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 […]
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Ray’s Ramblings: Arm Review & Winker
Sale looked better. Not great, but better. Foltynewicz and C-Mart are closing in on a return to the bigs. Arrieta looks good on the surface, but… Bassitt looked sharp for the A’s. Godley is trying to find his curveball. Happ has turned things around a bit of late. Brad Keller and his suspension. Minor has […]
From the Gut – A Weekly Game
Earlier this week I made a statement on Twitter about people asking who’s better rest-of-season between Player X and Player Y when making add/drop decisions. It’s the type of question many fantasy analysts get constantly throughout the fantasy season. My tweet wasn’t an attempt to punt such questions for folks looking to make ideal roster […]
Ray’s Ramblings: Hitting The Baseball Hard
It’s been less than a month of Major League action, so we need to be cautious in believing that there’s a breakout coming because a guy has had a few strong weeks, or that a player is doomed to mediocrity based on a sluggish start to the campaign. One way we can attempt to work […]
Prospect Watch 2019: Week 5
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 […]
Fantasy Baseball Elite Podcast: Episode 15
Welcome back to the Fantasy Baseball Elite Podcast series with today’s guest hosts: Vlad Sedler (aka RotoGut) & Peter Christensen (aka DraftCheat)!
Ray’s Ramblings: Gregory Polanco & Arms
We had all kinds of worries about Gregory Polanco missing a good deal of the first half of the season. He returned months ahead of what we thought might be the case, so now we’re left to decide just who he will be in 2019. Moving to the hill, Ray will discuss Anderson/Freeland of the […]
Ray’s Ramblings: Hot/Cold Week 5
It’s early in the year, so you probably have a pretty fair handle on the batters that are off to a hot start, or killing your squad with their less than ideal work to date. Ray Flowers still thought it to be worthwhile to take a look at the performance of those batters that have […]
Ray’s Ramblings: FAAB Run Week 5
Vlad Sedler writes a great FAAB article every weekend helping you to gauge the market and how much of your cash you should be dropping on Player A or B. Every Monday, or at least most of them, Ray Flowers tries to follow up Vlad’s advice with a review of how folks spent their free […]
Ray’s Ramblings: Trade’s & Veto’s
To Veto, or not to Veto, that is the question. Do you veto trades in your league? Should you veto trades in your league? Does it matter what type of league you are in before you answer? If a veto is allowed, should it be done by the commissioner or a by a league vote? […]