by: 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 […]
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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? by: 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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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 […]
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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, […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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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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 […]
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