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TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings February 2021
After a wild and crazy 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season is about to begin! Our staff of 27 writers and contributors have ranked, debated, re-ranked, and written up more than 600 players! Now for the big finale, the TDG Top 500 List.

Dynasty’s Child Episode 136: We’re So Close To The End
In today’s episode of Dynasty’s Child, Keaton, Shelly, and Jake discuss the Pirates recently offloading some relevant fantasy starters, various other exciting signings, and then dive into the third base rankings before they answer some listener questions!! Outro: Dearly Departed by Shakey Graves feat. Esmé Patterson WRITERS’ PLUGS!

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2021 TOP 50 DYNASTY LEAGUE THIRD BASEMEN, #11-30
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

New Dynasty League Draft Part VII: Slow Drafting during a Pandemic-Rounds 10-13
Been away for a couple weeks but I am back breaking down a new, head-to-head, 16 team, Dynasty league draft that I joined at the end of March. The season still has not started as of today, so that just allows more time to breakdown this draft. Find Part I

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

TDG’s Top 500 Dynasty Rankings March 2020
The 2020 season is just about upon us, and TDG ranking SZN is almost concluded. So far the incredible rankings team of 26 writers has ranked and written up more than 600 players. Now that all the positional rankings have been completed and released, that just leaves one left: The

The Dynasty Guru’s 2020 Top 125 Outfielders, #51-75
WELCOME! Our brave group of writers has been ranking, debating, re-ranking, re-debating, and re-re-ranking over 600 players for dynasty leagues. The fruits of our efforts will be filling January and February with the deepest, most thoroughly and painstakingly selected dynasty baseball rankings on the internet. We have top-40s, top-50s, top-125s,

Scouting the Stat Line – The Best Minor League Seasons of the 2010’s
Throughout 2019, The Dynasty Guru maintained projected peak wOBA leaderboards to help indicate the best minor league hitting performances throughout the year. The final 2019 update to the leaderboards was posted on 9/3/2019, at the end of the minor league season. To view these results, please follow this link. We’ve

Scouting the Stat Line – The Best Minor League Hitters of the Past Decade
The Dynasty Guru updates its peak performance leaderboards weekly. View the latest update here, updated as of 8/23/2019. As a reminder, the wOBA metric is designed to be a single variable that can inform how good a player’s overall hitting/plate approach quality is. Our wOBA calculations are meant to help