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Prospect TalkUncategorized

In last week’s prospect smackdown, I took a look at the two best uninjured third base prospects in the game in Garin Cecchini and Maikel Franco. I’d love to tell you who won that battle, but I can’t, because I forgot to add a poll until Saturday afternoon. That means

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Prospect Talk

In last week’s Prospect Smackdown, we examined two second base prospects with awesome names and varying skill sets.  Voters decided that they preferred Rougned Odor to Arismendy Alcantara, by a margin of 54 to 46 percent. This week, we take a look at two hot corner fantasy prospects with questionable

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Prospect Talk

In last week’s Prospect Smackdown, we took a look at two of the top three or four fantasy catching prospects in the game in Blake Swihart and Gary Sanchez. Despite the latter’s status as an elite prospect a few years ago, TDG readers appear to favor the probability that comes

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Prospect Talk

It’s been a while since our last Prospect Smackdown, when we saw Archie Bradley earn a narrow victory over Taijuan Walker in a battle of potential future No. 1 starters. Today, we’ll return to the offensive side of the ball and compare two prospects who are about as different as

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Digging for Diamonds

In most dynasty leagues, you need to keep track of at least 300 players. In deeper leagues, you may have to keep track of 600-plus. If you’re in TDGX or a TDGX reader league, you need help and you need to know 800-plus names. This means that purging some players

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Bold Predictions

This is my second year posting predictions at The Dynasty Guru, and this time I approach the task with even more dread than a year ago. Internet baseball predictions have a way of biting their creator in the ass more often than not, and that’s a fate I was fully

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The Dynasty Guru Experts League

We are three-fourths of the way through the TDGX draft as I write this, and let me just tell you that when you draft 800 players, your perception of who is fantasy-relevant and who isn’t becomes quite skewed. “Oh good, I got Lonnie Chisenhall,” is a thought I thought unironically.

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The Dynasty Guru Experts League

I swear I didn’t mean to do this. No one heads into a dynasty league draft aiming to own half of the Phillies’ infield. I, like my league mates, began the TDGX draft with a plan to draft a balanced team filled with young, productive major leaguers, high-upside minor leaguers

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Prospect Talk

When I began asking for suggestions for this series a few months back before our focus on positional rankings, the TDG readers inundated me with interesting match ups of prospects of all sorts. You asked me to compare elite players. You asked me about J2 guys. You challenged me to

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Prospect TalkUncategorized

In last week’s Prospect Smackdown, we saw our closest battle yet as Albert Almora eked out a 54-46% victory over David Dahl in the battle of 2012 center field draftees. This week, we’re returning to the rubber to compare two pitchers with extraordinarily dissimilar physical profiles and extraordinarily similar projections in Marcus Stroman

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