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

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

Shohei Otani’s 2015 season ended in a disappointing fashion. In game one of the first round of the NPB playoffs (called Climax Series), the twenty-one-year old lasted only 2.2 innings while surrendering five runs on six hits and three walks to the Chiba Lotte Marines. He and Nippon Ham were

We’re about half way in the 2015 season. TDG Top 500 have been updated. Mid-season prospect rankings are coming. A little to many have changed since pre-season. Things aren’t much different on the other side of the sea. Here  I going to take a look at some names I mentioned

Congratulations on surviving another off-season. We’re just over a couple of weeks away from the new season. And better yet, NPB opening day is a mere 5 days away. Here at TDG, I ranked 30 NPB players to watch for for the coming season. The rankings are based on 1)

It’s been a week and a half since Salvador Perez popped out to Pablo Sandoval and brought us into the cold, miserable winter of no baseball. It’s time of year where we have to fill the baseball voids in our minds with stove league talk or other sports like football,

This year portly Korean import Hyun-jin Ryu and the gif-tastic Cuban sparkplug Yasel Puig, made immediate impacts in the majors after coming from overseas to help the Dodgers. But this isn’t a one year trend. Every year impact fantasy stars like Yoenis Cespedes, Yu Darvish, Aroldis Chapman and that guy