Gilbert Arizona Rises Like a Phoenix

August 16, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 303 Comments

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The stage was set. A 27-year-old with three and two-thirds innings in his major league career under his belt. Zero starts prevously. A Rule 5 no-nothing arm from the 6th round of the 2015 draft. He was traded from the Dodgers to the Phils for Garlick. Not even a root vegetable! Not even a rutabaga, they said! Then left him unprotected, and the Diamondbacks grabbed Gilbert in the Rule 5 draft. A draft where players are divvied up by one team saying, “We’ll take him,” then every other team has to the count of five to say they want him. And no one wanted Gilbert! His own father, Gilbert Gilbert, didn’t even want to name him Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert after his father, Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert. Forgotten, abandoned, and then: History. Tyler Gilbert (9 IP, 0 ER, 0 hits, 2 walks, 5 Ks) threw MLB’s 8th no-hitter (because they don’t count games that are seven innings long as real games) in his first major league start. With that historic, momentous game under his belt, grab him now for fantasy? God, no! He sucks. I mean, maybe in NL-Only. But while holding your nose. The other three guys to throw no-hitters in their first start were Bobo Holloman, Bumpus Jones and Ted Breitenstein. Two of them were in the 1800s when baseball were made rocks. Bumpus and Bobo sound like great company for a traveling circus. Either way, Saturday made for a memorable night for Gilbert. Just last year he was an electrician’s apprentice, so he went from lights on to lights out. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

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2021 Fantasy Baseball: Two Start Pitchers Week 21 (8/16-22)

August 15, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Two Start Pitchers | 6 Comments

by: Richie Tauriello

Well sports fans, after a nice stretch of games with a little thing called hits. The fun is over and on Saturday there was a No-Hitter. This time from the unlikeliest of sources, Tyler Gilbert of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The one-time electrician and first-time starter on Saturday made history against the Padres, the story is undoubtedly worth checking out. So, From new to old we go. Chris Sale also made his first start in two years against the Orioles and it was a promising start. So he should be rostered in all leagues. Lastly, we were treated to the Field of Dreams game between the White Sox and Yankees. The game most certainly did not disappoint, ending with a walk-off home run by Tim Anderson straight into the cornfields. It was truly a movie-made moment.

Onto the injury news of the week. Starting with Julio Urias being placed on the 10 day IL with a calf contusion. Those waiting on Luis Severino will have to wait longer as he suffered what seems like another setback, claiming “I didn’t feel right” before his scheduled rehab start. Michael Pineda was again placed on the IL with an oblique strain. I expect him to be out the rest of the year. Last but not least Huascar Ynoa of the Braves is scheduled to start Tuesday after missing most of the season. He’s worth rostering if you have a spot open, considering the way he pitched early in the year. That’s the injury news so let’s check out the rankings for this week’s two-start pitchers.

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Alcantara? More Like Alcanara…

August 15, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Sleepers |

by: Jay

We all know sand is annoying. I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere. These are just basic facts people. Like how the Earth is round and how face masks help prevent the spread of COVID. But strangely enough, my views on sand don’t quite line up with my views on Sandy Alcantara. I guess I should eventually find out his level of sandiness, but just focusing on that may not be helpful in a fantasy baseball context. While I’m always willing to be avant-garde with my analysis, we’ll put aside what may be controversial sand views on my part and concentrate on the fact that this once young arm who was destined to be a two-pitch reliever has gone on to start 69 out of 77 games pitched, and done so in an above-average fashion, much like my love-making! What do I make of this and what should you make of this are questions I will try to answer after the jump!

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Top 25 Fantasy Shortstops for 2021 – Week 20

August 15, 2021 | Top 25 Shortstops | 4 Comments

by: Jakkers

Last week featured the second basemen who are good additions to make right now in your drive toward the fantasy postseason. This week it is the shortstops’ turn. There are a number of players available on the waiver wire who will make great additions down the stretch on your fantasy team.

You can never have too much depth at the position. Owners of Francisco Lindor know all too well about injuries. Javier Baez is now in that same situation with back spasms. Or you can have two outstanding shortstops who are now falling “short” of expectations.

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Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Week 20: Ride the Wave

August 15, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Streamers, Fantasy Baseball Two Start Pitchers | 9 Comments

by: The Real Joey Bart

I’m going to approach this article a little differently this week. Before writing this piece, I always formulate a list of streamers that I like for the next week, and I had more names listed than ever before. In fact, I had nearly 20 pitchers marked down as potential streamers! I’m going to provide my usual write-up for the two-start guys, but I’m going to do short clips of all the one-start guys I love as well. I have reason to believe that all of these pitchers can be successful this week, and I’ll let you guys pick and choose among the bunch.

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FanDuel: Sunday’s Manaea Slate, Time To Feast On The Weak

August 15, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel |

by: The Roster Mechanic

On the pitching side, Sean Manaea, $9600 going up against the 2-10 pitching machine (Allard) Texas is offering up just feels right! Manaea has been either really good or really bad in his last four outings but with 143 K’s and a 3.43 ERA in 128 innings, he’s been solid for the most part. There are 10 games on the slate so there’s a lot of value if you’re the risk-taking type.

Hitters, let’s focus on players with a solid hit tool, plus matchups and try to strike against bad pitchers. With an over/under of 10.5 the Balt/Boston game tops the list along with a sneaky Cards/Royals game at 10. Braves, Brewers, and A’s players should all be in play.

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Prospect News: Yohel Pozo Producing Yerminator Sequel, Liquid Metal

August 15, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 24 Comments

by: The Itch

I’m a big fan of how the White Sox have been operating for a while now. The system rarely hears plaudits from the pundits but continues to get results. Perhaps Gavin Sheets and Jake Burger won’t be stars, but they’ve provided crucial depth during a contention window in a time of dire need. Codi Heuer struggled in 2021 after a sleek rookie season in 2020, but GM Rick Hahn was still able ship across town in the Craig Kimbrel deal and extract functional value within the window. Along that same road, I cannot express how impressed I am that they moved Nick Madrigal to push for a title. Here was a guy they’d picked 4th overall who hadn’t experienced so much as a hiccup in his career, but the present moment is our only guarantee in life, and especially in baseball, where the 2022 season is far from certain thanks to the expiring competitive balance agreement. Madrigal’s service clock is already well underway, so selling him is far different from moving a teenager whose six-year, 40-man roster clock has just begun. The White Sox didn’t have many of those guys to sell anyway, perhaps, but I think they might right now.

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Top 100 Hitters: Buy or Sell

August 14, 2021 | Top 100 Hitters | 13 Comments

by: Jeremy Brewer

It is time for another edition of top 100 hitters for the rest of the 2021 fantasy baseball season. To work through the movers and shakers we will be going with another rendition of buy or sell! However, before we do it is worth a glance at some of the bigger news at the top of our rankings. Fernando Tatis Jr. is looking to add a new skill to his repertoire as an outfielder. While the move is much more about his health and keeping his bat in the lineup, the impact down the rankings is more important. In an outfield made up of Wil Myers, Trent Grisham, and Tommy Pham we already have solid fantasy value. The addition of Tatis is made possible through Adam Frazier and Jake Cronenworth, but somebody will have to pay. The easy choice will be Wil Myers, but the likely outcome is split time for all three of the incumbent starters. Once Tatis Jr. is back on the field, Grisham and Pham will certainly be impacted. The real question is how much? While we can not answer that today, we can look at who we should be buying and selling for the rest of the season in our top 100 hitter rankings. Without further ado, the list!

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SAGNOF: Ro-Ro-Ro-Rojas, Quickly Down The Stream

August 14, 2021 | SAGNOF |

by: Roto-Wan

We’re back to chasing speed this week. Keep an eye towards shuffling batting orders, rookies on the horizon, and second-half surges. The NFL pre-season will soon have its hooks in us. There may be some surprising names on the wire thanks to this. Maybe suggest a surprisingly friendly trade for the thing you need most. Grind on in the name of the faceless god, free category juice.

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Fanduel: Sale-vation is at Hand

August 14, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel | 11 Comments

by: everywhereblair

What’s up degeneratti? If you’re here, it’s either because you love me or really want to hand over your money to Fanduel. I hope it’s because you love me! Did you know that a bunch of the Razzbois are in DFS Wars — a charity competition put on by RotoRanks to support the LostBoyz, Inc., and spread some good positivity among DFS touts? In the first week, yours truly finished 6th out of 15, just behind our good friend Son, and just ahead of my DFS co-captain MattTruss.

From a DFS strategy standpoint, I want to highlight that I’m building lineups for a single-entry, which is why I look for inefficient price points or my favorite hitters. I personally don’t have the capital to do Mega Multi Entry tournaments; I know people who put together 300 lineups per day! That’s an astounding feat. Regardless of whether you’re in the single-entry mold or the MME mold, here are my top plays for the day.

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Travis d’Arnaud d’Arnailing d’ingers

August 14, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 31 Comments

by: Dan Pants

Is this heaven? I don’t know about you guys but I can’t stop thinking about that corn field game! Sweet sassy molassy! It was a-maize-ing! Never before was there a concept I thought was so stupid initially but I could not be more into when it was happening. Who would have thought watching home runs sailing into fields of corn would be so darn fun? Most surprising was not how much I enjoyed it but how much the players seemed to be enjoying it as well. I’ll admit Field of Dreams the film is “a bit much” for me but damn if I didn’t get goosies when the players walked out onto the field. What is wrong with me? I hate how much I loved it. Makes you realize how important the stadiums really are to the sport and I hope they do more stuff like this. Who wouldn’t want to watch the pros play on a recreated “Sandlot”, complete with large, scary, barking dog beyond the outfield fence. It put me in such a good mood I had to highlight a catcher this week, because I know you guys love that stuff. Well, Braves catcher Travis d’Arnaud returned from a lengthy stint on the 60 day IL this week and has picked up right where he left off after his breakout 2020. He went 2-for-4 Friday night with his third home run. D’ude is a d’Arnatural! Travis was just 4-for-17 with two runs, an RBI and two walks in his stint at AAA rehabbing after thumb surgery but showed plenty of magic with Atlanta last year slashing .321/.386/.533 with 9 bombs and 34 RBI in 44 games. He was a top five catcher last year and COVID survivor, Grey told you to BUY and he said, “Do I like The French Terminator better than the aforementioned catchers? Not really.” Wow! High praise! D’Arnaud is available in about half of leagues right now but that number is climbing fast. I’d grab him wherever I needed a catcher.

Here’s what else I saw Friday night in fantasy baseball:

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Ambulance Chasers: The Return of the Sox Sale

August 14, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Injury Report | 8 Comments

by: everywhereblair

Of course, the first thing I check when I write this article is “What is the etymology of ambulance?” Seems like the “ambu” part is definitely from walking (like “ambulate”) and “lance” comes from King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table…or is it Lance Armstrong? ENYWHEY. It’s about combat deaths. [starts puking] Well, now that I’ve discovered that baseball is a war of attrition and we’re all the bystanders watching the battles and the war, I feel much better about my complicit participation in this 300 cosplay that we do every day. SPARTAAAAA!

Anyway, here’s the injury update:

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