We’re about a third of the way through the season and time is just flying! So, I guess I’m having fun. This week, we’ll take an alternate look at finding low owned hitters that could help lead your team to victory. Being a Phillies fan, I realized just how many hits/runs/fantasy stats the bullpen was allowing since the arms were pitching like hot garbage. So I started working my way backward in finding hitters to stream by finding bullpens to attack. I don’t want to stream hitters against the Brewers or Dodgers because once the starters are out, my bats are going up against sub-2.50 ERA arms. So let’s take a look at some teams to stream hitters from this week.
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RCL Update: The Week That Was, Week 3, 2020
August 18, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Our Leagues, Razzball Commenter Leagues | 5 Commentsby: MattTruss
Welcome to week three of the Razzball Commenter Leagues! We are now one third of the way through our season. That’s just wild and I have the feeling there isn’t enough time to correct the ERA hole some of my teams have dug. Yikes. A huge thank you goes out this week to Rudy and his FanTrax data-mining robots who were able to snag all our RCL data. That means, we have real, live standings. Week one and two I simply had to take whichever teams had the most roto points, but this week to get to factor in League Competitive Index or LCI. This system rewards players who are in harder leagues for eeking out those extra points. We also get to factor in the Master Points. Master Points are basically like you’re playing in a 924 team roto league. If you have the most HRs in the RCL-universe, you get 924 points, if you have the fewest, you get 1 point. Pretty cool, huh? For more info, you can scroll to the bottom of the MASTER STANDINGS page and read all about the secret sauce that is the Master Standings. This also means, we’ll have weekly leaders starting next week. Of course, there will only be five weeks worth of weekly data, but hey, it’s better than nothing. Hmm, that sounds like it has potential to be the new MLB slogan!
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FanDuel: Happy Birthday to Yu
August 18, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel |by: NichFields
Though his birthday was on Saturday, let’s all wish him a great year ahead. And many more on Channel 4. The now 34 year old Yu Darvish, $9,900 today on FanDuel, is having an incredible start to the season. Including the last half of 2019, this stretch is arguably the most dominant of his career. It’s fun to see. But we don’t let fun get in the way of winning; we need value. Well, wouldn’t Yu have it. Even as the most expensive pitcher on the slate, it’s tough to ignore Darvish as also being the best value. He has kept his high strikeout rate while halving his walk rate this season, and faces a Cardinals lineup near the bottom of the league in most every offensive category. Thus, we recommend whirling Darvish into your lineups. Yu lineups will look great. As long as you don’t mess up the rest of it. So let’s not mess up the rest of it. Read on to secure additional picks.
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Tigers At Least Trying As Far As I Can Sir Mize
August 18, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 333 Commentsby: Grey
Are the Tigers king of summer streaming offerings? Are the Tigers eating their young or are they eating whatever is thrown in the dumpster behind the Costco? Should fantasy baseballers be singing Here Kitty Kitty to young Tigers or is Carole Baskin robbing us of our Baseball Nut? Is an actual ice cream flavor at Baskin-Robbins called Baseball Nut and does it have chestnut cream? All of these questions are going through my mind on this lovely mid-August day as the Tigers promote Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize. Every MLB team should look at how the Tigers deal with prospects and emulate. The Tigers throw them to the fire and it’s grrrrrrrrr…hey, this is fun after 13 years of Spanish couldn’t teach me how to roll my R’s….rrrrreat! On Prospect Itch’s Tigers fantasy prospects, he has Mize 1st and Skubal 3rd, but that’s from January, which is like another year ago. I wrote a Casey Mize fantasy, which is from another year ago. Both of these guys could be aces, and worth picking up, but neither may go very deep into games this year. So, in redraft? Prolly look at streaming Mize and Skubal, in that order, due to how long either can go in games. In dynasty leagues, Skubal is flat-out sexy, but in a Glasnow-type way. Could he go 4 IP, 3 ER and 10 Ks? Yes. Will he go 6 IP, 2 ER, 4 Ks and get you a bunch of Quality Starts? I don’t know about that yet on Skubal, but that might be Mize. So, I think Mize over Skubal for this year? Yes, I welcome your Sir Mize. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
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Top 100 Starting Pitchers: Week 4
August 17, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 31 Commentsby: everywhereblair
[Chapter 1 of my upcoming novel, FML Grey]
Grey Albright, Fantasy Master Lothario, wakes in a haze. Last night was hard, but not in the way Cougs would have preferred it. After watching Chris Paddack get shelled by the Dodgers, Grey collapsed on the couch, crumpled boba containers at his feet. “Draft pitchers late,” he muttered, falling into a fitful sleep with images of Stephen Strasburg and Justin Verlander haunting him.
Now awake, Grey runs to the bathroom and grabs the Barbasol. “5.54 FIP!” he spits into the sink. “Paddack has a negative value fastball!” Grey lathers his lip sweater, and grabs his razor. The man in the mirror is manic. “You’re no lothario!” Grey shouts at himself, his Schick stick in hand. “You don’t deserve this anymore!” With short, rapid strokes, Grey shaves off his mustache. The commotion wakes Cougs, who enters the bathroom. Grey looks up, wiping his now-naked philtrum, “Dylan Bundy’s the top pitcher on the player rater,” he says. “I need a boba.”
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Rolling In The Deep: Week 5 AL Reinforcements
August 17, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Rolling In The Deep | 2 Commentsby: Laura Holt
Just as we expected, the 2020 baseball season has seen its share of highs and lows. On the deep-league fantasy front, let’s hope your season has seen more highs (if you’re reading this, Anthony Sandander, Teoscar Hernandez, or Brandon Lowe, thank you for everything so far, and please keep it up!), than lows (sorry, Oscar Mercado, but I’m looking at you). If you’re in the fantasy baseball thick of things but need some reinforcements, let’s take our weekly look — AL version — at some guys who may be of interest to those of us in deeper leagues (we’ll use a 20% or less owned in CBS leagues threshold this week).
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Zach (@Braffz) and Jordan (@ExitVelo_JR) go over the Top 10 performers of week 3. They give you some options deep in the FA pool to grab before it’s too late. They have a Juan Soto vs. Ronald Acuna debate on who is the better fantasy option for 2021. Is Juan Soto a Top 5 pick for 2021? Is Aaron Nola back to his 2018 form? Bryce Harper and Shane Bieber have been having a great 2020 so far and hope to continue to shine! And yes Jordan still has Bieber Fever.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: plenty of bullpens arms are hurt or performing poorly. That’s always kind of the case but the baseball gods seem intent on cramming in the usual amount of reliever chaos in the shortened season. It was a good year to invest lightly in saves. They are there for the taking on your wire.
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Patreon Podcast: Wild Boar Steals Naked Man’s Laptop
August 17, 2020 | All Podcasts |by: Donkey Teeth
I know what you’re thinking. Wild Boar? Naked Man? Laptop? It can’t be news! Actually, I myself can’t believe it’s not not news. But it is news which Grey, Billy Hurley and myself have a civic duty to report on this week’s Patreon Podcast.
Grey has also begun releasing his weekly buy/sell articles one day early to all of our valued Patreon members so you can get an extra leg up on your competition!
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Good Afternoon DFS’ers and welcome to Monday Afternoon Toilet Talk w/ Jared.
We have a fun slate today that should yield some offense. We have several teams that are in great spots, including the Dodgers, Braves, White Sox, and <insert homer status> Mets. Pitching is void of Aces today so you’ll need to look to find a pitcher that you like. My early lean is on Ryu against the somewhat hot bats of the AAAA Orioles. Let’s dig in to today’s players!
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Please, blog, may I have some more? Difficult Finding The Pearl In A Rocky Mountain Oyster
August 17, 2020 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 415 Commentsby: Grey
Jairo Diaz was told the Rockies will no longer have a designated closer. Bud Black is crazy, right? I mean, he is legit nuts or no? I know the Woke Police say you shouldn’t call people crazy, but if we don’t, then they might not get help and Bud Black needs help. I thought maybe Black was just slow on the uptake as witnessed by Garrett Hampson’s playing time. It’s not normal to go from not playing to suddenly being an everyday leadoff man, like Black just discovered Hampson this year. Garrett was good last year, you absolute loon! But this is about Jairo Diaz. He didn’t have the best of games (2/3 IP, 0 ER, 1 hit, 3 walks, ERA at 3.12), but Carlos Estevez (1/3 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 3.38), who saved the game, took a comeback off his hand, and was in severe pain, heading for x-rays. So, one guy’s been decent (Diaz), one guy is obviously injured, and the third guy, Daniel Bard (1 IP, 1 ER, ERA at 4.09) has been okay, but serious emphasis on “okay” and nothing more. That’s when you announce the guy with zero blown saves is no longer the closer? Bud Black is twenty-six screws short of an Ikea dresser. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
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Top 100 Hitters For 2020 Fantasy Baseball: Week 4
August 16, 2020 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Top 100 Hitters | 61 Commentsby: Thomas Howland
Death, taxes and Mike Trout destroying the competition. It’s comforting to know that even in the chaos of 2020 some things haven’t changed. He’s right back in the Top 3 of the two week running ISO power index. I was thinking Mike Trout was given Compound V by the Vought corporation as a baby, but it turns out he’s more like the male version of Captain Marvel, no discernible weaknesses. Uh oh, my geekness is showing, sorry about that!
So what’s very cool is that it appears the virus threw what it could at the sport and baseball has survived for another week. Love it! So we have comebacks, step ups, step backs and the Red Sox playing like the Pirates. Some Yankees are injured again, another sign that things are getting back to normal. This is a hitter listing. but have you seen Dustin May pitching this year? Unreal. Anyway, you can find last week’s list here.
Here are some of the movers for this week, followed by the list:
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