by: Matt Stiles
Its happening….baseball is back! We are three days in and some (most) of us are still giddy over the start of the season. On this first Saturday DFS slate of the 2022 MLB season, we might as well go a little crazy, right? The DFS account is loaded and prepped to outperform the stock market. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Learn more about our 2025 Fantasy Baseball Subscriptions!
The best daily/weekly player rankings/projections (hitters, starters, and relievers) for each of the next 7-10 days + next calendar week starting Friday. Kick-ass DFS lineup optimizer and projections for DraftKings, FanDuel, and Yahoo!.
Weekly Razzball news delivered straight to your inbox.
Razzballers and Shotcallers, I hope you all had a wonderful Opening Day where none of your real life team or fantasy roster were taken out by injuries (unless you are my competition, and in that case, too bad, sucker!). Last week, many of you shared thoughtful feedback in the comments about ways to improve formatting […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?
by: Grey
[brid autoplay=”true” video=”988453″ player=”13959″ title=”BSH%20Week2″ duration=”163″ description=”undefined” uploaddate=”2022-04-07″ thumbnailurl=”https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/988453_th_1649350907.jpg” contentUrl=”//cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/sd/988453.mp4″]
(NOTE: THIS POST WAS RELEASED EARLY THIS WEEK ON OUR PATREON. IT’S $10/MONTH.)
Today, I’m gonna be Mr. Monopoly! I don a top hat and tuxedo. Rolls giant foam dice, and…four! Sweet! Then I move along my office carpeting that is a giant Monopoly board. Ooh, pick a Chance card! Excellent! I put in my monocle so I can read, and the Chance card says, “Pick up a middle infield prospect.” Fun! I could grab Diego Castillo, Jeremy Pena, Bryson Stott, CJ Abrams, or Geraldo Perdomo. No problem for me deciding that! Who says variety is debilitating? *studies the stats for each player, a bead of sweat forms on my forehead, slowly that bead of sweat builds into a giant bucket of water and it crashes down on my face, waterboarding me* Help! Make it stop! I can’t decide who I want! So, let’s make like a gravedigger, and dig in.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hello all, I write to inform you that Avoiding the Blurbstomp will be moving to its new day of publishing, Thursday. We at AtB apologize for any inconvenience caused by this disruption of services. We have been gratefully providing our services for the internet for more than a year now and would be lying if […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?
by: Laura Holt
By the time you read this, actual 2022 major league baseball games will have finally happened! I still have a couple more drafts before I’m officially ready to roll for the year, but in the meantime, I thought I’d look back to some of my early deep league picks to see which look like hits […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Welcome back my faithful reader(s) to another amazing season of Head to Head Fantasy Baseball talk! It has been a grueling offseason full of CBA disputes, huge contracts, and in some cases (looking at you Conforto), no contracts. Well, we wait no longer! Opening Day has arrived and it is time to look ahead to the 1st full week of H2H baseball. Last year, we walked, hand in hand, for 25+ weeks worth of players to target who may help you in each of the H2H categories. Well this year is going to be a little different. Yes, I still plan on giving out nuggets of H2H goodness as if I was a lifesize PEZ dispenser, but as the old adage goes, “Give a man a fishing pole and he will just get bored and end up at Chili’s”…or something like that.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Welcome to Opening Day, Part Deux. After 14 teams kicked off the 2022 season on Thursday, the other 16 take the diamond for the first time today. Whether you’ve been participating in fantasy drafts since Thanksgiving or just coming to the ballpark now that the lights of March Madness have gone dim, it’s a glorious […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? by: Grey
[brid autoplay=”true” video=”984077″ player=”13959″ title=”RZBL%20BSH%20Week1″ duration=”174″ description=”undefined” uploaddate=”2022-04-01″ thumbnailurl=”https://cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/snapshot/984077_th_1648779641.jpg” contentUrl=”//cdn.brid.tv/live/partners/9233/sd/984077.mp4″]
*digs nose into an open field of grass, lifts head, eyes filled with tears* This smells of my youth!
Passerby, “My dog just peed there, so probably because you used to wet yourself.”
Baseball is back.
“Hello, Genie, I have three wishes for this baseball season. My first wish: No one I roster get hurt. My 2nd wish: Everyone I roster do well. I drafted Bobby Witt Jr., Julio Rodriguez, and Seiya Suzuki, so, really, I’m doing much of the heavy lifting for this wish. My 3rd and final wish: All 3rd base coaches send runners home by doing the Moonwalk. Thanking you in advance, Genie. Wait a second, you’re not a genie, you’re Bartolo Colon in Blue Man Group paint. Damn you!”
Glad I didn’t waste a wish on losing a closer during some janky Chris Paddack trade, because that didn’t need a wish. Chris Paddack and Emilio Pagan were moved to the Twins for Taylor Rogers, Brent Rooker and cash. This trade was done as it snowed all across the baseball community. *intern whispers in ear* It wasn’t snow? It was dandruff from all the head scratching? Oh, I see. This feels like a deal we hear about in five years when the authorities figure out the Twins were secretly working with the Padres. Incredibly, the Padres tried to give Paddack away to everyone, then the Twins paid full price. Like, what even? For a month, every team was supposedly trying to acquire Paddack, when, in reality, it was just the Padres trying to give Paddack away for anything. Chris Paddack was so highly sought after that the Padres pretended to trade him to every team. Statcast sliders aren’t good and neither is Chris Paddack. I suppose if he can fix his fastball, but, allow this small cackle of truth, why didn’t he fix his fastball while in San Diego? Didn’t feel like it? Um, okay. So, I wouldn’t suddenly be interested in Paddack, outside of AL-Only leagues. I’ll go over the Padres and Twins’ pens on the other side of the anyway. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Nicky Lopez of the Kansas City Royals is the antithesis of Ricky Henderson, the tsaeb of fantasy baseball. Lopez won’t hit for power and….Well, he won’t do much of anything except get some steals. Will they be a “manna falling down from heaven” amount of steals? Niet, but steals are a commodity and many fall behind in the early part of the draft, forcing them to pay up later. You won’t have to pay up for Lopez, as he’s being drafted on average with the 269th overall pick in NFBC drafts from 3/2022 to 4/6/2022. Here’s why I think he can be useful:
Please, blog, may I have some more?It’s finally time, Opening Day is here and we can all rejoice. Sing from the heavens, baseball is back. I must confess, I was worried that the lockout would rob us of far more baseball than the week we were actually delayed. Fortunately I was wrong and I have never been more happy to be wrong. So here we are, drafts are complete, lineups are set. Now the real fun begins. We have real games and that means the wavier wire picks up steam. So let’s get ahead of the wire and check out some guys you should keep an eye on. These guys are all on the wire in a good chunk of leagues but could be fantasy assets. I have reasons for some, such as making the Opening Day roster and some I just like and want to see do well. Either way they’re my early waiver wire candidates who at the very least should be on your watch list. Or, if you will, monocle list.
Please, blog, may I have some more?That concludes the shortest Spring Training we have on record! Some teams played as few as 13 games in this truncated version of the pre-season, while a normal spring typically consists of 25-30. That means our small, irrelevant spring samples of yesteryear are even smaller and irrelevant-er, or something. But we must glean something as […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Opening Day, is there any better feeling? Drafts are finally behind us and we can focus on this silly game of trying to figure out why managers hit terrible playoffs in the leadoff spot and try to comprehend their bullpen usage. A couple of things I’ll be looking at these first few weeks: with the […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?
