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The Daily Grind: These Indians Taste Like Chalk

Kyle Gibson has won one game.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Too Many Aces!

The episode with fat Lee Adama.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Overlay Alert #3

He’s the new Ryan Howard (tiny $1/mo paywall).

UPDATE: Video podcast is live. We did a DRAFT draft and talked through every corner of the Thursday night slate.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Immaculate

You may not know this, but I moonlight as a priest of the baseball gods. There are many ways to pay your tithe.

AGENDA

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

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Brad Johnson Baseball Chat: 6/5/2018

Today’s chat transcript include a bunch of Jameson Taillon talk.

3:56
Brad Johnson: Hey folks, we’ll get started in a few minutes. In the meantime, if you like DFS, we have a pretty hefty overlay in today’s TDG Invitational – https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/the-daily-grind-bird-lives/

3:56
Brad Johnson: Presently, a $2 entry is worth $3.10. You may enter twice. It’s on FantasyDraft.

3:56
Kiermaier’s Irritable Bowel: Hi Brad.

3:56
Brad Johnson: Hi KIB

3:57
HappyFunBall: I seem to be stuck in a league where no one trades becaues everyone simultaneously overvalues their high performers (because of course, it will continue) and yet at the same time refuses to devalue their disappointing stars (because of course, it will NOT continue)

Am I going to have to win this thing with WW pickups and then just taunt them all mercilessly?

3:57
Brad Johnson: Yes. This, unfortunately, is the most common equilibrium status for a redraft league

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The Daily Grind: Bird Lives

Are there any foods that taste better after using toothpaste?

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Draft Day Special

Draft Day! Get all your coverage elsewhere on FanGraphs.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: A Sale on Sale

If you participated in yesterday’s guessing game, the answer was Max Muncy. I’ve made the related post free.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Overlay Alert

UPDATE 2: Here’s the aforementioned podcast.

AGENDA

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

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The Daily Grind: Rebound Leader

You know, when I was picking my last player yesterday, I looked Brett Gardner squarely in the eye and said “I bet you hit an unexpected home run today.” Then I took Andrelton Simmons. Because duh. Gardner went on to hit two homers.

AGENDA

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

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