Carlos Martinez
Speculating on Vincent Velasquez
For dynasty leaguers, the offseason presents an excellent opportunity to acquire under-the-radar players before the fantasy pundits reveal their sleeper lists for the upcoming season. During the winter months, players can be improperly valued by your leaguemates for a variety of reasons, including poor surface stats, recency bias, and an
Grading the Unexpected Aces: Wacha, Liriano, Burnett, Martinez and Odorizzi
Let’s take a look at another batch of pitchers having great years despite low pre-season rankings. All of the pitchers below are currently ranked in the top 25 starting pitchers in baseball in 5×5 leagues. Are they flukes or can we expect them to continue pitching at an elite level? Michael
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 41-75
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,
Mike’s Eleven Bold Predictions for 2014
Bold predictions are fun. Instead of just being ‘high’ on a player, I can create an outlandish bold prediction to really profess my love for them. I got a little homesick editing these. Without even realizing it, my eleven bold predictions begin and end with my hometown Phillies. I hope you enjoy
Craig’s Eleven Bold Predictions for 2014
11 Bold Predictions You’re not here for intros. Here’s last year’s. Here’s the review of last year’s. Here’s this year’s train wreck: 1) Michael Choice gets 400+ plate appearances Mitch Moreland is playing through a might-be-tweaked oblique right now and I think Choice is good enough to hold on to
#TDGX Recap — Team Kantecki’s First 10
By now, you are well aware that my TDG mates and I have been participating in an intense 40-round, first-year dynasty league draft called The Dynasty Guru Experts League. We’re already 34 rounds deep and the pickings are slim — we’ve recently entered the part of the draft where the
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty League Starting Pitchers, Nos. 41-75
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, like last year, these
Prospect Smackdown: Yordano Ventura vs. Carlos Martinez
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! In last week’s Prospect Smackdown, we saw Francisco Lindor earn a narrow Christmas victory over Chris Owings in a battle of fantasy shortstop prospects. In our inaugural edition of this series, we saw Billy Hamilton crush Adam Eaton when it comes to 2014 steals. This
Rebuilding a Dynasty League Roster: One Year Later
A lot can happen in a year. June 3rd, 2012 was the day I took over the roster which became the focus of my Rebuilding a Dynasty League Roster series, and now that June 3rd is upon us again, it seemed like a natural time to take a look at
The Top 225 Dynasty League Starting Pitchers, Part 2 (#51-125)
We both you know that you don’t want some sort of long-winded introduction here. You just want to see the list. Your wish is my command. And now your next 75 dynasty league starters, with commentary: #51 – Trevor Bauer, Cleveland Indians #52 – Jaime Garcia, St Louis Cardinals Garcia