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: Here are the winning bids in the three Tout Wars 15-Team mixed leagues.
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: What do I do with these injured SPs in 15 team league, roto.
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: Austin Riley may have broken his hand. Max Muncy and Josh Jung are out there. Who would you grab? One caveat is that I already have Mookie and Teoscar. Is 3 Dodgers too many?
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In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »
8/16/24
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2-START FOR WEEK 21
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The Elias Sports Bureau episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Matt Martingale
LABR League Update
Elias Sports Bureau
Strategy Section
Who’d You Rather?
Waiver Wire
Pitcher Preview
Injury Update
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This is a pretty crazy play:
It's not every day you see a player score from second base on the sac fly 😲 pic.twitter.com/GzUavQS8fD
— MLB (@MLB) August 15, 2024
I want to make sure it’s known that Arrighetti isn’t just up there because he’s facing the White Sox, he has been absolutely cooking lately: 3.25 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 26% K-BB in his L6 (36 IP) including 25 Ks in his last two starts. He has still allowed 5 HRs during this run (1.3 HR9) so the longball lingers as a potential problem, but as long as they are solos (4 of the 5 have been) he can survive.
I’m still loving what Schwelly is doing, too. He went into Coors and dropped a 6 IP/2 ER/7 K gem that deserved a win before Luke Jackson and Joe Jiménez decided to allow 7 runs in the 8th inning. Schwellenbach’s been even better than Arrighetti of late with a 2.54 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, and 28% K-BB in his L6 (39 IP). I’ll take either Spencer right now, though. They are both in the rotation regardless of matchup right now in virtually every format.
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 were originally named “High Stakes Leagues” and there are ten of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers 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 leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Be veryyy careful with that 1-x group, 3 of ’em are facing really tough matchups and Maeda… well, look at his numbers. There’s some sketchiness in the 2-x group, too. I just want to avoid the 7+ ER meltdowns this late in the season and of course it’s impossible to predict them, but they are so punishing at this juncture. That said, we also can’t play scared (unless you’re protecting big ratio leads and just trying to successfully land a huge lead, but that’s rare), so trust your picks and don’t overthink the duds too much.
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8/14/24
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JUSTIN GRILLS PAUL’S SP RANKINGS
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Angels
• Jo Adell simplified his swing by removing his leg kick.
So Adell made a major change at the plate against the Rockies on July 30, ditching his leg kick in an attempt to cut down on his strikeout rate and put the ball in play more often. It’s worked so far, as he’s hitting .286/.388/.476 with two homers, two doubles and seven RBIs in 12 games since. He looks much like he did early in the year and he’s struck out just nine times in 49 plate appearances over that stretch after having previously struck out in 29% of his plate appearances.
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“The no leg kick, at times it takes some getting used to, but my contact rate has gone through the roof,” Adell said. “I’ve been really able to make a lot more contact, and that’s something where it’s not always about the big fly. We’ve talked about this before, but being able to put the ball in play hard [going] forward should be my goal every time — and I think it’s given me a better chance to do that.”Adell, 25, added that he doesn’t believe the change will have a negative impact on his power, and so far, the results have shown that. He hit a two-run homer on Friday into the bullpen in left-center field at Nationals Park that went a Statcast-projected 431 feet. And he has four extra-base hits since making the change.