Fantasy Baseball Advice

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Houston has finally cut bait on Jose Abreu, who will collect another $30 million from the club over the next season and a half. Jonathan Singleton has been tabbed by manager Joe Espada to be the everyday first baseman moving forward, but that’s just,...

In this week’s Avoiding The Blurbstomp, C.A. introduced me to the band Boredoms for the first time. And holy cow, what a journey it has been discovering their catalog of chaotic music. Guitars, drumming, and screams everywhere all the time (but read...

A week has already passed since the last edition of Up-and-Coming Dynasty Players? Wow, time flies when it's baseball season. This week I want to talk about Houston Astros pitcher Hunter Brown. You are already probably laughing out loud about putting Hunter...

Cincinnati Reds corner infielder slash former Tiger slash former Cub slash former National (guy gets around) Jeimer Candelario continued his best Kyle Schwarber June mash-fest impression on Friday night going two for five with a two-run home run to extend...

Hey, RotoBallers, the halfway point of the season is rapidly approaching as the All-Star break is a few weeks away. We are back with our mid-week waiver wire rankings for Week 12 -- June 10 through June 16 -- to help you stay on top of the waiver wire, especially...

Mid-June means warmer nights, more humidity, and some pitcher blow-ups that will balloon the ERA of many fantasy managers. More than ever, it's important to nail some pitcher pickups on the waiver wire. A timely add now could pay huge dividends as we quickly...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley answer listener emails about Kyle Schwarber batting leadoff, teams paying their players not to do in-game, on-field interviews, the phrase “potential World Series preview,” a team purchasing and privatizing a valuable...

Happy Almost Father’s Day to those Razzpals who celebrate! And to those who don’t, enjoy a nice weekend not celebrating dads. Speaking of dads, I went on a trip with mine last week and had no service for a week. So, I am sorry I did not respond...

This was me seeing if Shane Baz was ready to be stashed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…and so on as I counted the months since his surgery. Do you count September of 2022 because that was when he had the surgery or do you start counting with October? Please, blog,...

He will generally pound the strike zone and his arsenal is good enough to take him a long way in time. At the very least, Waldrep is a superb dynasty asset with potential to provide early dividends in the second half. The post The Wire Troll: Hurston Waldrep...

Ok, I took some creative liberty with the actual adage to fit the two headliners into the, uhh, headline. I appreciate Grey and Truss giving me the (very wide) leeway to use that headline to segue into an article thesis (I swear there is one). Please, blog,...

Let’s run the zStats in ZiPS to see what pitchers are most underperforming or overperforming based on Statcast and similar types of data.

When MLB gives you a great Friday slate, ya gotta get pumped up. There are 12 games this Friday night and I can help you get situated in the slate and give you some ideas of who/what teams to play. Keep reading. Please, blog, may I have some more?

I ran a couple Baseball Savant searches and played around in Excel over lunch and ended up with something that would surely have made Henry Chadwick soil his trousers.

Big-time homers, small-ball exploits, and sportsmanship. What more could you ask for?

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about this season’s giant cluster of wild card contenders, the potential for an inactive trade deadline, the role the White Sox will play, whether the compression of the standings is good or bad for baseball, and expanded-playoffs...

Squaring a baseball up is not the same thing as hitting it hard.

This is system has an average top end but below-average depth, especially on the position player side of the ledger.

The Rangers and Diamondbacks are stagnant. What could they do to change things?