Chris Archer
2018 Lineup wRC+ Projections and Strategy
The Marlins suck. The Astros rock. Any casual baseball fan could tell you this much. But on draft day, or March 30th when you are already looking to stream starting pitchers, the casual baseball fan won’t win you your league. Being able to quantify and visualize lineup strength is vital
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Starting Pitchers, #1-20
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
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 Verdict on 3 Struggling Aces: Keuchel, Archer, Wainwright
We are one fifth of the way into the season already. That is a pretty good chunk of games so the sample size is getting big enough to be meaningful. There are quite a few elite pitchers who are off to rough starts. It is hard not to get alarmed
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 1-20
It’s the time of the year where we offer congratulations to those of you brave dynasty league owners that survived the offseason. The greatness that 2016 will surely offer is upon us and that means we’ll be spending the next six weeks moving our way through the positional landscape, offering thoughts
Kevin Gausman Is Here to Be an Ace
There is nothing more valuable in a dynasty format than a legitimate fantasy ace. According to ESPN’s player rater, the three most valuable assets in 2015 were starting pitchers. They are not easy to find and more difficult to acquire, unless you can get your hands on them before they break
The Breakout Is Approaching FOR REAL: Drew Smyly
Any of you that have been reading my articles since I started over at Baseball Professor probably think I have some strange fascination with Drew Smyly. Let me first clarify no he doesn’t pay me to write about him as his unknown hype man and no we are not related.
Grading the Unexpected Aces: Archer, Keuchel, Hammel, Miller and Pineda
We are getting close to the halfway point of the baseball season and there are several 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
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,
#TDGX Recap – Team Goldstein – Rounds 6-12
As we continue our trek through the #TDGX draft, I’ll try to pick up the pace a bit, this time covering six picks. I know it will take a while to go through it in this type of detail, given that I only get one post a week to discuss