Should have listened to my gut on Dustin May yesterday. He fared pretty well in real life by allowing only two hits and one run, but he only went five innings and mustered one strikeout. I suppose taking the ballin’ nature of the Dodgers bullpen into account would have been prudent–why ask your guy to…
Here are a few questions I had in my first pass through today’s slate. What is Dustin May’s ceiling? First off, look at this filth: May worked up to 88 pitches (62 strikes) in his last turn on August 16th. At first I thought he was way undervalued on FanDuel at only $7,000. But he…
Kevin Gausman has been productive in stints throughout his big league career, and now he’s in a great park for pitching. With a July ADP of 394 per the NFBC, Gausman was being drafted in “backup closer” territory–around guys like Blake Treinen and James Karinchak. No slight to those two, I’m just making the point…
Good morning all! In all honesty, I’m still figuring out what I want to focus on in 2020. I’m open to any suggestions that any of you might have. It’s been a crazy year, and my focus has been a bit scattered. Anyway, there are moments when I get to spend a little more time…
Here’s what popped out when I watched the condensed version of MLB games last night. Not sure who needs a little recap, but here ya go if you don’t have an hour to sit down and watch. Mostly, maybe a tidbit or two can help point some of you onto a helpful rabbit-hole somewhere. TOR…
The early picks for this week have delivered in a massive way. We’ve had great efforts from Alec Mills, Cristian Javier, and Randy Dobnak. Adam Wainwright was in consideration, but was lost to us due to a cancellation. Speaking of cancellations and age of 2020 postponements, make sure to follow along on Twitter at @roto_ranks…
With some teams missing games due to COVID-19, I will not be including some of them into this summary as there is not much to take away from teams who only played three games or did not play at all. Arizona Diamondbacks Towards the end of the week the Diamondbacks swapped Starling Marte back to…
Welp, we lost Pablo Lopez last week. Although, that could’ve been a gift in disguise, as the Orioles (5-3) continue to hang onto second place in the AL East, ahead of the Blue Jays, Rays, and Red Sox. Also, I shouldn’t have included Steven Matz last week, who was over my self-imposed 50% owned threshold.…
Yes, the season may be on the rocks. Yes, your season-long team doesn’t matter. But daily fantasy sports still matter. We only have to commit to one day for each foray, and that’s darn appealing to me given the current pandemic environment. Yours truly spends his time on FanDuel…sue me. Picking one pitcher is easier…
The baseball season is underway and we are hardly a week in. Now is the best time to pick up batters that have value on the waiver wire before anyone else in your league finds them out. We don’t want to overreact to hot starts from players we don’t expect to produce moving forward. We…
