Have no fear of black-lung, no lonesome Cowboy Junkies song mentioning silicosis. Instead you can grill without care for carcinogens and feast on the red meat of victory with Gerrit Cole. Mr. Cole is pitching like a Cy Young candidate this year with a record of 5-1, 1.86 ERA, and leading the league with 101 strikeouts. He's facing the Indians in Cleveland who are only a .500 team despite leading their division. Chris Sale is tempting, but there's a few Braves who hit him; the same with Strasburg in Miami. Tag Gerrit Cole with a first-round pick and celebrate Memorial Day in style. Let’s look at a few more early-, middle- and late-round picks for your Draft…drafts!
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FBI’s G-Man Raids Chicago For A Fantasy Baseball Investigation
May 23, 2018 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 476 Commentsby: Grey
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To find my preseason article, I Googled "Kevin Gausman sleeper" and Google asked, "Did you mean 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2018?" Google can be such a little snitch sometimes. Yo, Google, mind your own business! "Did you mean 'How do I start my own business?' or 'How do I start my own business that actually makes money?'" I hate you, Google! In the preseason, I said, "In the 2nd half, Gausman was a top 20 starter-ish. Top 20-ish? Top-ish? You get the drift. In the 2nd half, he had the 16th best K/9 with a 2.8 BB/9. He had the 21st best ERA with the 23rd best xFIP. He had the 24th best fastball with the 3rd best splitter. Or spliiter, if Desiigner is reading. He averaged the 12th fastest, uh, fastball while throwing it the 12th most in the majors. Some of these factoids are neither here nor there, but I’m filling in your charcoal sketch." And that's me quoting me! Yesterday, he went 6 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 10 baserunners (1 BB), 10 Ks, ERA at 3.48, and xFIP down to 3.65, which is the 29th best in the majors, between Hendricks and Newcomb. And I ranked him 31st for starters in the preseason! What does this mean? Nothing really, but cool. He has carried over that newfound command from the 2nd half and still striking out guys around mid-8 K/9. Do I love owning an Orioles starter? Do I look daffy? But Gausman has been solid. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
It was the best of times on Draft, it was the worst of times, it was the age of spin rate, it was the age of launch angle... Charles Dickens wrote of the disruptive world of eighteenth-century Europe in "A Tale Of Two Cities." Present-day baseball is full of disruption, such as Gerrit Cole and the Astros maximizing spin to dramatic effect.
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Hoo doggy, we've got some slim pickins this week. And not like Slim Pickens from Dr. Strangelove, because he's actually fun. The pickins in Two Startapalooza this week consist mostly of Tier 4 and 5 bottom feeders. Although, now that I think about it, riding with one of those guys is a bit like Slim Pickens riding that bomb to his doom. The top three tiers this week hold a grand total of 10 double dippers, most of which are already owned unless you're in an extremely shallow league. Even Tier 4 is pretty sketchy this week, though. And not "draw me like one of your French girls" type of sketchy, more like an Etch A Sketch drawing from an elderly woman who's also working a Shake Weight. There are a few permissible options that we'll get to, but realize that if you're in a shallow league you might be better off going with your Single Start Studs over these Double Dipping Ding Dongs. Mmm...Ding Dongs.
Ya know, if you're gonna get busted for PEDs and be suspended for 80 games, the way to do it is right after fracturing your hand. It's like coming down with mono the week of your prom when you have no date. "Damn, am I gonna miss that? That is too bad, but I am so drowsy I feel like I have two Forest Whitaker eyes." That's you getting prom-o-mono. I am more surprised to hear Robinson Cano was busted for PEDs, than I am to learn he had no idea he was taking the illegal substance. Baseball is currently batting a thousand for denials of PEDs suspensions. MLB players' denials of taking the illicit substance should get into the Hall of Fame on its first ballot. Speaking of Hall of Fame, I kinda thought Robinson Cano was headed there. This will obviously shade a cloud over his entire career, which I do think is a shame. What's also a shame, you need to drop him in all leagues. He's more or less done for the year. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Normally in a Coors Field Slate, the first thing you want to do for the bats is look at the two teams playing in Coors. However, today we’ve got the extremely rare scenario where a Coors Field game may not be the juiciest spot out there. That’s because we have a pitcher who legitimately creates his own Coors Field effect. That pitcher? Chris “Seriously Why Am I Still Allowed To Be A Major League Starting Pitcher” Tillman. Since the start of 2017 Chris Tillman has walked more than he’s struck out vs lefties. That’s right. He has 10.7% strikeouts and 18% walks. If your K-BB is below 5, that’s really bad. If it’s 0, that’s extremely bad. If your K-BB is negative, I don’t even have a word to describe it. Chris Tillman’s K-BB versus lefties is -8.3.
If your K-BB is -8.3?!? Just for reference, James Shields since he became a human gas can is at 7.1% overall and 3.2% vs lefties. James Shields, who right now can give up home runs in Yellowstone, can’t quite match Tillman in futility. No one can match Chris Tillman in futility, because if you have a negative K-BB, you don’t stay in the Majors. Except apparently Chris Tillman. Even with last outings dominance of the Tigers, Tillman is at -.8% on the season and it’s not like he’s getting lucky with ERA with a 7.84 mark last year and a 9.24 this year. It’s a historic run that we, as DFS players, can only hope continues all year.
On to the picks...
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I so wanted to be able to highlight a Mexican pitcher today, as it’s the day after Cinco de Cuatro [Sidebar: You heard about the remix, right?] Alas, the closest I could get is this jug of margaritas and Aaron Sanchez at Tampa Bay and…no. It’s one of those days I wish I didn’t have to draft a pitcher at all for my FantasyDraft lineup, actually. The selection is all iffy pitchers and/or bad ballparks (Charlie Morton is pitching! … in Arizona. Kenta Maeda is pitching against the Padres! … in Coors South [more on that below]). I’ll be going with Charlie Morton anyway and stacking some hitters — thoughts on which ones after the jump. It may be a wild, white-knuckled ride, like the first time you drink tequila slammers with your mother-in-law.
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Give me all the Cincinnati Reds tonight: Joey Votto, Scott Schebler, Jose Peraza and Scooter Gennett. Tonight they could be a solid stack option that a lot of people won't be on. It's a nice match-up against Jhoulys Chacin, who currently has a 5.19 FIP and a K/9 of only 5. May the BABIP fairies be on our side tonight. Peraza and Votto have been on a serious tear and I expect that to continue. Let's take a look at the rest of the picks for Draft...
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Two Startapalooza, Week 5: A Newcomb For My Hair
April 28, 2018 | Fantasy Baseball Two-Start Pitchers | 16 Commentsby: Dokken
Welcome to Week 5 as we scurry along and try to figure out which low-to-mid tier pitchers are actually good and which ones are all smoke and mirrors. You'd think we would have come up with an updated phrase for "smoke and mirrors". Nobody has really used smoke and mirrors since, like, 1920. I have no idea if that's accurate. In any case, there is plenty of two-start action to go around this week. Here they are, tiered for your pleasure. Let's have a gander at some of the more interesting options as we go through those tiers as well, shall we? 
Tyson Punches Out Ten but Knocked Out With Single Hit
April 21, 2018 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes | 58 Commentsby: Dan Pants
Continuing his NL-West dominance, [player]Tyson Ross[/player] took a no-hitter into the eighth inning Friday night, allowing just one earned run off one hit (a pinch-hit [player]Christian Walker[/player] double) and three walks while striking out ten. I'm sorry but I just completely blanked on everything you said before, "while striking out ten." Tyson was tattooing faces and D-Backs, the 7.2 innings pitched was a season high and it took him 127 pitches to get there. He was just four outs from San Diego's first no-hitter in ever, but nah. SAD! Another day I guess? You'll get there, Padres. Errr. Don't force it. Welp. Regardless, it might be premature to re-anoint Ross the ultimate hodgepadre status he achieved in 2014-2015 season when logged ERAs of 2.81 and 3.26, but things are looking promising early. Let's face it, Texas is where pitchers go to die when Colorado's roster is full. Just ask Bartolo Colon. Ross' back in San Diego where he can pick up where he left off. He's currently sporting a sparking 2.81 ERA with a 1.01 WHIP, and its the 3.21 xFIP, 23.5 K% and 6.9 BB% that got me all hyped up and mouth-punchey on Tyson. Ross will face a true test next week when he takes on the Rockies at Coors, and while I can't recommend him for this start, I'll be watching it closer than the Westworld premiere because robots doing human things is clearly more interesting to me than humans doing human things. Look I'm not trying to bite your ear off (zing!), I'm just suggesting you give Tyson Ross a good look. He's available almost everywhere and he's got the history, the ballpark and the skillz to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world--err, I mean, hes got the skills to be a very solid starter all season long, in other words, he wants to eat your children.
Here's what else I saw in fantasy baseball Friday night:
Got to get down on Friday. Personally, I had some success on FanDuel yesterday and you might've too if you used the Razzball lineup optimizer, which led me to a Lester/Tigers/Orioles lineup for the early slate and a lineup with Jake Arrieta, Ketel Marte, and Brandon Belt in the main slate. So of course I'm riding high after yesterday and I couldn't have a picked a better time to do so as it is 4/20. Get it? Alright, alright, alright stay tuned for more bad 4/20 jokes and my DFS research and recommendations.
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What's up everybody! I'm excited to be back for another season of DFS here at Razzball, and I'm even more excited to be covering Draft.com! And I'm even MORE excited for this Hot Pocket I have in the microwave. Only thirty more seconds! Anyway, Draft.com is a super awesome way to play DFS because (spoiler alert) you get to draft your players! So, let's get into some picks. The first guy I'd like to highlight is Corey Kluber. You've got a few options at SP to go with early, but I like Kluber the most because, well, he was the best pitcher in all of baseball last year. I'm not always one to take a pitcher early, but if you can get another eight inning, eight strikeout, one earned run start like the one Kluber put out last time, you're gonna be well ahead of the competition. If Klubot was playing Draft, he'd probably pick himself, and he's a robot, so he knows more than me.
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