I really don’t know what “Week” we’re on. Weeks only matter in fantasy football because in Week 17 you’re in your fantasy championship game. Over here in baseball, it’s just another barrage of random starters. Baseball is wonderful that way. There’s a legit chance that the AL Central division winner goes to a team that has a sub-.500 winning percentage, while almost the entire AL East and 4/5 of the AL West have teams with winning records that will be watching from the sidelines. I dunno about y’all, but imagine if we did away with the minor league farm system and instituted a Premier League style relegation system. That way, the Athletics aren’t only not in Oakland next year, they’re not even in the Majors. No more tanking. No more Super 2 status. No more Quad-A jokes. If the East Carolina Yellowjackets have a winning year made up of players who work double-shifts at the Kroger, then they get promoted and are playing against the Miami Marlins next year. What a beautiful world. 

The Razzball Wordpress backend also tells me this is my 150th baseball article at Razzball, This will tie me with Donkey Teeth on the career baseball posting leaderboard. Over on football, I eeked out 158 articles, which was good for 8th most all-time. Adding in that one year stint I had on Razzball Basketball, I’ve topped 330 total articles. I suppose at the end of the month I’ll have my overall 333rd article, which will undoubtedly be worth celebrating with some jokes about Robbie Ray’s pants. 

Speaking of pitchers! 

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See all of today’s starting lineups

# MLB Starting Lineups For Mon 8/4
ARI | ATL | BAL | BOS | CHC | CIN | CLE | COL | DET | HOU | KC | LAA | LAD | MIA | MIL | MIN | NYM | NYY | PHI | PIT | SD | SF | STL | TB | TEX | TOR | ATH | CHW | OAK | SEA | WSH

Sal Frelick (1-for-3, 1 run) was promoted by the Brewers, and hit cleanup because you can’t stop the fun. The fun will overtake you, trample you, stampede you into oblivion if you try to stop the fun. The fun will stand on your head as you scream for your life if you try to stop it. Wow, fun doesn’t sound so fun. Yikes, glad I don’t have fun. I’m serious business and this callup is the same. I gave you a Sal Frelick fantasy just a few weeks ago where I told you to stash him, now I’m saying grab him. He was just in Itch’s top 25 fantasy baseball prospects. Itch said previously, “(Frelick is a) hit machine. Walked (8.8%) more than he struck out (7.4%) in 46 games at Triple-A, slashing .365/.435/.508 with four home runs and nine stolen bases. I have no idea why he didn’t get called up last year, and I’d like to call up a hit man to take out you-know-who.” C’mon man! Frelick is a grab in every league. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

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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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We had an outstanding showing in our first week back from the All-Star break. Reid Detmers, Seth Lugo, Kyle Hendricks, and Michael Lorenzen all pitched well, and it’s not like Ranger Suarez killed our lineups! We feel like we have a great read on how these rotations are playing out right now, but this week […]

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Graduated from Prospect News: Stash List Volume 7: Baltimore Stacks Backups:

Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Colton Cowser, Dominic Canzone, Tyler Soderstrom.

 

1. Cardinals SS Masyn Winn | 21 | AAA 

If I’m the Cardinals, I want Winn to get acclimated to the majors before heading into 2024 because I want him to be my opening day shortstop. He’s been improving throughout the year and has been elite for a while now, slashing .328/.390/.533 with a 12.5 percent strikeout rate over his last 42 games. He has 12 home runs and 16 stolen bases in 87 games on the season and even leads the league in hits with 106.

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After a needed two-week break from life, I’m back and ready to go with another edition of Top Dynasty Keepers.

Let’s be honest, at this point of the season the actual TOP dynasty keepers are long gone. They were gobbled up in fantasy drafts or auctions at the start of this season or last year or the year before that depending on your dynasty league. If a top prospect was still out there this season, they have likely now been snagged off the waiver wire.

But that doesn’t mean there still aren’t good players to go after – you just have to be a little more discerning and probably have to dig a little deeper into the mud to pull out a few gems here and there. But that is the fun part of dynasty leagues, finding those players who may or not help you this year but become key players over the next two or three years.

Two players who I think can both help you this year and beyond are a pair of Tiger hurlers who have had their careers slightly derailed due to injuries. Those two pitchers are 25-year-old Matt Manning and 26-year-old Tarik Skubal.

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Good ‘morrow all! Welcome to Razzball Ambulance Chasers, your fantasy baseball injury analysis. Also, welcome to the second half of the 2023 MLB season and those pesky dog days of summer…or as I call it “Curtains Time”!  All of the incoming 60-day IL entries move into the “See ya next year!” territory.   Josh Donaldson […]

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Players are going to start being traded like hot potatoes. Hot potato gratins. Sorry, I shouldn’t be doing this on an empty stomach. And when those players are traded, you know what this means? All new answers for the Immaculate Grid! Oh, and opportunities for younger players. One team that would never want to admit to being a seller. One team that is way too proud to be like, “We messed this up almost as bad as the Mets.” Their crosstown rivals, the Yankees. Don’t want to blow too many peoples’ minds here, but they were sellers last year too. The JoMo/Bader trade was not to make them better. With the Yankees turning the page, Oswald Peraza should get a “rest of the season” looksie. (We will put aside the fact that he should’ve been playing from March until now with Josh Donaldson told by Jimmy to go down that alley in Goodfellas to look at some new furs.) In the minors, Oswald Peraza went 12/11/.261 with great contact, and has been hitting leadoff for the Yanks, which he should. He’s their best leadoff hitter in some time with his speed and ability to take a walk. Also, one has to imagine that he knows what this opportunity means, and he’s going to want to show the Yanks he should be in their future plans. That means steals. As a team, the Yankees are on the cusp of doing a seance and having a medium channel George Steinbrenner, so Ghost Steinbrenner can fire the entire team, but, until then, Oswald Peraza will be in a great situation for fantasy. At worst, O-Pera beats out the Guardians’ Arias. Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:

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