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The Dynasty Guru’s Top 50 Dynasty League Catchers, #21-50
It’s been a slow off-season. Like, a really slow off-season. With the hot stove frigid, fantasy baseball players haven’t had many ways to quench their thirst, unless they’ve thrown themselves head-first into football, basketball, or hockey. January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively

Dylan Cozens: Forgotten Bash Brother
During the summer of 2016, Dylan Cozens and Rhys Hoskins tore up AA so completely that they earned the moniker the “modern-day Bash Brothers.” In 2017 the Bash Brothers took their talents to Lehigh Valley, and while Hoskins soared right through to the majors and is one of the top
TDG Podcast Episode 14: Midseason Top 500 Rankings
Tom Trudeau, Ben Diamond, Nick Doran and Tyler Baber discuss The Dynasty Guru midseason Top 500 Dynasty Baseball rankings including: Billy Hamilton Nolan Arenado Paul Goldschmidt Jose Altuve Trea Turner Xander Bogaerts Joey Votto Starling Marte Miguel Sano Clayton Kershaw Aaron Judge Andrew Benintendi Giancarlo Stanton Christian Yelich Gregory Polanco
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 50 Dynasty League Catchers, Nos. 21-50
Congratulations on surviving another off-season. Now that the new year is upon us, it’s time to spend the next month traveling across the positional landscape, labeling players with numbers that correspond to their value. It’s the very definition of freedom. A ton of hard work was put into these rankings,
The #TDGX Transaction Report: An Elite Prospect Changes Hands
You’ve been following TDGX. You love TDGX. We all love TDGX. And every week here at The Dynasty Guru, I am going to be bringing you commentary from our flagship experts’ league, directly from the participants themselves. Today we’re going to cover all of the transactions made post-draft, including a
#TDGX Recap – Team Karaman Lurches On Towards Draft’s End
In the 3rd installment of my series on the draft we meander into the waning rounds of the draft’s second half. We’re in our third week of drafting at this point, and as you can imagine we’re down to the longest of shots and fringiest of regular and semi-regular Major
Team Recap: Slap a 55 Present/60 Future Grade on Team Karaman
The TDGX Draft has been alternately slowly creeping and gallantly galloping along, and as I write this I’ve just made my 26th selection of the draft. You can read a more in-depth look at my first five selections here, and I’ll post my roster construction as it exists presently at
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 50 Dynasty League Catchers, Nos. 21-50
We’ve finally made it. From the 21st of January to the 20th of February, the writers at TDG will be taking you through our rankings position-by-position. As I mentioned in the primer, this year we’re doing things a little differently. Instead of having my personal rankings up on this site,
Drafting a Dynasty League Roster: Minor League Draft, Rounds 13-16
Before we dive back into the analysis, a few reminders about the context of the league, as it’s not a straight-forward format. It is a 20-team 7×7 H2H league that uses all of the standard 5×5 categories, plus OPS/Total Bases for hitters and Quality Starts/Holds for pitchers. The active rosters
The Top 50 Dynasty League Catchers
These days, there is still little doubt as to what the weakest overall fantasy position is in the game – and we’re about to dive into it. It doesn’t really matter whether you’re looking at guys who are in their peaks now or prospects who could potentially replace them down