3/30/17
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3/28/17
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Strategy Section: Tout Wars Preview & Review
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3/22/17
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Strategy Section: Team-by-Team Breakdowns – Oakland A’s
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It seems there was a major influx of drafts into this week’s ADP data. I imagine the NFBC is administering more drafts on a regular basis, but they might’ve also had a bunch of their draft-and-hold leagues finish up and get into the data.
For the uninitiated: I’ll be tracking differences in the NFBC average draft that is referenced regularly throughout the community and can be found here. Each Sunday I’ll pull the data, compare it to the previous week, and then deliver my key findings. You will still need to synthesize the data into something applicable for your leagues, especially if you don’t play in the NFBC, but this is the game’s sharpest market so I think it’s worth following. Last week I tried the positional thing, but there isn’t always something to discuss at every position so I’m going back to free form.
PREVIOUS EDITIONS:
BIGGEST RISER: Jeanmar Gomez | +28 spots to pick 333
This is three weeks in a row for Gomez as the biggest riser. That’s what being announced into a closer’s role will do for you. Greg Holland (+15 to 308) already got a huge boost and I think he’ll keep surging and wind up just inside the 250 in these next two weekends if he is in fact officially named as closer.
I updated my starting pitcher rankings in the latest update to our group rankings and there were plenty of movers and shakers, so I’m just going to cover a whole bunch of them here. I’ll be covering the big risers in this first piece, then a separate one for the fallers. There won’t be any sort of unifying theme among the pitchers mentioned, just some free-form stuff. Sound alright? Let’s do it.
Jacob deGrom (+9 spots to SP10): I’ve been eyeing deGrom all offseason to make sure the ulnar surgery recovery was progressing as expected. All along we were told it wouldn’t cause any major issues and it has certainly played out that way thus far. His velocity is there and he has a 17:2 K/BB ratio in 15.3 spring innings. His performance hasn’t gone unnoticed and paired with concerns for some others originally slotted just ahead of him (David Price and Carlos Carrasco), he’s shooting up draft boards.
3/19/17
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Notable Transactions/Rumors/Articles/Game Play
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3/17/17
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Leading Off: Waiver Wire Whisperer
Strategy Section: Team-by-Team Breakdowns – Cleveland Indians (4:00)
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We are updating our rankings for the stretch run of draft season! Today we’ll have third base and catcher.
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. 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.
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