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Hitter Profiles: AL Central Boom Or Bust

January 21, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 2 Comments

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Welcome back to Hitter Profiles for the 2024 fantasy baseball season.  If you are reading this then you are just as excited as us here at Razzball for baseball to get back underway.  This preseason our profiles start by circling around the league going division by division outlining some of my favorite buys and sells by ADP.  For those of you who into the podcast world, fellow Razzball expert Mike Couillard and I are welcoming guests every week to talk through all the early ADP insights on Cards & Categories with the AL Central version welcoming Keelin Billue.  So without further ado let’s walk through one of the most wide open divisions in baseball to pick some boom and bust candidates in the AL Central!

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters For 2024: Early Looks

October 1, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 45 Comments

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Let’s get it out of the way right now, the Top 100 Hitters for 2024 being released on the final day of regular season will be wrong.  Did you expect it to be 100% right?  Players will surge in the playoffs; home ballparks will change with the trade or free agency landscape and deeper analysis will shed light on potential hidden gems.  Frankly, your 2023 final standing may not even be settled.  However, there is no point in waiting for our first draft of 2024 rankings as the successful fantasy owner never rests!  So, for my last post of the 2023 fantasy baseball season, it is time to predict the future and dig into the Top 100 Hitters for the 2024 fantasy baseball season.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Ageless Wonders

September 10, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 2 Comments

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Some hitters just seem to get better with age as does a fine wine.  More appropriately, some hitters age like Nelson Cruz while others age like Jason Kipnis.  Often these ageless wonders can be the key to a fantasy championship due to the undervaluation they receive.  The problem being, for every veteran that seems to keep on hitting, there is a game of chicken with Father Time that will eventually end.  This week in our hitter profiles we play a game of buy or sell for 2024 to see who we can rely upon for one more good year.  Time to pull out the walker and dig in!

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Top 100 Hitters: MVP Time

September 3, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 6 Comments

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At the mid-summer break, Ronald Acuna Jr. And Shohei Ohtani appeared to be runaway favorites for Most Valuable Player awards.  However, so much has changed in the last month bringing the National League MVP into question.  Over the month of August, Mookie Betts did his best Barry Bonds in April 2004 impression (look it up if you need!).  Betts put up a blistering month with a .455 average, 10 homers, a ridiculous combined 75 runs plus RBI and 1.355 OPS.  Not only did that month give Mookie a chance in the MVP race where Acuna has produced a never before seen 30/60 season, but it also shakes up the big names of our Top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2023 fantasy baseball season.  We are in the final month of the season and hopefully you are staring down a potential championship trophy while your competitors have moved on to football in despair.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: 2024 Breakout Hunting

August 26, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 2 Comments

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Every season there are numerous breakouts that find their way to fantasy relevance.  The biggest values are the players without crazy pre-season hype.  In 2023, we have seen players like Matt McLain, Josh Lowe and Spencer Steer provide under the radar big time production.  Between this group, we have three guys that are driving their real world teams and fantasy teams towards the playoffs with very different hitting profiles.  However, each guy had proven little at the major league level prior to 2023.  This week, we are going to go under the covers of each of these unsuspecting breakouts using their Baseball Savant profiles to identify a potential doppelgänger for the rest of the 2023 season that could really breakout in 2024.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Winding Down

August 20, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters |

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In a recent ‘X’ (Twitter) poll, fantasy owners emphatically indicated they would rather own Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt Jr. over Juan Soto.  How quickly we forget the wonderful players that have graced us with their talents.  Juan Soto at only 24 years old has nearly six seasons under his belt with almost 150 home runs, more walks than strikeouts and a 152 wRC+ across his career.  Nothing against the young guns of the last year or so, but let’s not forget a generational talent when we see it.  All this to say, we can win in the short-term by focusing on what a player did for us yesterday but to win a league we must think about tomorrow and beyond.  Speaking of thinking beyond tomorrow, this week’s rendition of the Top 100 players for the rest of the 2023 fantasy baseball season awaits!

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: The Second Calling

August 13, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters |

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At 19-years old, a rising prospect named Michael Nelson Trout tried to burst onto the scene.  However, more than anything he burst the bubble of hopeful fans with a .220 average, sub-25% hard hit rate and merely five homers in 40 games.  With all players being truly defined by their small sample sizes, Trout was clearly a bust and never to be heard from again.  Sure, he has gone on to have a career with more than 350 homers, 200 steals and a batting average over .300, but anybody can do that.  Fantasy owners have a tendency to write off players quickly and especially young prospects that did not stick in the Majors out of the gate.  This week, we use our hitter profiles to investigate whether we should buy or sell some players that have had a cup of coffee but are awaiting their next shot at the Majors.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Youth Movement

August 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 8 Comments

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Every season, there are new faces that make a splash in the major leagues. These guys seemingly coming out of nowhere to lead fantasy teams to glory.  We are not talking about guys like Corbin Carroll or Anthony Volpe that were expected to make a splash starting on opening day.  Nor are we looking at players that have strong pedigrees but early struggles like Nolan Gorman or Josh Lowe.  These are guys that are can be grabbed throughout the season without much FAAB fanfare.  For this season, we are talking about Matt McLain, Josh Outman and Edouard Julien.  These types of players can be one-hit BABIP wonders or might carve out successful careers but always have a place in our fantasy hearts.  With that in mind, I saw a recent completely unofficial Twitter poll indicating fantasy owners would take Matt McLain over Trea Turner in drafts next year.  That is a bold strategy Cotton.  Let’s see if our rankings are so bold and how the youth movement continues to change the landscape of fantasy leagues.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Keystone Keeper

July 30, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 2 Comments

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Some players have all the hype and others just do good work.  This week in our hitter profiles we are not focusing on a big name, like Shohei Ohtani as he continues to provide daily content for fantasy writers.  How can we look the other way with the his complete game shutout and multi-homer performance in a double header against the Blue Jays?  Drop your prediction for his off-season landing spot in the comments below as he will be demanding a historic contract coming off a MVP worthy 2023.  Anyway, where were we?  Right, focusing on a lesser name that needs bigger attention (not Ohtani), we dive deep on Edouard Julien of the Minnesota Twins in this week’s edition of Hitter Profiles.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Second Half Rankings

July 23, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 6 Comments

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Just like that, we are flying into the second half as teams move past 100 games on the season. We are also hitting the trade deadline in just over a week meaning we could see some opportunities for young players around the league. It feels like we have drained as much talent from the minors this year, but guys like Masyn Winn, Evan Carter, Sal Frelick (or not) and Heston Kjerstad still remain knocking at the door. This time of year should excite any fantasy owner looking to capitalize on new opportunities. If I were to predict a big move at the deadline to impact our view of the Top 100 hitters, it would be the Yankees reeling in Cody Bellinger. Drop your favorite deadline predictions in the comments below as we dig into the Top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2023 fantasy baseball season.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Second Half Bats

July 15, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 11 Comments

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Baseball is back for the second half after an exciting all-star break. For the fans, it is the beauty of all the festivities. Between Julio and Vlad putting on a show during the derby and the NL winning for the first time in over a decade, the break was everything the fans could have asked for. For Major League teams, it is a chance to rest the weary before a grueling second half. Then for fantasy managers, it is a chance to breathe before searching for the second half gem that could carry them to the championship. This week, we look at a few interesting second investments in our hitter profiles for the rest of the 2023 fantasy baseball season.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Deep League Fishing

July 9, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters |

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As the All-Star break signals the beginning of the second half, it is time to fill the gaps in our roster for the stretch run. Before we do, let’s revisit some bold hitter predictions for the month of June. For my first prediction, I postured that Giancarlo Stanton would come back from the injured list blasting homers with thirteen in the month. For this one, he did come back but was barely worth a roster spot with his three homers, so that is a fail. My other prediction was Ronald Acuna leading the league with eleven steals. He in fact did lead the league with thirteen steals, so I am claiming a win even though this looks less than bold in hindsight. With that assessment out of the way, let’s jump into this week’s hitter profiles looking for second half targets hiding deep in free agency.

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