Ray's MLB Ramblings
Ray’s Ramblings: It’s Friday
It is spring time. The sun is out (hopefully). The weekend is approaching (thank goodness). Baseball continues to roll on. Let’s look around the diamond and point out some noteworthy accomplishments, injuries and performances. HITTING C.J. Cron hit a grand slam last night as he needs to get going in the counting categories. That’s six 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.
Rays Ramblings: Were You Aware?
Altuve, Biggio, Hiura and Tapia are doing things. What kinda things? On the bump, Gallen is back, Really? Is Castillo “back”? Oh deGrom. How did McCullers look in his return? What are the concerns with Mize? Montgomery, Oviedo and Walker… what is going on there? HITTING Jose Altuve had two home runs last night, 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: Around the Horn, June 16th
We can’t look at the last 24 hours and ignore injuries, can we? Some guys seem to be getting better, while others just can’t get over the hump. There’s also some info in here about good and bad performances as we can’t just spend all of our time talking ill health. HITTING J.P. Crawford isn’t 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: Injuries & Other Stuff
Tyler Glasnow has an arm issue. Matthew Boyd has an arm issue. Michael Pineda has an arm issue. That’s all I’m gonna say about that though, as pitcher injuries seem to happen daily. Instead, I’m going to look at a couple of hot hitters, a couple of returning hitters and a bunch of pitchers. Oh, 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: Spin Rates
Everyone is talking about it, so we might as well too. Spin rates are dropping across the land. Let’s dive in to some of the data, what the league is attempting to do and what we might be looking at in the fantasy game as a result of all the changes. THE LAST 10 DAYS 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, June 11th
Biggio and Buxton are nearing a return. Crawford and Segura are ripping it up. Madrigal is done. Segura is running. Rodgers is hitting. Gomber is rolling. McClanahan is not. Is Manoah? There’s a lot more in here too before we get to the decrease in spin rate the last week in MLB. HITTING Did you 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: Up & Down Recently
Offensively, we’ve got guys surging and slumping. Ray Flowers will point out some of those names. He will also look a bit at the last two weeks offensively as well, before delving into a review of the pitcher’s mound. HITTINGBrandon Lowe is 6-for-51 against everyone. He hit .182 in April, .196 in May and .179 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: So Much Pitching
Aaron Nola is struggling. We will dig into it as he leads the talk today about hurlers. There’s talk of cheating. There are hurlers you should be holding tight to and those that you might start to float out there to see what you could get back in return. There’s some offense too, including guys 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: Struggles, Rookies & Others
The cases of Kelenic, Lynch and Kowar point out, yet again, the folly of counting on rookies to lead you to a championship. When might we see Wander Franco? What is going on with Dozier and Machado? Stassi, really? On the hill, Alzolay, Fulmer, Marquez and Weathers are discussed. HITTING Hunter Dozier had three hits 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: Kowar & The Outfield
Every week now, it’s that time of year, we get The Next Great Thing called up to the Majors. This week, that man is Jackson Kowar of the Royals. What should we be expecting from the young hurler? After breaking down his outlook we will take a look at five men in the outfield: Blackmon, 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: Lies, Cheaters & More
It’s Friday, but that means little as baseball marches on. That marching forward includes players cheating, managers deceiving, and even some on the field performance stuff. I CAN’T STAND LYING At 2:25 PM we got this report on Madison Bumgarner. Torey Lovullo said Madison Bumgarner’s MRI revealed left shoulder inflammation. He won’t throw for 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: Injuries, Hitting & Pitching
Before we dive in to hitting a pitching, a brief rundown of the injury situation in baseball is at hand. It is not your imagination either. Injury rates are up, it’s not good, and no one can really explain what the hell is going on. INJURIES The numbers are astounding. From a recent Jayson Stark 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: MLB In Pictures
Pictures, thousand words, you know how it goes. In this piece, Ray Flowers tells the story of MLB production through the use of screen grabs from Twitter. If nothing else, it’s something interesting to look at. HITTING Jose Altuve had no distance on his homer, but my goodness is he hitting right now. https://twitter.com/MarlyRiveraESPN/status/1399474175954219009 Kris 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, May 28th
We’ve got guys coming back from the injured list. We have guys being sent to the minors. We’ve got guys ascending to fantasy success. There are guys who are blazing hot and others who are incredibly cold. Basically, we got it all in here. HITTERS Cody Bellinger is looking like he will return on Saturday 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: May 27th, Mound Mavens
All kinds of arm talk. Guys being taken out of the rotation in Houston. Guys potentially coming back into the rotation in Cleveland. Guys getting ripped. Guys getting lots of outs. Bullpen talk. A note before we get to all those arms about injuries, and the history pace that we are currently on. INJURIES… are 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: Sixto, Manoah & More
Bellinger, Buxton, Harper, Bader too. Yep, some guys are hurt on offense. On the hill, we’ve got lots of changes occurring. An update on Sixto Sanchez. The call up of Manoah. Gomber, Kopech, Kikuchi and more. There’s a lot in here. HITTERS Harrison Bader came up in a lot of recent questions. I pretty much 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 and More Hitting
A lot of the time in these Ramblings pieces, I really focus on the pitching side of things. I do this because I think that, most of the time, we’re hunting for any edge we can gain on the hill. That said, I’m going rogue with this one. There’s one mention of a hurler, 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: Looking Back at the Weekend
Youngsters Bobby Witt Jr., Keston Hiura and Jo Adell are discussed. The surges of Austin Riley and Gleyber Torres are noted. On the hill, names like Bieber, Howard and Alzolay highlight a growing list of arms you might be turning to in the fantasy game. HITTING Joe Adell update. “I know he’s making some progress, 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 Injured List
It only seems like a player is hurt every five minute each night, right? I know that’s not true, and it is not scientific, but it can’t be said that players aren’t going down with injury every night, because I know that to be true. That got me to thinking about injured players 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: Pitchers – Hold or Drop?
We’re just about at the quarter poll of the 2021 season, so it is a good time to take stock of the old fantasy baseball squad. Are you carrying dead weight? Are you about to drop a guy you shouldn’t? We will take a look at a bunch of pitchers and try to determine 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: Hitters – Hold or Drop?
We’re just about at the quarter poll of the 2021 season, so it is a good time to take stock of the old fantasy baseball squad. Are you carrying dead weight? Are you about to drop a guy you shouldn’t? We will take a look at a bunch of hitters and try to determine 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: Slumping & Surging
Hitting and pitching today, and what that means in the game of fantasy baseball. Who is getting hits? Who isn’t? Who is hurt? That one comes up every day doesn’t it? There was another no-hitter. There’s a couple of guys coming back from injury on the hill, but of course, others heading to the shelf. 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: Injuries, Replacements & Pitching
We had another no-hitter. More guys got hurt. More guys are gonna have to step up. Who are those players? Who should you be looking at? What’s the deal with those young arms? Anything to be looking at that there? ANOTHER NO-NO Spencer Turnbull tossed the 5th no hitter in MLB this season. For more 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: Lots of Pitching
Another day, another series of injured arms with names like Walker, Duffy, Fried dealing with things. We’ve got health updates with Strasburg, Syndergaard, Soroka, Valdez and more. There’s talk about youngsters like Fleming and Singer, as well as veterans like Wood and Gibson. There’s even a bit of non-sense on the offensive side of things 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.