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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Avoiding The Blurbstomp – Third Time’s The Harm
April 6, 2023 | Avoiding the Blurbstomp, Featured | 9 Commentsby: C.A. James
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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Points Leagues: Overreaction Time
April 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Points Leagues, Featured | 6 Commentsby: Butters
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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MLB Risers And Fallers: Bucked O’Neill
April 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell, Featured | 10 Commentsby: CableBoxScore
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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DFS: The Amazing Shrinking Slate
April 6, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, DraftKings, Fanduel, Featured | 2 Commentsby: darksheep
One week of baseball is in the scorebooks. Stolen bases are up, BABIP is up, and the pitch clock (outside of a few curmudgeons) is already being hailed as a success. Hopefully, your DFS Picks have been cooking. Today’s big DFS slate on DraftKings has been slowly shrinking from eight to four games as they […]
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Luzardo Fills Twinkies With Jesus Juice
April 6, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 323 Commentsby: Grey
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In 2021, Jesus Luzardo (7 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 0.71) was traded for two months of Starling Marte. This is great, by the way:
Hmm, is it tough to judge? I don’t know, guys. I think that might be one of the easiest trades ever to judge. Especially in 2022. Is Starling Marte still on your Oakland Athletics? Did he help you win a World Series? Is Jesus Luzardo now an ace? Is he no longer on your team? Trying to figure out how hard it is to judge. I guess if you’re no longer paying attention to baseball and just judging Luzardo on what he did for those two months when Marte was on your team, then, maybe, I don’t know, interjection, but I tend to think it was pretty easy to judge then, as well. So, Jesus Luzardo was — you guessed it! — Jesus Luzardo sleeper and he should be on everyone’s team, so you’re welcome! Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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Prospect News: Stash List Volume 1: Licks And Stones
April 5, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 38 Commentsby: The Itch
Orioles RHP Grayson Rodriguez was the number one name on this list, but he’s in the majors today with Kyle Bradish on the injured list. Rodriguez didn’t have much success this spring but still feels like a solid bet to hit the ground running.
1. Mets 3B Brett Baty
With some other guys on this list, we can build a semi-reasonable case for keeping them in the minors. Until he left Monday’s game with a sore thumb, this was not the case for Baty, who played well in spring and already has a two-homer game in Triple-A this year. Eduardo Escobar is a veteran making a lot of money. That’s the entire case against Baty. It’s so odd that they’d spend so much on the team and then lose runs and development time because of a sunk-cost fallacy.
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Intro Greetings Razzers, back at it for another season of Top 100 Outfielders. As I started last season, I have calculated the rest-of-season outfield ranks into TIERS. Everybody loves tiers. Tiers are like onions, and onions have layers. Tiers and layers, onions and parfaits. However, these aren’t just your everyday run-of-the-mill tiers, No sir (/ma’am). […]
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SAGNOF: Can Ji-Hwan Be Your Steals Bae?
April 5, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, SAGNOF, Steals | 2 Commentsby: MarmosDad
Happy Wednesday, Razzball gang! Baseball is officially BACK! I know we’re less than a week into the 2023 season, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t look at some super early small sample data to get our stolen base engines going. With the implementation of the pitch clock, and the push for the game to […]
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It was either that or Wanderwall. Yeah, I like Oasis too, all their two songs and the bowl cuts with sunglasses, they just smell like the late 90’s… and you know, the above title may liken Wander Franco to a whale. Still, it just fits literally, as the old idiom goes; to a location far […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? O’s Tuning Into Graysonatomy
April 5, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 330 Commentsby: Grey
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Will the Orioles’ front office answer the question why on earth they sent Grayson Rodriguez to the minors for five games? Because that’s got to be one of the biggest boneheaded decisions of the year so far. You can say, “Grayson Rodriguez needed more seasoning.” Okay, maybe, but five games? So, that reason is off the table. Seasoning reasoning? No go! You can say it’s because their staff had an opening after injuries, but you’re just carrying water for idiots. That doesn’t make any sense. They could’ve just went to a 6-man rotation and had him in the rotation. What was five games for? Why did you stress me out by sending him down to the minors for five games? Answer me! Are the O’s really that spiteful towards me? You can say they sent him down because Grayson Rodriguez forgot pants. That’s about the only believable reason. So, we back, baby! I love Grayson Rodriguez and he’s an automatic top 40 starter while he’s on the mound. Will there be some tough outings? Yeah, I suppose, but that could be for anyone. Hello, Andrew Heaney! Grayson Rodriguez is absolutely the real deal. Here’s my Grayson Rodriguez fantasy for more. On a side note, you know you’ve been doing this shizz for a long time when you have people telling you info before it happens. This story came to me first because the Grayson Rodriguez story was broken by our former pod/prospect man, Geoff. Crazy times!
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Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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SAGNOF: Off To A McGough Start
April 4, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Closers, SAGNOF | 5 Commentsby: JKJ
What’s poppin, Razzpimples? Bullpen update time! Yay, preseason content is over, so I can jump directly into recapping the last week-ish of action and provide y’all with some stellar, unparalleled analysis. It was a pretty bonkers week for bullpen dudes, with some surprising saves, disappointing outings, and lots and lots of holds to go around. […]
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