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Hot Starts and Broken Hearts – a Recent History
Incredibly, the 2020 regular season is already half over! Many fantasy owners are benefiting from incredible starts to the season, including six starting pitchers with a sub 2.00 ERA so far into the year. Normally, over 162 games we’d expect all those starters to regress back to, at best, an

TDG Weekly Report, May 26-June 1, 2018
This year, The Dynasty Guru will provide a weekly report every Saturday. The weekly report will link to TDG articles for the past week, touch upon notable player developments, and preview upcoming TDG articles for the next week.

TDG Weekly Report, May 19-25, 2018
This year, The Dynasty Guru will provide a weekly report every Saturday. The weekly report will link to TDG articles for the past week, touch upon notable player developments, and preview upcoming TDG articles for the next week.

Stranded – Using LOB%
Left On Base Percentage (LOB%), AKA “Strand Rate” is a stat that describes how often a pitcher allows base runners that don’t score. It’s usually cited as a luck stat that indicates that a pitcher has been fortunate to get out of trouble, or unfortunate in the timing of hits

The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Starting Pitchers, #121-160
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
The Dynasty Guru Podcast Episode 12: It’s 2017 and We’re Talking About Yonder Alonso Edition
Ben Diamond, Nick Doran and Tyler Baber respond to listener questions from the Facebook group, talk about the players outperforming expections, and then Tom Trudeau shows up for a special bonus Luis Perdumo statcast segment TDG Facebook Group Questions: Springer and Archer or Kemp/Bregman/Quintana, Julio Urias or Shohei Otani, Ian
Deep(ish) League Early Off-Season Targets Part One
I doubt the title left much to the imagination. The good news: I don’t have to write anything here. If your league allows trading this late into the season, read the title as”Deep(ish) Late Season Targets for 2017″. Jorge Polanco, SS, MIN – Polanco has been on the radar for a while
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 121-140
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
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 76-125
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,
Young Ace Smackdown: Alex Cobb vs Alex Wood
This week’s smackdown pits two young hurlers named Alex — the Rays’ righty Cobb and the Braves’ lefty Wood. Both are a little light on innings this year but for different reasons. Cobb missed some time early in the season due to an oblique injury that sidelined him for a month.