Fantasy Baseball Advice

The Pale Hose are slowly creeping up towards contention, but they still need to find pitching.

How did the All-MLB squad compare to one chosen by WAR?

The 2019 season saw more home runs hit than ever before in Major League history as 6,776 balls left ballparks across the league. The top-hitting club of them all was the Minnesota Twins with 307 big flies. Chief among them was none other than 39-year-old Nelson...

For the last four seasons, MLB has seen an increase in strikeout rate (K%). Since 2015, K% has increased from 20.4% to 23.0%. Weve also seen an increase in walk rates and a poorer league-wide ERA. Those trends can make it difficult to assess whether a pitcher...

A history of the first hurler to appear in half his team's games.

With the help of a Brink's truck, the Yankees land Gerrit Cole at long last.

I'm here in sunny downtown San Diego at the Winter Meetings and just ran into Matt Kemp. How ya doing, Matt? "I'm great, Grey, excited about continuing my career." Which career is that, Matt? "Baseball." Okay, great! *holds finger to ear* Sorry, hearing now...

Gerrit Cole signs a record-breaking contract with the Yankees.

The shortstop hopes for a rebound, the team hopes for an upgrade in a rejiggered infield.

Philadelphia fills out the infield and adds flexibility.

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley link up during the Winter Meetings for a brief bonus episode in which Meg tries to stump Ben about genuine and fake media-scrum statements supposedly made by baseball superagent Scott Boras. Audio intro: Yo La Tengo, "If it’s...

The all-time home run leader is gaining ground, but losing momentum towards a plaque in Cooperstown.

Michael Pineda might have been pedestrian in 2019, his ability to create pitch tunnels was anything but.

A not-too-precise look into whether teams who suppress contact are suppressing their own defenders' value as well.

It's hot stove time and there's already been more activity on the market than we've seen in the past couple of offseasons, with more big signings on the horizon.One of the first and more surprising offseason deals to get done was a trade between the Brewers...

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller follow up on (o)possums playing dead, discuss the Nationals signing Stephen Strasburg to a record contract for a pitcher and the implications for the Nationals, Scott Boras, Anthony Rendon, and Gerrit Cole, banter about the possibility...

When it comes to ensuring the health of the game, 2019 was a failure for Major League Baseball.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--Breathe, Grey, breathe! I am wheezing thinking about going back in on Willie Calhoun as a sleeper. I am bent over a toilet coughing up chunks of past sleeper posts, swearing that I will never write another Willie Calhoun sleeper post, yet,...

The cost to bring back Stephen Strasburg was high, and he'll likely live up to his deal, though the opportunity cost might be higher if the Nationals are out on Anthony Rendon.

The Nats managed to avoid the doomsday scenario in which they lose both Strasburg and Rendon.