Mike Couillard

FAAB Week 2: The Waiver Wire Strikes Back

April 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Drops, Adds and Holds, Featured | 14 Comments

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Welcome back to the weekly waiver wire/FAAB article! Can you find replacements for the rash of new injuries to the likes Eloy Jimenez, Mitch Haniger, Max Fried, and Robbie Ray with Joey Gallo, Ji-Hwan Bae, and Seth Lugo? Is the backend of your roster still suffering after your drunken inattention caused you to throw value […]

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John Frascella

MLB Injury Report: Oy Vey Eloy, Here We Go Again

April 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Injury Report, Featured | 2 Comments

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Eloy Jimenez has all the talent in the world, doesn’t he? When he’s healthy and “on” he often reminds me of the great Manny Ramirez – loose, smooth, and confident. But can Eloy ever stay on the field with any consistency at this point? This week it’s a hamstring injury – always a giant red […]

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Dan Pants

Bryan Reynolds Stars In Trade Pool

April 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 40 Comments

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Perhaps it’s the constantly ticking pitch clock causing me anxiety and doubt but the Pittsburgh Pirates, yes those Pirates aka the 1979 World Champs have now won four in a row and that’s almost entirely due to free-agent-to-be Bryan Reynolds. Reynolds was 3-for-5 with his MLB leading fifth home run Friday night along with 6 […]

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Jakkers

Top Dynasty Keepers – Turang And Bae

April 8, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Keepers, Featured, Keeper Leagues | 2 Comments

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Welcome back to another installment of Top Dynasty Keepers. That waiver wire in fantasy baseball is now on fire as players are making adds and drops in reaction to the first week of the season.

This week we are going to take a look at two second basemen who play in the National League Central Division – Brice Turang of the Milwaukee Brewers and Ji Hwan Bae of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Road to The Show

Turang had an outstanding prep career in California, leading the Brewers to select him with the 21st overall pick in the 2018 draft. Entering the season as the No. 4 prospect in the Brewers system, Turang entered this season as the Brewers’ fourth-ranked prospect and was ranked as high as the 88th best prospect by Baseball America and 96th by MLB.com prior to the 2021 season before falling out of the Top 100.

Given a chance to earn a spot on the Opening Day roster this spring, Turang did so and is off to a solid start. Now, he is starting to get love from fantasy players as he is now rostered in 13.2% of ESPN leagues, an increase of 11.9% over the last seven days, and in 27% of Yahoo leagues.

Bae, who hails from South Korea, originally signed with the Atlanta Braves in 2017 but was declared a free agent after the fallout from Atlanta’s international signing violations. The Pirates swooped in and signed Bae in the spring of 2018 for $1.2 million. Unlike Turang, Bae is not getting as much love from fantasy owners as he is owned in 2.3% of ESPN leagues, though that is up two percent over the last seven days. In Yahoo leagues he is rostered in 19% of leagues.

Now that we know a little more about Turang and Bae, let’s breakdown each player.

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Grey

It Ain’t No Lie Baby Buy Buy Brice

April 7, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell, Featured | 297 Comments

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Laura Holt

Rolling In The Deep: Vier(l)ing In The Right Direction

April 7, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Featured, Rolling In The Deep | 8 Comments

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What’s happening, Razzball nation?! It’s been a predictably wacky first week of baseball, and I for one already feel like I could use a vacation. We’ve had a tough start for some heavily drafted pitchers, but I’m trying to keep the faith that things will even out eventually. In a few leagues where I had […]

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Grey

Mets Hope Alvy Can Tune Out Their Sorrow and the Pity

April 7, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 205 Comments

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For once, the Mets’ doctors were used for good instead of evil. They gave Omar Narvaez day-to-day status and that knocked him out for nine weeks. Hey, lucky they didn’t say he was healthy! That might’ve knocked him out for the rest of his career. Here’s a prayer for everyone who the Mets’ doctors give a clean bill of health to. May their memory be a blessing. With this devastating news for Narvaez, I am very heartbrok–Wait a second! That means they’re calling up Francisco Alvarez! Here’s what I’ve said previously, “I’ve heard Francisco Alvarez compared to Wilson Ramos. A) Wilson Ramos had some great years. Okay, one or two. B) Think that’s selling Francisco Alvarez’s bat short. C) There’s no C. If being honest, I was surprised to see Alvarez was so squat, and I don’t mean just behind home plate. He’s a tiny guy, said by someone who is shorter than Francisco Alvarez. Okay, fine, he’s a “tiny guy” by baseball standards. His power does seem completely legit. He looks like a little square mountain that moves around like a Roomba. A very slow Roomba. A Roomba that starts in the living room, and gets to the kitchen three months later. Prospect Itch said, “A rare backstop in that Francisco Alvarez features plus athleticism and foot-speed, Alvarez stands alone atop minor league catcher mountain after Adley Rutschman joined the Orioles. Alvarez generates easy loft from a strong natural uppercut. Also, I’d like to uppercut Grey.” And that’s me quoting me quoting Itch! Our Prospectonator has the projections for every rookie. Before they’re even called up. It’s magic! That magic has Alvarez down for 21/3/.225. That feels low on the average, but about right on the power. If he were to go 21/.240, then he’s a top 10 catcher. Grab him everywhere you need a catcher. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:

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Son

One Man’s Trash: Treys for Trayce

April 6, 2023 | Featured, One Man's Trash | 9 Comments

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The beginning of any fantasy season is the most wonderful time of the year. After mental masturbating over rosters, listening to pods, and reading prognostication after prognostication, the little white ball finally travels from mound to plate, and the live scoring flickers and lights up the screen. We fantasy nerds latch onto every play and either go into bouts of depression when the players we mentally masturbated over all offseason do not perform, or victory lap without clothes when our “guys” exceed even our most erotic dreams and desires. After about a month, the honeymoon period ends and the true grind begins. Until then, though, there will be overreactions galore, for better or for worse, ’till death do us part. On April 1st, Trayce Thompson went 3-for-4 with uno, dos, tres homeruns and 8 RBI. Brother Klay Thompson did not play on that night, so Trayce took care of all the treys for the Thompson family. He was on SportsCenter all day and all night. Now, most of you will not and have not fallen for the banana in the tailpipe, but he was scooped up by close to 15% of owners in ESPN leagues. NFBC owners were not immune either, as Thompson is now rostered on 18% of teams. Even though I have assumptions about many things, I do like to do my due diligence….just in case.

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C.A. James

Avoiding The Blurbstomp – Third Time’s The Harm

April 6, 2023 | Avoiding the Blurbstomp, Featured | 9 Comments

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We’re focusing on the phrase “slammed the door” for this blurb. My knee-jerk reaction (while I am mostly a jerk, my knee is especially so) was that I couldn’t remember that idiom used for a non-save situation, especially on Rotoworld. I googled NBC Sports Edge and “slam the door” because I have problems, and decided the first 15 baseball-related searches would serve as a decent sample. Every single mention of the door-related phrase described a save, usually one made in emphatic fashion, or questioned a closer’s ability to slam said door.

One can take this information and manipulate your league mates to your heart’s content. Propose a trade and mention Robertson as the Mets closer. They’ll read the blurb, and see the phrase “slammed the door.” Their lizard brain uncoils and stiffens, pert and alert, regardless if the rest of the blurb is conjecture.

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Butters

Points Leagues: Overreaction Time

April 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Points Leagues, Featured | 6 Comments

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We’re a week into the season and this seems like as good a time as any to overreact to the first 7 days. April is a tricky time because after all the draft prep, after all the spring training this is our first look at real action so it is so ridiculously easy to tilt based on the first week or two. Trust your draft prep, players go on hot or cold streaks all the time. It was a rough week for a number of highly drafted starters but that doesn’t mean you should drop Corbin Burnes for Seth Lugo that would be silly. I remind of this because it’s time to tilt.

Might as well start by checking in on my guys to watch from last week. I’m they’re all off to flying starts… Oh… Blake Sabol has been downright awful to start the season batting under .100 with 4 strikeouts. Ok, so he’s actually been costing you points if your league punishes guys who swing and miss. This is fine, its just jitters from being on the big league roster. I’m not going to panic but I do have some concern regarding the kind of leash the Giants will give him to sort things out at the plate.

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