Author: CableBoxScore

Ryan is a 20-year veteran of fantasy baseball, football, and basketball leagues. He has been writing about fantasy sports, sports betting, and DFS since 2018 and is a member of the FSWA and IBWAA. A native of Houston, he is a die-hard fan of the Astros, Rockets, and - reluctantly - the Texans. When he is not buried under sports analysis, he works full-time in higher education and can be found pursuing his other passions: drinking coffee and writing about television and comic book investments.

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2024 MLB Risers And Fallers: Free Agency Fallout

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Who were the real fantasy baseball risers and fallers from the 2024 MLB free agency this offseason, you ask? The real winners of the offseason, of course, were Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the devil since the Dodgers clearly made a deal with him to get Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow, Teoscar Hernandez, and Yoshinobu […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Chap-man, he is Bad Right Now

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Don’t look now but the fantasy baseball playoffs are just around the corner. Your trade deadline has likely passed and you have about a week or two left to get into that coveted playoff position in head-to-head league. This week’s list is focused on some players who miiiiiight just be available in your standard 12-team […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Where Jordan?

August 10, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 3 Comments

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With the trade deadline well behind us, that means the next major event on the fantasy baseball calendar are the playoffs. Likely one month away in most leagues, we have to come to grips that the performance of the players we have are what we are going to be stuck with for the remainder of […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Spencer Steering The Reds To A Playoff Berth

July 13, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 3 Comments

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Now with the All-Star Break come and gone, some of these players shouldn’t fooling us anymore. It used to be funny that Joey Meneses was batting .275 with three homers, but now it’s downright horrific. We used to dismiss the fact that Willy Adames was hovering around the Mendoza Line, but now (.206 average) he […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: The Demise Of The AL East First Baseman

June 15, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball |

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It’s unlucky season in fantasy baseball right now. We have official and terrible news on players like Lance McCullers, Vinnie Pasquantino, Yordan Alvarez, Chris Sale, and Jazz Chisholm this week. There are no less than five dozen players on the MLB injured list right now. With the dog days of summer officially upon us and […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Manoah Massacre

May 18, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Comments

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Remember the hype around the Blue Jays offense this offseason? They added Daulton Varsho and Brandon Belt. They also had emerging players like Alejandro Kirk in the core of the lineup. Yeah, those players haven’t exactly worked out yet. Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. were due for bounce-back seasons, right? Remember the hype on […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Mounting The Castle

May 4, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Hitters |

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Sometimes when I write about fantasy baseball (and certainly when I play fantasy baseball), I feel a lot like Ruth Langmore. You’ve seen the meme from Ozark by now. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know s*** about f***. Case in point. Some dummy wrote in the preseason that the new park dimensions in Camden […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Wisdom Of The Crowds

April 20, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell | 2 Comments

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As we wake up on April 20th, we have to remember that most MLB players have completed about 18 or 19 games of their season. That amounts to about 11% of their entire fantasy year. I, for one, would not want my boss judging my performance for the year on February 7th or whatever. Fortunately, […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Bucked O’Neill

April 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell, Featured | 10 Comments

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I love, and I mean freaking LOVE, visiting those Most Added and Most Dropped pages on sites like Yahoo and ESPN early in the season. I feel like I am Tywin Lannister or something laughing at all funny things my subjects do to try and amuse me. “Ah, look at all the townspeople rushing to […]

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All Who Wander Are Not Lost: Franco’s Breakout Is Now

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

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What were you doing when you were 17 years old? I have two vivid memories from 17. The first was seeing Titanic 23 times because that’s what every other 17-year-old girl I knew wanted to do and you’re darn right I was going to be there for them to hold when that old couple cuddles […]

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MLB Risers And Fallers: Position Battle Royale

March 9, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell |

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Because Major League Baseball doesn’t do anything fun like throwing players battling for a position into a coliseum pit to fight to the death, we have to settle for them figuring things out on the field. LAME. Yes, baseball’s version of The Purge is quite mundane, but that’s not to say there are not still […]

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Climbing The Mountcastle Wall: Camden Yards Destroys Ryan’s Upside

February 24, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball | 1 Comment

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Most of the time when we hear about a player hitting a wall, it’s due to injury, fatigue, or loss of skill. Very rarely – and maybe never! – do we hear about a player hitting a wall because of an actual wall. But we may have found our Patient Zero in Ryan Mountcastle, whose […]

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