The Numbers Game: Power and Speed
It's no secret that offense has been in decline across the board in major league baseball in recent years. It seems like only, uh, 17 years ago that the race was on to see who could break Roger Maris'...
View Article15-Team NFBC Sloooooow (6 O’s) Draft Recap
This draft was so slow that I lost half my starting rotation before the draft ended. This draft was so slow that when it started Minnie Minoso was still alive. This draft was so slow when it started...
View ArticleHave You Been NFBC Experienced? Well, I Have
Leave it to the man living in Oregon, born and raised in Washington to take you to Electric Ladyland in the title. PNW represent *tries showing PNW with flashy gang sign...fails...breaks all fingers*....
View ArticleGrey Steps Into The RCL Arena, Only He Stands In His Way
I've drafted my Razzball Commenter League team (over hundred leagues this year; crazy!), and now I'm ready for the season. All those other drafts -- like Tout, Friends & Family, NFBC,...
View ArticleDeep Impact: Rock the Vogt
By now, most of you have drafted your fantasy baseball teams, and while there may be a few stragglers, the majority of you will be turning to Razzball for in-season info, not draft info. You can no...
View ArticlePrice’s Owners Drop F-Bombs Like Bryan
Apparently, it was never the elevation in Coors. It was because it was cold in Colorado. Or at least that's what the Yanks/Tigers game looked like last night while it was played in Arctic temps...
View ArticleI Am Buy Dexterous
The first week I told you to buy Devon Travis. The 2nd week I told you to buy Steven Souza. This might be the most improbable streak since Joe DiMaggio's. I'm not talking about his 56-game hitting...
View ArticleAngels Trade Man With Demons
Josh Hamilton was acquired by the Rangers as originally reported by Dan Pants on Saturday. Gammons, Dan Pants, Heyman, that's the top three most quoted baseball reporters. Dan Pants is a bit more...
View ArticleMesosoro Tanacha
Masahiro Tanaka hit the DL with a strained forearm. It's not related to his partially torn ulnar collateral ligament. So, here's my question? Why not just play through the forearm strain too? That's...
View ArticleIf A Samardzija Gets Chopped In Baltimore And Nobody Sees It…
Chris Davis (1-for-4, 3 RBIs, hitting .268) hit his 5th homer, and the announcers said that it was all Davis since there was no breeze in the stadium. Could there have been no breeze because there were...
View ArticleLogan’s (Home) Run
Logan Morrison performed some late night heroics yesterday as he went 2-for-5 with two RBI including a walk off home run off Dan Otero in the 11th inning to beat the A's. LoMo now has three home runs...
View ArticleAstros Make Drew Look Un-Hutch-Able
I hear you out there. Wait, something's not quite right...I see a grainy pic so we're kinda ok...but where's the mustache...*squints*...OMG YOU'RE NOT GREY WHAT IS THIS INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS...
View ArticleYankees’ Olds No Match for KC’s Young
Chris Young continues to shock the fantasy baseball world as he held the Yankees to just one run and four hits last night to grab his third win. He struck out two. After coming off a six inning shut...
View ArticleHoward the Creep and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 7
The year was 2005 and my buddy kept talking about his fantasy baseball team. I had no idea what he was saying most the time, because I had never played the game before. Actually I had barely watched...
View ArticlePoints Leagues: (S)Harper Image
In 1977, not only was yours truly introduced to this cruel, crazy beautiful world, but so was a place that would sell the coolest of cool gadgets. Who reading this can say that, as a kid, or even an...
View ArticleDraftKings: If It’s Wong, I Want To Be Right
If I was drafting a season-long fantasy baseball team today, I would target Kolten Wong very early. I remember before the start of the 2014 season, a major media outlet had a debate as to who the best...
View ArticleRusney or Not, Here Comes Castillo
Cuban phenom and top prospect Rusney Castillo debuted for the Red Sox last night going 1-for-4 with a run scored and a fielding error on a fly ball that resulted in a few boos from the Sawx Nation....
View ArticleI’m Jazzy over Gillaspie and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 8
Hey, it's Memorial Day weekend, so I assume most of you aren't here. I guess I'll be chatting with some of our playas' from Europe and that New Zealander Steve. Damn, that came out like I'm hatin' on...
View ArticleThe Excellent Mr. Burns and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 9
All right, you ragtag bunch of misfits! You hate me, and I hate you even more. But without my beloved ringers, you're all I've got. So I want you to remember some inspiring words that someone else...
View ArticleJustin Turner: Overdrive, and the Top 100 Hitters, Week 10
I hope you don't think I'm doing a BTO theme today with that title. I'm not Homer. When it comes to Canadian rock they are not my cup of tea, I'm a Guess Who fan. You know, the band where the "B" in...
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