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Top 100 Starting Pitchers For 2022: All Star Break Edition

July 18, 2022 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 62 Comments

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I used to work a night shift on Tuesdays in the summer, but it was an outdoor job, so I never got to watch the All-Star Game on TV. Usually, I’d go sneak some Dairy Queen or gas station ice cream as compensation. The All-Star Game never really moved the needle for me. I suppose being a Twins fan, there’s not much to watch on my end year after year. Yankees and Dodgers fans? The All-Star Game is just another primetime game for you guys. Last night, Apple TV offered me the elite matchup of the Pirates vs the Rockies, and YouTube TV offered me Red Sox vs Yankees. Truth be told, I’ve been blacked out of Twins and Brewers games for two years now. MLB wonders why there’s an audience problem. Meanwhile, I — a guy who ostensibly likes baseball — have watched more Minnesota United soccer games than Minnesota Twins games in the past half decade. Go you Loons! ENYWHEY. If the All-Star Game is your thing, enjoy it. Me? I suppose it’s the one time a year I can watch some Twins and Brewers without being blacked out. 

This is a fantasy baseball break, so let’s do the obligatory thing where we evaluate my pre-season picks, recap the hits my system made, and gloss over my misses like you’re five Heineken’s deep at a dinner party.

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Top 20 Second Basemen: Rolling Into The 2022 All-Star Break

July 18, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 7 Comments

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We’ve made it to the All-Star break, and like the previous Top 20 shortstops list, today’s top 20 second basemen list looks very different than the preseason’s top 20 due to injuries and ineffectiveness. Players with long-term injuries like Ozzie Albies and Brandon Lowe have been omitted (although Lowe was just activated Saturday). This list […]

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Grey

Thank You Sir May I Please Half Another

July 18, 2022 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 187 Comments

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As soon as you’re finished with this post, I want you to close your laptop, step outside and look at a bird in flight. Pick up a flower, breathe in its fragrance, sneeze from your allergies, wave to a neighbor and close your robe because you’re not just waving with your hand. How does that feel? Exhilarating? Then your dedication sucks! It should be a total bore. You should be more interested in whether or not I’m going to have a top 100 for the 2nd half of fantasy baseball tomorrow than what your significant other has been doing for the last three and a half months. Luckily, I will have a top 100 tomorrow, and your significant other can keep being your fantasy team. Okay, enough hubbub on the tomfoolery! Chris Sale broke his pinkie yesterday. Well, Aaron Hicks broke it, technically. If not for bad luck, Chris Sale would have no luck. I was minding my own business yesterday, watching the Yankees/Red Sox game when I heard the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my life, a pubic hair commercial, then the 2nd thing worst thing was Sale’s pinkie going creeee-ack. Not sure how long this knocks him out, or how long I will be thinking about that pubic hair commercial, but they might be similar timeframes — the rest of the season. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

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Jakkers

Top Fantasy Keepers – Looking At Julio Rodriguez

July 17, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Keepers, Keeper Leagues | 8 Comments

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Hello everyone, welcome back to another edition of Top Fantasy Keepers.

As we head into the All-Star break, I want to focus on one All-Star who will be making his first appearance in the game but certainly not his last. That player is rookie Julio Rodriguez of the Seattle Mariners.

Rodriguez is the lone rookie All-Star this year, making the roster at the age of 21 – and he won’t turn 22 until December 29! The last Mariners rookie to make the All-Star game was Ichiro Suzuki in 2001, putting Rodriguez into some pretty great company.

Not a Surprise

The fact that Rodriguez is an All-Star shouldn’t be a huge surprise. He was one of the top prospects during the 2017-18 international signing period and eventually signed with Seattle for $1.75 million. In 59 games in the Dominican Summer league that year, he had an OPS of .929. The next year, at the age of 18, he slashed .326/.390/.540 with 12 homers and 69 RBI in 84 games across A and High A ball.

COVID wiped out the 2020 season for minor leaguers, but he put up great numbers again in 2021 at High-A and Double-A, slashing .347/.444/.560 with 13 homers, 47 RBI and 21 steals. The only thing that slowed Rodriguez down while in the minors was a left hand fracture in 2019 and then a broken wrist during Seattle’s summer camp in 2020.

The Mariners have been aggressive in pushing Rodriguez through the system, and after proving he could handle minor league pitchers, Rodriguez earned a spot on the Opening Day roster.

Not everything has been smooth sailing for the rookie. However, as the season has progressed, so too has his production.

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The Itch

Stash List 2022 Volume 5: Help is Down the Hall at Casas de Triston

July 17, 2022 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 34 Comments

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Is there ever a bad time for a stash? 

On one hand, three of the top four prospects graduated from my last stash list, so it’s not only a good time to post a new one, the posting of a new one feels essential to the purpose of this space on the internet. 

On the other hand, the minor league tree of stashes looks a little picked over at the moment. It might replenish itself in a week or two if the Orioles can stay in the race or the Diamondbacks can rip off a Seattle-like string of victories, but right now, we’re waiting for some playing time to shake loose for most of the top guys to get their shot. 

Graduated From Stash List Volume 4: Esteury Ruiz is Ready for His Close-Up: 

Vinnie Pasquantino, Esteury Ruiz, Max Meyer, Nick Pratto. 

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Jeremy Brewer

Hitter Profiles: First Half All-Stars (Part 2)

July 16, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball | 5 Comments

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Last week we toured the infield and our first half fantasy All-Stars.  If you missed that article, stop, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and give last week’s article a read.  For those of you that stopped in last week, thank you and let us get into touring the outfield.  Out on the grass we have two clear front runners that have paid their owners many times over and then a heated competition for the final spot in our lineup.  Without further ado, here are our first half outfield All-Stars!

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keelinbillue

Ambulance Chasers: Ten Guys That Are Definitely Afraid Of Needles

July 16, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Injury Report | 19 Comments

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Happy Saturday, Razzball Folks! The All-Star break is upon us, and we have a record low number of bodies that have hit the floor due to injury. However, we have a record number of folks on the IL because of COVID-19 in the “vaccine avoidance” category. Specifically, the Kansas City Royals have 10 unvaccinated players, […]

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