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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

New Dynasty League Draft Part III: Slow Drafting during a Pandemic-Rounds 3 and 4
Hope everyone is being safe and staying healthy out there. I joined a new Dynasty league in late March with 16 teams, and 65 roster spots (30 majors, 35 minors) and decided to write about it in real-time. So you will be reading some of my decisions/conundrums/snipes that were happening

Dynasty’s Child Episode 111: Prediction Palooza
Keaton, Shelly, and Jake give a quick reaction to the halting of baseball operations and then dive into their predictions for the season’s division winners, WS and awards. Keaton: AL DIV: NYY, MIN, HOU AL WC: TB, OAK NL DIV: LAD, ATL, MIL NL WC: NYM, WAS Series: LAD

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 200 Dynasty League Starting Pitchers, #1-30
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,

Scouting the Stat Line: Top 3030 Hitting Prospects by Peak MLB wOBA Projection
Wander Franco (Left photograph: Rob Tringali / MLB Photos via Getty Images); Julio Rodriguez (Right photograph: wv_power, The Official Instagram for the West Virginia Power) Over the past year, I’ve developed translations that convert minor league statistics to their equivalent MLB statistics. I’ve also built aging curves to project when

Dynasty’s Child Episode 75: The Gang’s All Here
Click here To Lisen Debut! Vlad Jr (3:45) Signings/Call ups/Demotions Gio Gonzalez (7:25) Griff Canning (9:20) Carter Keiboom (12:05) Justus Sheffield (16:00) Luis Rengifo (16:00) Injuries: Jordan Zimmermann (17:05) Cody Allen/Ty Buttry (17:10) Trevor Rosenthol (18:00) Zack Cozart (18:00) Clint Frazier (18:15) Joey Wendle (19:00) Carlos Martinez (19:05) Austin Meadows

The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Starting Pitchers, #1-30
Despite a scorching hot stove (I can’t believe the player you’re thinking of did or did not sign with the team you thought they would!), January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively and literally). But fear not, restless readers. The Dynasty Guru is

Dynasty’s Child Podcast: Episode 44: Mid-Season Top 500 With Jesse Roche Pt. I
The boys are back with friend of the pod Jesse Roche. PART I: MILB CENTRIC Jesse’s Process (3:36) Risers Hitters (9:55): Jose Ramirez, Javy Baez, and Trevor Story Risers Pitchers (13:20): Blake Snell, Trevor Bauer, Miles Mikolas, Ross Stripling Fallers Hitters (17:00): Byron Buxton, Lewis Brinson, Miguel Sano, Domingo Santana

The Dynasty Guru’s All Second-Half Team
It’s hard to believe that the baseball season is already half over. The good news for all of us is that there is a lot more ball to play after the All-Star Break. When we look back at the first half, it has been defined by the otherworldly performances of