Monday is funday, Roto Riteup readers.
On today’s agenda:
1. Jose Abreu back today
2. Fun with catchers
3. Some tidbits on Bartolo Colon
4. Daniel Nava and Stephen Drew reunited with Boston
5. The Fluorescent Five
Oh, hi. Happy Sunday. I hope today finds you well and the week in daily fantasy has been a profitable one. Unless we played heads-up at any point, in which case I hope you’re miserable and broke. But let’s be friends today, it’s better.
Often in this space, we’ll reference a team’s hitting performance against a handedness of pitcher – the Braves can’t hit righties and strike out a lot, for example. That’s obviously useful and something you can find easily here on Fangraphs in the sortable leaderboards. What’s also helpful, though less readily available, is looking at how that translates to fantasy points for opposing pitchers.
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We are more or less one third of the way through the baseball season. Like real life baseball, now is the time to review your rosters and to start looking at trade options to either make a run this year or build for future seasons.
On today’s agenda:
1. Lonnie Chisenhall is on fire
2. A setback for Michael Pineda
3. A pair of Matt’s to the disabled list
4. Thoughts on Jacob deGrom
5. The Daily Five
I’ve written about Scott Kazmir a little in my daily columns before. Mike Podhorzer wrote about him – selling him high, specifically – this week. I’m a little bit more of a believer than Mike, I believe, but I can definitely see his side of it. If someone is willing to give you an ace/# 2 like package, I might have a hard time turning it down. I’m less worried about his ability to get whiffs than Mike is, though. Nearly all of my concerns are based on his ability to last 180 or more innings.
Kazmir has currently thrown 68.2 innings – tied for the 29th most among starters (at this moment). He made it through 158 last year. In 2010, his last season in the bigs before his epic comeback, he threw 150 innings. Kazmir’s body hasn’t allowed him to throw more than 160 innings since 2007. In other words, Scott Kazmir hasn’t thrown more than 160 innings since Kanye West released Graduation – which is a great album. There is a song called Barry Bonds on it, after all.
It may seem like I’m being harsh on Kazmir, but I’m not trying to be. It’s just…2007, man! I want and need Kazmir to throw 200 innings this year. It doesn’t feel like his comeback has gotten enough attention despite the fact that it is an absolutely remarkable feat. I understand selling high on him, but as for me – someone who only owns him in one league, at a good price, with a team with no glaring holes, and receiving light offers – I’m just going to ride him until he throws me off and leaves me in a ditch somewhere.
P.S. on The Show, my created pitcher has Kazmir’s mechanics, so I’m very dedicated in my devotion.
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Agenda
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Before you get down to watching some baseball today, how about doing some spring cleaning? To help aid the process, here is a lovely spring cleaning themed song from “Rocko’s Modern Life.”
On today’s agenda:
1. Welcome to the big leagues, Oscar Taveras
2. Good news for Andrew Cashner
3. A.J. Pollock continues to rake
4. Josh Willingham hits another dinger
4. The Daily Five
Agenda
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We’ve reached the points of the season where we have a pretty good idea of where our teams stand. Things can still change, but for the most part you should have a pretty good idea of how good your current roster is.
With that in mind, join me in the comments below and let’s talk about our favorite players to own so far. Try to stay away from the usual suspects: Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout, Andrew McCutchen, etc. I’ll kick this thing off.
I’m doing my first Ottoneu league this year – currently sitting in third place. Without a doubt my best value has been Brandon Moss. During our draft we took a fifteen minute break. When we returned it was my turn to nominate a player for bidding. I nominated Moss hoping to catch some people sleeping and because most of us had blown through a ton of our money. I’m guessing the entire league was still zoned out, because no one bid. Perhaps everyone was waiting on someone else to bid, or taking roster construction into play. Nonetheless, I ended up with a $1 Brandon Moss. Dividends.
In my other auction draft – 12 teams; 5×5 with OBP, QS, and S+HLD in replace of AVG, W, and SV – I have a $2 Christian Yelich. He was only that cheap because he was the 234th player nominated. So by that point, many of the owners had their lineups set or were running low on funds. Yelich has cooled off a little of late, but he’s already earned his keep. Oh, and it’s a keeper league. So if I decide to keep him he’ll only cost $6 next season; not bad what looks to be a player with a shot at a 20/20 season perhaps as early as this year.
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Happy Friday, everyone! We’re another week closer to summer officially beginning, though I’ve already ran my air conditioning several times.
On today’s agenda:
1. Zack Wheeler’s strong start
2. Jaime Garcia is looking good
3. Josh Collmenter cruises
4. More homers for George Springer and Edwin Encarnacion
5. The Daily Five
Agenda
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