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An Update on the State of the RazzSlam, Dispatch Two of Six

June 1, 2021 | RazzSlam |

by: Steve Paulo

When the celestial falls to earth; when the sublime becomes mundane; when the pure, the pious, the unadulterated is driven to corruption of the flesh and faith; when these happenings occur, it is with the greatest dread that Man witnesses a true Fall From Grace.

So has it been, in 2021, with the vaunted “No-Hitter”.

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RCL Update: The Week That Was, Week 8, 2021

by: MattTruss

I hope everyone was able to enjoy a long weekend this Memorial Day. It’s the unofficial start of summer here in the north country but it was cold and rainy here, kind of like it was at many baseball stadiums this weekend. Between the rainouts and injuries I was lucky to get in half the normal amount of Games Played for my Razzball Commenter League teams. My Eduardo Rodriguez vs. the Marlins start got washed out only to see him get crushed by the Astros. According to the numbers we had a down offensive week. If you ask my teams with the Padres pitching staff, we had plenty of offense though. Hopefully you all had sunny weekends and plenty of offense for your RCL teams. I’m recouped and ready to bring you the goings on for the week in the RCLs. Son stretched his lead again this week, but another Razzball writer is hot on his trail. We also had a couple of weekly pitching records fall, clearly not from anyone rostering Blake Snell. All this and more in the week that was, week 8 in the RCLs:

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Fanduel: Heaney Panky

June 1, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel | 12 Comments

by: everywhereblair

What’s up everybody in Somewheresville, USA and 3 people in the UK? Most of you are recovering from the three-day federal holiday known as “Truly Time” and stepping back into the virtual or real office this morning. Hopefully, I can bring a little smile to your face and cash to your pocket.

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Baez & Wisdom Treat San Diego To Chicago Style And Go Deep At the Dish

June 1, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 411 Comments

by: Grey

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Hope everyone had an Ian Happy Memorial Day, only without that schmohawk and all the other Cubs. One, which would’ve been nice is Javier Baez (2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 12th and 13th homer, hitting .260). At this point, I wouldn’t mind if all my hitters were as stingy at taking walks as Baez. Hey, Juan Soto, study the Baez Technique^TM, which is literally swinging at everything. Embrace the unknown. Baez is like a BASE jumper. Instead, he practices the act of jumping on every pitch no matter where it is thrown. The BAEZ jumper. Also, in yesterday’s game, the Padres weren’t smart enough to avoid Patrick Wisdom (3-for-4 and a double slam (2, 3) and legs (1), hitting .467). I have dreams of streaming a guy who has a game as good as Wisdom, then I wake in the middle of the night, sweating and Cougs turns to me, “What are you dreaming of?” I reply, stoically, “Having Wisdom.” Then she asks, “Is that why you’re sleeping while wearing your monocle?” And I gently remove it and say, “No, I fell asleep looking for an ingrown hair.” If you streamed Wisdom, that’s just smart stuff, and, with Bote and Hoerner out, Wisdom might benefit with more play, like when you’re competing against an 6-year-old in a Math-off. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2021: Week 9

May 31, 2021 | Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 29 Comments

by: everywhereblair

Ladies and gentlemen, The Weekend! [insert GIF of James Bond introducing The Weeknd with a half-hearted shrug] We’ve been working double time around here to manage the holiday rush…Wait, aren’t we supposed to be getting paid double time instead of working double time? I’ll have to check with my union rep. Donkey Teeth, where you at? ENYWHEY. After 87 consecutive hours of number crunching, I’ve come to the conclusion that you should pick up Alek Manoah. Let’s get everybody caught up on the pitcher news after the Greinke graphic!

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Avoiding the Blurbstomp – Standard Deviants

May 31, 2021 | Avoiding the Blurbstomp | 1 Comment

by: C.A. James

Batting average is down this time of year, all the way down to a .236 league-wide average as of the Sunday morning I searched it. I know you all think I write these as you’re reading them, much like the Late Show airing at a later time than it is filmed. My world was forever changed when I realized that I had been duped by my parents, my friends, my teachers, but most cruelly, network television. Fake media indeed. It should be called “This Afternoon, But Later” with whichever comedian you used to respect hosting.

Anyways, batting averages are way down for most players, so you would think blurbs would have caught up to this fact. Well, good sir, let me tell you, this week…HEY I’M TRYING TO TELL YOU, YOU HAVE TO LET ME DO THE TELLING. As I was telling, this week I present a murderer’s row of batting average-based blurbs to remind you to not drink the Gallo-haters Kool Aid. There is no Mendoza line this year. It is the Year of Mendoza, so don’t let any blurb try to say, “His counting stats are there, but his bat leaves a lot to desire in the batting average department.” That is pure and utter laziness, a hack sentence meant to be a pithy put down but landing like a wet fish on a cement floor. Buddy, the entirety of baseball is leaves a lot to desire in the batting average department, not just you. Ready for some simple context?

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Points Leagues: The Numbers Don’t Lie Jr.

May 31, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Points Leagues | 6 Comments

by: malamoney

I’ve decided to give the rankings a week off. This will allow me to work out some flaws in the matrix as I think I’ve got a good idea on how I’d like to proceed. The hardest part is calculating performance and expectations for players that have missed time as I use percentage of time played as a key variable. So I’m giving myself another week to dig in. I was actually going to take the week off completely, but then Grey cracked the whip and I was quickly reminded not to think such foolish thoughts. For those that actually read that and believe that Grey has a whip, well he probably does, but he doesn’t use it on his points league writers. At least not this one. As I contemplated skipping this post I realized that I would be disappointing my 14 readers. That’s right, you read that correctly. Based on my analytics, I am up to a career high fourteen readers. I could hardly believe the numbers myself, but as they say, the numbers don’t lie. Or was it the hips? In case you were wondering Mark Twain has often been credited with the phrase “numbers don’t lie” based on when he said “figures don’t lie, but liars figure“. Apparently the belief that this was Twain’s brainchild is not unanimous. Here’s what I say… “who cares“.

The following are the top players in point leagues at each position. In order to qualify for this list the player must have at least 150 plate appearances (100 for catcher) and not currently be on the IL. This list was ultimately decided by points per plate appearance (PPPA).

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Patreon Podcast: Holy Eggplant Emoji

May 31, 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, Chinese men are imprisoned for taking advantage of a glitch in the KFC app allowing them to “steal” $12,000 worth of chicken. Then Duke students invent a new toilet that takes pictures of your poop and, in an unrelated story, cicada’s butts are falling off. Finally, Billy gets up close and personal with the world’s largest penis.

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FanDuel: Riding the Rodon Train

May 31, 2021 | DFS, Fanduel |

by: JTells

Ah, What a lovely day we are about to embark on. Memorial Day lots of day baseball, bbq, and some adult beverages if you are in to that sort of thing. Sign me up right. I’m going to cut right to the chase today since I’ve got a little shindig I’ve got to get ready for later today so here we go:

I wanted to wake up this morning to see Carlos Rodon penciled in as the Chicago White Sox starter for one of the games today. They still haven’t announced starters this morning but I’m not seeing anything that would lend me to believe he won’t start one of the games so I’m sticking to my guns and announcing him as my pitcher to target today. Even in an 6 inning game, Rodon could seriously go out and throw a 7 inning no hitter today. He has looked that dominant and if you haven’t watched one of his games today do yourself a favor and sit back and relax and enjoy some pitching mastery. Rodon faces the Cleveland Indians today who he no-hit in April and then faced them his next start also where he only went 5 innings due to some control issues (5 BB). I think he will be just fine and I expect him to go the distance today in a 3-0 victory against the Indians who are coming off a nice come from behind win yesterday and will be playing their 2nd back to back doubleheader today and you got to thing they will be just a tad fatigued. Rodon goes 7 INN 2 Hit 1 BB 9 K’s in a win today. Doesn’t look as if Rodon is on any slates as of now so other than Burnes who I’m recommending below I’m getting behind Johnny Cueto ($7,500) today against the Angels. Cueto has looked good so far this year limits hard contact and doesn’t walk anybody. I think he does enough today for the win against the Angels.

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The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Braves Is No Longer Ozuna’s Anthem

May 31, 2021 | 2021 Fantasy Baseball | 434 Comments

by: Grey

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On Saturday, Marcell Ozuna was arrested for domestic violence. Proving this year, he’s a piece of shit on and off the field. There’s no way he plays again this year. Too bad he’ll miss Player’s Nickname weekend, when they could’ve put on his uniform back, “I’m A Garbage Human.” My guess is Ozuna’s suspension goes into next year too; the Braves void his contract, and he’s playing the outfield somewhere with Puig. By ‘somewhere’ I mean not in the MLB, as he rightfully becomes Ozuna non-grata. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:

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2021 Fantasy Baseball: 2 Start Pitchers Week 10 (5/31-6/6)

May 30, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Two Start Pitchers | 25 Comments

by: Richie Tauriello

Week nine is in the books and there was no No-Hitter, no No-No, no games where baseballs were not hit. Is it too early to presume we’re trending back to normalcy!? Probably not but we’ll see what happens. Also, my prediction of Yusei Kikuchi throwing a No-No never came to fruition, hell, he did not even end up making two starts last week, but ya’ win some ya’ lose some. He still had a quality start and should be rostered in all leagues at this point. If only the Mariners could play the Mariners it might have happened. This week’s No-No prediction comes from a young buck by the name of Dylan Cease, we shall speak on him later.

A few noteworthy news items are, Noah Syndergaard being shut down for six weeks due to elbow inflammation. If you were stashing him you can drop him for the time being. Also, the long-awaited return of Framber Valdez to the mound happened and he looked good. He’s still building his pitch count up but I’m expecting a return to the pitcher he was last season very soon. Other Astros Related news, Jake Odorizzi made his return Saturday, one day after Valdez. He also had an encouraging start. If you Have room to roster him he’s worth a shot. Also, Corey Kluber will be making an extended trip to the IL.

Lastly, I’d like to thank the men and women who have served this country and those who currently serve this country. This weekend is in your honor. With that said let’s play ball!

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