Alejandro Kirk
Catcher Prospect Spotlight: Alejandro Kirk
Welcome, welcome one and all to the kick-off of The Dynasty Guru’s 2021 Prospect Spotlight series! As we unveil our rankings for the 2021 dynasty season, we will be pairing them with our first-ever prospect rankings. To accompany those rankings, we will be choosing two prospects from every position (one

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2021 TOP 20 CATCHER PROSPECTS, #1-10
Hello all and welcome as we celebrate Opening Day and the first pitch of our brand new prospect rankings here at The Dynasty Guru! This year, we’ll be going more in-depth on prospects than ever before as we roll out our prospect-only rankings lists which are accompanied by two prospect

TDG 2021 Risers and Fallers: Catchers
There a few new pieces we are introducing for 2021 to accompany our rankings in order to give you more insight and info on the players we ranked. Every Monday to accompany our first rankings list we will be highlighting some players we see as risers and fallers at the

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2021 TOP 40 DYNASTY LEAGUE CATCHERS, #1-20
WELCOME BACK!!! Despite a scorching hot stove (I can’t believe the player you’re thinking of did or did not sign with the team you thought they would!), these long winter months can be some of the darkest of the year (figuratively and literally). But fear not, restless readers. The Dynasty

Join The Ranks Episode 2: Some Rookie Love
Taylor (@TCasesLoaded) and Joe (@joegarino) discuss the latest MLB awards, recent signings and player options, and a way-too-early fantasy sleeper for 2021. Follow the pod @JoinTheRanksTDG, and thanks for listening!

TDG’S TRIPLE PLAY: TORONTO BLUE JAYS!
The Triple Play is back for a third season! This regular feature is broken down by staff writers Bob Osgood and Paul Monte and a rotating panel of third writers. If you’re new to the Triple Play, this series breaks down an arm, a bat, and a prospect within each

TDG’s Top 150 Prospects May 2020
As an extension of the Top 500 Overall Players from March, The following is the consensus top 150 prospects from Keaton DeRocher, Shelly Verougstraete, and Jordan Rosenblum.

The Bastard Son of xwOBA: xwOBA-lite for Minor Leaguers
How to best make sense of the recent proliferation of information on minor league hitters, specifically power metrics? This is a question I’ve been struggling with in the last few weeks/months (does anyone keep track of time anymore?) regarding minor league fly ball distance, exit velocity, and exit velocity on

Jordan’s Research Ramblings: Expected Power Leaderboards for Minor Leaguers
Last week, I generated an expected home runs per fly ball measure (xHR/FB) for minor leaguers based on their average fly ball distance and average exit velocity. The logic is this: a minor leaguer can be expected to hit a certain number of home runs per fly ball given their

Jordan’s Research Ramblings: Underrated Minor League Power Performances
Minor league data is not yet at the same quality of MLB data, but it’s catching up. In the past few years, key new data sources have become available to the prospect analyst: FanGraphs and Baseball America now offer average exit velocity, while Prospects Live offers fly ball distance, and