize.
Chase DeLauter – Left the game after fouling a ball off his foot. El oh el. Already?
Max Muncy – 2-for-3 and his 1st homer. Boo, wrong Max Muncy!
Shohei Ohtani – 6 IP, 0 ER, 1 hit, 3 BBs, 6 Ks, 1-for-3. Some ‘perts in the preseason were treating Ohtani as a barely top 50 starter. I’m sorry, no one in the majors is guaranteed to throw 150 IP, so Ohtani’s 120 plays.
German Marquez – 3 IP, 4 ER. If you bought into his spring, that is one massive banana-in-the-ol-tailpipe ya got there.
Willy Adames – 4-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 1st homer, as he hits leadoff, which has worked but still is incredibly stupid. Sorry, not trying to inundate you with memes and pics, but look at this quote from Tonnato Vitello:
Matt Chapman – 2-for-5, 2 runs and his 1st homer. Looks like someone plays well to hearing Graduation.
Logan Webb – 6 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 7.36. In drafts, I thought to myself, “It doesn’t matter if you draft Gilbert or Webb, just grab a Logan.” So far it hasn’t mattered, sadly.
Jose Suarez – 3 2/3 IP, 4 ER. He was “Didier will be back in two weeks” good.
Drake Baldwin – 1-for-4 and his 3rd homer. Welp, I might issue a mea culpa. He’s looking better than I expected. It’s early though, just to put a little caveat on me almost admitting a mistake.
Shea Langeliers – 1-for-4 and his 4th homer. For youse who don’t listen to the podcast, I said one bold prediction before the season starts that Langeliers would be more valuable than Cal Raleigh. Doesn’t even feel bold now, except, ya know, when I said it there was a 70 pick draft spread between them.
Mark Leiter Jr. – 1 IP, 0 ER and his 1st save, and K’s first save. I don’t know if it means anything, but, when in doubt, go with the guy who got the first save.
Aaron Civale – 5 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 3 Ks. Feels like a good guy to look at the Streamonator for and the Streamonator will never like him, so tah-dah!
Janson Junk – 4 1/3IP, 2 ER vs. Erick Fedde – 5 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 4 Ks. This matchup was billed as, “Mom’s out of town,” because Dad Fedde/Junk.
Max Fried – 7 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 0.0000000. Happy to be one of Max Fried’s biggest fans. Also, Yankees tied the 1943 Cardinals for the fewest runs allowed (3) through their first five games. That Cards team was led by “all hitters were fighting Nazis overseas.” A great group of pitchers they had!
Logan Gilbert – 5 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 6.75. I got Gilbert and be Sufferin’.
Colt Emerson – Signed an 8-year, $95 million deal with the Mariners. Usually I don’t mention this kind of stuff, because it doesn’t impact our game, but this might impact our game because who the hell is signing this kind of deal to sit in the minors? Immediately went to look to see if he was rostered in my AL-Only (he was), and I could see stashing him now in deeper mixed leagues. He’s not going to be sitting in the minors, counting greenbacks, for long. Also, how hilariously sad is it gonna be hanging out with him for the final few weeks he’s in the minors? “Hey, Colt, me and some of our teammates are going to Bojangles to get a $11 bucket of chicken that feeds four, if you wanna tag along and put caviar on it, the guys said that’s cool.” Ya know how teams do those social media posts of the players being told they’re being called up? Colt’s video is gonna be the manager going out to tell Colt while he sits in a Bugatti.
If given the choice to ride with Casey Mize , Reynaldo Lopez, Zach Gallen, or Mike Soroka … who we rolling with my dudes , or 3 girls of razzball ? Tia
Lopez
Hey Grey, 12- team points league with scoring for basically all types of hits and ways of getting on base 😅
Ivan Herrera became available – would you drop Agustin Ramirez for him?
Thanks!
In my NL only, I like Troy Johnston but trust he will keep any part of a job in Colorado with Condon on the way. How many plate appearances are you guessing he gets. Am I just better off sticking with a yawnstipator like Dominic Smith?
I meant don’t trust
Evening & Happy National Sourdough Bread Day!
looking to ferment a semi-decent closer from the WW. Who from the following you like best for Saves: Erceg or Romano?
thanks in advance
Estevez is on IL
Ecerg is baking that bread son
Can we revisit ST for a moment?
McLean is Babe Ruth!
Rasmussen, Cameron, Jojo, Weathers, and King are all terrible pitchers!
Yeah – McLean is batting .235 with 0
HRs, and all of those pitchers look fine.
This seems to happen every year. And ever year it proves true: (most) spring stats are totally meaningless & we should never let them influence our drafting.
*except pitch speed – that ish is legit
Yeah same story every year
OMG SO AND SO GAVE UP 10 ER IN A BAND BOX IN A MEANINGLESS ST GAME!
Drop him 100 spots in your rankings!
— Said no Razzball ever.
Rice, Rice baby!
Too bold too bold
Naylor is reading this post thinking, “mmmmm, rice.”
Canzone on my bench going ham, while Naylor is in my lineup being fat & hitless.
Sonofabench!
Haha
Naylor read my post and thought, “mmmmmmm, ham.”
Canzone and ham actually sounds pretty tasty.
Yum
Hahaha I was thinking the same but already made 2 food name jokes.
Thank god Fried wasn’t on the mound today.
Haha
Please pick one ?
Cam Smith,Jordan Walker, Raley,Beavers
Walker
News: Griffin and pirates negotiating long term extension. Pirates opening day is Friday. You thinking what I’m thinking?
Would you stash him in a 10 team OPS league?
If you’ve got any kind of viable spot to stash him, of course you stash him. Even if he ain’t up Friday, all accounts are it’s not going to be that long.
Thanks if he’s not up Friday when do you think?
May 15
Sure
Notable scheduling quirk for Bing Bong fanatics. Except for the week we are currently in, for *every other fantasy week* this season, the A’s are either at home or on the road for *the entire week*.
Nice!
Best news today. I have Abreu (Houston) in every league.
Abreu came in 9th with a 3-run lead (Save opportunity). Gave up an Anthony HR but struck out the side. Meanwhile King pitched the 7th (with a 4-run league).
From earlier in week, you said that if Abreu gets the opportunity (and not King), manager probably believes he’s fixed.
As a fellow Abreu owner, I was very relieved to see those three Ks after the HR.
Despite the HR, this was a very encouraging outing. He reached 97.3 mph and his command was excellent – essentially every pitch was either on the black or just off it. Struck out the side on 13 pitches after the HR. The HR pitch was his worst pitch but it was not a bad pitch… on the outside part of the plate, just a bit too belt high for a guy like Anthony, and Anthony, defending the plate, was able to hit it hard the opposite way.
Yeah, only one homer allowed
Hey Grey- I don’t know what kind of pull you have in the industry, but if you get a chance, please mention to Edgar Martinez, maybe he could have a nice sit down with JuRod, tell him that chicks dig it when you hit well in the spring. And when you don’t.. you’re a complete dork.
Haha
Discovered a new source of me yelling at my computer today: failure to tap a helmet.
HAHA
Et tu, Kirby? Jesus.
Ha
Well Grey, my homerless streak in 2026 continues for my Yahoo H2H Team. 8 Game Days and no HRs. It is simply mind numbing staring at that 0 in last week’s box score and now this week.
So I benched Shane Smith (yay), and I am going to drop him, and I am looking for some hitting (a HR perhaps?). Any of the following interest you:
Correa (leaning him as I can use a 3B), L. Hicks, Wiemer, Bauers, Jesus the Sanchez, Cam Smith…yup, I’m screwed!
By the way, this is a 12 Team H2H with OPS.
Thanks as always Grey.
That sounds like a terrible team, maybe you should list it.
HA! I ain’t falling for that one CO. Didn’t I list enough of my team for you.
Cam
Weekly 5×5 roto with 7 keepers per year (at same salary first time).
Drop Logan O’Hoppe for Liam Hicks?
If I drop Marcell Ozuna ($3), will that come back to bite me? Dude had 40 and 39 HRs with good BAs in 2023-24, and I thought he might have a Eugenio-like resurgence year, but so far yeeechhh.
Yes
Lose Ozuna
Who you drop Basallo, Jensen or Schanuel for Liam Hicks? H2H pts.
Thank you kind sir
No one
Grey, are your teams doing anything? I’m doing nothing. I have like two home runs in three leagues in two weeks. My opponents per usual or doing just fine. This is insane. It’s like the same thing that happened last season but worse. I’m getting like three hits a day.
You have a bad team.
Captain obvious !! Lol. Nah man, my teams are good.
I’ve gone from last to first and had teams come from over 10 down today. It’s just early.
It’s less than a week
I know I know but 3 leagues where I have like 2 homers total and I have 3 runs and 5 RBI this week in a league where I own J Rod and Gunnar. This is my sanctuary to vent Grey!! Lol.
Haha, I know, I have teams struggling too
I was offered my Judge and Pasquantino for his Acuña, Harper, and Bradish. I got to do that right? Would you change judge with Tatis?
Judge side
Ok ty !!
No problem
I’d do it. Acuna!
Would you drop Eovaldi for Soroka
No
Eovaldi will be the first buy low pitcher.
Yeah exactly
So this is what it’s like owning J-Rod.
Ha
It’s one of my (and I suspect many others) great FBB self delusions – that somehow a player will be different for no other reason than because *I* own him!
Haha
P/T player. Pre ASB/ Post ASB. I sat him Week 1 for Pages. And will continue to do so. I might be crazy but I’m not stupid
Probably should have drafted someone else then. Next thing you know you’re out of it, then it’s too late. Watch, it makes you do stupid moves and they add up. Then you’re not guaranteed he will ever be good. I’m never messing with him.
Thoughts on Jose Fernandez…path to playing time…does he stick in the lineup.
If he’s hitting…he’s playing 1B today
He’s a nefarious component of the Diamondbacks’s Anti-Jordan Lawlar Agenda
Not even a top 30 prospect on his own team. He got lucky.
Kind of embarrassing to watch and you have to feel for the guy, but the 4+ ERA from last year looks for real. The end of the line for Jax?
Yeah
Grey, thoughts on Jazz for Okamoto and C. Sale?
It’s fair
I’d honestly rather have Schlittler from the guy but Schlittler/Okamoto for Jazz doesn’t seem as fair.
You’re being too cute.
Lol fair
Corbin Carroll: locked in
40-40 year on tap?
I’d bet on 40 HRs before 40 SBs
Well yeah, how’s he supposed to steal 40 bases if he keeps hitting it over the wall.
If only he’d hit a few singles. Stupid Carroll.’
Ha
12 teamer and need some pop. Beavers or Mayo?
Beavers
Need SB’s in a 12 teamer. Rank’em…Nasim, McCarthy, D. Hamilton?
Mccarthy, Ham
Y. Diaz or L. Hicks?
Diaz
Boy am I glad I don’t have Ober destroying my ERA and WHIP on Day 1 like he did the last two years. Instead, I have Eovaldi picking up the slack with 11 earned runs and a 2.00 WHIP over his first 8.2 innings.
Haha
.481 babip, 23% hr/fb, 54% strand rate
12.5 k/9, 3.69 xFIP
That sounds bad. Is that bad?
Nice
Yeah, I hope we haven’t gone back to the Eovaldi well one time too many.
Beavers SONAVABENCH!!
Sonavabeavers!
Sonavabeaverdamn!
haha
Was dejected about my horrible hitting last night, so I picked up Hicks. Me today: “Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we’re gonna f**k you up.”
Haha, the Dude abides!
HA
@Grey: 12 team weekly roto. which guy to drop ponce for? also, would you drop cantillo for any of the other guys listed? soroka, mccullers, warren, j soriano, wacha, holmes, m meyer.
thanks!
Soroka, Soriano
ESPN Points, ROS only
Trade proposal, which side?
Didier Fuentes
for
Mike Soroka
Soroka
@Grey: weekly roto. for next week, is 2 start ohtani (@ tor, vs tex) worth more than DH ohtani?
No
Imai or Leiter ?
Leiter
GREY! 12 TM AL only Dynasty league that still hasn’t drafted yet (draft is this Friday). We keep up to 15 players @ $260 cap (draft 23 total). There’s not bench, but we can statsh on IL and replace. Here’s my current keepers for pitching:
Bradish $26
Cameron $11
Bryce Miller $18 (last year of contract)
Grayson Rodriguez $15 (2 years left of contract)
Cade Smith $7
Jose Soriano $3
Payton Tolle $5
Since Bryce Miller and Grayson Rodriguez hit the IL, I can drop them before the draft and have the opportunity to bid on them again during the draft. This would free up cap space for me and potentially give me the opportunity to bid on other pitchers or even get these same players back for cheaper (with a new 6yr contract). Your thoughts on dropping Bryce and Grayson and taking that chance?
SP is usually pretty inflated in this league, I’d assume the top guys will go for $35+ and then trickle down through there. The available SP’s to be bid on are:
Fried
Joe Ryan
Cease
Framber
Eovaldi
Imai
Luis Castillo
Pepiot
Mackenzie Gore
Sonny Gray
Ranger Suarez
Rodon
Flaherty
Weathers
Burrows
Lugo
Severino
Verlander
SWR
Berrios
Boyle
Eflin
Oviedo
Kumar
etc…
What say you?
I’d drop them in a second at those prices
Shane Smith is getting lit up again…would you hold or drop for: McCullers, Roup, Lauer or Cameron?
Thanks!
Drop, McCullers
Drop Alvarez for Liam Hicks?
No
Francisco Alvarez. Ha!
In a 12 team mixed 5×5 categories league. I could use some power, someone dropped Oneil Cruz, another HR today BTW. How much FAAB would you put on him?
20%
Drop marte for lawlar or house? 10 team 5×5. Have marte in both leagues. Ones a redraft. One dynasty.
Lawlar
Whoah… Fifth homer for Shea. Imagine when Langeliers begins playing in Bing Bong Stadium.
He hasn’t even Bing Bong’d yet!
In my draft I was choosing between Langoliers & Naylor. “I never take catchers this early!”
— me, FBB genius
Hi Grey,
Would you start Bailey Ober at home vs TB?
I’m in a h2h points league that scores Hr hld era whip k/9 qs nsv
No
Abbott: 4 pitches to get 2 outs.
Single, walk, 3-run HR, single, single. Finally a merciful K.
28 pitch inning.
This is the ace of my pitching staff, folks.
Yeah, settled down thankfully
You jinxed him. 2 outs in the 5th, single then a 4-pitch walk. Sigh
Received two trade offers:
1. His Sheehan and Springer for my Merrill and Lauer
2. His Olson and EdCab for my Harper and J Crawford (like his average in ten cat hitting league but bats ninth so unsure…have Bauers for LF but platoons)
Thoughts on each please
1. No 2. Sure
12 team H2H 6X5 OPS 4 OF
Who do you like as my fourth OF. Have Acuna, Greene, Wood.
Grisham, Walker, A. Garcia,J. Crawford, N. Marte, Carpenter, Frelick.
Thanks as always and have a great and wonderful day!!!
BB
Adolis
Hola Grey! Luis Garcia is sitting for the third time today (sitting against lefties). Would you drop him for Cole Young?
Sure
Hi Grey. Great writeup as usual.
Painter or Hancock?
Erceg or Seranthony?
Thanks!
Painter…Erceg
Is there something more than Schmotato for Bauers? 7HR and 8SB with .353 OBP last year in 183 ABs is not bad.
Sure, but he platoons
Hey Grey 12 team OBP league my 3B is mess right now I have N Marte and Lawlar. On the wire there’s House, Gorman, Mayer or Mayo. Do I hold or pick up one of wires?
These may or may not be the answer…it’s very early to say…Wanna try House over Marte? Go for it, might be overreacting
Probably overreacting to Marte being sat so much and D-Backs never want to let Lawlar get a chance. Talked me off the ledge thanks
No problem — tho, not sure remaining calm is the best move either, just don’t know if it’s clear yet what the right move is
Well I can wait until the end of the weekend. That league each team only gets 15 moves for the season so not worried that the wires will be gone.
gotcha
Would you rather have Adolis or Walker over Caglianone?
Adolis
Hey Grey, do you prefer Sewald or Ryan Walker in a SV+HOLD? Thanks!
Sewald
Trying to move some RPs for starters. What tier/name of SP should I be looking for if giving up C. Smith and/or Palencia? Thanks Grey!
#2
Andy Dutchboy HA! Hey can I get a redo and grab Cubano? Shoulda stuck with Yordy
Same!
Grey,
Someone dropped E Pagan in my league how much should I bit to get him? Have $100 budget to start the year and I’m down to $93 left.
Thanks!
$7
Soto, O’Brien,or Romano; best pickup for sold league. Thanks Grey
O’Brien
any concern on the slow starts with Kurtz, Pasketti or J Wood?
Yeah
shit, also have N. Marte and Keaschall. not looking great,
Still early!
It’s ok to start Reynold tomorrow versus Arizona right? I know the robot doesn’t really like it but you seem to like him as a pitcher
Seems fine
Brenton Doyle, Cam Smith, Jordan Walker, and Nolan Schanuel. Pick 2 best upside bench guys
Walker, Smith
Hey Grey,
In my league, we are allowed 3 IL slots…I currently have Chourio, M. Kelly, and C. Burnes. With Ponce hitting the IL and expected to miss significant time (potentially being out longer than Burnes), would you drop Ponce at this point or keep him rostered and wait till Kelly comes off the IL? If Ponce is a drop, who would be your pick to replace him: Lauer, McCullers, Roup, Soroka, Cameron, Sasaki, Harrison?
Also, would you drop either R. Garcia or S. Dominquez to pick up O’Brien as the closer in St.L?
Thanks!
Drop Ponce
Seranthony
Thanks, Grey…if I am dropping Ponce, who would you pick up in his place: Lauer, McCullers, Roup, Soroka, Cameron, Sasaki or Harrison?
Also, do you like any of the above more than S. Smith or Cantillo?
Thanks!
Soroka
Maybe over Cantillo if shallow league and want to try upside (McCullers)
Hey Grey: Feel I need an Ace. 12 team, Roto League, with OBP and QS. Who among my top group of hitters would be a fair return if I wanted to trade for DeGrom…Alonso, Eugenio Suarez, Acuna Jr, Corbin Carroll, James Wood.
Also have William Contreras, B. Lowe, Matt Chapman, Jordan Beck, Jake Burger, Cam Smith, Jackson Holliday. My Pitchers are: Gausman, Horton, Eury Perez, Nick Pivetta, Reynaldo Lopez, Zac Gallen, Ryne Nelson, and Gavin Williams with Corbin Burnes on IL.
Eugenio
Prolly more like Wood tho
Thanks. If I decided to stand pat, do you think my pitching is good enough?
For now, yeah
Please rank…..Painter, Senga, Harrison.
Thank you!
Senga, Painter
Sewald or Ryan Walker? SV+HOLD
I have 3rd waiver in 14 team head to head OBP league. Worth putting in for Doyle who was recently dropped for Beck or Lawler who are on my bench. My 3 OF are Tucker, Harris, C. Simpson, and bench OF is Beck. I have Montgomery and soon Mcgonigle for 3b, with Lawler as bench 3b option. Or just hold and save the good waiver position for later?
Wait, you dropped Doyle and now you want to waiver claim him?
1. Top two streamers for this week from:
Soroka v Braves (Elder)
Leiter v Reds (Burns)
Lugo v Brewers (Sproat)
McCuellers at A’s (Lopez)
Reynaldo at DBacks (Nelson)
Wins, Losses, QS league
2. From the list above, any one or two not just streamers (12 teams)
3. Is there an ad free option this year? I think I have been paying $10 each year so need to find that.
Many thanks!
Leiter, Lugo 2. maybe 3. yep, scroll down https://razzball.com/membership-account/subscriptions/?pa=mainmenu
On a related note, are y’all having server issues again this week? I keep having to sign back in, and if I leave a Razz tab open it’ll eventually switch to ads and crush my battery. I cleared my cache yesterday but it didn’t help.
I haven’t noticed anything, but will ask Rudy
Good Morning, Grey!
Purely needs based for Power and OBP bump with a chance of some extra saves. Would you consider the following? Trade analyzer slightly favors Chourio ($2/game) and favors Schwarber ($7.60) overall.
Chourio ($27), Baty, and Leahy for Schwarber ($43), Frelick, and Robert Suarez
10-Tm , NL-Only H2H 5×5 (OBP) w/ OBP
$280 Auction (5 Keepers)
CA Hererra – 7
1B Devers – 34
2B Baty – 4
3B Wetherholt – 23
SS Swanson – 12(K)
INF Stewart – 18
OF Carroll (39-K), Yaz (3), Caissie (1), Benson
Util AgRam
B Griffin (22) , Nuñez (1) , Aidan Miller (2)
IL Chourio (27-K)
SP Peralta (21-K), Cabrera (10), Holmes (10), Nelson (4), Patrick (7), Williamson (1), Roupp (1), Leahy
RP – Diaz (22-K), Ginkel (2), Ashby(1)
IL – Jones
Thank you!
Schwarber
10 team 5×5
Mize over Hancock/McCullers?
Yes
Sorry, should have asked the question better, who should I drop for Mize? Hancock, McCullers, Messick
Hancock
How much are you buying in on the narrative that Volpe’s shoulder drove a lot of his struggles? Not getting my hopes up, but feels like an intriguing IL stash for MI who could produce at a 20/20 .240 pace (prorated) rest of year…
I’m willing to buy it to a certain extent, but he still needs to make contact, and actually play every day
yea – i think we’ll know pretty quickly if the shoulder thing was holding him back or just an excuse
Yup
Hey Grey! Please rank these SPs: P. Messick, C. Horton, C. Early, K. Harrison, M. Soroka, R. Lopez. Does any one or two standout significantly above the rest? Thanks!
Early, Lopez
I want to take some bets on who will breakout and be worth a roster spot. How would you please rank these arms: Sproat, Warren, Abel, Hancock, Soroka, and Lauer?
Soroka, Warren
Which (2) SP to add? h2h cat 12 team
Lauer
David Peterson
Clay Holmes
Randy Vasquez
Mccullers
Chad Patrick
Taj Bradley
Peterson, Holmes
At what points does the Lawrence Butler platoon become problemactic? 12 team league, still some higher upside bats on the wire. Aggressive drop or patience?
The point when you can’t juggle him in and out of your lineup
Can you list your top 3 ranked in order out of these players?:
Jordan Walker
Noelvi Marte
Rumfield
TJ Friedl
Matt Wallner
Canzone
Jorge Polanco
Liam Hicks
Dubon
Cam Smith
Jesus Sanchez
Sorry for the long list, just trying to get the most out of the bottom of my roster, thanks!
Walker, Smith, Marte
Mr Grey – i need to pick up a pitcher – your thoughts between
L McCullers, E Lauer and A Painter
McCullers
Hey Grey, couple trades I was wondering if you could help me with,
Was offered:
Chourio straight up for my Langford
and
Jarren Duran for my Tesocar/Sewald
Thoughts ?
I’d take Chourio and Duran
Thanks !
No problem
I wrote Brown wasn’t economical enough, and he obviously read it and….you’re welcome! Just for record keeping purposes, my thoughts on Brown are about how he gets to the next level. The CY Young winning Hunter Brown. Games like last night mixed in help him get there. I was surprised they didn’t send him back out there, but the score allowed them to do the right thing.
Perfection! Thanks!
12 team, 6×6 OBP league, choose one, Grey: J. Walker, Varsho, C. Smith, O’Hearn, or Butler.
Varsho, Butler
Thanks! It’s a weekly lineup H2H so I assume Varsho gets the nod with Butler potentially platooning.
Yes
Grab Fernandez and drop CJ Abrams or too big a gamble this early in 12 tm H2H?
Hold
My hitters:
C I. Herrera
1b Alonso
2b Keaschall
3b E. Suarez
Ss Abrams
OF Judge
OF Duran
OF Rooker
UT M. Busch
UT W. Abreua
Bench B. Baty
Would you drop any hitters in Yahoo H2H 10×10 cat league for Willy Adames, J. Burger, O. Cassie, L. Hicks, N. Schanuel, or A. Garcia?
Also, please rank top 3 among Burrows, Hancock, McCullers, Soroka, Roupp, Wacha, Mize, Scherzer, Bassitt, Cantillo and Cameron.
Thank you!
Adames over Baty
Mize, Burrows, Cameron
Have we seen enough to drop Williamson or do we give him a bit longer leash?
Drop
Plenty of WW options out there to replace Ponce. Who you takin’?
Hancock, Painter, Mize, Weathers, Harrison, Lauer, Messick, Soroka
Mize
i love the early signings like with emerson. much more how baseball should work. the current system often has your best players working for the lowest salary, not to mention incentivizing teams to keep guys in the minors.
then you get guys who play great for nothing as young guys and sign an iffy congradulations you made it contract that overpays them to coast downhill into retirement.
i also kind of like the one and two year monster contracts a la scott boras that pay guys what they are actually worth for prime years.
if you force teams to pay fair market value for younger players, then maybe you get players more willing to sign shorter high aav contracts in their prime and players end up making the same amount over the course of their careers anyway.
have to tinker with some way of properly valuing rookies since it’s probably not in the best interest to just let everybody be a free agent right off the bat. maybe something akin to a $/war or let ai set all the salaries. that would also help set a salary floor for because the cheapo team wouldn’t have any indetured servants.
I’m going to say a line my MIL likes to say, “it’s out of my pay grade.” there does need to be something to incentivize teams to bring up young players when ready, pay them and stop the “you won’t be paid now, but you will when you’re 35 and not worth it anymore”
i mean for sure nobody is putting us in charge. since i have a business i do kind of like thinking of the baseball business in broad terms. also hoping there’s a cool logical fair system that could come to agreement and avoid the shut down. putting out there to manifest oprah style
I like that, I want to manifest the same…even if there is tho, I have a feeling it’s not coming until a day before the next season is going to happen…hope I’m wrong
12 team, 5×5 roto
You starting Rasmussen @MIL today? (-$0.5)
Doesn’t seem great
Please rank Painter, Sonoma, and Kyle Harrison. Thanks.
Is that Soroka? Him, Painter
Yes, I meant Soroka. Thanks Grey!
No problem
Fried’s effort earned him the 4th best fantasy start of the season. He now has 2 top 10 spots on the list.
Starting pitchers have had good Win luck the last couple days. Starters won 12 on Monday and 10 of the 14 games yesterday. Overall, SPs recorded wins in 43 of the 76 games played ( 56.6%).
Excellent! Thanks, Vin!
Morning Grey!
Trying not to be too knee jerk in early add/drops, but since you wrote about him…
Painter available in two leagues… Pick him up to drop one of…
Scherzer/Hancock/Cabrera?
Scherzer/Baz/Sheehan?
Thanks for all you do man!
Over Hancock…hold
The Giants have a sub-.300 OBP as a team, so maybe Vitello’s next spiel can be about how “Kanye said ‘Jesus Walks,’ so maybe you guys could be like him and take the free base instead of swinging at crap.”
HAHA
12 team with OPS, which side please.
Gleyber
Weekly waiver Saturday. Please rank order:
Soroka; Warren; Harrison (Milwauke);Hancock (Seatle).
Separate question: Should I drop Sproat for each of these?
You can lose Sproat
You did
Grey Albright: “Who the hell is signing this kind of deal to sit in the minors?”
Kristian Campbell: “Am I chopped liver to you, Grey?”
it’s like he won the lottery but he cant quit his job.
Ha, but that’s because he couldn’t hit
In a dynasty league – would you consider trading away Mookie for Drake Baldwin? Already very stable with middle infielders … Drake kid feels like he can hit and could be the last opportunity to buy him for a relatively old guy
Sure
Colt Emerson Giving him that money is a good sign for him being up soon. He’s only 20…I keep thinking he’s Bobby Witt in terms of baseball comparisons due to all his tools. Will play in a similar type of pitchers environment too.
Must be the Mariners thinking and hoping the same thing.
Yeah
Jose Fernandez/ A lot of baseball insiders keep talking about Jose Fernandez due to last sort of out of no where exit velos in AA, and then he did something similar during spring with hard hit balls.
Might be a prospect that we shouldn’t ignore just because of the insider buzz?
I didn’t say ignore in the post
Hey Grey! I watched McClananahahahan start last night. He looked amazing in the first, very sharp on all his pitches. Changeup looked great all night. Command with slider started to tail off a bit, and then looked like he just ran out of gas in the fifth. Hopefully he continues to build up and gives us goodness through a full five or even six, in short order.
I have zero shares, but I am rooting for him! Still they put the reins on Ras last year, so ya gotta think they limit Mc too…. 130-140 innings? Lots of 5 innings starts? 2/3 of a starter.
Same
Yup
Barger sat again. I still like him but not liking him sitting twice already. One was vs a lhp, but he came in to pinch hit later. Straw started over him in that game. That could be demoralizing if you think about it. Today he sat vs rhp. It is early and he is batting .000 so far so I get it, but we need this man to get AB’s
I know
Funny you mentioned jinx. I think i should never check the score of games when I have a SP going. It happened twice to me today. Degrom was scoreless today and you mentioned Mcclanahan already. I desperately need a good start too.
Ha