Harrison Bader

Dynasty’s Child Episode 143: News, Notes, and Early Awards
In today’s loaded episode of Dynasty’s Child, Keaton, Shelly, and Jordan cover a ton of news and notes from around the league, pick their way-too-early award winners for 2021, and answer a few listener questions as well!! Outro: Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier WRITERS’ PLUGS! Follow us on

Scouting the Stat Line: Top 1000+ Hitters Under 30 by Peak Projected Dynasty Performance
Note: data update 3/8/2021. Peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score are unchanged. Other metrics updated, but they remain consistent with peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score. See ‘Table note’ for more detail.

Scouting the Stat Line: Top 50 SEC and Pac-12 Hitting Prospects since 2015
How much weight should one give to college performance?

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 Dynasty League Outfielders, #101-125
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,

TDGX2 Rebuild: An Erstwhile Marlin and a Trout to Start the Rebuild
A dynasty baseball rebuild is never easy, but can be one of the most gratifying rebuilds in all of fantasy sports. I was able to do a rebuild in my first dynasty league a few years ago and things went extremely quickly and well. It did help to nab both

Dynasty’s Child Episode 74: Patrick’s On The Edge Of 17
Click Here To Listen The gang discusses the week that was, talk hot/cold performances and buy/sell some others, and of course, The Top Podspect. Topics Include: Signings/Extensions: Logan Morrison Khris Davis Promotions/Demotions: Vlad Jr Michael Chavis Corbin Burnes Nick Pivetta Injuries: Dustin Pedroia/Eduardo Nunez Jacob deGrom Arodys Vizcaino Harrison Bader

Dynasty’s Child Episode 68: The Host Shots BOLD Predictions Pod
Click Here to Listen Keaton and Jake cover the week that was and also make their Hot Shot BOLD predictions for the season. Topics include: Signings/Suspensions/Injuries Hot Shots: Dodgers Pitching Staff Tyler Skaggs Harrison Bader Miguel Cabrera Tyler White George Valera Andrew Knizner Hans Crouse Division Predictions World Series Predictions Awards