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Prospect News: Bryce Eldridge Brings The Horror

August 28, 2024 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 13 Comments

by: The Itch

Athletics SS Jacob Wilson’s major league debut ended after just one at bat thanks to a hamstring injury that sent him to the injured list for about two months. He’s back up with Oakland now, singling and scoring a run in his return. He’s a curious piece for our game: a plus hitter without the extreme speed or power we love to see in a prospect. One huge plus: his glove at shortstop buys him lineup real estate even if he’s not hitting, and so far he’s been hitting everywhere he’s been as a professional. When Oakland plays in a kinder run-scoring environment over the next few years, Wilson will be their shortstop and potentially their leadoff hitter. In case it’s not clear at this point, I find him difficult to evaluate for dynasty purposes, but I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.

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Top 100 Starting Pitchers : The Last Of Us (AKA The Next Next 100)

March 25, 2024 | 2024 Fantasy Baseball, Featured, Top 100 Starting Pitchers | 11 Comments

by: MarmosDad

Happy Monday, Razzball faithful! The day has arrived. It’s time to dive headfirst into the Top 100 Starting Pitchers version of ‘The Bog of Eternal Stench’. Following our “Next 100” starting pitchers from a couple of weeks ago is tough. If you thought there were some stinkers in SP101-200, you can bet more than a […]

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Top 50 Prospects For 2024 Dynasty Fantasy Baseball

February 14, 2024 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 24 Comments

by: The Itch

26. Padres C Ethan Salas | 17 | AA | 2025

I’ll never have Salas on a roster. Nothing against him, really, just a matter of public-facing, real-baseball lists running him so high up the rankings that there’s no road back to dynasty baseball value. He’s already a top ten prospect in most places, and he’s just nowhere near that for our purposes. He’s in Double-A at 17, but he hit just .200 for nine games in High-A, so that’s an artificial placement to say the least. He’ll likely open back in High-A and should have to hit his way out. There’s absolutely no rush. At 6’2” 185 lbs, Salas moves smoothly behind the dish and receives and frames with a deft touch that’s a decade beyond his years. With a bat in his hands, he’s a dangerous lefty power hitter with a discerning eye. An elite prospect to be sure. Just not an ideal building block for our game.

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Milwaukee Brewers Top 10 Prospects For 2024 Fantasy Baseball

November 15, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 15 Comments

by: The Itch

Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2024 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival

1. OF Jackson Chourio | 20 | AAA | 2024

A phenomenal athlete who generates unique torque, Chourio hit 22 home runs and stole 43 bases as a 19-year-old in a Double-A league that used a pre-tacked ball to start the season. Hypotheses vary on how much the tacky ball impacted offensive outcomes, but there’s little doubt it increased the difficulty level for hitters. The league swapped out that experiment for a different one after a couple weeks, but the ball was still . . . unique enough that it creates a little error bar and reverse-explained some of Chourio’s early struggles. Mostly, he was pretty great, slashing .280/.336/.467 with an 18.4 percent strikeout rate and a 112 wRC+ across 122 games. This earned him a promotion to Triple-A for the final six games, where he slashed .333/.375/.476 with just one strikeout. Milwaukee has a lot of pieces to sort through, and you can see by the ETAs on this list that their path won’t get clearer anytime soon. There’s not much Chourio could prove at Triple-A Colorado Springs, so he’s got an outside shot to open the season in the big leagues.

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Prospect News: 2023 Dynasty Crush Team or Grab An Ale, Man

September 17, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 12 Comments

by: The Itch

Baseball TwitterX was peppered with Prospect Crush lineups last week, and while I’m not sure I could articulate the definition of “crush” in this context, I thought the idea was interesting enough to build an article around as we near the tail end of the minor league season. I mean I almost dropped my own squad into Elon Musk’s private hype site before I realized I was pouring a lot of time into generating content for everyone’s favorite space invader.

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Top 25 Prospects For Fantasy Baseball: Mid-Season Snapshot

July 9, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 39 Comments

by: The Itch

For this list, I used the players’ ages as of today: July 9, 2023. The cut-off lines for eligibility were 130 at bats for hitters and 50 innings for pitchers. 1. Reds SS Elly De La Cruz | 21 | MLB | 2023 Biggest gap I can remember between the top guy and any […]

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Prospect News: What The Elly’s Going On In Cincinnati?

June 7, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 29 Comments

by: The Itch

When was your last sitcom-style spit-take?

I’m not sure I’ve ever done the full expulsion. It’s more like gagging on the liquid as I try to keep it in, which is what happened last night when Tony Gonsolin tried to throw a fastball higher-than-high against Reds SS Elly De La Cruz, who simply smoked a 112 mph line drive into right center on a pitch about ten inches above the strike zone. I’ve seen him do stuff like that before, but the reason it surprised me here was the previous pitch. Gonsolin features one of the game’s best splitters, and he made Elly look bad on it in this at bat. De La Cruz had every right to be flummoxed by the ultra-high heater, but it didn’t bother him at all. Even way up out of the strike zone, it was the only real pitch to hit he saw all night from a Dodgers staff that wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.

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Prospect News: Woo Child Things Are Gonna Get Easier

June 4, 2023 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 34 Comments

by: The Itch

Mariners RHP Bryan Woo made his debut Saturday in Texas against one of baseball’s best teams, and it did not go well. A lot of rookie pitchers struggle in their first start, so we should avoid Tom Smykowski’s Jump to Conclusions Mat here, especially on the road against a good offense.

SS Royce Lewis looks like a mid-lineup mainstay in Minnesota. Don’t say that five times fast. 2B Edouard Julien is the odd man out for now but appears to be settling into his skill set at the highest level, even if he’ll spend the foreseeable future a level below that.

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