Hey there loyal readers. I’ve been under the weather with some kind of crappy summer cold. It’s not too bad, I just can’t look at a computer screen without weeping copiously and eventually breaking down into a sneezing fit. Here it comes…

five minutes later

Anyway, I’m going to skip the analysis for today. However, the good folks at FantasyDraft went through the effort of making a contest today so y’all should play it. Hopefully I’ll be better by tomorrow.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…

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After half a decade of active use, I have most of non-baseball twitter good and thoroughly muted. Occasionally, weird things still get through to me such as whatever the blazing balls this is. It’s obviously a hoax – the answer is 420.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. Moose Tacos

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One of these days, I’m going to win my own friggin’ Invitational. Grumble grumble.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. Dives

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In the beginning, the baseball Gods created the earth. And it was without form and such so they sculpted it into fields with three bases and two plates. And they said “let there be baseball.”

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. Stolen TDGI

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The chat is complete.

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I’m back from a weekend in New Orleans. Well, most of me is back. Anyway, what did I miss?

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. Alley-Oops

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Today’s main slate runs at 12:10pm ET on most sites. So, uh, get to it.

Also, there will be no Daily Grind tomorrow or next Monday. I will be out on vacation.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. A Thorne In The Orioles Side

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In rather exciting non-DFS news, amateur prospect Carter Stewart has opted to sign with a Japanese team for $7MM rather deal with the shenanigans of the MLB draft system. Stewart was selected eighth overall by the Braves last summer. He was prepared to sign a slot-value contract before the Braves pulled a bait-and-switch. Stewart lost an ensuing grievance.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. As Expected

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Welcome back to Peripheral Prospects. As a reminder, Alex Chamberlain and I share this column which is designed to identify un/under-hyped prospects. It is not unlike the former Fringe Five series. I have a mission statement with which Alex may or may not agree. We haven’t talked about it. Behold.

Mission Statement: Peripheral Prospects seeks to identify obscure future fantasy contributors.

Let’s jump straight into the action.

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What if, instead of referring to the multitude of playable pitchers, today’s title was about an actual pile of arms. Well, that would be rather macabre.

AGENDA

1. TDG Invitational
2. Weather Reports
3. Pitchers to Use and Abuse
4. SaberSim Says…
5. Heroics

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