This week, I settled in for a long night with the CBS draft software, bidding against such fantasy sports mainstays as Scott White, Grey Albright, Mike Gianella, and Razzball’s own B underscore Don along seven more fantasy baseball folks to round a league of 12. Here’s how the squad rounded out.
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Spring Training has started, which means many fantasy leagues are gearing up for the season to start. Yes, some leagues have already had their drafts, but many haven’t.
As fantasy owners prepare for their upcoming league drafts or auctions or whatever process you use to add players, this week the Top 400 Dynasty Players for 2025 features the players ranked 50th-26th. We are in the backstretch as next week we conclude the series.
When you look at the position and age breakdowns for this group, it should not be shocking to see 19 of the 25 players are under the age of 29 with five players under the age of 24. And you really shouldn’t be shocked to see so many pitchers. After the first two rounds of a draft, I will hunt for the top pitchers on the board, especially as more and more leagues adjust their categories to make starting pitching more meaningful other than collecting strikeouts or posting a 4.50 ERA yet get credited with a quality start.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Every year when we approach spring training and I hear the words “pitchers and catchers report”, I’m reminded of the old Counting Crows song, Long December. The first few lyrics of the song go something like “It’s been a long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.” […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Baseball season is BACK! We have a lovely mix of Spring Training games underway and soul-crushing injuries reported every morning. The good news is that we are still a month away from games that count. Most injury updates thus far are luckily mild-to-moderate rather than season-ending. Nevertheless, we must be wary as fantasy drafts are […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?What’s poppin’, Razzpimples? Pretty quick read for y’all today. I like to do one of these each year: who’s currently being underdrafted for saves in fantasy baseball? Last year I highlighted Ryan Helsley, Pete Fairbanks, Tanner Scott, Jose Leclerc, Alex Lange, Jose Alvarado, Kyle Finnegan, and Robert Suarez. A few of those worked out great; […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Now that spring training is finally in full swing and managers are doing things like talking to the media, the information from training camps is coming in fast and furious, and with a full slate of games Friday (yay!), this is just the tip of the iceberg. While we always need to take anything a […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?So, a bunch of Razzballers got together for an auction draft at NFBC and I drafted a team that includes Corey Seager, and that’s where the weird begins. “Where the weird begins” also sounds like the title for every subreddit. If you showed me this team prior to me drafting it, I’d say, “Looks like […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Hello, dear Razzball readers! Although it has been many moons since we last checked in on the college game, my crack staff has been busy analyzing and organizing reports on countless prospects across the sport’s lanscape. My crack staff consists of two dogs with ADHD, an eight-month-old infant, my retired neighbor named Bill, and a cardinal that has been endlessly pecking on my window. His name is Jean Claude.
Suffice to say, I have had my work cut out for me. Bill has spent significantly more time woodworking and making homemade canes in his garage than scouting this offseason. Not to mention, he sometimes takes the “crack” in crack staff a bit too literally. As for Jean Claude, well, he still thinks the love of his life is on the other side of the glass windows. He has been relegated to a new social role, Tweeting. The change has been quite unproductive.
As for myself, the top-10 prospects for the beginning of the 2025 college baseball season have been completed. It is not a dazzling class, but it isn’t shallow, either. Still, as I wrote these breakdowns, I couldn’t help but feel that it was one of the weaker top-10s since I started covering college prospects at Razzball in 2020. Sure, Jace LaViolette, Jamie Arnold and Cam Cannarella are awesome, but none of them scream slam-dunk, 1-1 overall to me. And the 8-10 spots could be beefier. Like a Runza.
As always, this list is a lot different than the industry consensus and what you’ll see elsewhere. These rankings take future fantasy contributions into account, especially a player’s ability to assist across multiple statistical categories. So, who is at No. 1 this year, and are there any major surprises? Here’s the list:
Please, blog, may I have some more?What do we want? Rankings! When do want them? You’re months late already! Get off my back. I know everyone loves looking at and tearing apart rankings, but it’s so much less fun when you’re the one making the rankings to be torn apart and dissected. I change my rankings after every mock, every draft, heck, […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?In our 80th episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer are joined by Erik Halterman of Rotowire, to discuss the start(?) of spring training and the latest MLB moves, then preview the NL Central teams. For each team in the division, we each pick a player that for fantasy purposes we would buy, sell, and pick to click. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?The best 2025 fantasy baseball team is the friends we made along the way. Also, the title is hyperbole. What was I gonna say, “The Mostly Kinda Good Fantasy Baseball Team?” You’ll get over your scoffing, you freakin’ scoffer! This is the best 2025 fantasy baseball team that I can put together when drafting from […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?With three first-year-player drafts behind me and one underway as I type, fantasy baseball is officially back in the Itch household. I covered my Razz 30 draft in Volume one and will share the results of two 15-team league drafts in this article.
I’ll start with the Ditka Sausage Razznasty League, a daily lineups league that’s been going for about seven years. I’ve made some good moves in this league and just as many bad ones because I feel the race against time most acutely here, meaning the crunch to maximize my daily lineup drives a lot of my decision making. I say all this to explain in part why I didn’t pick until the fourth round in this draft. I did still have my third round pick (3.43), but I moved back a few spots to add a fourth-rounder in 2026 and slide up from 5.67 to 5.61 in the fifth round this year.
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