Mark Appel

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
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 141-200
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,
Scouting the Statline: AFL Progress Report
We’re rapidly approaching the halfway point of the Arizona Fall League schedule, which means most of your everyday players have managed to log 40 or 50 plate appearances at this point. There’s obviously nothing remotely representative about any of these samples, but it’s nonetheless worthwhile to check in on the
Scouting the Statline: Early Season Prospect Struggles
Periodically over the course of the season I’ll take the opportunity of this space to check in on how some notable fantasy prospects are performing down on the farm, and what that performance may or may not mean for your dynasty league. I’d like to kick off this series with
The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty League Starting Pitchers, Nos. 41-75
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
Prospect Helium Watch – Kyle Zimmer
Kansas City Royals’ pitcher Kyle Zimmer’s path from college walk-on to his becoming a top prospect in baseball is a tale of a position change, hard work, and just enough serendipity to make it seem like a Hollywood script. After primarily playing third base and first base in high school,
Prospect Talk: Why Aren’t We All Swooning Over Vincent Velasquez?
In the search for prospects to fill my own roster prior to the season, I came across Astros pitching prospect Vincent Velasquez and wound up falling head over heels in love. You’re unlikely to find him on many current top 100 lists, but scouts are beginning to sit up and
The Top 40 Dynasty League Prospects From the 2013 Draft Class, For Now
It may not be the most highly publicized of the major sport drafts we have in this country, but most of you likely know that the 2013 MLB Draft (otherwise known at the Rule 4) took place between Thursday and Saturday of this past week. There’s still so much that
Prospect Talk: Draft Notables
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