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FanDuel: Maximus is Glorious

The glory of Rome, even now, is a wonder to behold.  The Pantheon, the Spanish Steps, the fountains, the beauty of the Renaissance everywhere you…

Deep Impact: Eggs Odorizzi Or Jake The Snake?

With helium balls flying out this year and the Launch Angle Revolution storming the Bastille, many pitchers are a lot less safe than they used…

Buyin’ Bryan Reynolds

[brid autoplay="true" video="419696" player="10951" title="FantasyBaseball2019BuySellHold11"] Oh no, I feel my alter ego B. Fire coming on for Bryan Reynolds, The Rap: Fantasy Master Lothario, don't…

Rolling In The Deep: Don’t Let Your Season Peter Out Just Yet

Hello, deep-league friends and acquaintances!  Welcome back to the area of Razzball where each week we dig in every little crevice we can find in…

FanDuel: Give Me My Blue Blanket

Welcome back to Friday DFSers! Today, FanDuel has us set up with another massive 14-game slate. We're just over a third of the way through…

Max Power Smacks Bauer A Homer An Hour

[brid autoplay="true" video="418565" player="10951" title="Fantasy Baseball 2019 Mailbag Week 11"] It's not easy writing a post about a hitter that went bingo-bango on your pitcher…

Bear or Bull: Dansby! That Swanson’s Sure Tastes Good

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, homo sapiens would nuke aluminum trays of food (which I always imagined what prison food would…

Closer Rankings: Kimbrel Clause Is Coming

It finally happened. A team decided to sign Craig Kimbrell! The MLB draft happened this week so the draft pick penalty has been lifted for…

Ambulance Chasers, Week 10: 8 Man Rotation?!

After the worst start of his year (4+ IP, 7 ER) Matt Strahm was placed on the DL with a rib strain. This seems to…

FanDuel: As the Wheel Turns

Trading prospects is a big part of baseball. Contenders give up you talent to try and win now. And why not? So many prospects fail…

My Kimbrel Town Chicago Is

[brid autoplay="true" video="418565" player="10951" title="Fantasy Baseball 2019 Mailbag Week 11"] Handed down through the generations from Hammurabi to Hammurabi was a code of SAGNOF.  It…

One Man’s Trash: Austin Riley Has Powers

Austin Riley of the Atlanta Braves has taken the league by storm. He's clubbed eight home runs in his first 17 games of MLB action,…

Getting Ahead in H2H, Week 10: 3 Under 30%, Out For Some Pop N Speed

If you know me then you know I'm a sucker for guys with a Pop N Speed combo in H2H leagues. By having a lineup…

FanDuel: The Shaw Man

The Marlins shocked the world and put up a 16 spot vs the Brewers last night, but the Brewers should get their revenge tonight. Sandy…

I Knew It Was Bad When Andrew Started McCutchen His Knee

[brid autoplay="true" video="418565" player="10951" title="Fantasy Baseball 2019 Mailbag Week 11"] Andrew McCutchen is out for the year with a torn ACL.  To borrow a phrase often…

Fantasy Baseball Podcast, Week 10: Matt Striker Body Slams Grey Albright

Are you sick of the cackle? Have you grown tired of Grey's antics? Us too! So, in true bully beat down fashion we brought on…

SAGNOF: Straw Man Phallus

It's a pretty fruitful week for plucking some speedsters from the wire. Injuries continue to open avenues for blocked players and languishing prospects. An analyst…

RCL Update: The Week That Was, Week 9, 2019

The calendar has flipped to June and the Razzball Commenter Leagues are in full swing.  This is also the time of year where I like…

FanDuel: SynderGOAT

Fantasy owners of Noah Syndergaard ($9,000) certainly haven't been happy with his performance this season, as Thor has a 4.90 ERA entering tonight. While it's…

Hiura Outta Here And Not Shaw How Long

[brid autoplay="true" video="418565" player="10951" title="Fantasy Baseball 2019 Mailbag Week 11"] The Brewers, as you likely heard, sent down Keston Hiura, which means the return of Travis…

Top 100 Hitters, Week 10: Riley 3:16

Last week here's what I said about Austin Riley: "A lot of people were calling for Austin Riley to make his rankings debut after hitting 5…

Top 100 Starting Pitchers, Week 10: The Kooch Kraps the Mound

Not your Grandfathers Top 100 Starting Pitchers… These baseballs are juicy. Juicier than Grandpa-Donk's drawers the first time he visited Méjico. The juicy balls are…

Prospect Podcast: Previewing The 2019 MLB Draft

We're back in the saddle and ready to get you up to speed on all the top names in Monday's MLB Draft. We talk Adely…

FanDuel: Just Say Nola

On a slate with no true ace taking the bump, the Phillies’ Aaron Nola is the guy to build your FanDuel lineups around. He has…

Bruce To Get His Phil Of Greetings Near Asbury Park

[brid autoplay="true" video="417738" player="10951" title="FantasyBaseball2019BuySellHold10"] This weekend Jay Bruce was traded to the Phillies, because, as the front office in Philly put it, "We're sick…

Two Start Pitchers, Week 11: Walker Dodger Ranger

Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 10: Ride the Wave

How the hell is it Week 10 already? That's nuts. The season is flying by but we're having a blast with these articles. I always…

FanDuel: Panik, Giants!

June is here, which means we are already a third of the way through the season. Time flies, I’ll tell you what. It seems like…

Potential Prospect Promotions: June

Ah, June. Stats and standings have settled. At least a quarter of your league has given up. Hot dogs, school's out, the beach, and Father's…

Points Leagues: DFS Wars

Two years ago Heath Capps, a fellow fantasy sports writer, invited me to join a daily fantasy baseball league he was running. Every Friday about…

Deep Impact: Dahl In The Family

I am, what I’ll refer to as a graybeard millennial, one of the first ones in. So the TV show All In The Family was…

Keston Time to Save Your Season

Friday night, Milwaukee Brewers' newest phenom/heartthrob/infielder Keston Hiura went three for four with his fourth home run and three RBI. Keston case you were wondering,…

FanDuel: First Base Bonanza

Sometimes on a FanDuel slate the starting pitchers aren't the shiniest objects.  Yes, there are Aces, but first basemen are the main attraction.  The stats…

Baseball Podcast: Griffin Canning Can

Polish, Italian, Kielbasa, Chorizo: there's a vast array of exquisite sausages to be discussed on the world's foremost fantasy sausage podcast. Instead, B_Don and Donkey…

The King(ery) and Buy

[brid autoplay="true" video="417738" player="10951" title="FantasyBaseball2019BuySellHold10"] Going back to one of my old favorites, that I didn’t like for awhile, then did like, then loved, then…

Rolling In The Deep: Can DJ Spin Some Stats?

We’re one-third of the way through the 2019 baseball season, and let’s remember one thing: it is really, really difficult to predict what major league baseball…

Fanduel: LA Weekend

Let’s kick off the weekend shall we. I’d gotten so used to writing for short slate Thursdays that I was almost overwhelmed at all the…

Dahl Finally Has A Giant Peach Of A Game

[brid autoplay="true" video="416471" player="10951" title="Fantasy Baseball 2019 Mailbag Week 10"] Since the season started, us fantasy baseballers (<--my mom's term!) have been listening for one…

Bear or Bull: All Hail Avisail?

I was born in the good ole’ US of A, but my parents immigrated in the 1970s. They were educated and relatively liberal, so I…

Bullpen Report, Week 10: Bargain Brand Bandages

I don't know if there's a more frustrating pursuit than finding enough pitching in fantasy baseball. Usable middle relievers used to grow on trees. Now…