Zac Gallen. An angry letter from PETA. Collision course.

Zac Gallen has joined Randy Johnson in the exclusive club of…

…hitting a bird with a pitch 🤯 pic.twitter.com/7E8SuITbbh

— Bally Sports Arizona (@BALLYSPORTSAZ) May 17, 2023

But really, it just gives me a good reason to show the moment Randy Johnson instantly smashed a bird’s soul into oblivion.

I’m not sure this makes me laugh more than Jose Canseco bouncing that home run off of his Fred Flinstone haircut-having mega dome but they’re the only two in the conversation.

On the Agenda:

1. News and Notes
2. Bumps and Bruises
3. Streaming Pitchers

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Wait – what did you just say, bro? You said I’ll never be able to show everyone how much I love and respect all mothers in the entire world, no matter how loud and angry I get? Are you kidding me, bro? No one loves and respects them more than me AND I’LL PROVE IT RIGHT NOW, BRO!

We've got a brawl underway in Colorado and Bryce Harper is at the center of it pic.twitter.com/81PcXV1cT0

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 14, 2023

On the Agenda:

1. News and Notes
2. Bumps and Bruises
3. Closer Kumite
4. Performance!
5. Streaming Pitchers

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This is one of my favorite times of the fantasy season, as we don’t have enough data for the collective hive to quite make up its mind on which players are good enough to keep rostered and who should stay in their streaming lane. And in these margins, there is a lot of value to be had (and drafting errors corrected) in swooping the fantasy assets that two months from now won’t be on any wires.

Let’s take a look at some players who have been valuable fantasy assets over the first ~20% of the season (using the Razzball player rater as our markers) but are still lesser-owned, as fantasy managers have yet to fully decide who should keep getting churned around the wire, and who should be acquired and kept. Read the rest of this entry »

Forget about 2019 – I think we might finally be seeing prime Acuña, 470 ft at a time:

RONNIE ROCKETS 😱@ronaldacunajr24 crushed this baseball. pic.twitter.com/d2pliXVsdL

— Bally Sports: Braves (@BravesOnBally) May 11, 2023

On the Agenda:

1. News and Notes
2. Bumps and Bruises
3. Performance!
4. Closer Kumite
5. Streaming Pitchers

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What’s that you say about a whole mess of trouble down in Baseball Heaven? La-la-la, Paul can’t hear you:

Paul Goldschmidt, you are UNREAL!

Make that 3 homers for Goldy! pic.twitter.com/nUASGmlOrH

— MLB (@MLB) May 7, 2023

On the Agenda

1. News and Notes
2. Closer Kumite
3. Bumps and Bruise
4. Streaming Pitchers

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Ahh, hope springs eternal in April, with small samples and undeserved ratios trying their best to distract us from whether someone’s talent has changed, or maybe just their luck. But one way or another, regression is coming. It might drag things to the bad, or to the good, but time (and sample) tends to remain undefeated in the long run.

With that in mind, let’s try to see which pitchers might have some pain or joy coming soon to their fantasy ratios and play the game currently sweeping the hearts and homes of the nation, according to the most recent issue of “Official-Sounding Publication Invented by the Author, Weakly”. That’s right, it’s time to play –

Are You Regress-In or Regress-Out? (insert canned audience applause) Read the rest of this entry »

No, unwritten rules; I am your father:

I think Wander Franco just unlocked a new level of breaking the unwritten rules pic.twitter.com/IYePwRyZej

— Joon Lee (@joonlee) May 4, 2023

On the Agenda

1. The Closer Wars
2. Next Stop: Bacta Tank
3. Wednesday Walkoffs
4. Streaming Pitchers

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It’s the beginning of May, so you know what that means – It’s time to make wild declarations based on the barest amount of evidence. Let me hear ya now; AY-PRIL! AY-PRIL! AY-PRIL!

I kid, I kid. Drawing definite conclusions after 25 games might be a fool’s errand but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tea leaves to be read in regards to what we’ve seen so far, as a plethora of minute data is available to try and parse what’s been real and what’s more fake. Take power, for example. There are all sorts of small-sample shenanigans driving the current home run totals but that doesn’t mean we can’t sort out some of the chaff and see what kind of home run bread might be getting baked during the rest of the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Take a ride on that knockdown pitch, big boy:

One of the best mike Shannon calls ever. RIP to the voice of cardinals baseball pic.twitter.com/ztM7bUGn3I

— Alex Brinkmann (@alex_brinkmann3) April 30, 2023

I don’t know how many hundreds of hours I listened to Mike Shannon’s voice on the radio but I promise you no one was better at passing rain delays by telling stories and/or drinking bourbon. No one. Rest in power, Mike, you were the best.
*And to answer your question; yes, since we already live in baseball heaven, Cardinal fans instead go to super-duper heaven. Read the rest of this entry »

Dial 187

Ronald Acuna Jr. – Atlanta Braves (4)
pic.twitter.com/B31ahdgbii

— MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) April 27, 2023

On the Agenda

1. Bumps and Bruises
2. News and Notes
3. Pitching Streamers

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