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

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

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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Buying Rosario Doesn’t Take Amed Degree

August 13, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell | 221 Comments

by: Grey

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I keep saying it, but what’s saying it one more time! It’s so unlikely that Amed Rosario would come out of the Francisco Lindor trade with Andres Gimenez and Amed be the one with the most value this year. Like 100 to 1 odds? Maybe, but maybe what we’re not remembering is something I mentioned on the podcast the other day. Whatever burns the Mets in the most dramatic way will always happen. If it means, Justin Turner, at the age of 28, has a high of two homers in any season, then gets traded away from the Mets and becomes a perennial MVP candidate? Then it will mean that! If it means Zack Wheeler goes to a division rival and becomes a Cy Young candidate, then that’s what will happen. If it means the Mets will make a lopsided trade for a top ten bat in Lindor with a much ballyhooed prospect and a throw-in, then that throw-in will become a top producer. These are the rules of the Mets. Amed Rosario only became a “throw-in” because he didn’t live up to the hype, but it wasn’t that long ago there was hype. He was a 15/19/.287 hitter as recently as 2019, and he’s only 25 years old. We should’ve never stopped thinking Amed Rosario could be good, because he never stopped being good. Sure, he had a bad 2020 season, but everyone — including you, me and all the people we know — had a bad 2020. If Rosario’s available in your league, grab him for power, speed and average. He also brings an added special ingredient: the smite of the Mets Gods. Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:

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Points Leagues: Top 100 Hitters for the Stretch Run

August 13, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Points Leagues | 2 Comments

by: Butters

The show marches on and we’re getting down to the final stretch of the regular season. That means we should take another look at the projections so you can make the needed moves to put your team over the top and bring home that chip. Below is the scoring format used to calculate the point totals.

Runs Scored (R) 1

Total Bases (TB) 1

Runs Batted In (RBI) 1

Walks (BB) 1

Strikeouts (K) -1

Stolen Bases (SB) 1

This time I included roster percentages so we can see if there’s anyone who might be available. With the top 100 most are long gone but there are a few guys who could be out there. And since every league is different it’s always a good idea to check the wire in case there are any surprise options available.

So what jumps out from these projections? Remember that these are solely based on what guys will do from this point going forward, not what they’ve done so far. The top looks similar to the second half projections but there are always a few surprises.

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FanDuel: The X-Man

August 13, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel | 3 Comments

by: TroyKlauder

Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts ($3,600) headlines the Red Sox as tonight’s highest upside stack, taking on the Orioles’ Spenser Watkins. Watkins has a rough 5.18 SIERA and just a 16.2% K-rate, so expect Bogaerts and his teammates to be spraying the ball around a hitter’s park in Fenway. Bogaerts is crushing it this season with a .304/.371/.509 line and is in the heart of the order batting third. He can be paired with value bats like Jarren Duran ($2,500) or expensive mashers like J.D. Martinez ($4,000) for an effective stack.

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Pina & Urias Take Hendricks All Along The Dongtower

August 13, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 137 Comments

by: Grey

Burps for five minutes, then sloppily places a lei on a waitress. Unable to resist the primal urges of being drunk and a man, he leans in to kiss the waitress, but, before landing the smackeroo, two bouncers drag him out of the tropical-theme bar and grill. As he’s dragged by the elbows, he screams, “Your burgers at Islands suck!” A very somber Eric McCormack enters, and we see it’s a PSA. Eric addresses the camera, “This is what happens when you have too Manny Pina’s.” Yesterday, Manny Pina went 3-for-6, 3 runs, 6 RBIs and his 8th and 9th homer. I’m really starting to come around on the idea presented by a commenter that said instead of drafting a catcher, you draft a team and get that team’s catchers. Like drafting a defense in fantasy football. Also, in this game, that was Kyle Hendricks’s worst nightmare (4 IP, 9 ER,, ERA at 4.15), Jace Peterson (5-for-5, 3 runs, 4 RBIs) came a triple short of the cycle. Hendricks’s previous worst nightmare was getting caught in an elevator with a hungry Daniel Vogelbach. That’s every player’s worst nightmare. Moving on! The other big star yesterday was Luis Urias (5-for-6, 5 runs, 5 RBIs) hit his 15th and 16th homer, and I just added him to the Buy column coming later today. Pretty goofy that he’s only rostered in 30% of leagues. On the Player Rater, Christian Yelich is over two hundred spots lower in value than Luis Urias. Take me to the top of a 100-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal and throw me into a barrel. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:

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Fantasy Baseball Keepers: Top 200 for 2022

August 12, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Keepers | 43 Comments

by: Nuke Laloush

Howdy Razzball Community!

I’m new around these parts, but you’ll be seeing plenty of me. Scouting is my great passion (besides Annie Savoy), and therefore I’m going to be taking a look at keepers and dynasty leagues. Some of the best times to make trades in these leagues is just after the season ends. You can gain value by projecting for the future, as well as prey on the instability and desperation of your league-mate’s disappointing finish.

Obviously in keeper and dynasty you are looking ahead, but these rankings are situation-dependent . Flags fly forever, and I’m all for trading future assets if your window is open. Conversely, don’t get stuck in the middle! If your team has hit a ceiling, don’t be afraid of a rebuild. I’ll make it a general rule that these rankings are for 3-ish year windows, with youth obviously ascending and the old guard declining. Ian Anderson may not be better than Yu Darvish in two years, but in four?

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