Ray's MLB Ramblings
MLB Averages to Know – Hitters
What are the league averages for batters? What numbers should you be zeroing in on when it comes to batters in the coming season? We will answer that question by looking back at the 2023 season to see where the baselines live. A few notes are listed below, just a few. Make sure to click 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% & Workload
It only seems like every third article I write for pitchers is about strikeouts, but I do comment on them a lot. Here’s another article that focuses directly on the strikeout and the walk. This is about as basic as we can get with our analysis, but the fact is that strikeout and walk rates 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: High K, Low BB, High GB, Arms
It’s triangle of pitching time. What the heck am I talking about? If you are looking for a shorthand way to view pitchers, a down and dirty way to say thumbs up or thumbs down, this is what you should be looking at. You want strikeouts.You want to avoid walksYou want ground balls. First off, 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: What is Tiering & Why Does it Matter?
Tiering is a fairly standard procedure in fantasy sports, or at least it should be. Here’s a quick refresher on what it is and why you should be employing it at the draft. As I noted in a previous article, having a top-overall list isn’t useful on draft day. The simple reason is that 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.
2023 Review: The Strikeout From All The Angles
The strikeout is a thing of beauty. It’s clean and often speaks to the dominance of the hurler, so let’s wrap up our look at that result by taking a gander at this thing from a myriad of angles by putting it all together. We will review a myriad of categories that deal with 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.
Categories to Add in Fantasy Baseball in 2024
There are two camps in fantasy baseball. Well, there are obviously more, but there are two main groups as I see it. Group 1: The traditionalists. Some folks have been in a fantasy league with their best friends, their coworkers, their spouses for 27 years and they simply aren’t going to change a thing since 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.
Should We Remove Batting Average From Fantasy Baseball?
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. He tackles batting average in this piece – and old, outdated and pretty meaningless number in 21st century baseball. Give me a shot to explain 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.
Should We Remove Steals in Fantasy Baseball?
Ray Flowers poses the question – should we remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball? He tackles the stolen base in this piece and asks, even with the huge uptick in thefts last season, should we adjust how we record player value in the stolen base category in fantasy 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.
Should We Replace Wins In Fantasy Baseball?
In this series of articles, Ray Flowers poses the question about whether or not we should remove certain categories we have always used in the game of fantasy baseball. In this piece he takes aim at the venerable win category and asks – should we remove it from fantasy baseball? The short answer 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.
The Ideal H2H Setup
I don’t play H2H fantasy baseball anymore for reasons I discussed in a previous piece, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have strong opinions about what the ideal way is to set up a H2H league. We shall see if you agree with my thoughts – and I honestly believe you should. *The views 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: MLB Park Factors
Years ago, we knew a place was a good place to hit or not. It might have been our anecdotal take from games we saw. Maybe it had to do with the distance of the fence from home plate. It might have been because that is just what everyone in the media said. Now, 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.
2024 MLB SABERMETRIC PRIMER
SABERMETRICS DEFINED Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence focusing specifically on statistical information. The term itself is derived from the acronym SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), which comes from the group of baseball historians who were the originators of most of these “fancy math” equations (the term was coined by the most 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.
Consistency Leads to Championships
If you play head-to-head fantasy baseball, and I know a lot of you do, you know how important it is to try and identify players who are likely to produce week after week. In roto leagues, we focus less directly on the week-to-week thing because we are more consumed with six months versus seven 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.
The History of the 1st Round
I know a few things with certainty, and one of those things is the following; Every year we spend way too much time talking about the first round. It’s not even a question if I’m right. I am. It is just that simple. All preseason, question after question after question comes in… and they 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.
Fantasy Baseball Projection Models in 2024
If you are over 45 years of age, I’m past that mark myself now, tell me if the following story sounds familiar to you. You’re 15 years old. You knew what the internet was. Kinda. You may or may not have heard of Wikipedia. The calendar flipped to February. You rode your bike, skateboard 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: Why Overall Rankings Are Useless
Where the overall rankings list, Ray? I’ve looked on the home page, the rankings section, under the rock in the yard and even under my dog who is sleeping in his bed in the corner of my office, but I just cannot find the list. What gives. Here is my response, the same one 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.
Ray’s Ramblings: 2023 World Series Review
The Rangers won the World Series, you know that already, so we will quickly share some of the data that popped for the Rangers and D’backs. We will also lay out the Gold Glove winners in 2023 before saying goodbye to the Boomstick. RANGERS Congrats to the Rangers whomade a bunch of history on the way to…
Ray’s Ramblings: Happy Halloween 2023
Ray Flowers starts by discussin the Rangers 2-1 series lead over the Diamondbacks in the World Series. Then, he breaks down the exciting and FREE new show offered by FantasyGuru.com – Fantasy Sports Daily. WORLD SERIES NOTES TEX leads the series 2-1. https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1719213965438603443 Speaking of scoring first, the Rangers are killing it. https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1719197239925674209 Oh, the team winning Game 3 after entering…
Ray’s Ramblings: 2023 World Series Matchup
The World Series will be a matchup between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks after the D’backs Game 7 victory over the Phillies. That series is discussed below, as well as some of the whacky regular season numbers produced in 2023. Before we get to the baseball talk... WE HAVE A NEW SHOW YOU CAN FOLLOW…
Ray’s Ramblings: 2023 MLB Playoff Picture
The Rangers are headed to the World Series after defeating the Astros, while over in the NL we’ve got a Game 7 scenario with the Diamondbacks and Phillies. AMERICAN LEAGUE The Rangers won 11-4 in Game 7 to take the AL Crown. The only time a team scored more in Game 7 was the Braves 15 run…
Ray’s Ramblings: 2023 Troubles Leaders
Looking for a new category to add in your fantasy baseball league? Something that is simple, kinda rewards the little guy and a category that has a cool name? Might you consider Troubles? What the hell is a Trouble anyway? We will lay it out in what follows. THE LITTLE GUY All leagues count HRs to keep…
Ray’s Ramblings: 2023 MLB Playoff Talk
The League Championship Series are underway in MLB, so we thought it would be a good time to check in with the final four teams left playing in baseball with the prize of the World Series within site. DIAMONDACKS (Behind 0-1 to the Phillies) Arizona has a .808 OPS in six playoff games. Corbin Carroll has two homers,…
Ray’s Ramblings: I Led Baseball But No One Noticed
Let’s champion the little guy. In what follows, we will talk about some fellas who led baseball in a category, but no one really seems to have noticed, in 2023 .352: The league leading ISO mark of Nelson Velazquez (min. 175 PA). NV blasted 17 bombs in just 179 PA this season, in a remarkable effort.…
Ray’s Ramblings: The Length of the MLB Season
Don Larson threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series on October 8th, 1956. We’re nowhere close to the World Series in 2023. Ray Flowers starts his discussion speaking about the length of the MLB schedule and if any changes should be made? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvHHTMTApE Would a reduction to 144 or 154 games…