RCL Update, Week 11: Nelson Cruz, Your Player Rater Darling… I Just… I Don’t...
So if you hadn't noticed, Nelson Cruz has been occupying the top spot (until yesterday) on our Player Rater for quite a while now. For the season, he's hitting .303/.374/.636 with 21 home runs, 42...
View ArticleThe Bronx Is Inflaming
I'm staring out on a prairie in the middle of Palm Springs. Okay, it's not a prairie. It's more of a dirt field with a bingo card blowing through it. But let's pretend it's a prairie. Why am I standing...
View ArticlePeavy On The Presidio
You know how when you move out of a place, you throw out a majority of your stuff, but a few things you just slide into the cubbyhole behind the washer/dryer? Maybe nothing significant. Just something...
View ArticleDraftKings – Clayton the Smack Down
Like the end of anything that was good, there is only one thing left to do as the MLB regular season comes to a close: lay it down really hard. Finish strong, as they say. Earn your season-long awards....
View ArticleNathan Saves Tigers From Using Him For Saves
If you had 75 hours into the season for when Joakim Soria would become the closer in Detroit, you win a brand new car*! *Prizes not included (there's no car; stop being greedy, you instead get words...
View ArticleCreeper of the Week: Coors is for Creepers, and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 3
This week I'm making a little one-week tweak to the Creeper of the Week and going with Creepers because we have something that doesn't always happen. What is that Big J? Well eager reader, it's a...
View ArticleProspect Profile: Catchers! (Gross…)
Fantasy owners lost two good catchers this week in Travis d'Arnaud and Jonathan Lucroy. Even in 12-team formats, you probably threw up in your mouth a little when you went to the wire and saw your...
View ArticleDraftKings: On The Grind
I’ve heard many a person say something along the lines of “Daily fantasy baseball is such a crap shoot, it’s such a small sample, there’s no way you can win”. To these negative Nellys I say, “must be...
View ArticleMesosoro Tanacha
Masahiro Tanaka hit the DL with a strained forearm. It's not related to his partially torn ulnar collateral ligament. So, here's my question? Why not just play through the forearm strain too? That's...
View ArticleCan You Give Me A Kluber?
True story: in a 15-team league last year, I toyed with dropping Corey Kluber in April. He was being dropped in multiple leagues, most shallower than mine. If you think I'm crazy as a loon wearing a...
View ArticleDraftKings: As Eric Prydz Would Suggest, Colome
Mondays are just a mess. Most teams are traveling, the matchups that would seem to make sense sometimes just don't pan out because of...well I don't know what. I think travel fatigue plays a part....
View ArticleDraftKings: Crazy Eights
Yeah, yeah, normally I open with something about a player but today I just ain't doing it. Instead, I'm going to point out something I enjoy personally about the DFS world that, oddly, hasn't happened...
View ArticleMets Smarten Up And Take Gee-Matz
There was some speculation that the Mets were considering moving Noah Syndergaard (6 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 11 Ks) to the bullpen and bringing up Steven Matz. The NY Post seemed to believe the Mets...
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Points Leagues: Running Numbers With Maikel Corleone
Coming into this season Kris Bryant was the rookie third baseman that had everyone going coo coo for Cocoa Puffs. After the year he had in the minor leagues in 2014 and the home run display he put on...
View ArticleJD And The Straight Out Of The Park Shot
You know how in 3rd grade you were able to play guitar in the school band because your mom made personal pan pizzas for the drummer and lead singer? C'mon, I know it's true, I read your autobiography....
View ArticleJohnny Red Too Stiff For Nats
Does this happen to people? You're working on something, and listening to certain tunes and that informs the way you go about your work. I've never had a real job in my life, so I don't know how this...
View ArticleDraftKings: Get Your Fix In
I could open today's post by telling you it's the last day of games before the All-Star break. I could go on a long diatribe about how this is the last time you can play DraftKings for 4 whole days....
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DraftKings: Only Fools Rusin
At least, that's what wise men say. Thankfully for both you and I, I'm not one of those...wait, I mean...dammit, nevermind, you know what I mean. I think? Not good to start a recommendation blog off...
View ArticleDraftKings: If I Wood, Could You?
Nothing like starting the week off with some Alice In Chains, amirite? Wait, what am I talking about, I'm the old fogey around here. So what do you want to hear, kids? The Billboard top 100 tells me...
View ArticleJohn Gets the Axford
After blowing his fifth save Thursday night, giving up three walks and two runs in the ninth, John Axford has now blown four save chances in his past five appearances. Colorado Rockies Manager Walt...
View ArticleCrawford Goes Bombie Dearest
Yesterday, Brandon Crawford went 2-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs with two homers (17, 18). Crawford has a big flashing sign over his head that reads, "Career Year." Under said sign, he has a smaller sign that...
View ArticleDraftKings: Rays A Glass On Labor Day
Cheers to you and yours on this fine Labor Day. And now, cheers to all the hard work you've done over this last year and the history of hard work this nation has done. Now cheers to the stretch run of...
View ArticleLucas’s Return Of The Duda
Yesterday, Lucas Duda went 3-for-5, 3 RBIs with two homers (26, 27). He now has five homers in the last three days. Duda goes from doodie to Duda in the blink of an eye. He's like a sports car that...
View ArticleDraftKings: Start Them While You Can
As the 2015 MLB regular season concludes, there are still playoff positions to be won and teams to get in. Today will be a day where you really want to stay glued to starting lineups and starting...
View ArticleTop 20 Catchers, 2015 Fantasy Baseball, A Recap
It feels like just the other day the baseball regular season started. You wrote “I heart baseball” in permanent marker on your arm, then you met a girl who wrote “I heart guys who heart baseball” on...
View ArticleTop 20 Catchers for 2016 Fantasy Baseball
The other day the top 10 for 2016 fantasy baseball was straight sexy like when a model on America's Next Top Model knows how to smize and booty tooch. Then, the next day, the top 20 for 2016 fantasy...
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2016 Team Previews: Atlanta Braves
Welcome to the 2016 Razzball Team Previews! You’ll find everything you need to know about each team to get yourself ready for the upcoming fantasy baseball season. And I mean everything, folks. We’ve...
View ArticleSAGNOF Report: Run Like You Stole It.
Sorry I missed you guys... and girls last week. I was having computer issues, and when you couple that with all my other issues, well then, you got a lot of issues. This week I'm going to keep focusing...
View ArticleAnderson Joins The Tyler High Club
I don't usually mention pitchers in Coors. Even rarer still that I mention pitchers filled with Coors. Most pitchers with Coors are piss-poor. That's for every definition of Coors and pitchers....
View ArticleWhen You’re Here (In Pain And Fear), You’re Familia
Jeurys Familia was given a 15-game suspension for domestic abuse charges filed against him this offseason. One could say Jeurys was given a 15-day DL trip to Familia, but the DL in this case is...
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