Ray's MLB Ramblings
Ray’s Ramblings: Issues On The Hill
We’re starting to see teams worry about the workload of their hurlers with Gore/Kirby being at the forefront of this piece. We will then hit on guys like Quintana, Perez, Pivetta, Taillon and Odorizzi. Which guys should have our faith, and which should be concerning? WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT – PART I George Kirby was demoted. Why? Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Youngsters In The News
The Diamondbacks promoted Corbin Carroll to Triple-A and we have to start considering what his promotion to the Majors will look like. On the hill, Gore/Kirby are in the workload danger zone. Drew Waters has been dealt to the Rangers and oldie, but goodie, Robinson Cano is now a Brave. DIAMONDBACKS OUTFIELD Corbin Carroll seems destined Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2022 MLB FAAB Values: Week 14
Working the waiver-wire is one of the most important skills a fantasy player needs if they want to hoist the championship trophy at years end. To that end, we will do what we can to help you to navigate the pitfalls and dangers on a weekly basis. It is impossible to craft a list for Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: 2022 Pitcher Workloads
We just passed the halfway point of the season, and pitchers are dropping every 18 minutes. It’s a near war zone out there as we are all in search of quality innings on the bump. Since workload is such a big topic in 2022, it’s time to look directly at it. In what follows we Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Speed & Hitting
Everyone in the world, a slight exaggeration for effect, is suddenly interested in the man who leads baseball in steals this season. What is the outlook of Esteury Ruiz and the Padres’ outfield? After that discussion, we will talk batting leadoff, pulling the baseball and streaking batters. PADRES OUTFIELD PLAN I woke up today and Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Arm Updates All-Around
This piece, no frills, no hitting, all pitching. Of course, there is also video of a child-like tantrum, a discussion about workload, youngsters on the come up and others who are trending downward. Where to Gore, Kopech, Lodolo and Pallante fit into that matrix? The Astros pitching plan. The Astros will start José Urquidy on Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Hitting Last 30 Days
Thirty days is a limited time horizon to analyze a fantasy baseball player. Since it really isn’t enough data to get a picture of a player if we look merely at the end result, we are going to go Statcast diving to see how hard guys are, or aren’t, hitting the ball the last 30 Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Back In The Groove
The pitching piece of this report is filled with lesser names that have actually offered some solid returns of late. Are they worth adding in the fantasy game? On offense we have players coming back from injury, like Eloy, and health updates on others like Harper/Witt. HITTING Nick Castellanos has had a disappointing first season Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: The Approach At The Dish
The foundation of offensive success is – avoiding outs. Building off that obvious point, I thought it would be useful to take a look at the last 30 days of action to see who (A) isn’t putting the ball in play, (B) who is taking a walk and (C) who is or isn’t controlling the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: The Day After
It is the day after the holiday, and we at FG certainly hope you had some fun. Time to get back to the business of wining in fantasy baseball, so let’s get right to it. HITTING A great article on the greatness of Shohei Ohtani. Hunter Renfroe (calf) is taking longer to return that hoped, Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Celebrating The Halfway Point
Not every team is at 81 games played, most haven’t actually, but we’re taking the holiday as a sign that it’s a great time to have a discussion about pace and what the season would look like if you did the unscientific, and wholly unreliable, doubling of stats. Yep, we know that isn’t how it…
Ray’s Ramblings: Happy July 4th
Happy July 4th everyone. The winning never stops at Fantasy Guru though, so we are still hard at work to help you succeed. In what follows, there is talk about rotations, pitching woes, a couple of surging youngsters and then some talk about offense. What is going on with Taylor Ward and Christian Yelich? PITCHING Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2022 MLB FAAB Values: Week 13
Working the waiver-wire is one of the most important skills a fantasy player needs if they want to hoist the championship trophy at years end. To that end, we will do what we can to help you to navigate the pitfalls and dangers on a weekly basis. It is impossible to craft a list for Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2022 MLB Rankings Update: July
The first of every month, all throughout the regular season, Ray Flowers will completely update the 2022 fantasy baseball rankings for each position. Ray surveys the data and comes up with his rankings for the rest of the 2022 regular season taking into account injuries, playing time and performance to date. It should be getting Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Surging Players and Pitching Updates
There are a lot of bits in here about catchers and their offense of late and one of the best players in fantasy the last month plays on the left coast. There’s also some history to discuss with the best player in baseball, and talk about one hurler going up (Alcantara) and one going down Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: What’s Up Wednesday?
We have some artists, formerly known as stars, who have finally started to produce. We have a couple of guys that people have typecast, perhaps incorrectly. We have talk about surging arms like Cueto and Kremer, as well as a discussion about a former Cy Young winner who has changed up the way he is Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Mostly Pitching, But Some Hitting Too
What is going on with Berrios and Flaherty? Does Shane McClanahan have a long-term concern? Is Archer usable? Sandoval has been good, but… What happened to Brady Singer? At the dish, Cruz and Soto make it happen, while Stanton is homering but not much else. HITTERS Oneil Cruz destroyed that homer last night. Oneil Cruz Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: BABIP, Outfield & Pitching
Ray Flowers talks about BABIP and the early success of Bogaerts/Martinez in Boston. Then there is talk about Carlos Santana and Vinnie Pasquantino before getting to the Bader injury. Then, Ray breaks down the suddenly in turmoil Phillies’ outfield. On the hill, talk about the Phillies’ bullpen and Luis Patino. BATTING AVERAGE ON BALLS IN Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2022 MLB FAAB Values: Week 12
Working the waiver-wire is one of the most important skills a fantasy player needs if they want to hoist the championship trophy at years end. To that end, we will do what we can to help you to navigate the pitfalls and dangers on a weekly basis. It is impossible to craft a list for Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
2022 Rookie Review – Week 12
Every week we will take a look at the first-year players in fantasy baseball. Which of the rookies looks good, which is struggling and which appear to be on the cusp of getting a shot to show their skills at the big-league level? C.J. Abrams was promoted with the injury to Manny Machado’s ankle, but Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Better or Worse?
What is the update on the health of Byron Buxton? Where did the power of Realmuto go? Rizzo is ripping. Rutschman actually is too. What about Pham? On the hill, what to do with Suarez, Hudson, Freeland, Smeltzer, and who is Mr. Quality Start? HITTING Byron Buxton has that knee issue, and he and the Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Oh Those Arms
Guys that were rolling are suddenly struggling. Guys that were having a hard time are suddenly getting outs. It’s a long season, is it not? An Aaron Ashby (forearm) update. https://twitter.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/1540000774423461889 The Brewers are still putting on a brave face suggesting that Ashby might be available to return after two weeks. The Astros likely rotation. Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Hitters of Late
We will look at the performance of hitters the last two weeks before talking about a whole gob of outfielders who are surging offensively of late. Byron Buxton is such a talent. Too bad he is made out of paper mâché. Rocco Baldelli hopes Byron Buxton is good to go on Friday or Saturday. But Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.
Ray’s Ramblings: Awaken Thy Bat
How about some talk about a catcher no one is discussing, a guy who just hit three homers and a fella who is 13th in baseball in OPS. There are also a host of surging infielders and a couple of outfielders who are surging. Jorge Alfaro had two hits yesterday and his slash line, and Read More! You need a subscription to access this content. Choose from the following: VIP Memberships – Seasonal Annual Season-long content, draft guide, rankings, podcasts, and Discord access. $109.99 VIP Memberships – VIP Monthly Includes all plans: Seasonal, Daily, and Betting, plus exclusive tools and Discord. $99.99 NFL Memberships – NFL (All-In) $499.99 Already a member? Sign in.