Jason Vargas

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

Starting Pitchers: Negative Regression Candidates
In the words of Hall of Fame NFL coach Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are.” While Bill has clearly never been on the hill on the losing end of a 1-0 shutout, the point is well taken. If we are still making excuses for players who

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, #161-200
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
Evaluating Early Season Swinging Strike Risers
We’re a month and a half into the season, so it’s due time to evaluate pitchers who have grown in their peripherals. In this article, I took a deep dive into pitchers who have had a spike in their swinging strike rate and how likely that is to contribute to their
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers Nos. 126-200
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,
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty League Starting Pitchers, Nos. 126-200
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
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