“It’s a skill game, Jo.” To quote the great Mike McD from the movie Rounders, pleading with his girlfriend that he’s not just a degenerate gambler carelessly throwing his money away playing poker: “Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? […]
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Ambulance Chasers: That Age Old Question
February 11, 2023 | 2023 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Injury Report | 6 Commentsby: keelinbillue
Happy Saturday, Razzballers! Pitchers and catchers report on Monday. Just in time to take your early season hopes and dreams on a romantic dinner for Valentine’s Day. What better time is there than to continue where I left off in last week’s edition of Ambulance Chasers about aging baseball players. A few weeks ago, our […]
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DFS: Birds Of The Feather
August 8, 2022 | 2022 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, DraftKings, Fanduel | 1 Commentby: Joseph Yancey
The biggest trade made at the deadline may have been the one that was not made. The St. Louis Cardinals – true to form, went low and grabbed two workhouse starting pitchers in Jose Quintana and Jordan Montgomery. Innings eaters. What the Cardinals so desperately needed. President of Baseball Operations, John Mozeliak is betting on […]
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FanDuel: Get A Bounce With Boyd
August 13, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel |by: wander34
With there being a Coors’ Game on the slate, you may be inclined to avoid some of the higher priced pitchers. If that is the case, consider Matthew Boyd ($10.400). The Tigers’ Ace faces a Mariners’ offense that is already in off-season mode. Over the last 30 days, the Seattle offense has a 29.4% K% that is paired with a .238/.307/.399 slash line. With Boyd striking out 31.9% of the batters he has faced this year, this seems like a good spot for the Tigers’ hurler to pile on. Now on to the picks.
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FanDuel: The deGrominator
May 11, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel | 4 Commentsby: Thomas Howland
Jacob deGrom. That almost says it all. Sure, he’s 2-4 with a 3.60 ERA this year on the whole. But in the month of May he is back to his dazzling self: 1.24 ERA, 13 Ks, 3 BB in 14 innings. And if that wasn’t enough, he’s toeing the rubber against the 30th ranked run scoring team in the majors. Not only are the Florida Marlins the 30th ranked offense, they’re a full 20 runs behind the 29th ranked Detroit Tigers. That’s worse than the lazy plot devices going on in Game of Thrones! The Marlins are so bad, and deGrom is so good, the Mets are favored at -410. A whole season goes by and you don’t see a line like that. He’s expensive ($11,300), but there is no surer thing on FanDuel this year than deGrom against the Marlins. Of course, there’s more than one way to skin a FanDuel lineup, so on to the picks.
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Please, blog, may I have some more?There are a lot of potential starting pitcher options for tonight’s main slate on FanDuel. But after a pretty dominant performance in his last start, Jacob deGrom has to be one of the few guys at the top of the list. Despite some struggles early, the New York starter still has a 34.8% K rate on the season. Look for another dominant showing from him in this one. The Padres’ have a 26.9% K rate versus right-handed pitching, while having just an 83 wRC+ against righties. Las Vegas agrees with this assessment as the Mets opened up as road favorite.
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Please, blog, may I have some more? FanDuel: Everything is on (Chris) Sale
April 22, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, DFS, Fanduel |by: wander34
Monday’s 10 game slate lack’s a sure thing starting pitcher. But with Chris Sale priced way down ($8,400), it sure is tough to look past the scissor-wielding ace of the Boston Red Sox. This may be more of a GPP play than cash one given his recent performance. But at his price, FanDuel is begging us to play Sale. Not only did the southpaw see his velocity return in his last start, but this is also a great matchup for the Red Sox starter. The Tigers’ have putrid numbers against lefties in 2019, and are found near the bottom of the league in all relevant offensive stats. They own a .086 ISO, .200 BAA and a 25.6% K-rate against left-handed pitching in 2019. And Vegas agrees as Boston opened up as the biggest favorites on the slate at -230, and the Tigers’ over/under run total at just three. His suppressed price tag should allow for you to get some Coors’ exposure, as well as take advantage of the other prime matchups listed below.
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Please, blog, may I have some more?When playing DFS and the slate has a game at Coors Field, DFS players on Fanduel have a decision to make. Do they be contrarian and fade the thin Colorado air, or do they chase the chalk up the Rocky Mountains? If there was a time to pass on loading up on a Coors’ game, it might be today.
Both pitchers scheduled to pitch in this one have been fairly successful in Colorado. The Braves’ Julio Teheran has pitched in Coors’ Field four times and has yet to allow a home run. In fact, he has held the Rockies to just a .313 OBP, .348 SLG and a .661 OPS in these four appearances.
And for the home team, Kyle Freeland has been very successful in Colorado. He had a 2.40 home ERA in 2018, while limiting opposing teams to a .226/.298/.393 slash line in those games.
When building cash lineups you may want to pluck a few Braves and Rockies. But for GPPs, fading Monday’s game could give you an edge on the competition.
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Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Top 20 First Basemen For 2019 Fantasy Baseball
January 30, 2019 | All Podcasts, Razzball Podcast | 6 Commentsby: Geoff
When did first base fall off the face of the earth? Remember the days when taking a first baseman in the first three rounds was a necessity? Now, you have to ask if there’s even five first baseman worth a top 3 round investment. It’s gotten so bad that catchers and second baseman are cracking the top 10 at the position. What kind of witchcraft is that? Not too worry, our fearless Fantasy Master Lothario Grey Albright is here to help us navigate these treacherous waters. In fact he identifies numerous values outside the top 12. That’s what Grey does, plays chess on the checkers board and then eats your sandwich. Laugh now, figure it out when you get home. It’s the latest episode of the Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
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Fantasy baseball is surely a long season, but that has never stopped anyone from overreacting to small sample sizes. Once the stats start rolling in, you can’t help but notice when your star players fall short of your expectations even when it’s a few weeks in. In fantasy baseball, patience truly is a virtue. The vast majority of seasoned fantasy baseballers know you need to give your players some time to see how they gel, but frustrating starts can get the best of us. Especially when it is someone you picked to be an anchor for your team. So this week I decided to look at some studs (top 50 NFBC ADP) that all started off really slow and worried owners, but have been locked in at the plate since.
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Did you see last night’s Yankee/Red Sox clash? No? It lasted a super fast 2 hours and 20 minutes and here’s a recap: Sale crushed souls to start the game and then gave up runs late. Masahiro Tanaka threw the year’s first Maddux (CGSO under 100 pitches) and it was glorious. Maddux’s are fantastic. The dominance and efficiency is a thing of beauty (Come on DFS sites, let’s get a Maddux bonus!). On the other side, the Red Sox offense continues to struggle. They have the league’s worst isolated power (.107) and are a below average offense (99 wRC+) with the league’s 2nd best BABIP (.319). They are thoroughly mediocre despite getting well above average offense from Benintendi (143 wRC+), Betts (144) and Moreland (151). Hanley (62), and Pedroia (66) are going to rebound, but I’m not sure that regulars Chris Young (77) and Pablo Sandoval (74) will improve by much – those numbers are likely just who those two players are at this point in their careers. A rebound from Hanley and Pedroia will likely be offset by the normal regression of Benintendi and Moreland and the extreme regression of Christian Vazquez after he just had the best 25 PAs of his life (254). All of this means the Red Sox might be an offense to target in GPPs with pitching because without Ortiz it relies on Betts and Benintendi and a bunch of average-ish bats. As we are seeing with Toronto right now, you take a link or 2 away from a very top-heavy chain and the entire thing breaks down.
On to the picks once we celebrate the year’s first Maddux, which are better than no-hitters…
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Straight Outta CREEPton And The Top 40 Hitters, Week 24
September 13, 2015 | Creeper of the Week | 65 Commentsby: J-FOH
Don’t be judging my title. I’m always late to the topical title party. I’m lazy! I haven’t seen Straight Outta Compton because I refuse to pay for overpriced tickets to movies that have nothing visually cool to offer. Seeing the clips and Grey talking it up and being in the same room as Cube has made me reflect… When that album broke, I was in the 8th grade and it was the biggest game changer for us since the Beastie Boys and RUN DMC (I group them together because it felt like it was around the same time). I wasn’t a huge hip-hop head, but I had friends that listened to nothing but street poets. Then came NWA and Eazy-E (I say them separately because Eazy’s album dropped a month after Straight Outta Compton and was treated like a companion piece). It was impossible to own one and not the other. Now, I bring this up because this movie reminds me of the first time I heard Eazy Duz It. I was coming back from Carpenteria (its just south of Santa Barbara) with my good buddy and his mom. He asked her if we could play his new tape on the way home. She, being the very open minded lady she was, obliged and sat through that whole album. Damn, I don’t miss my buddy since he turned into a bitch ass when we got older, but his mom was the baddest mom I knew. From Boyz N’ Tha Hood to Eazy-er Said Than Dunn, we would bump this almost as much as SOC. Hey, we were from L.A., it was great to get someone changing the game from our backyard. Now, you might be asking yourself what this has to do with this weeks creeper. Nothing, I just felt like waxing about NWA.
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