Bullpen Usage & Reliever Ratings, or BURR, is an idea that Flowers and Mans have been playing around with since the 2017 season. The reason for their focus is simply that bullpens are a more important part of the modern game than ever before. You know what we mean. Whereas at one time starting pitchers threw 220 […]
Ray’s Ramblings: April 17th, Pitch Clock
Two of the better righties in baseball, Nola and Syndergaard, are struggling in the early going. Kershaw returned from a health issue to look pretty darn sharp. As he returned, another left as Snell has been placed on the DL with one interesting injury. Darvish is still trying to throw strikes. Luis Castillo has looked […]
Fantasy Baseball Elite Podcast: Episode 14
Rankings update? The importance of sample sizes? Luis Castillo has been impressive, but are there still concerns? The need to decide what it is you need in a deal, and how that is at least as important as who is the “better” player. Snell to DL with foot issue. Braves starting rotation. Brewers starting rotation. […]
Prospect Watch 2019: Week 4
Each week we will try to give a quick update on each of the top-40 minor leaguers that could help out in the fantasy game in 2019. Of course, there is an element of uncertainty with all of this as we never quite know when a team will decide to call up a youngster or […]
Ray’s Ramblings: April 16th, Pitch Clock
Arms, arms, arms. Ray Flowers reviews the plight of a bevy of arms in this Ramblings entry. Some of the arms are off to solid starts (Buchholz, Morton, Price, Sabathia, Smith), others are a bit cold (Hendricks, Kluber, Mikolas, Straham) while still others are sitting in some sort of limbo-like blah state (Bumgarner, Holland, Lauer, […]
Ray’s Ramblings: Expected Stats, April 15th
Expected stats are all the rage in the world of baseball. For years, we’ve said things like ‘this guy should be doing better than he has been showing’ or ‘this guy is performing over his head.’ Now, with some of the expected stats that are available we have some data to support those lines of […]
Ray’s Ramblings: FAAB Run Week 3
I’m gonna to spend some time going through the FAAB bidding in five experts leagues. There were some aggressive bids on players that I think were overspends, and plenty a player added on the cheap that could turn out to be a bargain. Did the spending in your leagues mirror what the pros did this […]
Ray’s Rundown – 04/13
Ray Flowers talks injuries: Trout (groin), Scherzer (ankle), Ohtani (elbow), Hamilton (knee), Polanco (shoulder), Andujar (shoulder), Sanchez (calf DL) – how do you handle the catcher position? When is it right to pass on the “better” player? Waiver-wire: HITTERS (Brian Dozier, Hunter Dozier, Jessie Winker, Galvis, Pinder, Moreland, Heyward, Vogelbach) and PITCHERS (Eovaldi, Pivetta, Margevicius, […]
2019 Catcher Review – April 12th
Just as we’re taking an in-depth look at bullpen with our BURR metric, we will breakdown the catcher’s position as well at Guru Elite. Normally we just worry about the offensive side of the game, but as we move to the next level of analysis we’re looking more and more at the importance defensive side […]
Ray’s Ramblings: Taking A Look At Arms
It’s time to look at some arms. Buehler still doesn’t look quite right. Foltynewicz is closing in on a return to the bigs. Glasnow has been stupendous. Lynn has turned in a couple of solid outings for the Rangers. Mahle has done a good job in his two fill-in outings for the Reds. Montas has […]
