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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 20

August 16, 2021 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 26 Comments

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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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Fanduel: Sale-vation is at Hand

August 14, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel | 11 Comments

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What’s up degeneratti? If you’re here, it’s either because you love me or really want to hand over your money to Fanduel. I hope it’s because you love me! Did you know that a bunch of the Razzbois are in DFS Wars — a charity competition put on by RotoRanks to support the LostBoyz, Inc., and spread some good positivity among DFS touts? In the first week, yours truly finished 6th out of 15, just behind our good friend Son, and just ahead of my DFS co-captain MattTruss.

From a DFS strategy standpoint, I want to highlight that I’m building lineups for a single-entry, which is why I look for inefficient price points or my favorite hitters. I personally don’t have the capital to do Mega Multi Entry tournaments; I know people who put together 300 lineups per day! That’s an astounding feat. Regardless of whether you’re in the single-entry mold or the MME mold, here are my top plays for the day.

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Ambulance Chasers: The Return of the Sox Sale

August 14, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Injury Report | 8 Comments

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Of course, the first thing I check when I write this article is “What is the etymology of ambulance?” Seems like the “ambu” part is definitely from walking (like “ambulate”) and “lance” comes from King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table…or is it Lance Armstrong? ENYWHEY. It’s about combat deaths. [starts puking] Well, now that I’ve discovered that baseball is a war of attrition and we’re all the bystanders watching the battles and the war, I feel much better about my complicit participation in this 300 cosplay that we do every day. SPARTAAAAA! 

Anyway, here’s the injury update: 

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 19

August 9, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 24 Comments

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Howdy folx! Are you asleep at the wheel of your fantasy baseball teams yet? Are you imagining a world where you had a couple hundred more dollars in your pocket and didn’t start your draft with Mike Trout, Lou Bob, and Eloy? Or spend 65% of your FAAB on Huascar Ynoa? Come now, let us commiserate! We’re closing in on the most important weeks of the season while you struggle to get into that last playoff spot so you can take on the team that FAAB’d Shane McClanahan and sold high on Aroldis Garcia. Also, I’ve moved on from the Greinke graphic. See ya later Zack!

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Cron-yism Raises Productivity in Denver

August 7, 2021 | August's Daily Notes, Daily Notes | 35 Comments

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What is up everybody? I’ve been listening to a ton of Jamiroquai lately. I’m a sucker for a good bass line. That funk just sets you up for the nights where Mike Foltynewicz was a better start than Nathan Eovaldi, and Cal Quantrill was a better start than Corbin Burnes. What can I say? Variance is the reason we play this wacky game. It’s precisely the fact that Marco Gonzales can throw 108 pitches against the Yankees and limit all the damage, and the Mariners bullpen can come in and do some good, and yet they still lose to the Bronx Bombers in extra frames. As much as experts say we can “predict” this stuff, we simply can’t. That’s why we play the game. If we called the work, “certain outcomes,” there wouldn’t be a game. So, let’s celebrate the weird outcomes that happened Friday night and remember that this, indeed, is the game of baseball where anything can happen.

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 18

August 2, 2021 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 38 Comments

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I spent Friday afternoon calling TD Ameritrade to see if Grey had traded me to ESPN for the return of Manny Ramirez to MLB. After seeing reports on Twitter from Jeff Passan that Grey was actually at Boba Hut — the Star Wars-themed boba joint — instead of The Great Fantasy Industry Meetup, I started to relax. My eyes shut, the words Fidelio shooting through my head. Yes, I was loyal to Razzball. Grey was loyal to me. I could sleep, not worried about being traded…And then the e-mail from Boba Hut came. Its contents stated: “1 – Mandalorian Suit, Size XL. 1 – Boba Hut Face Mask (extra ventilated). 1 – Boba Hut Platinum Membership Card. Start date: August 1, 2021.” He sold me for a boba! Grey, I hope you enjoy that umami texture. As for me, I’ll be on the 4AM – 10PM shift at the Boba Hut in Pasadena, so come see me if you have a moment.

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Fanduel: Wisdom and Soler

August 1, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel | 11 Comments

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What’s this? A double duel of EverywhereBlair this weekend? That’s right! While Truss is traveling these great states of the united, I’m stepping in on Sunday to make your DFS days right. Just like yesterday, rosters will probably be a bit funky throughout the slate due to the trade deadline and IL moves. So, if you’re playing an all-day slate, stay need your preferred DFS device to flip lineups as they come in. Otherwise, if you’re kinda lazy like me, pick the smaller slates and be a big fish in those.

New to FanDuel? Scared of feeling like a small fish in a big pond? Well, be sure to read our content and subscribe to the DFSBot for your daily baseball plays. Just remember to sign up through us before jumping into the fray. It’s how we know you care!

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Fanduel: Who’s on First Edition

July 31, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel | 8 Comments

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Welcome, welcome! Are you all as terribly confused about who plays for whom in MLB today? As a member of the Twins fandom (and I can’t say I carry that card with me…even in the house when nothing else is on TV) I saw our team act like a mattress fundraiser over this past week. The Twins jettisoned most everything (and by everything I mean “the franchise” Jose Berrios) and got some prospects in return, but if you know me, I want my players at the table and my dice loaded instead of sleeping in hotel lobbies on foldout chairs. ENYWHEY! Rosters are a freaking mess at the time of writing, and your due diligence should be to check, check, check who is playing today. That’s three checks. You know what makes this job *super* easy? Rudy’s DFSBot. I know, you might be looking at the price of the DFSBot and saying, “it’s so late in the season, I’ll wait.” But wait! Grab yourself a Roto Deluxe subscription for $26 (that’s like $2/week ROS) or $35 to turn off the ads (trust me, it’s great when they’re off). You don’t get the optimizer, but you do get automatically updated lineups and some of the best projections out there, and you can home brew your own Google Sheets dashboard as a lineup optimizer. Plus, it keeps the pantry full of Pop Tarts for all of us. OK, done with the sales pitch (and I really, truly use Rudy’s stuff every day).

New to FanDuel? Scared of feeling like a small fish in a big pond? Well, be sure to read our content and subscribe to the DFSBot for your daily baseball plays. Just remember to sign up through us before jumping into the fray. It’s how we know you care!

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In Search of Barrels

July 28, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 24 Comments

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True story: I wrote the majority of my dissertation in a brewery. A Scottish brewer worked there — had even gone to college for a degree in brewing in the old country — and down the way there was a distillery that made whiskey. When the distillery was done aging whiskey in the barrels, the brewery purchased them to age their stout, creating the famed “Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout.” At 13% alcohol and with a taste profile that changed as it warmed up, it was a beautiful creation. Inspiring. So inspiring that I could write 400 pages. Type, type, type. Lesson is, I couldn’t have had that beer without barrels. Barrels cause good things to happen, but do people aspire to be coopers anymore? Nah, not really. But nowadays, the barrel masters are more commonly found in baseball, where batters connect squarely on the barrel of the bat. And, just like barrels bring you good beer, barrels in hitting bring you good batters.

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 17

July 26, 2021 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 34 Comments

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We’re 60% of the way through the season and you haven’t sued us for boredom! I can’t believe we’re not boring! I’m going to put that on my next CV so that my next potential employer can reject a “not boring” person. Or maybe that will get me kicked out of Elon Musk’s hole-digging company. Ever wonder why billionaires want to dig holes and fly into space at the same time? Probably for their space boring tech. Elon Musk watched The Expanse and thought it was an inspirational business story. I think he’d make a good asteroid maven. Can’t become president on Earth? Why not be king of your own asteroid? Rob Manfred’s probably already prepping for a 2030 Moon Base MLB game, sponsored by Gemini, where all the players get paid in Bitcoin. Then when Shohei Ohtani Jr. hits a 3,000 foot popup, Manfred will cancel low gravity on the moon and return all the players to their natural home: a row of folding chairs in a hotel lobby. I kid! We here at Razzball love Rob Manfred and everything he’s done for the game of baseball, including making the lives of pitcher rankers completely miserable by getting rid of Spider Tack. Catch me after the Greinke graphic to see what’s in store for the rest of the season!

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 16

July 19, 2021 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 25 Comments

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Holy frijoles it’s another Monday — Prince’s favorite day of the week — and with that brings another manic update about the okayest hurlers in the business. Gerrit Cole’s about the only healthy one left, right? And is he really healthy without spider tack? Are any of us really healthy without sticky hands? Let’s check in with some of the best pitchers of the past week and get you ready for the home stretch of the fantasy baseball season. 

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Fanduel: Buehler’s Day On

July 17, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball |

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It’s a double plakata from Everywhere today! Yesterday, we saw Vladdy hit some dingers, and Jake Cronenworth hit for the cycle. I think if you roster somebody who hits for the cycle, you should just get an automatic win. Or GPP prize. Or a free entry to a $1 contest, whatever. I dunno, I’m not very good at business. But, I am one of the world’s okayest fantasy baseball players, and he’s what my Crushonator and Whiffonator are telling me to highlight for today’s Fanduel slate.

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