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Hitter Profiles: Seeing the Future

September 18, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 2 Comments

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What makes fantasy baseball so interesting is that there are several ways to win your league.  Whether you are a superb drafter or waiver wire warrior, there is one concept that is critical to success in this game.  Surplus!  What is this concept you ask?  Surplus is the value returned by a player beyond their acquisition cost.  The more you can squeeze out of an individual spot in the lineup the more likely you are to accumulate those precious statistics that you desire.  In today’s hitter profile, we will look at a breakout player doing plenty to out earn his investment price.  To make it fun, we will also predict the future and see who we should be looking to invest in for 2022 to duplicate the blueprint.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Time is Running Out

September 11, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 8 Comments

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It is the final countdown and that means players are jumping up and down the 2021 rest of season hitter rankings.  There are two main drivers to this known affectionately as the ‘Mondesi Momentum’ and ‘Trout Trouble’.  Time to break down the categories:

The ‘Mondesi Momentum’ represents those players making a late season surge. For a variety of reasons, they may have missed time earlier in the year.  It might have been an injury, minor league service time manipulation or a long paternity leave.  Whatever the case, if you have held onto or picked up these players, they will be the reason you close out the season strong.

The ‘Trout Trouble’ is an all too common story this time of the year. Due to lingering injuries and rehabilitations several players just are not going to make it back to the lineup.  Specifically for teams out of contention, there is little reason to rush a player such as Mike Trout back to only risk further injury and uncertainty heading into the offseason.  This trouble means it is time to cut bait.

Keeping these official categories in mind, the top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season are as follows:

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: To Believe or Not Believe…Something About a Question

September 4, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 4 Comments

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With a month left in the fantasy season and the fantasy playoffs just ramping up, it is time to look at a few players that are trending different ways in the stat sheet.  To do such a detailed analysis, we can certainly look at the key luck drivers such as batting average on balls in play or maybe even home runs per fly ball.  But here at Razzball, we like to go deeper so we have pulled out the lucky rabbit foot, horseshoes, magic eight balls and our four-leaf clovers.  Using all these tools we have determined one thing; Lou Gehrig was the luckiest man on the face of the earth.  Maybe that was just listening to a quote from 1939 or the same analysis we will use here to review a few players moving in different directions over the past month in Trey Mancini and Tyler Naquin.  Who do we sell?  Who do we hold?  Who do we buy?  Let us find out!

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Getting Hot!

August 28, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 9 Comments

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The numbers are in, and my unofficial spreadsheet says that the hottest player of the last few weeks deserves to be part of a blind resume!  Who do we want for the rest of the season as we look at three power-hitting outfielders with season lines of:

Player A: 60/27/71/8/.247
Player B: 49/22/65/0/.267
Player C: 70/25/77/0/.256

Three sluggers having much different seasons tell us that season-long stat lines matter little at this point in the season.  Early season darling, Aroldis Garcia (Player A), has a strong season line.  However, in the last two months, he has scuffled to a .206 average with a 35% strikeout rate and merely seven long balls.  Giancarlo Stanton (Player B) continues to be a Savant with his underlying power numbers but has been an overall disappointment considering relatively positive health this season.  That brings us to Player C, Hunter Renfroe, who is coming on at the right time for the fantasy stretch and jumping into our top 100 rankings for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season thanks to a .333 average, seven homers, and a combined 21 R + RBI over a baker’s dozen games.  On the back of that performance, we will look at the other hot bats jumping up the rankings for the rest of the season.

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Hitter Profiles: Reinforcements Coming

August 21, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 8 Comments

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September is fast approaching and with it comes the opportunity to expand rosters.  Unlike the days of yesteryear, rosters will be expanding to 28 players from the current 26 player setup.  With the increase comes the opportunity to call up some young talent and for us in the fantasy world to catch lightning in a bottle.  In today’s hitter profiles, we look at a handful of hitters that may make an impact if called up.  With the unpredictability of our game and the management of many major league rosters, will these reinforcements arrive in time to save your season?

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Buy or Sell

August 14, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 13 Comments

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It is time for another edition of top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season.  To work through the movers and shakers we will be going with another rendition of buy or sell!  However, before we do it is worth a glance at some of the bigger news at the top of our rankings.  Fernando Tatis Jr. is looking to add a new skill to his repertoire as an outfielder.  While the move is much more about his health and keeping his bat in the lineup, the impact down the rankings is more important.  In an outfield made up of Wil Myers, Trent Grisham, and Tommy Pham we already have solid fantasy value.  The addition of Tatis is made possible through Adam Frazier and Jake Cronenworth, but somebody will have to pay.  The easy choice will be Wil Myers, but the likely outcome is split time for all three of the incumbent starters.  Once Tatis Jr. is back on the field, Grisham and Pham will certainly be impacted.  The real question is how much?  While we can not answer that today, we can look at who we should be buying and selling for the rest of the season in our top 100 hitter rankings.  Without further ado, the list!

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Hitter Profiles: Head-to-Head Battles

August 7, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 10 Comments

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We are in the home stretch for many head-to-head leagues with roughly four or five matchups remaining to make or break the season.  Whereas rotisserie leagues need to balance the final two months it is often about getting any point possible in any given week in a matchup-based format.  Therefore, we are often chasing the hot hand trying to determine who will remain hot and carry your team to the title.  Invest at the right time and you reap the rewards, invest too late and your season may be crashed.  In the head-to-head spirit this week, our hitter profiles will focus on two NL Central teams with hot hitters making the call for who we want driving home those points.

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Trading Frenzy

July 31, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 24 Comments

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The top 100 hitters for the rest of the fantasy baseball season returns this week as the baseball world enjoyed a spirited trade deadline.  Seriously, I can not remember a more entertaining few hours as big names in the majors and minors were flying off the board.  This will take some time to digest, but that was potentially a historic 48 hours.  As well, it is an exciting time in our fantasy game as values quickly change and fantasy writers like me tell our editors that being wrong this time really is not our fault!  I simply guarantee these rankings for the next 17 minutes!  Time to break down the big moves from Anthony Rizzo to Joey Gallo to Starling Marte to Kris Bryant to Trea Turner and so much more!  Check your tray tables and buckle up for another rousing rendition of the top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season.

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: Big Names Poised for Big Things

July 24, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters |

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The MLB trade deadline is fast approaching and that should be a cue in our little fantasy game to predict landing spots and proactively poach talent while planning for potential opportunities.  Maybe it will be a middle reliever taking over the closer spot or a young prospect getting a shot at the big leagues in a newly vacated role.  Regardless of the reason, late July and early August should be some of the most active times in any league.  This week we will review a few hitter profiles for some of the bigger names that can and should provide more value in the final two months of the season than folks may realize.  A dive into Jose Ramirez, Trevor Story, and the ageless Evan Longoria shall follow!

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Jeremy Brewer

Top 100 Hitters: Buying me a Fran-Million

July 17, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 3 Comments

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There is a new leader atop our Top 100 Hitters for the rest of the fantasy baseball season as we head into the second half of the season.  Unfortunately, the movement is driven by an injury to Ronald Acuna.  It is a big loss for fantasy owners and fans of the game alike.  However, with the second half of the season we also get an opportunity to see the young crop coming up from the minors in Jarred Kelenic and Jarren Duran.  Both have immense potential and I remain bullish, specifically on Mr. Kelenic.  Let us see how they stack up for the top 100 hitters and where the buys and sells profile for the second half.

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Hitter Profiles: All-Star Buy and Sell

July 10, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Hitters | 10 Comments

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The 92nd All-Star game takes place this coming week on Tuesday the 13th, or is that the 91st All-Star game with last year’s rendition being canceled?  This should be Mike Trout’s 10th trip to the midsummer show which is impressive on so many fronts, instead he settles for his 9th trip.  Thanks 2020, for reminding us of what all you took from us!  On the flip side, there will be 34 first time attendees which tells us something about the parity in the league or the impact of the one player per team rule.  Regardless, we are going to spend some time doing a rapid fire buy or sell session with our hitter profiles focusing on the second half of the 2021 season for our first time All-Stars.

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Top 100 Hitters: Holiday Weekend Edition

July 3, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 32 Comments

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Let me be the first and if not the first, the best, to wish you a happy 4th of July weekend.  This weekend importantly marks the mid-way point in the season.  For most of us, that means there are one or two months left until the trade deadline and hopefully we are all still in contention rather than seeing our season going all cattywampus.  This week in our top 100 hitter rankings we will see how some of the early season upstarts are trying to hang around while some veterans are singing us their swan songs.  While I could waste another 200-300 words on this intro, let us be honest in that you have already skimmed and checked out around cattywampus.  Without further ado, the updated rankings for your top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season await!

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