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Pirates Donating Pain To Astros With Every Purchase of Newman’s Own Smackdown

Yesterday, the Pirates exploded for five homers, touching up Brad Peacock (3 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.13). Maybe the Pirates would’ve let up more if his name was Brad Parrot.  Kevin Newman led the way once...

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FanDuel: All-Star Blues

Today is the last day of baseball before the three most dreaded words of the summer are uttered: All-Star break. It's not all bad though, we get a tiny break from setting our season long lineups at...

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SAGNOF: Shooting Starling

We're off and running in the second half of the baseball season. Get busy padding your steals category before September comes and you're staring up the standings at someone who did.

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FanDuel: Saint Luis

Happy weekend DFSers!  Today marks the first day of vacation for yours truly and I’ll be out today enjoying summer in Maine.  Summer in Maine is basically crazy humidity, lots of bugs and an ocean that...

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Aaron Sanchez Cooks Up 6 No-Hit IP After Astros Chopped His Sinker

A reporter, ducked behind chairs, yells at Aaron Sanchez at his no-hitter, post-game press conference. All we hear is the reporter's disembodied voice, "Isn't it true your four-seam spin rate went...

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FanDuel: Beebs And Beeks

It's a hot, sunny Tuesday and thanks to a double header we have day baseball as well as a 15 game DFS slate.  It doesn't really get much better than this.  For pitching today I'll be looking mostly at...

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Jo-Ram Has A Bro-Ham

America's greatest Indian was Sitting Bull. Maybe Pocahontas. Possibly Bob Feller. I'd accept Apu even. But on the list of great Indians, Jose Ramirez and the service he provided this year does not go...

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FanDuel: The Lucchesi Family

Happy Labor Day weekend DFSers!  I hope you’re all enjoying the unofficial last weekend of summer.  Let’s score some dough and put our labor to good use. To do so, I’m recommending Joey Lucchesi...

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FanDuel: Who’s A Good Boy? Gerrit Cole Is A Good Boy

We must really love baseball. Today we have an 11-game FanDuel Main Slate, but the large format contest sizes have been chopped by about 90%, I’m guessing because today is National Hug Your Hound Day...

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Top 20 Shortstops for 2020 Fantasy Baseball

Wasn't that long ago that we were screaming about how terrible the shortstops are and how the sky is falling and how red wine is good for your health and you were like, "What if I put grenadine in my...

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Fantasy Baseball Strategy For A 60-Game Season: Batting Average

BABIP is going to fuel batting average this year, which is to say good luck finding lucky hitters. Now one thousand words on how maybe we can pare down the luck. Since 2000, only three players have...

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Rolling In The Deep: Time To Prioritize Playing Time?

As I prepare for my final drafts ahead of a potential 2020 season, I'm still trying to strike a balance between staying true to my longstanding general strategies for constructing a fantasy baseball...

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A Man, D. Peterson, Can Buy Me Love

Yesterday, the Mets debuted their 2017 1st round pick, David Peterson, and he went 5 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 3 Ks. Here's bit of tid on him:  Tall dude, stands about 6'6". *standing on my chair,...

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Yard Byron

Yard Byron Buxton, known for such classic poems as Don Juan Soto, She Walks In Beauty But Buxton Doesn't Walk, and Fare Thee Well, a poem about Baby Jessica, was a classic poet during the Romantic...

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SAGNOF: Slippery When Buttrey

Take the opportunity this week to sneak some adds by your leaguemates who could very well be distracted by the impending start of the NFL season. Things are happening around the league on the waiver...

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Heads Up! H2H Categories Strategy Week 7 – Let’s Get Rowdy

We've reached the home stretch. If your lineup needs a short shot in the arm heading down the stretch, look no further than Samwell Tarly lookalike, Rowdy Tellez (23.9% ESPN, 20% CBS). The Blue Jays'...

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Soto’s Box Score Is A Juanderland

This is what they call in the biz a GAP -- a General Appreciation Post. It has not been a general appreciation type year, but Juan Soto (1-for-4, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and a slam (12) and double legs (4, 5),...

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Top 20 Shortstops for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

Could I see owning two of the top 20 shortstops for 2021 fantasy baseball? More like: Can I draft four of them? This post is going to envelope you with so much love you're going to remember when it...

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The Saturday Morning Post: J-T-R Stays P-U-T

Whew! What a week. Stocks wise. Baseball wise. NOLAN ARENADO WISE!!!!!!!! (Cards fan here, remember?) Lots and lots and lots to go over this time around. The 2021 season is almost upon us and teams are...

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Ambulance Chasers: Preseason Boo Boos To Watch

Howdy, folks! Thanks for tuning in for my next weekly project: tracking all them ding dang injuries. I'm transitioning from transactions to trauma. From moves to maladies. From signings to sickness....

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Top 25 Shortstops for 2021 Fantasy Baseball: Spring Training

With your NCAA tournament bracket now busted due to the rash of upsets this weekend, you can turn your attention back to baseball. In fact, why was your attention even turned away from baseball? With...

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Points Leagues: Naquin, The Gametime, Hitting, Homering, RBI-ing, Scoring,...

Tyler Naquin. Is that an official sentence? Anyone? Typically I wouldn't be buying into him, but allow me to explain why I have picked him up in two of my primary leagues. In one league I have Ketel...

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Carlos Rodón The No-Hit Train

Immortality smells of Chucky Cheese because that's what Carlos Rodon was throwing last night. *wavy lines* Chyron: A Few Days Ago. "Skip, I don't think I can go. I mean, I can go...But not like that."...

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Cedric The HRtainer

In March, World Famous Orioles Manager Brandon Hyde, lined up all his outfielders to get a lay of the land. "Anthony Santander, run to the fence and back...Trey Mancini, jumping jacks...Mountcastle,...

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Kris B Found His Original Recipe

Kris Bryant (3-for-5, 3 RBIs, and his 8th and 9th homer) pulled a fast one on us. A switcheroo not seen since the 1987 sitcom, Switcheroo. Singing theme song, "He thought being a kid was tough, and...

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Red Sox > Cole In Your Stocking

*zooms microscope in on Gerrit Cole's spin rates on Statcast, accidentally zooms too close and cracks computer screen* Oopsie. Yesterday, Gerrit Cole (5 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 2.66) had his ass handed to...

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Top 25 Fantasy Shortstops for 2021 – Week 22

When you think of the top shortstops in baseball, you automatically think of Fernando Tatis Jr. first, then probably Bo Bichette, Trea Turner, Carlos Correa, Trevor Story, and Corey Seager - when he is...

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Twins Making Progress On “A Trade Per Lake” 2022 Resolution

*takes long inhale* You smell that? It's the glorious smell of actual baseball trades mixed with the mold in your mother's basement! So, the Twins have more irons in the fire than Tigers Woods's...

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Ambulance Chasers: Josh R-OH-NO!-jas

Razzballers and Shotcallers, I hope you all had a wonderful Opening Day where none of your real life team or fantasy roster were taken out by injuries (unless you are my competition, and in that case,...

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Ambulance Chasers: Ten Guys That Are Definitely Afraid Of Needles

Happy Saturday, Razzball Folks! The All-Star break is upon us, and we have a record low number of bodies that have hit the floor due to injury. However, we have a record number of folks on the IL...

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