Iglesias Dedicates Game To All The Owners He Loved Before
I'm in New York celebrating my grandfather's 88th birthday, or as he calls it "achy-ache," and we started talking about Caitlyn Jenner, and he said, "She's a hot number, I'd throw her one." Throw her...
View ArticleThe Sun Goes Down On Soler
Jorge Soler is likely done for the year with a strained oblique. This is one of those injuries that comes with a sigh of relief. Yay, I don't have to keep running Soler out there and being...
View ArticleCubs Scrub A-Jax Off Mariners Like Barnacle
Cubs traded a player to be named later for Austin Jackson. Assuming the player to be named later isn't anyone on their current roster, this was a solid trade for them from a real baseball perspective....
View ArticleHarvey Does About Face, Turns Heel
Matt Harvey did a 180 on his 180. This weekend he announced that he's not pitching past 180 innings. Come rain, come shine, come playoffs. Then, when met with a huge backlash, he reverted course to...
View ArticleProfessor Tanaka Will School You
Yesterday, Masahiro Tanaka went 8 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 10 Ks. I took some guff in the preseason for being down on Tanaka, in the non-sexual way. I projected him for the line of...
View ArticleFinnegan’s Break
Brandon Finnegan pitched five innings allowing just three hits an earned run, two walks, while striking out four to notch his first win with the Cincinnati Reds last night. James Joyce would be so...
View ArticleRich Ain’t Over The Hill
Rich Hill pitched a complete game two-hit shutout last night against the Mighty Orioles walking just one batter and striking out 10 for his second win. Where the heck was this guy in April when Justin...
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: It’s Time To Down A Cold Brew(er) Or Two
It's not a great year to be rooting for Milwaukee and it just got worse as the year progressed. GM fired? Check. Big name star traded? Double check. Big name stars hurt? Triple check. Your mama always...
View ArticleOPS Leagues: The Final Countdown
The season is winding down, and honestly, there isn’t much that can be said to help improve your playoff chances at this point. Largely, the last few days of the season come down to grabbing the...
View ArticleTop 20 1st Basemen for 2016 Fantasy Baseball
After the top 20 catchers for 2016 fantasy baseball, it's all downhill. And by downhill, I mean it will pick up speed and start moving quickly. That really should be what "it's all downhill" means....
View ArticleUnder the Greydar: Lucas Duda
It was a year to remember for the Amazins in 2015. Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, and Noah Syndergaard fronted the best starting rotation in MLB. Yoenis Cespedes had a 2nd half for the ages after being...
View ArticleUnder the Greydar: Neil Walker
Last week, we looked at Lucas Duda and determined that he might be a player who is being slightly undervalued by the fantasy baseball community entering the 2016 season. This week, I'd like to put Neil...
View Article2016 NFBC Expert Mock Draft, Recap
Howdy Razzballero! Razzballians? Did we ever come to a consensus on a term to identify the loyal followers of this great site? *checks glossary* Hmmm... don't see one. I do see the term DLzebub though....
View Article2016 Disgraces and Delights: First Basemen
Once, long ago, magic flowed through my brain, producing works of literary phenomena on my trusted and secure Mac Book Pro. These fingers worked more proficiently than Amber Rose's as she brought Kanye...
View ArticleOBP Leagues: Risers, Fallers, Targets, And Sleepers At First Base
When looking at 1st basemen based on 2015 statistics, it is easy to see this position is elite when it comes to Spread (again Spread= OBP minus AVG). In fact, the average Spread for all 1B who had over...
View ArticleCarlos Rodon The Wall And Left His Mark On My ERA
Well, that sucked. It was extra sucky too because I had high hopes for Carlos Rodon's start vs. the lifeless Angels. Like eating Chinese food by yourself and accidentally getting two fortune cookies,...
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DraftKings: Bartolo YOLO’in
The night slate is...hrm, how best to put this? Not good for pitching. Like uglier than the dude in the pic above this sentence ugly. If you're in the eleven game grouping tonight, you're gonna wonder...
View ArticlePen In Cincinnati WKRaP
Bryan Price, always one for colorful language, should go full Tony Montana about his relievers, "Look at that, I got a junkie bullpen, mang. My bullpen is so polluted! I can't even have a save with...
View ArticleGausman’s Initial Start Is Cagey
Yesterday, Buster Olney tweeted, "Kevin Gausman is pitching tonight probably exactly the way the Orioles hoped on the day they drafted him. Dominant stuff." Putting aside the unnecessary "probably"...
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