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All I ever wanted for Christmas was to see Robbie Ray get all worked up. And Santa brought me my gift early this year! Maybe you casual fans just want to see Lance Lynn get worked up, but when Robbie Ray and the Orioles manager get into a tongue-lashing, that’s the kind of baseball I want to see! Yeah, things are getting pretty slow here on the baseball side. On the plus side, I’m in the top 20 in RazzSlam. On the downside, the cutline only sends the top 10 to the playoffs. So, it’s kind of like I’m the benevolent tight-pants-loving lord of a small fiefdom that resides outside of Coolwhip’s kingdom. I beg thee, King Coolwhip, let Luis Severino pitch! How are all of your teams doing? Still active? Let’s see if we can find some pitchers for your fantasy playoffs!

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Everybody and their grandma is pumped for NFL DFS — it’s easier, there’s less variance, and you can actually count on your aces returning non-negative value. Thanks Robbie Ray! In baseball, we send our ace pitchers out against one of the worst teams in the league — that’s Robbie Ray and the Baltimore Orioles, eff-why-eye — and we get the yawnstipating line of 4 2/3 IP, 3 ER…and 8K. OK, I’m sort of fine with that. But as the most expensive pitcher on the DFS slate, I was less than thrilled to see him labor against some AAA-players and get into a verbal fight with the Orioles’ manager. Blah. But today’s a new day, and we’ve got a new ace who hopefully won’t fall apart at the seams.

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What’s up, everybody? Remember back into simpler times, like 6 months ago [shudder] when all you had to do to make money was buy an imaginary coin sponsored by a dumb-looking dog on Reddit? Those good days are passed and now we’re asking Eric Lauer and Jackson Kowar to bring us some tendies. What’s that you say? You haven’t heard of those guys? Yeah, I’m not starting them either. In the meantime, let’s take a look at who gets Dogebump and who ends up in the regulatory trash basket.

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Just got back from the First Annual Razzball Flag Football Competition, where we took on Bishop Sycamore in a battle of the fake schools. As expected, Donkey Teeth served as a quarterback while Grey stood on the sidelines wearing his “Coach” attire. It was a little weird to see him wandering around with a $10,000 handbag, but I don’t judge. Rudy called the plays, although his reliance on bootleg plays 90% of the time really underestimated DT’s ability to turn left. He’s a donkey, Rudy! He goes forwards! Besides from DT being stubborn, the game played out fairly nicely, with yours truly spraining an ankle in the first 30 seconds and then spending the next hour watching the game from the shade of a tree with a little adult beverage. In the end, Bishop Sycamore defeated the Razzballers 122-6, our only points coming from an accidental pick-6 when Coolwhip designed a replica Bishop Sycamore jersey and snuck onto the other team. Their rosters were so confusing they didn’t notice. On to the Greinke graphic and the pitchers! Hut, hut, hike! 

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The thing about the future? It’s unknowable. Some things we can know with pretty good certainty, like the weather. You can see a hurricane forming because it’s the size of a small country, but you still can’t predict with utter precision where it will make landfall because the air masses over the continent are different than those over the ocean. Basically, ya gotta wait until go time to see what happens. The same thing applies to baseball, only on a much more volatile scale. Players have a certain trajectory, but sometimes they do things to intervene in that trajectory: they train in a different way, they find the right coach, or they eliminate parts of their game entirely (see Ray, Robbie). With that, we highlight Schmohawk of the Year, Teoscar Hernandez, who could finish with a 30/10 season with 100 RBIs. Even the baseball card lovers like that stat line! Teoscar Hernandez has a ridiculous split in his favor today: a .400 wOBA home/away, a .480 split vs hand, and a .400 ISO vs lefties like Brady Aikin. Let’s hop into our DFS picks for today:

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Fantasy playoffs! I don’t kink shame here. If you’re Googling “MLB Playoff Fan Fiction,” that’s your thing. My thing? Ranking pitchers in a giant table. We’re down to the last month of the MLB regular season — and many fantasy leagues are in the playoffs already — so you’ll want to start any hot hand you think will help your team. Within reason, of course. We’re going to see a lot of rookie starters called up, and even with their immense hype (see Cabrera, Edward), they can still put up lackluster performances that don’t really help your cause. As always, consult Rudy’s Streamonator Tools (and if you’re not subscribed, where have you been? Jump in and support us!) and check-in with the writers throughout the week. We’re here to help!

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Imagine: in 5 years, when we’re on the Zeta variant of the coronavirus and our rivers are filled with sand and fire, Robbie Ray finishes the 2026 baseball season with his record-breaking 5th consecutive Cy Young. Razzball — now known as Razzbot — will be delivered straight to your brain via Google Glasses, which will no longer be illegal or creepy. In fact, you’ll be watching Robbie Ray’s tight sliders on those glasses every day because MLB will have partnered with Google to make all other television options obsolete. And you thought baseball was boring! But for today, let’s focus on the present and see who we’re watching on TV today.

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What’s up folx? Tough night for me in DFS Wars last night, with an 11th out of 15th finish — far worse than my 6th place finish in week 1. Yesterday, I went with two great pitchers in my DK lineup — Shane McClanahan and Aaron Nola — and received an acceptable number of points, but I was really hoping for one of them to hit 25 points. I stacked the Rangers, which was a fine decision for the cost, but my complimentary grouping of Red Sox batters did zilch to help out. Meanwhile, the White Sox and the Cubs combined for a billion runs, so nothing much I could do against the chalk donkeys. Of course, any team playing against the Cubs now are considered chalk. Let’s check out some of today’s plays!

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What’s up, everybody? I’ve got a big list of players because Fanduel has a big all-day (15 games) and main (14 games) slate. As always, check lineups with Rudy’s tools or your favorite lineup site (not including MLB The Show). It looks like a great hitter slate today, so you mega-event players should let your optimizers run wild and you single-event players will likely want to focus on Athletics, Rays, Marlins, and Angels lineups.

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It’s back-to-school week! Do we have any students out there reading this, or is it all just all people who last updated their phones when Bell Northern went AWOL? Still can’t believe the price I used to get on long distance. With each passing week, we’re watching a couple more pitchers fall to the injury, so let’s try and focus on finding some replacements for the arms that just hit the IL.

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So in that great chatroom of life that we call Twotter (maybe you call it something else), we learn from the greats. I mean, Grey’s there. Rudy’s there. I’m there. Sometimes other people say things too, but I have all of them on mute so I don’t really see anything other than videos of anime Grey talking to shirtless dudes all the time. Every once in a while Donkey Teeth shows up and makes us work. I do the research, I do the discoveries, I make the findings. Or, I steal other people’s findings because they’re shocking and really illustrate better than I could ever do with my droning. Don’t believe me? Check out this awesome graph from Derek Rhoads of Baseball Prospectus that tells us the severity of the injured list we’re dealing with right now: 

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I’m writing this lede as Tristan McKenzie comes off a near-perfect game with 11Ks. As fans — like, baseball fans who spend their time watching games and maybe even attending them — this is cool as hell, right? A rookie throws a no-hitter in his first appearance on Saturday night and then another near-rookie throws a near-perfect game the next day. Each pitcher is on a bombing team that is in a race for draft picks in the 2022 lottery. Yet, the players refuse to give up. They see the lights, the contracts, the ability to overcome their past mistakes. But we as fantasy players, sometimes we’re just puzzled. Do I like McKenzie in a real-life setting? Oh hell yeah, I named him the “Cardiac Kid” last year after his desire to be a cardiologist. But in fantasy? He struck out as many batters on Sunday as he had struck out in his previous 3 starts combined (he also had a 6.00 ERA / 6.00 FIP / 5.8 K/9). The reason we play fantasy sports is just because wild stuff like this happens. The unexpected happens every week, and we can’t predict who will throw a no-hitter or who will get blown up. With that, I bid everybody a great week as we round the corner into the last weeks of the fantasy baseball season. 

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