Ray's MLB Ramblings
Ray’s Ramblings: Pitching Review, April 27th
The baseball itself continues to be an issue. Berrios/Ray are working on living up to expectations. Buehler finally did. Rodon continues to. What about guys like Dunning, Irvin, Kelly and Valdez? Chris Bassitt thinks the baseball is the issue. Not the game, but the actual baseball. He had some pretty harsh words for MLB. Mets 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: Pitching Changes & Updates
What is going on with big league rosters and the new changes for May? How close is deGrom to a return? What about Flaherty? Can guys like Gibson and Mikolas maintain their strong starts? What did Kyle Wright do to change his outlook? This and more. RULE CHANGES… MLB teams are supposed to have a 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: Humidors & Taylor Ward
What is going on with the lack of early offense this season? Looks like the humidor is to blame for a good deal of it. Taylor Ward is suddenly hot in the fantasy game. Who is he? Then, we’ve got batting order talk, injury discussion and some interesting offensive tidbits. BATTED BALL DISTANCE Eno Sarris 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 on April 25th
As we start the final week of April, there are so many storylines. Guys playing over their heads and underwater are great places to finish off the first month of any campaign, so let’s take a look at some guys who you need to know about. Luis Arraez qualifies at second third and in 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: Monday, April 25th Hurlers
Let’s talk youngsters who are surging on the hill. Some are starting, some are working out of the bullpen. Of course, there are others who are struggling to find their footing, and a few are in here too. Then there is Gerrit Cole and what he did Sunday. We couldn’t do a writeup and leave 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: Friday, April 22nd
Bieber and Romano have been effective, but are there concerns? What about with DeSclafani, Greinke and Plesac? On offense, Nelson Cruz is struggling and so is Franmil Reyes. Which has a better short-term outlook? THINGS A CHANGING FOR BIEBER Shane Bieber has a 2.25 ERA, a 0.69 WHIP and 16 punchouts in six innings. All 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: Looking at League Averages
We’re two weeks in, but we can still pull back and look at early season performance with a broad angle lens. To date, we’ve got humidors everywhere, wonky weather, pitchers on pitch counts, a “new” baseball etc. There’s a lot to unpack, and as more data comes in we will start to assign blame, 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: April 21st, The Bats
Batting order changes. Guys failing to hit the baseball. Guys who, on the surface look great, but maybe aren’t? Guys who, on the surface stinks, but maybe don’t? Aristides Aquino, simply put, is not good at hitting the baseball. Oh he blasts it when he makes contact, but he just cant hit it. He had 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: Hurlers, April 21st
Ray Flowers talks about rotation changes and pitcher velocity as everyone is seemingly throwing harder. Ray then dives in to the success of guys like Gonsolin, Mikolas, McKenzie and Gore. Are the Astros looking at making a move with their rotation? What are the Braves doing with theirs? VELOCITY – UP AND UP Velocity 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: The Bats, April 20th
There are plenty of wonky numbers in the early going, including far too high, and far too low, BABIP numbers. A bevvy of hitters are also hitting way too many balls into the ground. There is also talk about the Phils/Royals batting order changes. There’s other stuff too. 4: The number of men with an 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: Hurlers, April 20th
There is always baseball to talk about. One of the beauties of the game is six months of unending storylines. In this piece we will tackle the hot start of Paul Blackburn and the struggles of Buehler/Cole as the highlights of our look at the mound. Joan Adon held the D’backs scoreless over 6.1 innings 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: April 19th, Leaguewide Arms
Ray will take a look at how the league is performing early on this season. Then, he will look at rotation changes, demotions, struggling hurlers and a guy or two who are actually doing well in the early going. LEAGUE WIDE NUMBERS To date, here is how the league has performed in a variety 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: April 19th, Hitting Talk
There is always so much to talk about. Looking at the corner, names like Belt, Bohm, Lowe are touched on. In the outfield, what is going on with Kwan, Meadows, Robles, Julio Rodriguez and more. Ronald Acuna is targeting May 6th for a return to game action with the Braves. His last 155 games, Brandon 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: Pitching, April 18th
We will start this look at pitching by highlighting four youngsters who are in the news and making waves – Ashby, Gore, Strider, Wright. There’s further talk about some hurlers who are dealing with injuries and what rotations will look like for a few teams in the short-term. THE YOUNGSTERS Aaron Ashby allowed one run 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: April 18th, Monday Musings
It is early… but let’s look anyway, because that is what we do. Guys with some wonkiness in the early going include Arozarena, Mullins, Mondesi and Swanson. Tatis making news for doing something dumb isn’t close to ideal. On the plus side we’ve got news on Arraez, Ozuna, Chisholm, Rizzo, Owen Miller and more. Randy 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: Friday, April 15th
We’ve got health updates for hurlers like Castillo and Clevinger. There’s a Mariners’ arm that is impressing. Speaking of looking good, that’s what Luis Severino did Thursday. What about outlooks for youngsters Josiah Gray, Shane McClanahan and Casey Mize? What is up with Robbie Ray? What is going on with Conforto and how about those 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: April 14th, Hitting
There are some big-name outfielders who are a bit beat up. It sounds like Eloy Jimenez will be alright, but reports are suggesting that the Jays will be without their slugger, Teoscar Hernandez, for a while. Who might the Jays turn to in his absence? Ray also takes a look around some of the way 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: April 14th, Pitching
Ray Flowers has a lot to say about the Dodgers’ decision to pull Clayton Kershaw from a perfect game and the implications it brings to the fantasy game. He then touches on solid starters on the bump like Heaney and Kelly to see what he sees. Oh, and he has something to say about Gerrit 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: April 13th
Per usual, we have players headed to the. What does that mean for the Padres’ pitching staff and the Twins’ outfield? We have a youngster surging on the bump (Brash) and a veteran who has lost his oomph (Bieber). How did Zack Wheeler look in his first outing? Plus, lots of hitting notes. THE PITCHERS 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 Sample Size Game
You need talent. You need opportunity. You need a sample size. All three of those factors help to answer the question of – How do we view guys who start quickly or slowly in the month of April? In what follows, I will relay the work of some smart people who attempt to answer 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: Surging & Struggling Batters
Alec Bohm is struggling while Andrew Benintendi is surging. Who is striking out and who is making contact? There are names that might surprise you (both ways). There’s some batting order talk as well with a guy taking over at the top of his lineup while another guy might be losing his grip on 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: Saves, Injuries, Hot Starts
Bullpens have been, predictably, messy. Do names like Blackburn and Manning deserve your attention? Updates on the health of guys like Flaherty, Giolito and Patino. Why do teams continue to embarrass the game by letting players pitch? DAY BY DAY SAVES Here are the saves, per day, starting with April 7th. Bold denotes a known/expected 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: April 11th, Pitching
Pitchers aren’t going deep into games to start the year, and it isn’t surprising. Some guys didn’t have their velocity in their first outing. Some guys are hurt already. A rookie was throwing 100 mph for the Reds. There’s a lot to dig into on the hill just days into the 2022 fantasy baseball 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: April 11th, Hitting
Though we are less than one week into the 2022 Fantasy Baseball season, there is panic in some streets and hysteria in others. To help quell some of that, we will spend a bit of time talking sample size before we dive in to some of the early storylines that are taking shape, like 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.