Archive for September, 2015
Stream, Stream, Stream: #2xSP (9.21-9.27)
UPDATE: Bolsinger is starting Sunday, so we’re rolling with Martin Perez (@OAK, @HOU) in his place.
We’re coming down the home stretch, and with it we’ve found a little bit more luck with regards to wins and losses. Hopefully that can continue as players are in crunch time with fantasy league playoffs. Onto this week’s recs…
Here are the totals through week 21 (with updates from previous listing):
35-48 record (4-1)
4.67 ERA (-0.07)
7.0 K/9 (same)
2.3 K/BB (same)
1.41 WHIP (same)
Here’s a look at this week’s recs, with team wRC+ in parentheses. Y! ownership numbers usually pulled courtesy of twitter pal @PandapPete21 (but not this week) whom you should give a follow:
LHP Eduardo Rodriguez – 36.3% ESPN – v. TBR (99), v. BAL (97)
Rodriguez has quietly strung together five really nice starts since the Marlins cleaned his clock five weeks ago (eight earned in five innings). That stretch has brought his season ERA down from 4.83 to 3.94, and looked a little like this: 1.72 ERA, .666 OPS against and 26-7 K/BB ratio in five starts (31.1 innings). He’s strangely been hit harder by lefties (.380 wOBA) than righties (.285) this season, so I do have a little concern about he’ll fare against Chris Davis. But given this week’s paucity of good recs and Rodriguez’ most recent success, I still think he has a good chance to be an asset. Read the rest of this entry »
The Daily Grind: Smyly, Corbin, Gyorko
by Brad Johnson
September 18, 2015
Agenda
- Adblockers
- Daily DFS
- GB / FB Splits
- SaberSim Observations
- Tomorrow’s Targets – Corbin, Smith, Gyorko, Hicks
- Factor Grid
RotoGraphs Audio: Field of Streams 9/18/2015
Episode 116 – Only If They’re Sly Like Me
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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Dylan’s new hobby that makes him a 12-year-old, Matt going to the less-sad zoo in Chicago, picking against Johnny Cueto, the intriguing Ryan Howard in 2015, trying out Brett Wallace, Adrian Beltre always being older than Matt, Matt’s Matt sound, Matt’s dog making a cameo, trying to pick in the battle of Max Scherzer vs. Jose Fernandez, the Yovani Gallardo fallacy, the return of Rich Hill, and Dylan avoiding TV masochism.
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A Minor Review of 2015: New York Yankees
Welcome to the annual series: ‘A Minor (League) Review of 2015.” This series is a great way to receive a quick recap of the ’15 minor league season for your favorite club(s), while also receiving a brief look toward the 2016 season and beyond. It can also be a handy feature for fantasy baseball players in keeper and Dynasty leagues.
The Graduate: Luis Severino, RHP: New York did not rely overly heavily on rookies in the early stages of 2015 but there have been some key freshmen performances down the stretch. With injuries to Mark Teixeira and Nathan Eovaldi, players like Greg Bird and Severino have emerged. The right-handed hurler has had a meteoric rise considering he was in Rookie Ball in 2013. In eight MLB starts, he’s averaging more than nine strikeouts per nine innings and has a 3.12 ERA. On the downside, he’s been touched up for six home runs (after allowing just seven in his four minor league seasons). Another thing to keep an eye on with Severino is his workload. After pitching a career high 113.1 innings in 2014, he’s already up above 142 in 2015 with the playoffs yet to come.
Roto Riteup: September 18, 2015
Yesterday Son Heung-min scored his first two goals for Tottenham. Sure it was in the UEFA Europa League and not the Premier League, but still. Via UnitedFaxMachine from Reddit — which is a 10/10 name given the David de Gea transfer fail — we have Son’s first goal and his second.
On today’s agenda:
1. Bad news for Jung-ho Kang
2. Matt Moore’s strong outing
3. Welcome back, Jorge Soler
4. Streaming Pitching Options
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The Sleeper and the Bust 9/17/2015 – Hitters Age-25 and Under
by Paul Sporer
September 17, 2015
Episode 278
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In this episode, Paul Sporer and Eno Sarris offer up their favorite 25-and-under potential keepers around the diamond. These are guys are likely attainable in your leagues, so no Bryce Harper or Jose Fernandez as they are simply cost-prohibitive at their level. These are like Xander Bogaerts, Maikel Franco, Kyle Schwarber, and Kolten Wong among many others.
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Three Big Second Halves You May Not Have Noticed
by Paul Sporer
September 17, 2015
Here’s one you haven’t heard before: the baseball season is long. (Who knew?) One potential downside of the six-month grind is that it’s hard to follow everything. My work is baseball – watching it, writing and talking about it – and I still can’t possibly follow everything that is going on in this great game. It’s impossible to miss the historical seasons that Zack Greinke and Bryce Harper are having. Even a breakout season like A.J. Pollock’s is rather prominent. What I find getting lost in the shuffle at times are strong second halves that follow a down or injury-riddled first half.
The underperformance or injury sets the tone for the perception of that player’s season and it can carry throughout the season even in the face of high-end performance refuting the initial look we got at that player. Here are three strong second-half performances that you might be missing:
Travis d’Arnaud [C, NYM]
A solid second half last year plus the rich prospect pedigree of this former first-rounder was enough to make him one of the more appealing C2 options this year sitting 13th among backstops by ADP according to FantasyPros. He came out of the gates firing with a .317/.356/.537 line including 2 HR and 10 RBI in his first 11 games before a fractured right finger sent him to the DL.
A Trio of Rebound Candidates
Marcell Ozuna’s breakout 2014 season offered the promise of another young slugging outfielder to pair with the prodigious bat of Giancarlo Stanton. Ozuna smacked 23 HRs in 612 PAs and the power that he had shown in the early Minors, where he eclipsed 20 HRs on 3 occasions, seemed to have returned. Best of all, as Mike Podhorzer pointed out in his 1/15/2015 article in RotoGraphs about 2014 Batted Ball Distance Surgers, Ozuna was prominently highlighted based upon a gain in batted ball distance of almost 34 feet from 255.51 feet in 2013 to 289.03 feet in 2014. Everything seemed be in place for another strong season for the 24 year old slugger. Except it didn’t happen. In fact, Ozuna was sent down to the Minors for 33 games. His 2015 season has produced a .249/.296/368 slash line with only 8 HRs in 423 PAs. His ISO dropped to an anemic .119 down from last seasons .186 mark.
RotoGraphs Audio: Field of Streams 9/17/2015
Episode 115 – Power Him To A Win
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In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson discuss C.J. Cron over Albert Pujols, Matt Moore continuing to struggle with his control, Yordano Ventura’s viability, Evan Longoria’s widening splits, Ryan Goins’ value as a guy in the Blue Jays lineup with a pulse, Brad valuing different kinds of splits than Dylan does, and Chris Tillman as an intriguing “crazy pick.”
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