Yainer Diaz

TDG’s Top 500 Consensus Rankings for Points Leagues – March 2023
What’s up Dynastopians. We’re back! And if you’re anything like me, you’re kinda tired. I get it, and I see you. The world is moving very fast. So let’s slow it down and get to the obnoxiously long list of grown people who hit balls with sticks. Or throw balls

THE DYNASTY GURU 2023 CONSENSUS TOP 200 PROSPECTS
Hello and welcome to our prospect pièce de résistance, the top 200 prospects coming into the 2023 season! This list is a collaboration between myself, Greg Hoogkamp, Andrew Jurewicz, and Chris Knock. We had some fun combing through the list after combining our individual ranks, but I think it’s safe

The Dynasty Guru 2023 Top 500 Dynasty Players for Batting Average Leagues
Hi and glad you clicked to see our top 500 dynasty players for the 2023 season. The list is designed for a daily 15-team league, a traditional 5×5 roto starting 2 catchers with Wins and Saves (no holds), and of course Batting Average. Enjoy!

Prospect Spotlight: Yainer Diaz, C Houston Astros
Looking at the landscape of prospects coming up the ranks in MLB, I am excited for the future and reminded of the reality of the situation: only some make the final successful jump into regular productive playing time in the majors. Going over the third base position I found so

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2023 TOP 20 C PROSPECTS, #11-20
Welcome back to our prospect positional rankings as we kick off the bottom half of our top 20 ranks. Catcher is unique as many of the prospects coming up develop as catchers, but then move to other defensive positions in the upper minors or major league level. That makes the

THE DYNASTY GURU’S 2023 TOP 40 DYNASTY LEAGUE CATCHERS, #21-40
Continuing with our highlights of the league’s top Catcher, as judged by our collection of industry experts, below are the players ranked #21-40. 21. DANNY JANSEN, TORONTO BLUE JAYS (AGE: 28, PREVIOUS RANK: 31) Last year, Danny Jansen had a career-high 15 home runs in just 248 plate appearances. He

Scout the Stat Line: Projected Top 1,000 Prospects, End of May Update
This prospect rankings article updates my offseason prospect projections piece, making use of my research on aging and the minor leagues featured at ‘Scout the Stat Line,’ a website Ross Jensen and I co-publish.

Scouting the Stat Line: Projected Peak Dynasty Performance for the Top 1,000 Prospects
This article continues an annual series providing peak projections for prospects. The projections are derived from peak major league equivalencies that use my (Jordan’s) aging curves and league translations to convert every player’s statistics to the same peak MLB (American League) baseline, making it easier to compare players at different

Trade Deadline: Who’s Who of Prospects – AL Edition
What a trade deadline! You never know how much activity you’ll see year to year at the deadline, but 2021 didn’t disappoint, with former MVPs, Cy Young winners, and multiple All-Stars changing teams. Jared and Ken give you a short introduction to the prospects who changed teams. There were so

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