One of the many reasons I love baseball:
This is so awesome! @PujolsFive gave his jersey to a young fan after last night's game at Wrigley.
via: @BobbySTL1936 pic.twitter.com/0g3kfy8ZNc
— MLB (@MLB) August 25, 2022
Recently I wrote up Myles Straw, I found out the league was throwing him the most fastballs (60%, league at 49%) and the most pitches in the strike zone (57%, league at 50%). Additionally, slow fastball pitchers weren’t afraid of him with the 13th lowest fastball velocity against. I went one step further and looked to see how far outfielders were playing him and he was one of the shallowest played guys. He was just getting no respect. Read the rest of this entry »
8/25/22
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| 1:01 |
: Hello and welcome everyone! This will now be an hourlong breakdown of Oneil Cruz’s 122.4 mph batted ball! |
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: What’s the deal with Alejandro Kirk lately? Avg still been there but production way down since June. Pull % down, maybe the culprit? |
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: Could definitely see it being the pull rate. Feels mostly like standard regression as he was out of his gourd in May/June. Not too worried! |
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Our pitching in MLB DFS isn’t just a source of fantasy points. The price tags on pitchers make it so they dictate the freedoms and restrictions of building our lineups. Before reading this article, it’s highly suggested that you read my article, “DFS Pitching Primer,” so the concepts discussed here make more sense.
That we’re not selecting the best players. We’re constructing the lineups which carry the most leverage without sacrificing many projected fantasy points.
This smaller slate is pretty straightforward:
Shane McClanahan is the best pitcher on the slate and it isn’t remotely close. We’re just playing him on FanDuel. A lot of him to get overweight on the field.
Zac Gallen is the next-best play, but he’s a pretty expensive pivot on FanDuel, and we’re not exactly getting a discount on DraftKings, either.
Miles Mikolas is probably the spend-down SP2 pivot off of Gallen.
José Berríos is the other SP2 pivot to whom we can spend down, but he’s very risky.
Then, we have Framber Valdez, Andrew Heaney, and Lucas Giolito in high-risk spots we don’t wanna play, but should in MME for differentiation with a bunch of upside.
If you had told me this would be a moment that would have mattered before the season, I never would have believed you.
Franmil Reyes absolutely drills Albert Pujols with a pitch to put a stop to his hot streak.
(via r/baseball) pic.twitter.com/XtEvRs3nKi
— Baseball GIFs (@gifs_baseball) August 24, 2022
8/23/22
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You don’t need machine learning, mathematical models, or even advanced projections to determine which counting stats you should focus on for the rest of the season. For some of our readers, this exercise will be elementary. For others, it may be just what you need to plan out the rest of the season. Start by copying and pasting your league counting stats into an excel spreadsheet so that it looks something like this:
Next, divide each cell by the number of days where at least one MLB game was played. If my math is right, there have been 135 baseball days so far this season (as of August 23rd). If you take your total points for counting stats and divide each by 135, you’ll see how many runs, rbi, home runs, stolen bases, strikeouts, wins, and saves your team has been recording on a daily basis.
While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even a larger entry fee ($2.5K to $15K). They get originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and this year there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers are going to try to gain any advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more of these leagues: Read the rest of this entry »
Still one of the best plays in baseball:
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— MLB (@MLB) August 23, 2022
