Author: The Real Joey Bart

Follow me on Twitter @BartilottaJoel. My name is Joel Bartilotta and I'm addicted to fantasy baseball. I'm 27 years old and I live in Denver, Colorado. That has forced me to love the Colorado Rockies, which has caused me more distress than I'd like to admit. I've been playing fantasy baseball for over a decade now and have a passion for fantasy sports in general. I also love to play basketball and cover NBA for RotoWire.

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2020 Fantasy Baseball Team Preview: San Francisco Giants

by: The Real Joey Bart

In last week’s preview, we covered the Arizona Diamondbacks. For this week, we’re deep-diving to the bottom of the NL West to find the Giants. Many naive San Fran fans will tell you that this is their year since it’s an even year (2020) but that’s a pretty stupid notion if you look at this team. The championship days are certainly a thing of the past and it’s crazy just how far this team has fallen since then.

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Also, if you want to see some other team previews or my bust picks, click here!

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2020 Fantasy Baseball Team Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks

by: The Real Joey Bart

After breaking down my beloved Rockies last week, we’re going to keep things rolling here with another NL West team in the Diamondbacks. While the Los Angeles Dodgers are obviously the cream of the crop in this division, Arizona is a fascinating team. Almost as fascinating as their mascot, Baxter the Bobcat. Why the hell is a snake not the mascot? I mean, they’re the Diamondbacks, not the Arizona Bobcats. In any case, this is one of the most interesting teams this season (including their mysterious mascot), so, let’s get into it.

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2020 Fantasy Baseball Team Preview: Colorado Rockies

February 7, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Team Previews | 16 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

As someone who lives in Colorado and considers the Rockies “My Team,” I’m ecstatic to get to write their team preview. With that said, I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself a fan because how the hell can anyone be a fan of the Rockies? It’s fun to watch these guys mash baseballs in Coors Field but it’s embarrassing to watch these pitchers crap the bed year after year. That’s simply the nature of playing in Coors Field every year and it makes for some weird baseball. That will surely be a major focus of this preview, so, let’s go ahead and get into it!

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Fantasy Baseball Busts: Lorenzo’s Oil is Spoiled

January 31, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Overrated | 17 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Almost every article I’ve written at Razzball has had positive feedback from you guys. Last week’s Fantasy Baseball Busts article was not one of those. Part of that was my fault by screwing up the Rangers ballpark situation and I want to begin this article by apologizing for that egregious dismissal. Missing something like that was a silly mistake on my part and I want to apologize for forgetting that. Everything else stands in that article though. I still don’t trust Kluber, Anderson or Giolito to provide at their respective price tags and Victor Robles’ horrid hitting profile scares me to death too. Even though I got some poor feedback in the last article, I still love to hear from you guys to know what everyone is thinking. With that in mind, let’s get into my busts with an ADP between 100-200.

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Fantasy Baseball Busts: Really, Robles?

January 24, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Overrated | 60 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

We came out with the big guns in our first Fantasy Baseball Busts article, providing you with Top-50 players we want to fade. This article is much easier to write because the success rate will be much higher. In fact, I believe this is where you win or lose your draft and taking any of these guys I mention here is a quick way to land you near the bottom of your standings! Busts are a good way to fall out of your league and hopefully, this can stray you away from some of them. Without further ado, let’s get into our busts between 50 and 100.

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Fantasy Baseball Busts: Cole in my Stocking

January 17, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Overrated | 34 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

I’m so freaking excited to be back and writing about baseball. After months of dealing with stupid, unpredictable football variances, we’re back at it with some much-needed fantasy baseball! This is the real fantasy sport and I can’t wait to get started. My first articles of the offseason are going to be deep-diving on potential busts. We actually did this last season and had pretty good results aside from one guy.

I actually had Christian Yelich as my Top 10 player to avoid last season and obviously, that was incredibly stupid. The other busts I had included Craig Kimbrel, Edwin Diaz, German Marquez, Lorenzo Cain, Javier Baez and Miguel Andjuar. The only other guy I got wrong was Baez but he still scares me to death with his horrendous plate discipline. I’m honestly not too disappointed with the Yelich one either because it’s hard to predict any Top 10 player to bust (according to me). We’re going to go with a similar approach here, so let’s get into some of our Top 50 busts!

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 25: Ride the Wave

September 22, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 6 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Trying to predict who’s going to pitch at this time of the season is more difficult than predicting the performances themselves. We have some teams tanking, others clinching and some experimenting. That makes these rotations as wacky as ever and incredibly volatile. That’s why I can’t guarantee that any of these guys will make these […]

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 24: Ride the Wave

September 15, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 20 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Trying to predict what’s going to happen at this time of the year is similar to fouling off a pitch straight into your man parts. You try to do everything possible to do the right thing and sometimes you just Mitch Haniger yourself out of the season. While the streamers last week were all mixed up […]

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 23: Ride the Wave

September 8, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 16 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

It’s playoff times ladies and gentlemen, which means picking the right streamers is more important than ever. What’s frustrating about that for this week is the fact that we have a weak group of two-start streamers. It seems to be either high-owned studs or low-owned risky players, so we’re going to try our best to offer up some good options that are widely available. With that in mind, let’s get into these streamers!

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 22: Ride the Wave

September 1, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 8 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Aside from Brad Keller, we actually had a pretty nice streamers article last week. It’s not like we could have predicted Keller getting shut down either, as it was clear by his dip in velocity on Monday that he really didn’t have anything left in the tank. That’s something we need to consider at this time of the year, as many pitchers will be surpassing career-highs in terms of innings. It’s also an imperative week in H2H leagues, as many of you are in the playoffs. That’s why I’m going to offer up a ton of streamer recommendations, so you can pick and choose between them. With that in mind, all of the two-start streams are risky as risky as a Tinder date, so tread with caution!

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 21: Ride the Wave

August 25, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 9 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Brendan McKay has been taking a big crap on my last two articles and I’m learning that it’s hard to trust these kids. While they may have the spectacular minor league numbers, I want to see some production at this level before recommending them as streamers. That’s why everyone in this article will be prior streamers, as I really want to get back on track for you guys. With that in mind, let’s start with one of the most underrated pitchers in baseball.

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 20: Ride the Wave

August 18, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Streamers | 7 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

Ok, we need to be honest. Last week’s article downright sucked! We actually discussed just how much we despised the two-start streamers and it forced us into a stupid Jose Suarez recommendation. We made that suggestion with major trepidation but it’s important to learn from these situations. No matter how good the matchups may be, you simply can’t trust a bad pitcher. That’s just what Suarez is and we have a much better crop here.

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