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When I started this article a few months ago, I was hesitant to recommend the same players in back-to-back weeks. I’ve come to learn that it’s mandatory for a waiver wire piece, though, because people need to be reminded when a player is sitting on too many waiver wires. With that said, I do not […]

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I don’t listen to Bill Simmons’s podcast and haven’t read anything by him in 20 years, but Reggie Cleveland All-Stars was a top tier, Everest summit contribution to the discourse. For those unfamiliar, the Reggie Cleveland All-Stars are white guys with a Black name. Blaze Alexander is a Reggie Cleveland All-Star. Blazer Alexander? That’s a […]

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Even though I like to organize and sequence the news from the top league to the bottom in this space, I feel compelled to begin with Red Sox C Franklin Primera (18, CPX) this week, partly because I like puns more than I probably should but also because he’s early birding complex league pitching to the extent that he got traded in one of my 15-team dynasty leagues this week (shoutout to the 23 Jump Street crew). The team who traded him has been in first place most of the season and paired him with Marlins LHP Robby Snelling to get Nationals 2B Nasim Nunez and his 31 stolen bases. Well–not those 31 specifically but the possibility that he can approximate that number over the season’s second half. It’s a good trade for both sides, I think. Nunez is slashing a preposterous .426/.471/.553 with seven stolen bases over his last 14 games, hinting at a fantasy breakout in his age 25 season. We haven’t seen this type of a player for quite some time in this age of bat speed and exit velocity, so Nunez kind of snuck onto the scene with his plus defense and 70-steal upside. There’s no big surprise that he might make a jump in his second big league season while the weather heats up in a kind ballpark. I wish I’d chosen him while mapping out trade plans in Prospect News: Three Dynasty Trade Targets At Every Position while I was fumbling around for second base options. 

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I was pretty pleased with last week’s streamers, aside from Merrill Kelly. If we’re being honest, Kelly might just be washed at this point. That’s an inevitable path every pitcher takes, and it’s a sad reality for professional athletes. Knowing when that will happen is always tricky for us, but it’s also one of the […]

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What’s funny about the waiver wire is how it forms based on individual MLB teams. There just always seem to be a handful of teams that have numerous useful players on the waiver wire. The variables are simple to understand because they’re typically less popular teams and poor offenses. We actually have numerous of those […]

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Yankees OF Spencer Jones and me: telling each other fairy tales and smiling in the bright lights of the CBS AL Only Analyst League. Aaron Judge is out for a couple months. Jasson Dominguez just started a rehab assignment. This one looks pretty simple from the outside: if Jones hits, he stays. If not, maybe New York turns to The Martian to fill that Judgian void. 

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I’m having this weird feeling. It’s not gas; I know what that feels like. It’s not anger that my neighbor planted a tree that smells like semen on my property line. It’s…I think…extreme happiness? I hate my AL-Only teams usually, but I kinda like this team. Oh, it has its flaws, we’ll get to those, but, is this. Dot dot dot. Bliss? I never love my AL-Only teams. Sometimes, I’m okay with them. Sometimes, I’m unhappy with them but pretend to be okay with them, like a sad clown with a painted-on smile. But “kinda like” an AL-Only team?

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