Johnny Cueto
TDG Weekly Report, April 7-13, 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 Podcast, Episode 26: SP Ranks and Listener Questions!
The Boys are back! This week the guys break down TDG’s SP rankings and answer your listener questions! Suggested Talking Points- The Twins rotation, old pitchers, Keaton upsets Ian, Patrick buys Ian’s love, the cameo from Keaton’s cat, the cameo from Ian’s wife, yelling about Chris Archer, Lance Lynn, and Jeff Samardzija, next
TDGX2 Draft Recap
The following is an overview of The Dynasty Guru Experts League (Volume II) initial draft. This is a 20 team, 5×5 league that utilizes OPS and SV+HLD instead of AVG and SV. We thought it might be good to put our money where our mouth is and have a league
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Starting Pitchers, #21-50
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 Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows
It’s not just drafting, pickups, and trades that make a dynasty league champion. It’s also the small week-to-week roster management decisions that add up over the course of the season. Beyond the must-start players, dynasty owners need to break down each player’s schedule, taking a look at how many games
Numbers DO Lie: cFIP Edition
There’s a common phrase that says, “numbers don’t lie” – but in baseball, often times the exact opposite is true. Luck frequently comes into play, creating misleading numbers in small sample sizes, making bad players look great, and making great players look below-average. One of my favorite exercises throughout the season involves pinpointing
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
Buy or Sell: Anthony DeSclafani
Even the Reds couldn’t have thought trading Mat Latos to the Miami Marlins would have worked out this well but here we are. A mere four starts into the season and DeSclafani has a sparkling 1.04 ERA while his more decorated colleague has posted a hideous mark of 6.86. On
A Mechanical Exploration of Raisel Iglesias
Little is known about the Cuban born pitcher Iglesias who was signed by the Cincinnati Reds this past June. Iglesias was signed to a 7-year-27 million dollar deal with a five million dollar signing bonus, which is quite a lot of money and trust to give to a 24-year-old reliever