I Got Shohei I Nearly Passed Out
I'm excited to announce that I've already participated in my first 2018 fantasy baseball mock draft. And here's the crazy part, it's still 2017. Mind blown! Last week Scott White from CBS invited me to...
View ArticlePhillies Pay Up To Get Back That Carlos They Traded To Clev…Nope, It’s Santana
Carlos Santana was signed by the Phils. Did Carlos Santana ever have a song called, "Harumph?" Cause he's making me harumph all over the place. Doesn't Hoskins play 1B? Will Santana move to 3rd? I...
View ArticleAn Angels Post That Isn’t About Ohtani or Trout…
Love is too strong of a word. I like The Los Angeles Angels' acquisition of shortstop Zack Cozart. As I write this column, it's the Halos' most recent power move. Subsequent to winning the lottery with...
View ArticleTop 20 Shortstops for 2018 Fantasy Baseball
So far we've (I've) gone over the top 10 for 2018 fantasy baseball, top 20 for 2018 fantasy baseball, top 20 catchers for 2018 fantasy baseball, top 20 1st basemen for 2018 fantasy baseball and the...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Podcast: Top Shortstops for 2018 Fantasy Baseball
Spring is on its way! The RCLs are up and running, Grey's busted through his rankings, and it's not negative 100 outside my house for once. As if the opening sentences didn't generate enough...
View ArticleShortstops to Target, 2018 Fantasy Baseball
Two years ago, this post and the 2nd basemen to target were necessary evils like changing underwear. Whether you wanted to or not, it was a good idea to take a flyer on a late middle infielder, and...
View ArticleRolling In The Deep: Some Silly Deep-League Predictions Since It’s Finally...
The season hasn’t even started, and I’m so exhausted from trying to predict what’s going to happen this year that I thought I’d change it up a little for the last week of the pre-season. This time, I’m...
View ArticleYanks And German Are Surprising Allies
Keeping the weekend theme of rookie pitchers not giving up hits, yesterday Domingo German went 6 IP, 0 ER, zero hits, 2 BBs, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.66. Since I wasn't very familiar with German -- "Guten tag,...
View ArticleDraft: Because The Internet
You’ll have to forgive me for any shortcomings in this Draft article. I’ve spent the last two days going down a Childish Gambino rabbit hole (I still can’t believe this is Donald Glover singing...
View ArticleA’s Found A Center Fielder In Fowler Territory
Trevor Cahill hit the DL. Fun Fact! If you have Hill in your last name, there's a 100% chance you're injury prone and will be on the DL for the majority of the season. It's a curse that began when...
View ArticleDraft: Severino Can Cure The Mondays
Hello and welcome back to another Monday. Too bad you have to go to work on this one. Can you imagine if all Mondays were holidays? I guess then people would get a case of the Tuesdays. Anyhoo, I've...
View ArticleNats Wave Magic Juan Twice in New York, Keeping Us On A Need Soto Basis
"Lower the koozie a little bit. No, a little bit more. Okay, now spray some mist on the outside of the can to make it look like it's sweating. Now rub your finger from the D in Dr. to the R in...
View ArticleAmbulance Chasers, Week 13: Strickland Teaches Door a Lesson
Well, you can’t fix this malady. After blowing a save on Monday night, Hunter Strickland punched a wall and broke his hand. He’s expected to go 6 to 8 weeks without blowing another save.. Stash or...
View ArticlePadres Forbidden From Hitting A Minor
To paraphrase DJ Khaled, "We got a Minor key alert! Another one." To paraphrase the cops that arrested Principal Rooney, "This is because of the Minors." *Donald Trump looking at the Rangers'...
View ArticleTop 20 2nd Basemen for 2019 Fantasy Baseball
One super quick word about the top 20 2nd basemen for 2019 fantasy baseball and all the 2019 fantasy baseball rankings, each ranking appears insanely long and it is, but I imagine in a lot of leagues...
View ArticleTop 20 Shortstops for 2019 Fantasy Baseball
Is it possible I will have drafted a shortstop in the 1st round, a shortstop in the 2nd round for my MI spot and a shortstop in the 3rd round for my utility spot? Prolly not, but I don't want to rule...
View ArticleTop 20 3rd Basemen for 2019 Fantasy Baseball
After going over the top 20 shortstops for 2019 fantasy baseball, I needed a cigarette. A good after-sex cigarette, not a waiting-to-go-into-court-to-hear-if-you-have-to-spend-18-months-in-jail...
View ArticleVlad A Rare Oblique Jr.
A Loch Ness Monster waits nervously in a doctor's office. He turns to his left to a unicorn. "What brought you in here?" "I was having a weird pang behind my horn for a few weeks while in Candyland,...
View Article2019 Spring Training Position Battles: The AL West
NL West | NL Central | NL East || AL West | AL Central | AL East I don’t pay much attention to Spring Training Statistics. You never know who the statistics are coming against. Baseball-Reference...
View ArticleYankee Fans Get Cole In Their Holiday Stockings
I'm here in sunny downtown San Diego at the Winter Meetings and just ran into Matt Kemp. How ya doing, Matt? "I'm great, Grey, excited about continuing my career." Which career is that, Matt?...
View Article2020 Fantasy Baseball Team Preview: San Francisco Giants
In last week's preview, we covered the Arizona Diamondbacks. For this week, we're deep-diving to the bottom of the NL West to find the Giants. Many naive San Fran fans will tell you that this is their...
View ArticleRanking the Pitchers From the 2020 MLB Draft Who Could Impact Your Fantasy...
Who could be this year's Chris Sale or Brandon Finnegan? Those two made their Major League debuts in the same year in which they were drafted: 2010 for Sale, 2014 for Finnegan. Sure, both of those...
View ArticleOzzie Man Does
Atlanta Braves top prospect/hot shot rookie/middle infielder/the "New" Georgia Peach Ozzie Albies hit his second career major league home run in just his ninth career major league start going 2-for-4...
View ArticleGray Pilots The Plane While Rockies Take Braves Pitchers To Bathroom
On the ones and twos, it's not DJ Khaled, with a cigar in his baby's mouth, dropping another one in a major key. It's yo' boy, DJ LeMahieu (4-for-5, 4 runs, 1 RBI), the French-sounding EDM mixmaster,...
View ArticleGood Luck Storming The Castillo In 2018 Drafts
Watching Luis Castillo is officially an ASMR trigger. *insert onomatopoeia of satisfied exhale, picks up invisible fork and knife, mimes cutting up satisfied exhale, eats exhale* Do you see how...
View ArticleAbreu Taking Irma Frustrations Out On San Fran
There's a common term sociologists use called, The Tide of Uze. Everything that encompasses everyday life is on The Tide of Uze. Brushing your teeth, walking your dog, Jose Abreu, they're all on The...
View ArticleFanDuel: Hard Work and Elbow Rhys
DFS could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic... why it could be Rhys Lightnin' today! I'd probably draft Rhys Hoskins above a whole bunch of guys next season. Throw Jose Abreu, Miguel Cabrera, Eric...
View ArticleDaniel Tames Phillies In Lion’s Mengden
As the story goes, Daniel Mengden entered the Lion's Den Friday night with a 6.59 ERA through 17 career major league starts, and somehow left the game with his first career complete game shut out...
View ArticleAnd Teoscar Goes To….
*fumbles with an envelope, Hillary Swank stands next to me, watching on, embarrassed for me* And the Teoscar goes to...Teoscar Hernandez! Hillary Swank leans into the microphone, "Well, he was the...
View ArticleTop 20 Shortstops, 2017 Fantasy Baseball, A Recap
Here's what I said last year, "We’re gonna find out if the top 20 shortstops are as Ken Bonerific as the top 20 2nd basemen. Hint: they are. Damn, I gotta work on building suspense. That hint...
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