New York Mets Top 10 Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball

October 6, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 6 Comments

One odd outcome of this tank-focused era in baseball: you really stick out if you try to win and then don’t. Have you seen Squid Game yet? The would-be contenders who try but fail are essentially those people who moved after the giant doll said red light, only this happens daily for several months until merciful October embraces us all in pumpkin spice, candy corn and yard work.

In New York, we find an organization that could have Jarred Kelenic, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kumar Rocker. Instead, Steve Cohen and company have Edwin Diaz, Robinson Cano, and a chunk of payroll that wouldn’t exist if they’d just waited for their ship to come in. I get it; I like to push all in, too. I just never quite understand the binary that suddenly crops up midseason for some teams. Or when a new boss comes in and wags their Brodie V around just to say they’ve done something. Or when a new owner plays hardball with a first-round pick he was lucky to land. The game shouldn’t be about winning now or winning later and always waking the line going back and forth on that, or always robbing from the one hoping for the other. Whatever, sorry for the rant, let’s check the spects.

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RCL Update: The Year That Was, 2021

by: MattTruss

Start the drum roll! Twenty-Six weeks down and now we have 26 more until the start of next year’s fantasy baseball season. It’s perfect symmetry because fantasy baseball is the perfect fantasy sport. But, before we turn our eyes to next season we first have to recap this past season and with that, our overall Razzball Commenter Leagues Champion…Milo The Cat! Congratulations to Milo for sneaking past FFB in the final week! This makes two seasons now where FFB has led the pack down the stretch only to lose the overall lead in the final week, this time, slipping to third. Milo is no slouch though, they have played in Night of the Living Zombinos, one of our toughest legacy leagues, (and a $100 league) since 2016 and finally take the league down. They finished in third last season and hit 36th overall in the Master Standings, but this year is obviously much sweeter. I’m always partial to our legacy leagues and love seeing an overall winner come out of one of them. This year, it’s the entire top three! That high LCI can be a blessing and a curse as FFB has found out, and I’ll get more into that later. Milo had just 0.5 more league points than FFB, but that was enough combined with the better pitching to earn more Master Points and take the lead, topping Stl Squat Cobblers who rode a runaway ECFBL victory to second overall. It was a bit of a down year for ECFBL, with just a 106 LCI, had that been a little higher the Cobblers may have won the title. Milo The Cat really rakes it in, winning themselves a $250 Best Buy gift card! More importantly, though, they get a Razzball T-Shirt and RCL glory. Who can put a price on that? Oh, it’s $25, well then, moving on. If you catch Milo popping into this post, be sure to heap on the praise and congratulations. They fended off some very tough competitors this year to claim the RCL crown. This is Milo’s moment though, so hopefully they pop in, take a bow and soak it up, they earned it.

Here’s what else happened this year and this final week of the RCLs:

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The 13th Annual Razzballies

October 5, 2021 | Y to Z | 108 Comments

by: Grey

Welcome back to our year-end awards show! All the stars are here. There’s The Rock! Wow, he sure knows how to keep it light. *points to a rock holding open a door to let in sun* Thanks, Rock, it’s so light in here for a mother’s basement! Now, if there’s any issues with the award ballots, don’t look at me. These were all tabulated at the accounting firm of Kipnis, Tellez and Zimmerman. Stop giving them the evil eye, German Marquez! You might be wondering why I’m hosting. Well, at the last minute our other host had to back out. Sadly, Joe Buck couldn’t be hair. I mean here. Now, before we get to our first award, I just want to thank everyone. This was truly a trying year for a lot of people, and I appreciate all of you, except Cody Bellinger. Okay, now onto the awards, without which you’d have no idea who was the best and worst hitters and pitchers this year, and you’d be left giving out your own awards and no one cares if your “Low sodium tomato soup in a sourdough bowl” won your “Whitest Lunch Of All-Time” award. Stop making up fake awards! Leave that to me. Anyway, here’s the year-end awards for the best and worst of 2021 fantasy baseball:

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Patreon Podcast: Crypto Trading Hamster

October 4, 2021 | All Podcasts |

by: Donkey Teeth

Razzball Patreon members receive our weekly podcast where Grey cackles about the funniest news stories we’ve found over the past week, plus you get that warm fuzzy feeling of supporting your favorite fantasy sports site in all the land.

It’s your favorite hour of the week! I Can’t Believe It’s Not Not News is back again with all the Billy Hurley jokes and Grey Albright cackles you can handle. First up, a crypto trading hamster gets some publicity. Then, developers make some lofty claims about the new Amazon robot and our NASA expert Billy educates us about the human blood bricks to be utilized on Mars. Finally, a man dates 35 different women and tells them each he has a different birthday in order to collect gifts.

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Watch a teaser from last week’s hour-long episode:

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An End To The Best Baseball Season Of The Decade

October 4, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 166 Comments

by: Grey

You emerge from mother’s basement, holding your hands up to your eyes to block the sun, and scream, “Ma! I won my fantasy league! Ma!” You stop to look around; it’s a fiery landscape reminiscent to an apocalypse. You open further the basement door, and it falls off its hinges. Scared, you whisper, “Ma?” There’s no walls anymore on your house, which gives you a vantage point to the entire surrounding area that smolders. Coming up your once-tree-lined street is a posse of thousands of–An army from another country? Another world? Who are these people? What have they done with your family? Just as the questions dissolve over you, a warrior spots you and grunts for you to get in line. You reach for the only weapon you can get your hands on, a Lou Pinella commemorative mini-bat from a 1981 stadium giveaway, and join the post-apocalyptic army. As you scuttle into position behind the marching forces, you see a group of warriors carrying your mother’s head on a pitchfork. Overcome with emotion, you run up and scream, “Ma! I gotta tell you about the fantasy league I won!” In this scenario, I am your mother, and the army is Razzball. You’re welcome! Today is the day when you realize you’ve spent 27,000 man hours this summer beating eleven other strangers to win a virtual trophy, and it feels great! That’s if you won your league, if you came in 2nd or worst, you get an A for effort.

Another baseball season is in the books, for our purposes at least — or porpoises, if you’re a dolphin — since no leagues I know of count game 163, and with a baseball season in the books, it means Cody Bellinger’s 2021 is now in the books, and, in conclusion, that is why they should burn books. Any questions? *calls on a white guy who looks zonked* Yes? “If I’m going to IHOP is it MeHOP, MyselfHOP or IHOP, or does it depend on usage?” God damn it, is that you Cody Bellinger?! Stop smoking so much weed! *Cody lowers his head, kicks a rock and walks out of the room* Okay, if there’s no more questions, I have one: how long until next year’s rankings come out?! Wait, I have to write them. When I’m done, I’ll start to put them on our Patreon. Now, one more question, what do I do for the next three months? Oh, yeah, write the rankings! Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

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FanDuel: Sail On Sale

October 3, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, Fanduel |

by: The Roster Mechanic

Here we are, the last full slate of the season. First off, it’s been a pleasure to represent Razzball on Sunday FanDuel picks, and thank you for taking the time to give these educated dart throws a look. There’s always the chance a player will sit out or a pitcher will only go a couple of innings on the final day and I’m trying to avoid any questionable plays. SP Chris Sale $9800 will look to lead the Sox in a must-win game and shouldn’t be holding anything back against the Nationals. Sale has put up solid numbers in his eight appearances, pitching to the tune of a 2.90 ERA and 1.24 WHIP. As for hitting, feel free to plug in just about any Toronto bat that is starting today against Baltimore.

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Top 10 Miami Marlins Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball

October 3, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Fantasy Baseball Rankings | 4 Comments

by: The Itch

The Marlins had high hopes this year coming off a crazy playoff chase fueled partially by Covid-based rule changes and the emergence of RHP Sixto Sanchez. 2022 was a different story—a coming-back-to-earth for the cellar dwelling fish—but that’s in the past after today, and the future remains bright in South Beach.

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Hitter Profiles: Fantasy MVPs – Part 2

October 2, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 5 Comments

by: Jeremy Brewer

This week we spend time in the infield examining another group of fantasy MVPs from the 2021 baseball season. We will spend our time going up to the middle with the second basemen, shortstops, and the beer-league middle infielder position. Heading into the season, the shortstops dominated the draft board ripe with young talent and guys like Tatis and Bichette. Unfortunately, we saw plenty of duds with the Mondesi and LeMahieu hype trains derailing all too quickly. Down the board, there are always values to bring home the trophies, so let the debates begin with the 2021 Fantasy MVP Middle Infielders!

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FanDuel: Gallens Of Fun

October 2, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel |

by: MattTruss

Welcome to the final weekend of DFS fun everyone. We only have two full slates before we slip into 2-4 game slates and 75% roster rates. We’ve got nine games tonight before a full-on slate tomorrow. The trick this weekend is finding teams with things to play for, or finding teams that are totally out of it. What we don’t want, is a team that’s already clinched and will be prone to rest starters. Under normal circumstances, Lucas Giolito vs. DET and even Corbin Burnes @LAD would be our top choices, but I don’t expect either of those guys to go more than 4 innings as they tune up and rest up for what really matters, the playoffs. Zac Gallen ($8,400) on the other hand, he’s got five months to rest after this start and should be good to leave it all on the field against the Rockies. The Rockies, as we know, are trash on the road. With absolutely nothing for them to play for, they could be even more trash than usual. Gallen held the Rockies to three hits in Coors back in August and I like him as the top choice in the penultimate large slate of the DFS season.

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Points Leagues: Most Valuable Picks

October 2, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Points Leagues | 4 Comments

by: Butters

It’s almost hard to believe that the season is wrapping up but here we are. Since there’s no next week to pick up players for it’s time to look back on the season. We’ll get into position groups later but here are some guys who outperformed their draft position going into the season. You won’t find guys like Juan Soto here. Yes, he was great after a sluggish start but he was a top five pick. We want the league winners, the draft day values. So here are some guys who stood out to me.

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FanDuel: The Hangover Lineup

October 1, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel |

by: TroyKlauder

Athletics starter Sean Manaea ($9,200) has been solid this year with a 3.70 FIP and exceeded expectations with a 25.8% K-rate. Normally he would be a starter to avoid when facing the Astros, but Houston just clinched the division last night. They’re probably going to use their “hangover lineup” tonight, meaning most of their starters will rest. Therefore, Manaea may fall off the radar for many of your opponents who automatically fade him against the Astros. The biggest edge on tonight’s slate is identifying which teams are still in the hunt and which ones will be phoning it in with nothing on the line to play for.

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Don’t Pee Down Judge’s Leg And Tell Him It’s Ray-ning

October 1, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 135 Comments

by: Grey

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Robbie Ray (5 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 2.84) didn’t have it last night, which you could see for yourself, because his pants are transparent. His ERA should be enough to win the AL ERA title, depending on whether or not he comes in as a reliever on Sunday in a do-or-die game. After last night, I’d turn to Nate Pearson. Ray looked like “pre-2021 Ray” right as we start to look towards 2022, which is not what you want to see. At least him and the Jays weren’t falling to the Orioles.

Red Sox going against the Orioles pic.twitter.com/aJppVeFPbm

— Razzball (@Razzball) October 1, 2021

Ray walked guys, characteristic of pre-2021, and allowed four homers, two of each went to Aaron Judge (2-for-3), who hit his 38th and 39th homer. Also, Brett Gardner (1-for-4) hit his 10th homer, not off his incredibly weird bald head, but that would’ve been cool. Anthony Rizzo (1-for-4) went HR to the Izzo for his 21st and Gleyber Torres (1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer) even got into the act. Maybe Gleyber got excited that the Orioles were being talked about, and he did it as a tribute. Aaron Boone did tell him, “Play your best game in the world, or I’ll eat your souls…” Then, Gleyber and Rizzo looked at each other and said, “And we played the first thing that came to our heads, which just so happened to be our best game in the world.” Wait, this is the best game in the world? “No,” Gleyber said, “This is just a tribute,” and, finally, “To the Orioles.” Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:

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