7/13/21
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SOLO DOLO
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7/10/21
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FIRESIDE CHAT
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7/8/21
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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS
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| 1:06 |
: Welcome, everyone! Let’s talk some baseball! |
| 1:06 |
: Hey Paul, looking to replace Grandal (like everyone else) in a 12tm 6×6. Sean Murphy and Max Stassi are both on the wire. They both have their pros and cons, but what say you for the next 4-6 weeks? Appreciate the help and the chat! |
| 1:06 |
: I love Stassi, I definitely prefer him here |
| 1:07 |
: Thoughts on Urquidy, who does not appear on your Patreon SP List? |
| 1:09 |
: I’m not really ranking injury guys until they return, but I’m still a huge fan. He’s just an uncertainty right now |
| 1:09 |
: How do you feel about Luis Patino’s performance this far for the Rays? |
7/6/21
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Most platforms have a feature where you can click something by the player’s name to put them on a virtual watchlist. It is smart to use this feature before the season starts because once it starts you be sorting by stats and you could miss out on someone you really want about to get a new role because you sorted by PA and he just didn’t show very high.
Willy Adames stayed hot with another big week, hitting .308/.455/.692 including 3 HR and 10 RBIs since his inclusion in last week’s Watchlist.
SHALLOW LEAGUES (mixed leagues – 10 or fewer teams)
Austin Hays | OF, BAL
Hays has had a huge platoon split this year with a 1.013 OPS vL and just a .604 vR but it hasn’t always been like this as his career marks are .793/.721, respectively. He is surging of late with an .892 OPS and 3 HR in his last 50 PA. I always love having Baltimore bats in the summer, especially when they are at home and the ball is flying at Camden Yards. If you are bought in on the lefty/righty thing (though you really shouldn’t give it too much credence) he does have 3 southpaws in the first 4 games next week.
7/1/21
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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS
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| 1:13 |
: Hello everyone! Thanks for coming out, let’s chat! |
| 1:13 |
: Why has Blake Snell been so bad this year? |
| 1:14 |
: His command has been particularly problematic and a .329 BABIP is exacerbating the issues |
| 1:14 |
: What’s my value ROS? |
| 1:14 |
: Decent power OF worthy of consideration in 12+ teamers with 5 OF |
| 1:15 |
: Do you regret putting Vlad at #14 in your 1B rankings (behind absolute studs like Dom Smith, Alec Bohm, Moose)? You said “Not out on potential studification, but why buy this high on pure spec at a position like 1B?” Seems like everyone forgot that Vlad is only 22 is players improve. |
6/29/21
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Over the course of the season, I have a lot of topics that pop into my head to either write about or discuss on the podcast and as such, they are incorporated into those mediums. Sometimes I think of things that just aren’t deep enough for their own article and maybe don’t even fit well on a particular pod.
This article, which I plan to run the rest of the year if it is met well, plans to address those topics. It’ll be a handful of smaller topics that I couldn’t fit into any other article or podcast during the week. Sometimes it might be 2-3 sentences, other times it will be 2-3 paragraphs and it can range from a particular player to an interesting stat that I think is worthy of at least some attention.
Taylor Ward first got my attention way back in 2018 when he came up in mid-August as a non-catching catcher meaning he had catcher eligibility but wasn’t slated to play there in the majors. It was carryover from his 2017 minor league eligibility and some outlets left him there despite only playing 3B in 2018, even in the minors. I scooped him in a couple leagues and thought I struck gold when he had hits in four of his first five games.
Sick confirmation bias, Paul.
