Tag Archives: Baseball

You can never have too many friends. You can never have too much pizza. You can never have too many guitars. You can never have enough pitching, either. That goes for real-life baseball and the fake-stat-grab baseball we love so much. So count me in on Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin, with a high level of excitement. He’s coming back from a shoulder injury and has been fine in three short rehab outings (10.1 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 9 K). The real selling point is what he’s done in 86.2… Source link

Anthony Rizzo is out here teaching life lessons in between at-bats.  The Chicago Cubs first baseman was mic’d up for Saturday’s contest against the St. Louis Cardinals. He was caught in the dugout working out a trade with a young baseball fan: nachos for Rizzo, a ball for the youngster.  “Nachos first, then you get the ball,” Rizzo, all smiles, yells above the dugout with teammates milling about. “It’s a business. This is a business. I’ll teach you life lessons early.” Rizzo explained the… Source link

Shuffle Up season is here. How would we rank and sort players if a fantasy league were assembling from scratch right this second? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Included on this list is everyone roster-worthy who qualifies at outfield in the Yahoo game. I will not debate ranks on injured players. Of course, baseball is most fun when the best players are healthy and doing their thing; I root for everybody. But these weekly staples are not meant to be injury arguments. If you have… Source link

Revenge Of The Klubot In what has become a weekly occurrence in 2021, Corey Kluber etched his name in the history books Wednesday night by throwing a no-hitter versus the Rangers. The right-hander threw exactly one inning for Texas last season before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury and now has achieved baseball’s sixth no-hitter of the season and the first of his amazing career. The only wart on the scorecard for Kluber was a four-pitch walk to Charlie Culberson in the third inning… Source link

With so many fantasy baseball teams to my name, I regularly navigate the waiver wire on a wide variety of websites. And in all honesty, I find player searches on the Yahoo wire to be as good as that of any platform. Here is my process for finding a free agent gem in the Yahoo system. To be clear, I do ALL of these sorts before choosing someone to add. When I need a hitter 1. Sort by at-bats in the past seven days. In mixed leagues, rostered players should be in the lineup most days. 2. Sort by… Source link

With so many fantasy baseball teams to my name, I regularly navigate the waiver wire on a wide variety of websites. And in all honesty, I find player searches on the Yahoo wire to be as good as that of any platform. Here is my process for finding a free agent gem in the Yahoo system. To be clear, I do ALL of these sorts before choosing someone to add. When I need a hitter 1. Sort by at-bats in the past seven days. In mixed leagues, rostered players should be in the lineup most days. 2. Sort by… Source link

Many of the best fantasy managers advise to mostly ignore Spring Training. Besides keeping track of injuries and playing time battles, they suggest that getting into daily March box scores is a recipe for overreacting to small samples and generally missing the forest for the trees. But we continue to ignore that advice, and every year many players generate March buzz and shoot up draft boards. Are the experts right? Should we ignore Spring Training hype? Or does our modern access to… Source link

March Madness is in full swing, while the NHL and NBA regular-season games this month take on greater significance in a condensed season. With so much going on, sports fans should be forgiven if they struggled to keep up with the minutiae of Spring Training. But fear not, because I have summarized the biggest stories you need to know before your draft takes place. First off, Spring Training stats mostly don’t matter. The sample sizes are too small to be significant, and the varying level of… Source link

Prospecting isn’t for everyone. It can be painful. We have to wait weeks or months for these guys, with no guarantee they’ll succeed upon arrival. If you want to simply avoid the entire pool of untested would-be rookies during your fantasy drafts, we get it. It’s a defensible position. But it’s also not uncommon for a first-year player to make noise immediately, giving a massive edge to fantasy managers who were willing to draft and wait. Also, prospects are often the very best trade… Source link

We’re finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. The 2020 Friends & Family Draft was about 12 months ago, at a dark time. We weren’t even sure if there would be a season. We ultimately watched a quirky 60-game sprint, later in the summer, and hashed out a roto season that was fun but not fully satisfying. Back to the present. We’re looking at six months, 162 games, and a fresh and fun season awaits. With that in mind, we assembled 16 managers and put the Yahoo Friends & Family League… Source link