I believe Razzball is the friends and not the family, but I’ve been drafting with Scott Pianowski and Dalton Del Don so long they feel like family. Like my two cousins who call me when they’re in Los Angeles and say, “Hey, you wanna meet up for sushi? It’s your treat.” Then, when I go to meet up with them, they’re not there and 45 minutes after I show up at our meeting point, I get a text, “Sorry, have to cancel, so hung over.” It’s one word, father’s side of the family! Hungover is one word! As you might’ve noticed I didn’t say Brandy Ehrens was a part of the league, because he’s bailed on me/us/they; you choose the pronoun. I even hired a skywriter to put in the clouds above his house, “Kyle Schwarber wants you to draft him.” Guess someone else would have to draft some Cubs. (If you want to compete against me, Rudy and hundreds of others, join the Razzball Commenter League. More the merrier!) Anyway, here’s my Yahoo Friends & Family team, it’s a 15-team, mixed league:
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Top 100 Hitters, Preseason: Spring Training Update
March 6, 2019 | Top 100 Hitters | 26 Commentsby: Kerry Klug
This won’t be a formal full update of my Top 100 Rankings list. I’m just going to highlight a few players who have helped their cause after the first week of Spring Training. I’m not going to focus on anyone who is falling in my rankings just yet. It’s hard enough to provide a weekly top 100 hitters list during the regular season when the games matter — but I’m not going to overreact to a few spring training games. Dominic Smith is currently leading the league in batting average for Pete Alonso’s sake! Hey…that sounds like a good place to start!
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I’m here to talk about prospects. I applied for this position thinking it was a sports writing gig for the Philadelphia Inquirer, but I woke up in (possibly) Grey’s basement chained to a cot with a copy of Bill James’s handbook lying on the floor. A slot in the door opened and a voice (possibly mustached) asked, “Do you know anything about prospects?”. My reply was, “I know enough not to count on them, but I can’t help myself”. The voice on the other side of the wall chuckled. I heard the sound of a knife being sharpened. “This won’t hurt a bit,” he said.
The mystery is finally solved. That’s right…if you’ve ever been roofied…look no further than our fearless leader – the FML. He has a kidney collection that would make Hannibal blush. Here are the prospects that I might actually draft in 2019 redrafts…enjoy! And…be careful!
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Every off-season I like to target players who are flying under the radar because they were busts the year before but had quality performances the season prior. Their lack of excellence could have been caused by injury, changing teams and cities, or maybe they celebrated their career year a little too hard and showed up to spring training out of shape and never recovered. Typically, we’re targeting guys in the 6th through 12th rounds that could return top 20 value. I’ve identified 12 players that meet the criteria of having proven success in 2017 but failed to live up to expectations for various reasons in 2018.
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1st Basemen to Target, 2019 Fantasy Baseball
March 6, 2019 | Fantasy Baseball Sleepers | 278 Commentsby: Grey
My prior, uber, hard-line stance has been that you with that one hair wrapped around your head acting as a hairstyle don’t want to draft a sleeper 1st baseman. By the by, I tried to replace Uber with Lyft in the previous sentence, but it didn’t make sense. Previously, I’d tell you to go to my top 20 1st basemen for 2019 fantasy baseball (not clickbait at all) and draft some top guys and stop fooling around with sleepers at this position. Of course, I’m malleable like Gumby and this year and there are no top 1st basemen *ducks head* Whoa, someone threw a wrench into this! As with other positions like the catchers to target (again, not clickbait), these are 1st basemen that are being drafted late. For the 1st basemen, I’m going with an ADP of 150 or later, so you should have a 1st baseman already, and these are more corner infidels or utility guys, i.e., I love Rhys Hoskins, but he’s not going to appear here. Dear, steer clear–*short circuiting internal rhyming dictionary* Anyway, here’s some 1st basemen to target for 2019 fantasy baseball:
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I love my wife. I love her so much that I’ll even go shopping with her from time to time. It’s an arduous and debilitating task, but love hurts, right? She will go down an aisle, survey every item on the rack as if she were mapping out undiscovered lands, then turtle over to the next section. After four sections have been mapped out, she will decide to go back to quadrant one in order to compare or make sure she didn’t miss anything. This process rinses and repeats for an inordinate amount of time. It’s unbearable, says the guy that sits his fat ass in a chair for hours on end and mental masturbates over baseball players for a fantasy team. Anyways, as much as it drives me nuts, I respect it because of the attention to detail and motivation to find the best deal possible. And that’s what it’s all about. Finding the best deal. Since February 1st, Jorge Polanco is being drafted, on average in NFBC drafts, as the 217th overall player and 21st shortstop. Should we jump on expecting the bull to thrust its horns upward?
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Razzball Commenter League drafts are off and running! Don’t let the chance to play with your favorite writers and commenters in free leagues for an overall top prize pass you by! We’ve only had a handful of drafts so far, but next week we’ll be able to dive into early RCL ADP and over-analyze to our hearts content. As for now though, go sign up for a league drafting in the next week or so and contribute to our data pool. It’s so easy to sign-up, it’s really just one click! Use it as a mock draft that is actually useful. We just had the Writer’s League draft Sunday night and it was nice to get a draft under my belt this season that didn’t have a 4 hour pick clock. I’ll have more info on the Writer’s League draft in the coming weeks as well. Today, we’ll be going over how to approach your pitching in the RCL format. I’ll let you decide how well I followed my own advice in my recent draft.
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Before we fasten our pocket protectors and bust out the graphing calculators, I’d like to thank everyone in the Razzball universe for reading, supporting, and responding. I’ve learned as much from you as you have from me. This experience has really been a lot of fun, and I truly feel like we’re doing very important work that started in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 for the H2H space. I believe this will lead to developing an edge come draft day. Welcome to the QS Thunderdome. Two stats enter, one stat leaves!
Please, blog, may I have some more? Catchers To Target, 2019 Fantasy Baseball
March 5, 2019 | Fantasy Baseball Sleepers | 200 Commentsby: Grey
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Here, friend, are some catchers that I will be targeting at my 2019 fantasy drafts after the top options are gone. I’m not going to get into the strategy of punting catchers. Been there, half-drunkenly wrote that years ago. Click on the player’s name where applicable to read more and see their 2019 projections. This is a (legal-in-most-countries) supplement to the top 20 catchers of 2019 fantasy baseball. Now, guys and five girl readers, I am not saying avoid catchers like Yasmani Grandal if they fall, but to get on this list, you need to be drafted later than 200 overall, and, to preemptively answer at least seven comments, yes, I will go around the entire infield, outfield and pitchers to target very late. Anyway, here’s some catchers to target for 2019 fantasy baseball:
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2019 Dark Horse Closers: The NL Central
March 4, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Closers | 3 Commentsby: Roto-Wan
NL West | NL Central | NL East | AL West | AL Central | AL East
We continue our quest for elusive the increasingly elusive fantasy species, saves. Remember, these aren’t the next guys up. These names can be gross. If you’re drinking coffee, stop. I won’t be paying for your new monitor…
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NL-Only, 12 Team Draft Recap: Grabbing Grey’s Wong
March 4, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Our Leagues | 30 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
While Grey was off gallivanting in Jackson’s Hole sipping hot toddies and drafting his AL-Only team from heated chair lifts, I spent my day at a shady Illinois car dealership drafting my AL-Only team in that same league while getting fleeced on a used car. After I spent $35 on The Messiah, Adalberto Mondesi, Grey cracked, “I hope you get a better deal on that car than you got on Mondesi!” Oh real funny, Grey! That’s rich coming from the guy who spent $10 on Bryce Harper in an AL-Only league!
Nevertheless, my AL team took a turn for the worse when the car dealer tried to tack a $399 “Dealer Inventory Fee” onto the negotiated sale price. And that’s the story of how I spent $3 on Daniel Mengden and $1 on Chad Pinder in the all-important late stages of an AL-Only auction with the titans of the industry. Fortunately, our friend Scott White of CBS gave ya boy Donkey Teeth one more shot at the glory-hole in the NL-Only version of the same league. And this time, I wouldn’t be preoccupied disputing undisclosed dealer inventory fees while being stuck with auto-nominated Chad Pinders. Anyway, here’s my 12-team NL-Only team and the tale of how I left Grey lusting after my Wong, again:
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The Los Angeles Angels are projected to win 84 Games by Fangraphs. The consensus #1 pick in Fantasy drafts is Mr. Michael Nelson Trout, but after that there are still some intriguing elements to the LA Angels…
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