“That man is crazy! Off with his legs!”
-life according to Harvey Danger
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I come bearing only the very best advices.
Hot tip, add Vladimir Guerrero Jr. from your waiver wire before he’s gone!
— Brad Johnson (@BaseballATeam) April 25, 2019
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You’d never know if it wasn’t said: the shelf in the room has been so true.
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We chatted. Past tense. Here’s a transcript.
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: Welcome folks, we’ll get started in a moment
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: Who is your preference in 12-team 5×5 H2H: Kepler or Franmil? Franmil’s impressive x-stats are intriguing but I’m not sure how to weigh them.
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: I’d bet on Franmil hitting the jackpot
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| 4:02 |
: because the prize is far tastier and you can always re-roll later
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: How many members of the Twins’ and Phillies’ bullpen will record 10+ saves
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: Three each feels reasonable
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I’ll be chatting this afternoon at 4:00pm ET. Until then, read this article. Or yesterday’s Peripheral Prospects.
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This is Peripheral Prospects, née Fantasy Fringe Five which in turn was an adaptation of Carson Cistulli’s superb Fringe Five series. When Alex Chamberlain and I took over the column, we did so because the Fringe Five filled an important and woefully unrepresented nook of the dynasty baseball experience – finding fringe prospects with the potential to become more. What’s more, Carson was massively successful at identifying good and even very good talents.
Carson had some basic rules he followed for determining eligibility to be included in the column. I, without consulting Alex, am going to suggest it’s time to throw those out. I propose the following mission statement. Alex can rebut next week.
Mission Statement: Peripheral Prospects seeks to identify obscure future fantasy contributors.
To that end, I’m not automatically excluding players who have lost rookie eligibility or are presently on 25-man rosters. I will continue to focus most of my effort on players in the upper minors. I may extend my vision to High-A on occasion. The purpose of this column is not to identify the next Wander Franco. Speaking for myself, statistically evaluating 16-year-olds is not something I can do with confidence.
We’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again. Let’s grind. Stop snickering. It’s not dirty to grind.
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It took over half a month before wide scale weather events seriously impacted one of our contests. Here we go…
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~I’m all I want to be, a walking study, in demonology.~
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Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan.
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