Riding the mini burst of chess popularity spurring from Garry Kasparov sparing with IBM and the development of Searching Bobby Fischer from book to movie in the 90s, growing up, I was a chess kid. Although I spent my early years playing unfocused chess (the tournaments were lowkey just an underground Pokémon trading ring), eventually […]
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FAAB Week 4: The Barren Shelves
April 22, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds | 13 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Now that the fantasy baseball season is a few weeks in, the shelves of the “store” are starting to get a little thin, just like those first few weeks after COVID lockdown in 2020. You’ve totally abandoned hope on buying toilet paper or your favorite mac ‘n’ cheese. Hell, even the weird discount pastas that […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 3: Injuries And Insults
April 15, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds | 2 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Since we last met, the bucolic fantasy baseball landscape has turned into a blistering hellscape of suffering. Team rosters and waiver wires have thinned out considerably as the likes of Tim Anderson, Joey Gallo, Zach Eflin, Kyle Farmer, Yoan Moncada, Orlando Arcia, Michael Harris, Kyle Bradish, Adam Duvall, Aaron Civale, German Marquez, Matt Manning, Brandon […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 2: The Waiver Wire Strikes Back
April 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds, Featured | 14 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Welcome back to the weekly waiver wire/FAAB article! Can you find replacements for the rash of new injuries to the likes Eloy Jimenez, Mitch Haniger, Max Fried, and Robbie Ray with Joey Gallo, Ji-Hwan Bae, and Seth Lugo? Is the backend of your roster still suffering after your drunken inattention caused you to throw value […]
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April 1, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds | 16 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Welcome to my weekly waiver wire FAAB column! We are going to dive into the meaning of Oswaldo Cabrera drawing the Opening Day left field assignment over Aaron Hicks’ lifeless corpse and the amount of your waiver budget to possibly blow on Graham Ashcraft and his filthy Corbin Burnes-esque stuff. For some basic understanding and […]
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