Happy Monday, Razzball faithful! For this week’s installment of Top 100 Starting Pitchers, I decided to give us all a peek into the darkness that is “The Next 100”. The shadowy realm of the next 100 starting pitchers isn’t nearly as deep of an abyss as the one that houses the pitchers that follow these […]
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Drew Rom
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Hunter For Five, Gatherer For Four
September 13, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 141 Commentsby: Grey
This is George Kirby’s fault. He has polluted the minds of Major League Baseball, far and wide. George Kirby has pricked everyone’s brain and seeped his early curfew pitch count into their brain custard. It is so prevalent, Dusty Baker, the guy who once threw Aaron Harang, The Harangutan, for 178 pitches in a 9-1 game just to see if he could get his arm to fall off. Dusty Baker who once said to Mark Prior, “I don’t know if you ‘need’ an elbow.” That Dusty Baker pulled Hunter Brown with a no-hitter after 78 pitches in the 5th inning, having struck out 7 guys (and walking two)! Dusty Baker did that? What’s next, David Ross not batting Mike Tauchman leadoff? Don’t even get cute! So, Hunter Brown has some of the prettiest peripherals I’ve seen, and am tempted to say he could be a number two next year with a chance to be an ace. He has thrown too many innings though, so glad Dusty pulled him. *dodges tomato* What? Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more? Friedl, Friedl, Friedl, He Hit It Out Of Play
September 4, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Daily Notes, Featured | 173 Commentsby: Grey
Yesterday’s game in Cincy saw the Cubs and Reds combine for 22 runs. So, what’s going on with my son? Elly De La Cruz went 0-for-5 with four Ks? Forget Ticker Tease, that’s Ticker I’m-A-Born-Again-Virgin-From-That-Teasing. Not cool, man! Losing my virginity once was awkward enough! That 22 runs is why I get so scared of Reds starters in Great American Smallpark. It’s dangerous! It’s like if you’re allergic to peanuts and they throw you this:
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DFS: Drew’s Price Is A Rom-Com Joke
August 21, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, DraftKings, Fanduel | 2 Commentsby: rosineater
Good day, Razzballers! You’ve got mail, and the message is to play Drew Rom (P, $4,000) in your DFS lineups tonight. Rom faces the Pirates tonight, who have been clueless against lefty pitching to the tune of a 91 team wRC+. While I don’t typically like using pitchers in their MLB debut, Rom has good […]
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Cards & Categories Ep. 4 – Deadline, Deadline, Deadline
August 3, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, All Podcasts |by: Mike Couillard
Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer have launched a pod, Cards & Categories, to discuss baseball from card collecting and fantasy angles! In our fourth episode, we open with discussion on the trade deadline results. Then we talk about how to store prospect rookie cards and ride the market waves, especially in relation to the prospects traded this […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Now that the first month of the season is completed, it’s time to size up leagues and analyze which stat categories are going to be troublesome as the season rolls along. Of course, finding well-rounded players like Ronald Acuna Jr. or Gerrit Cole, the top batter and pitcher in our Player Rater currently, isn’t going […]
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Baltimore Orioles Top 10 Prospects for 2022 Fantasy Baseball
November 21, 2021 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 12 Commentsby: The Itch
These birds are in no rush, man.
They’re just getting going on the international front, so even though we might pounce on players who sign for big deals, I’m skeptical of the infrastructure in place to ease those teenagers’ transitions to professional baseball in the states. I’m skeptical of the whole plan, to be honest, given the slow-roasting, historical-losing outcomes we’ve seen so far. If Baltimore can follow the path the Astros and Cubs laid out by being truly abysmal for a half-decade just before the dawn of a successful stretch, the fans will appreciate the end point, assuming any remain. The AL East piece suggests their hands were tied to some extent–that the only path was full-tank with no on-field investments in the pitching or hitting side. I dunno. It’s just tough for me to get super hyped about the big future all these guys might have when we’ve seen what it took to acquire them.
Please, blog, may I have some more? Top 2020 Prospects: Baltimore Orioles
December 15, 2019 | 2020 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Prospects | 5 Commentsby: The Itch
Years of ignoring the international market left the Orioles behind the rest of baseball in the absolutely critical world of talent procurement and development. Ownership, beloved by all Baltimore fans, finally decided to amend this practice last year, hiring General Manager Mike Elias away from Houston. As his first move, Elias hired Houston colleague and former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal to be his “General Manager for Analytics,” a new job title in the baseball world.
Elias and Mejdal were central in the process that brought Houston so far into the future they decided scouts were outdated. The baseball world will watch their work in Baltimore with bated breath. Was what happened in Houston a magical confluence of hyper-competitive individuals that can’t be replicated outside that moment in time and space? Or can the secret sauce be imported and applied even in the most barren landscapes?
As with pretty much everything, truth is somewhere in the middle, but I’m leaning toward the latter—that yes this duo will be successful in Baltimore, and yes this would be an ominous outcome for the future employment of scouts on the ground.
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