Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a new pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In this first episode, we cover our thoughts on the exciting 2023 All-Star Game from Seattle including the Home Run Derby and MLB Draft. Then we discuss our favorite baseball card sets of […]
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FAAB Week 15: Sqaures In The Eye
July 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 8 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Since you are reading this, I imagine that you are very much connected to the baseball internet zeitgeist and have been religiously playing Immaculate Grid every day just like us Razzball staff. As I eagerly wait for the clock to hit 11 pm central time every night for a new grid challenge, every day has […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 14: Lighting The Hot Stove
July 1, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 6 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
With the 2023 season turning to July, we are entering what I consider the holiday season of the MLB calendar. Sure, the Fourth is a real-life holiday, but the All Star Game and related break (along with me filling that break by despondently watching paint dry during a baseball-less hellscape) plus trade deadline add some […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 13: And I’m Free, Free Fallin’
June 24, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Featured | 10 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
I’ve recently been fascinated by terminal velocity. Like, I get intuitively that, eventually, speeds max out when free falling because gravity is constant. But my monkey brain just has a tough time comprehending that science refutes gravity working like a magnet. I swear I’m not a flat-earther. And maybe that fascination has sprouted because we […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 12: Hey Now, You’re (Almost) An All Star
June 18, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Hey Now, Here Comes The All Star Break Sorry for ruining you’re Father’s Day Sunday, but you obviously need to queue up the obligatory tune for this week’s reading. (That’s right, I used the Spotify link to ruin your listening algorithm.) We’re in another crucial part of the baseball calendar in which we can target […]
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June 17, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 16 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Hello, everyone, you may recognize me from the weekly FAAB/waiver wire article, but Dan Pants is on the 10-day IL, but he should be back next week. He said he just needs a standard check-up from Dr. James Andrews. This feels a lot like borrowing a buddy’s car for a short road trip. Gotta adjust […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 11: Adrift In A Sea Of Injuries
June 10, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 2 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
As you may have noticed in this week’s Ambulance Chasers, the injuries have proliferated again, gashing large cracks in the hulls of our fantasy baseball ships (or punching holes in your emergency inflatable dingy). And this time, those injuries have come for the upper echelons of the player pool. Aaron Judge, Pete Alonso, Yordan Alvarez, […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 10: Home (Park), Sweet Home (Park)
June 3, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Featured | 4 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
After going through some new league averages for pitchers and batters last time, this week we will tackle updating for park factor changes, using Statcast. I will caveat that 2023 still offers a small sample on ballpark factors and the hottest months of the summer haven’t arrived in places like Baltimore and Cleveland, both have […]
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May 27, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 6 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
Going into the Memorial Day weekend, we should have a pretty good baseline of what the rest of the summer will yield (assuming another new ball isn’t introduced infused with leather from cows crossbred with rubber trees). Given that this 2023 season has been more volatile than the Ron DeSantis/Elon Musk Twitter conference call from […]
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May 20, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 2 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
As we peruse the waiver wires again this weekend, it’s hard not to feel like you are sucked right into watching Russell Crowe duke it out in an arena, fighting to the death and hacking off limbs, when you examine the available pitchers. Everyone’s fantasy pitching staff has been ravaged by injuries thus far, leaving […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? FAAB Week 7: EURY NICE!
May 13, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds | 11 Commentsby: Mike Couillard
With the arrivals of Logan Allen, Tanner Bibee, Taj Bradley, Bryce Miller, Mason Miller, Luis Ortiz, Brandon Pfaadt, and Grayson Rodriguez in recent weeks, I’m not sure I remember such a wave of high-end pitching talent breaking from the minors together. Anyone that followed the Lima Plan during draft season has been rejoicing in the […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Now that the first month of the season is completed, it’s time to size up leagues and analyze which stat categories are going to be troublesome as the season rolls along. Of course, finding well-rounded players like Ronald Acuna Jr. or Gerrit Cole, the top batter and pitcher in our Player Rater currently, isn’t going […]
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