Bag o’ Fantasy Baseball Draft Advice
While Grey and I are usually around (more Grey than me) to answer pre-draft and post-draft questions, we don’t have a solution just yet for inter-draft questions. As we wait for the first prototype of...
View ArticleShortstops to Target, 2010 Fantasy Baseball
There’s no Reyes, Rollins or Hanley on this list of shortstops. This list is guys that can be had later in your drafts if you’ve punted shortstop or are still looking for a middle infielder. Look at...
View ArticlePerformance Enhancing Draft Strategy, PEDS
There’s a BRAN (Balanced Roster After Nine) Drafting Strategy by Rudy Gamble. Yesterday, he went over some fantasy baseball drafting hints from Heloise. You go read it. It will make you smart....
View ArticleNathan’s Hot Dogs – Now With Torn Elbow Ligaments!
If the Twins closer shituation were any crazier, it would be called Jeff Reardon. For right now, grab Jon Rauch or Matt Guerrier. In that order. Where you can, own both. Mijares, Crain, and Neshek...
View Article20 Risky Pitchers for 2010
Risk is more than a board game ironically not produced by Milton Bradley. It represents the only effective counterbalance in this world for ‘reward’ and grants us all the opportunity for the sweetest...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Auction Draft Strategy
The other day I went over my fantasy baseball strategy for snake drafts. Lots of the strategy there also applies here. If you ask me — and you kinda did ask me by reading this shizz — auction drafts...
View ArticleThe Senior Circuit Hold Center
This week I’ll tackle the National League (Sorry, football season never really ends for me). I know it doesn’t get better than this — let’s party till the ‘rents come home. I don’t know what intrigues...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Draft Strategy, Head-to-Head
H2H, Head-to-Head, whatever you want to call it doesn’t change a lot from our 2010 fantasy baseball rankings. There are 300 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy. There are 100s of billions of...
View ArticleThird Basemen to Target, 2010 Fantasy Baseball
I suggest you grab a 3rd baseman before leaving the top 100, but that’s not always possible. So, if you miss out on one, this list is guys that can be had later in your drafts. Look at this as a...
View ArticleIt’s the B’s Knees
Lance Berkman is scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery on his knee and will be out two to four weeks. I expect he’ll miss at least a week of the season. Maybe two. And even though it’s at worst two...
View ArticleBest and Worst Values by Position
I’ve added average draft position (ADP) from MockDraftCentral.com to the 5×5 10/12/14/16 Team Point Shares tables. (NL-only Point Shares are also up for 8, 10, and 12 Team.) As expected, pitchers are...
View Article2010 Fantasy Baseball Worst Top 20
Here at Razzball, besides doling out fantasy baseball advice, we also host a contest to field the worst fantasy baseball team. (You can win a hot tub this year. I know, crazy.) The worst fantasy...
View ArticleOutfielders to Target, 2010 Fantasy Baseball
Even if you draft one or two outfielders in the top 100 (which you should), you’ll still need to identify some late bargains. The top 20, 40, 60 and 80 outfielders for 2010 fantasy baseball can be...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Winning It, 10, 14 and 16 Team Averages
We already went over what it took to win your fantasy baseball league for 12 teams. Don’t believe me? Click this. Sucker! You got Rick Schroder rolled! Or not because you read this part before you...
View Article2 Men Enter, 1 Man Leaves
This is the conundrum of fantasy baseball that leads us to the battle for the final rotation spot. These guys either have one of two options: drive around on a bus with the Savannah Sand Gnats, or...
View ArticleStarters to Target, 2010 Fantasy Baseball
The top 20, 40, 60 and 80 starters for 2009 fantasy baseball can be found under the 2010 fantasy baseball rankings. For those of you who spent most of college like me here’s the Cliff Notes version of...
View ArticleFIP Flops
Member the last time we looked at FIP? You were younger, you! Still looking good. Love the touch with the bitten down fingernails. You’re like the Krueger brother who had to open jars for Freddy....
View Article2010 Fantasy Baseball, Rookies to Target
Rookie pitchers give you a roofie. Rookie hitters give you agita. So why do we keep going back for more like a guest on Oprah? It’s sorta like the old joke that Woody Allen quotes in Annie Hall. We...
View Article2010 Fantasy Baseball, Spring Training Numbers
It’s always good to look at spring training numbers to give you an idea as what to expect from guys for the season. They’re facing top pitchers who are all displaying their best stuff. No one needs...
View Article2010 Fantasy Baseball, Sleepers to Target
Many things have changed since November when we kicked off the 2010 fantasy baseball sleeper posts. For one, the date. For two, some of these guys are no longer that sleepery. For three,...
View ArticleCloser Look
Joe Nathan and Huston Street are gone and everyone moved up. That’s why people like Matt Capps and Chris Perez have done little but squat on the john yet moved up the rankings. Though I still managed...
View Article2010 Major League Lineups for Fantasy Baseball
While the merits of what someone is hitting or not hitting in Spring Training can be debated, where they are hitting or not hitting is important to look at. First, I want you to refresh your pretty...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball, Best Hitters of April
These are the leading hitters in the major leagues for last April. Do I think every hitter does the same thing every year? No, I don’t. But hitters do tend to follow patterns. If these players were...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball, 2 Start Pitchers, Week 1
This initial installment is full of fellas who go twice in week one of the 2010 fantasy baseball season. Week 1 is always a “ball and rank ’em” scenario. Guys who are either on really crappy teams, are...
View Article2010 Baseball Predictions
Now’s the time when we put all of our 2010 baseball predictions in one place. Then in October we can look back at this and laugh. Oh, and we will laugh. Big, bellowing, seat of your pants laughs....
View ArticleSay Heyward, Kid
On his way to The Stadium That Jane Fonda Didn’t Receive In The Divorce Settlement, Jason Heyward ordered his chariot driver to the side of the road so he could wrestle a wildebeest. Suicide mission...
View ArticleStealing Nothing More Than Stealing
Stealing is like borrowing until it becomes permanent. I don’t steal; it’s immoral, reprehensible and I’m really out of shape so I’d probably get caught. The fact of the matter is that these guys...
View Article2010 Fantasy Baseball Team, 13 Teams
We’ll get to the team, as they say on the the Little Chocolatiers, shortly. First, this was my least favorite draft I’ve done this year and maybe in the last two years. For the first time in a while,...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Top 100 for Second Half of 2010
So it’s not really the 2nd half mark in the fantasy baseball season, but it’s the All-Star Break so what else are we going to talk about? The newest Real World? Putting a guy who is a recovering drug...
View Article2011 Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Top 20 3rd Basemen
We finish off the infield with the top 20 3rd basemen for 2011 fantasy baseball. The 2011 fantasy baseball rankings from shallowest to deepest go catchers, shortstops, third basemen, 2nd basemen then...
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