After the slog and grind of six months sorting through statistics and information, watching days’ worth of baseball, and agonizing over the newest pitcher call-up, the long journey of the 2023 season has finally arrived at its end. I’ll admit, this has been one of my least successful years (maybe spilling thousands of words each […]
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Cards & Categories Ep. 11 – 2023 Allen & Ginter, Revisiting Picks
September 21, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, All Podcasts | Leave a commentby: Mike Couillard
Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our eleventh episode, we open with discussion on Waino’s 200th win, Ohtani hot takes, and multiple superfractors. Then we review the the release of the most eccentric card set of the year, 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter (20:42). […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? Cards & Categories Ep. 10 – 2023 Bowman Chrome, Keeper Trade Chips
September 14, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, All Podcasts | 2 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our tenth episode, we open with discussion on two pitchers in the news – Adam Wainwright and George Kirby. Then we review the details of a newest release, 2023 Bowman Chrome (26:26). Finally, we close out with discussing […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 24: Livin’ The Stream
September 9, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 6 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
This is crunch time for all fantasy leagues. Head-to-head leagues are entering playoffs. Roto leagues are about finding what categories are locked up and focusing on where extra points might be juiced from the lemons on your team. That means it’s prime stream time. And if you are in a redraft league, you can obviously […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our ninth episode, we open with discussion on Shohei Ohtani’s stand-in double at the Angels picture day, David Fry outpitching Lucas Giolito, and the hot playoff races. For the kick-off of the NFL season, we review a list […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 23: Call-up SZN, Part Deux
September 2, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | Leave a commentby: Mike Couillard
Maybe I jumped the gun a bit on calling last week’s piece “Call-up SZN,” as more have been coming this week along with more that will occur over this weekend and wreck most of my suggestions below. Since last weekend, we’ve seen some expected call-ups (Ronny Mauricio, Ceddanne Rafaela, and Alexander Canario) but also a […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our eighth episode, we open with discussion on Shohei Ohtani’s injury and the Angels waiver wire bonanza along with the recent updates on the White Sox shooting and (once again) Julio being Julio. We then talk about three […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 22: Call-up SZN
August 27, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | Leave a commentby: Mike Couillard
One of the biggest changes I lament from the COVID-season in 2020 was going from 40-man to 28-man expanded rosters in September (number one with a bullet is the introduction of the zombie runner). It’s partly what caused the Drew Maggi story to unfold the way it did. Sorry, Drew, you wouldn’t have had a […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Howdy there, Razzball fam! I know that I’m a familiar face in an unfamiliar spot. But I’m honored to fill in for Keelin here this week. Honestly, I’m not sure how she tracks all of these injuries every week – the volume is astounding. And she left me with a doozy of a week to […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our seventh episode, we open with discussion on the White Sox front office shake up and Julio being Julio. We then have a mock fantasy draft for the first round of 2024 (15:01) followed by picking our personal […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Believe it or not, this is one of my favorite parts of the fantasy baseball season. Of course, there is the thrill of draft season. The chaos of the first few FAAB runs is also a delight. But this part of the season, post-trade deadline, pre-final stretch, offers all sorts of opportunity to make savvy […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our sixth episode, we open with discussion on Luke Raley’s unlikely homer in Oracle Park, Cedric Mullins’ fantastic Sunday in Seattle, and whether we should start stashing other players for the NL MVP Topps Chrome […]
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