Ray's MLB Ramblings
The Home Run, Part I: History
The game is constantly changing. Last season we welcomed in bigger bases, pitch clocks, limits to defensive position etc. In this piece we will explore the home run category from a leaguewide perspective before going a bit smaller by taking a look at the 3-year leaderboards in Part I of our look at the home 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.
2024: I’ve Changed My Pitch Mix
Pitchers that are adding pitchers could take a forward step in fantasy baseball this season. Conversely, refining a current pitch, or even removing a pitch that a hurler has struggled with, that too could lead to more success in the coming season. The change could also lead to little to no growth, but it doesn’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.
2024: LABR Mixed League
After a second place finish in 2024, I’m back to try once again to tame the LABR Mixed League. So here is my draft day diary, written as the draft was actually taking place, taking you threw all my selections in a field of outright elite fantasy minds. RULES 5 x 5 Rotisserie style scoring. Hitting Categories –…
2023 Review: Left On Base Percentage
What is a pitcher’s strand rate? Why should you care when no fantasy league on the planet uses the number? Let me help to answer those questions in this article. WHAT IS A PITCHER’S STRAND RATE? A pitcher’s strand rate, also known as Left On Base Percentage (LOB%), is the measure of how many base runners that 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.
2023 Review BABIP – What You Need to Know
In the recent past, few people talked about BABIP and fewer even knew what it stood for. A few years later it seemed like everyone began to take notice and you would find BABIP mentioned frequently. A few years later BABIP was all anyone could talk about. Now, we’ve seen a bit of a pullback 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.
2023 Review: I Added-Lost Velocity
Velocity matters, whether it is off the bat or out of the pitchers hand. It’s not the answer to success or failure, you can be a good hitter or hurler without elite velocity numbers, but you would have to be a buffoon to say that velocity doesn’t matter. To that end, we’re talk about fastball 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.
Pitching: Ideal Age & Performance
A few years ago I dug in to birth certificates and what age may or may not tell us about player performance. I will review some of that data here, and then see if we can create a pool of hurlers that would be good targets in 2024. The Role of Age in Baseball. Some 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.
2024: Old, New & Next
This your one stop shop for quick, hopefully hard-hitting, fantasy baseball analysis for the coming campaign. We will name three players for each team in three categories of OLD, NEW, NEXT. Let’s define what each term means before we get to the names. OLD: Most of the names listed in this section will be 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.
2024: Cheap MLB Power
Power is seemingly everywhere in baseball these days, but that doesn’t mean we might not still be able to fine some cheap power sources late in drafts. To that end, here are a few potential sluggers that won’t cost you much on draft day. Sure they might have some warts, and they may not be 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.
The 2024 Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide
Ray Flowers breaks down what you get for seasonal fantasy baseball in 2024 - and it's a lot. Rankings, player profiles, talk about rookies, players to target, players to avoid, how to draft a team... all that and more is available... and a promo code to save you 20% off our early bird pricing. GET THE…
2023 Review: Strong K Rate, High Barrel Rate
Contact and oomph. In this piece we are focusing on which batters hit the ball really hard, and also make a lot of contact. Seems like combining those two factors should lead to a lot of success in fantasy baseball, no? Let’s start out by defining this. WHAT IS A BARREL? Let’s take this right 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.
2023 Review: Launch Angle, A Review
Batters want to lift the ball because chicks dig the long ball (we also love this trait in fantasy baseball). It’s also how you do the most damage with a bat in your hand and it also just so happens to be how you get paid. This article will focus directly on launch angle talking 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.
Do Second Half Stats Matter?
There has long been a line of thought in fantasy baseball, and it goes something like this… Look at a players second half numbers as a window into what will happen in the following year. If the player struggled in the second half you should have some concern. But more often than not, it’s been 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.
2023 Review: K%-BB% Hitters
Making contact matters. Being patient matters. When you put both traits together, more often than not, you end up with a batter who can help you in the batting average and OBP percentage categories. In theory at least, these type of players also should remain more consistent from week-to-week than those that hack away or 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.
2024: One Player Per Team
This one is simple. I’m going to randomly highlight one player from all 30-teams with some factoid that you need to know heading into fantasy baseball 2024. TEAMPLAYER NOTEArizona DiamondbacksJake McCarthy has 49 steals in 198 games the last two years, 17th most in baseball.Atlanta BravesMichael Harris went .293 with 18 HR & 20 SB… 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.
2023 Review: What is CSW?
Sometimes there are simply ideas that are easy to implement that get to the core of the question. Sometimes, the idea is simple but the implementation is dastardly difficult. In the case of Called Strike Plus Whiff Rate (CSW), the idea is simple as is the way we arrive at the number. This piece explores 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.
2023 Review: Pitcher’s Workloads
We all know the workload is down for starting pitchers, but how much are the overall workloads down across the landscape of baseball? We will begin by reviewing overall workloads the last few years. Then, we will look at the batters faced per outing for hurlers to get a sense of where things stand, before 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.
2023 Review: ABA – Time To Replace WHIP
WHIP was innovative when it was created at the dawn of the game of fantasy baseball. It’s the old standby that is used in nearly every roto league in the land? As much as it is part of the fabric of the fantasy game, it no longer should be. What is this heresy that I 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.
2023 Review: SWIP – Strikeouts & Walks
In virtually every fantasy baseball league ever played the last couple of decades, virtually since the start of the roto game actually, teams have used WHIP (walks + hits divided by innings pitched). It’s a solid way to look at pitching performance. Another way to look at how pitchers performed is to pay direct attention 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.
2024: Pitchers to Avoid
We all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the pitchers 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.
2024: Pitchers to Target
We all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the pitchers 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.
2024: Hitters to Avoid
This isn’t going to be a piece that says – don’t draft that guy in fantasy baseball this year with an ADP of 326. There’s no use for that. Instead, this article will focus on hitters who I deem to be too costly on draft day (for a variety of reasons). *NOTE… ADP numbers 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.
2024: Hitters to Target
We all want to roster the best players on our fantasy baseball squads, but there’s no guarantee that any of us will pull a clean sweep of success (in fact, do yourself a favor and absolve yourself that there won’t be bumps in the road). In this article we will talk about the players 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.
MLB Averages to Know – Pitchers
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to pitchers in 2024? We will answer that question by looking back at the completed 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click 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.