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Join The Ranks Episode 13: Breakouts and A Tight Package
Taylor (@TCasesLoaded) and Kyle (@CavghtLooking) discuss some relevant news and notes from the first four days of the season, some exciting roster moves, breakout candidates for the 2021 season, and some last-minute thoughts for your dynasty teams. News and Notes: 3:03 Taylor Trammell: 3:09 Luis Campusano: 6:08 Akil Baddoo:

Dynasty’s Child Episode 141: It’s Always Robbie Ray
In today’s episode of Dynasty’s Child, Patrick, Shelly, and Jordan discuss recent news and notes from around the league, give their thoughts on some new rules hitting the minor leagues this season, hit on some later-round starting pitchers to target and avoid, and answer a listener question! Outro: Sleep

TDG’s Triple Play: Arizona Diamondbacks!
The Triple Play is back for a fourth season! This regular feature is broken down by senior writer Paul Monte and a rotating panel of writers. If you’re new to the Triple Play, this series breaks down an arm, a bat, and a prospect within each organization for your reading

TDG’s Top 200 Prospect Rankings February 2021
Welcome, friends. We’ve reached our final destination in the 2021 prospect ranking system. We hope that you’ve enjoyed every stop along the way, from catchers all the way around the diamond, through the outfield, and back to the mound for the pitchers. What a ride!

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2021 TOP 20 FIRST BASE PROSPECTS, #11-20
Welcome to the second half of our 2021 first base prospect rankings. This list will round out our top hitters at perhaps the most powerful position on the diamond. The bottom half of the first base list features more players from the lower and mid-minors as well as a couple

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2021 TOP 20 FIRST BASE PROSPECTS, #1-10
We’re back again with a new haul of prospects at a new position! We hope you’re enjoying this series so far because there’s quite a bit more where that came from.

TDG Roundtable: Players Who Would Benefit From A Trade
Every week on Fridays, our writers here at The Dynasty Guru will be bringing you some quick hit musings about a particular topic so you, the reader, can get a blast of info from a bunch of different writers with some passionate opinions. This week’s roundtable topic is players who

Dynasty’s Child Episode 120: NL West
On this episode, Keaton, Shelly, and Jordan review the latest league news and continue the divisional prospect series with the NL West Outtro: This Disorder by The Features

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