Mike Podhorzer’s 2018 Bold Predictions
March 26, 2018
Only four days until Opening Day! Now that all my drafts and auctions have been completed, it’s finally time to reveal my 2018 bold predictions.
Archive for March, 2018
Roto Riteup: March 26, 2018
by Justin Mason
March 26, 2018
Sometimes it takes a bit before you get your groove back:
Ian Kinsler knows he got away with one. pic.twitter.com/L5bDuf4Pe5
— MLB (@MLB) March 26, 2018
Sunday Night Fantasy Chat
RotoGraphs will be hosting this chat every Sunday night during the season to help owners decided on their waiver claims and FAAB bidding. I will be the normal chat host but others may step in if I have other commitments.
The start time will need to be after 7:00 PM CST when I host so it’s at 7:30 for now. Let me know how the time works.
As for the focus of the chat, I’ll try to answer fantasy questions on waiver wire pickups and FAAB bidding. I’ll answer other fantasy questions if no more acquisition questions are in the queue.
Roto Riteup: March 24, 2018
by Mike Werner
March 24, 2018
Sometimes, no matter what we do, we can’t escape the injury bug:
Bullpen Report: March 23rd, 2018
A Trip through the Relief Pitcher Rankings
No matter where one stands in regards to tiers, it helps streamline cumulative rankings in an effort to streamline assessment of a position. When trying to predict closers, well, do not. There’s going to be volatility, pitchers will get hurt or lose the role due to performance which proliferates the need for this column to run daily each week of the 26-week marathon of the fantasy baseball season.
Trying to make sense of Paul Sporer, Jeff Zimmerman, Al Melchior, Ben Pasinkoff, Keith Farnworth and my ranks seems surreal. But with the last few days of drafts looming, it’s time to figure out who to target in spite of several teams yet to announce their closer. Yes, looking at you Arizona, Texas, St. Louis, Baltimore and the Angels, with the mercurial Mike Scioscia. Agree or disagree, if one feels strongly, go with your gut. Our rankings posted yesterday and can be found here. With deference to the rankings, the tiers formed from the adjusted average to sort out the arms.
Pitcher Spotlight: The Noah Syndergaard Flaw We’re All Ignoring
by Nick Pollack
March 23, 2018
Today I’ll be talking about the holy one, the pitcher with arguably the filthiest repertoire, the most dominating stuff, the man who should win every single at-bat.
And I’m going tell you why that probably isn’t going to happen. At least not yet.
March Composite Rankings – Relief Pitcher
by Paul Sporer
March 23, 2018
It’s closing time!
We’re using Yahoo! eligibility requirements which is 5 starts or 10 appearances. These rankings assume the standard 5×5 categories and a re-draft league. If we forgot someone, please let us know in the comments and we’ll make sure he’s added for the updates. If you have questions for a specific ranker on something he did, let us know in the comments. The Bullpen Report team, plus Jeff and myself did these rankings. We can also be reached via Twitter:
There will be differences, sharp differences, within the rankings. The rankers have different philosophies when it comes to ranking, some of which you’re no doubt familiar with through previous iterations. Of course the idea that we’d all think the same would be silly because then what would be the point of including multiple rankers?! Think someone should be higher or lower? Make a case. Let us know why you think that. The chart is sortable. If a ranker didn’t rank someone that the others did, he was given that ranker’s last rank +1.
Note – The first Bullpen Report will be out this weekend!
Key:
- AVG– just the average of the seven ranking sets
- Adj. AVG– the average minus the high and low rankings
- SPLIT– the difference between the high and low rankings
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Paul Sporer Baseball Chat – March 23rd, 2018
by Paul Sporer
March 23, 2018
| 2:18 |
: Good afternoon, everyone!! It’s MLB The Show release weekend and we’re less than a week from Opening Day, let’s goooo!!!! |
| 2:18 |
: Drop David Dahl to grab Lew Brinson in 10-team mixed? Sounding like Dahl is destined to being the year at AAA. |
| 2:19 |
: Ya, I think you have to be super active in 10-team and not sit on guys |
| 2:19 |
: Kyle Hendricks or Danny Duffy? |
| 2:19 |
| 2:19 |
: Bump up Arrieta based on yesterday’s velocity readings? |
Does It Matter If Healy Heals?
by Brad Johnson
March 23, 2018
Real baseball starts next Thursday. Let’s wrap up the final full week of the offseason by checking in on an old sabermetric darling.
Justin Vibber’s 10 Bold Predictions for 2018
After batting .100 in my first attempt at bold predictions here on RotoGraphs, and .200 in my second go around, I’m back for a third season with .300 as my goal. Anyone can hit .300 hitting softballs, so let’s make sure these predictions are bringing the heat, shall we?