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TDG’S Triple Play: Arizona Diamondbacks!
The Triple Play is back for a sixth season! This regular feature is broken down by senior writer Phil Barrington and he is joined by a rotating panel of some of the best Dynasty Baseball writers in the business. If you’re new to the Triple Play, this series breaks down

TDG’s Top 500 Consensus Rankings for Points Leagues – March 2023
What’s up Dynastopians. We’re back! And if you’re anything like me, you’re kinda tired. I get it, and I see you. The world is moving very fast. So let’s slow it down and get to the obnoxiously long list of grown people who hit balls with sticks. Or throw balls

The Dynasty Guru 2023 Top 500 Dynasty Players for OBP Leagues
Whew. I can’t express how excited I am to share my Top 500 List for OBP dynasty leagues. It’s my first publicly available personal endeavor, so I’d be lying if I didn’t say there was a little apprehension. But only a little, and this won’t be my last Top 500

TDG 2023 PLAYERS TO TARGET: OUTFIELD
There are always a lot of outfielders to choose from, as a vast majority of leagues start between three and five, you have to be prepared to go deep to find those prospects, and look for value to find players to help win your leagues. Here is a vet, a

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2023 TOP 125 DYNASTY LEAGUE OUTFIELDERS, #21-60
The rankings continue! The Dynasty Gurus trudge forward with the next best group of outfielders today – those ranked from #21-#60. Let’s get right to it! 21. Seiya Suzuki, Chicago Cubs (Age: 28, Previous Rank: 47) Seiya Suzuki’s career stat line in 9 years of the Nippon Professional Baseball league

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for AVG Leagues
For your post-trade deadline reading pleasure, the Dynasty Guru proudly presents the Consensus Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for AVG Leagues! For this mid-season update, we have three guru’s combining their opinions to create this list – Ken Balderston (@KenInToronto), Brett Cook (@beautyofgrace32), and Chris Knock (@notnotcknock). They assumed a 15-team,

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for OBP Leagues – July 2022
Hey everybody, your friendly neighborhood dynasty dad here. Thank you as always for tuning in for some more Top-500 OBP list action! A few notes and various housekeeping items before we dive right in this time, in list form, as is my right: The list is now a Saves +

Scout the Stat Line: Projected Top 1,000 Prospects, End of May Update
This prospect rankings article updates my offseason prospect projections piece, making use of my research on aging and the minor leagues featured at ‘Scout the Stat Line,’ a website Ross Jensen and I co-publish.

Scouting the Statline – The Top 300 Projected Hitters
Scouting the Statline focuses on using aging curves and major league equivalencies to generate peak projections. Peak projections put all minor and major leaguers on equal footing for comparative purposes, allowing us to easily build data-based rankings and leaderboards.

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings for OBP Leagues – February 2022
…picture a man, 32, hunched over a laptop, tired fingers flying as he ranks an abnormally long list of other grown baseball persons, pitting them against each other with make-believe furor…he takes a deep breath and… Hey everybody, your friendly neighborhood dynasty dad here. I’m glad you’re back for some