Legends of the Arizona Fall League: Surprise
Today in our AFL series we mine for potential fantasy gold on the banks of the Aqua Fria River in Surprise, home to minor leaguers from Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Texas. While the...
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s Top 50 Dynasty League Second Basemen, Nos. 21-50
From the 21st of January to the 20th of February, the writers at TDG will be taking you through our rankings position-by-position. As I mentioned in the primer, this year we’re doing things a little...
View ArticleGoing Deep: Recap of a 20-team Dynasty MiLB Draft: Picks 21-30
Last week I covered the second half of the first round of a 20-team dynasty league’s minor league draft. To check that out, click here, and within that link is a link to a previous iteration of this...
View ArticleBreakout Prospects: Betts, Gallo, Harvey, Lively, McMahon and More
Today we will look at some hot prospects who are tearing up the minor leagues. None of these guys were in the top 50 of any of the preseason rankings lists, and only some of them were even in the top...
View ArticleTrader’s Corner: Introducing The Mookie Scale
If there’s one player you might be able to get the world for right now, it’s Mookie Betts. Not only has he gone bat guano crazy in the minors this year, but he’s recently started playing the outfield,...
View ArticleCurrent Events: Is Now The Perfect Time to Trade Mookie Betts?
I am a Red Sox fan and Mookie Betts is in the majors. I should be rejoicing. But while I’m certainly happy to play along with “Feats of Mookie” on Twitter and to follow Betts’ every MLB plate...
View ArticleWhere Have All The Second Basemen Gone?
With Arismendy Alcantara’s call up and likely demotion right in front of us, I thought it would be interesting to focus on the state of the second-sackers in MLB right now. It’s probably worse than...
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s Top 125 Dynasty Outfielders, Nos. 21-40
Congratulations on surviving another off-season. Now that the new year is upon us, it’s time to spend the next month traveling across the positional landscape, labeling players with numbers that...
View ArticleWhat Is Mookie Betts Ceiling?
It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball. You couldn’t script a better start to the season for the Boston Red Sox, coming off a last-place finish in a season in which they were defending a most...
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s Top 125 Dynasty Outfielders, Nos. 1-20
It’s the time of the year where we offer congratulations to those of you brave dynasty league owners that survived the offseason. The greatness that 2016 will surely offer is upon us and that means...
View ArticleBuilding a Balanced Team: Outfield
Over the last several weeks, we have identified catchers, first basemen, second basemen, third basemen, and shortstops who have the potential to contribute to three or more hitting categories. Today we...
View ArticleBuilding a Balanced Team: Conclusion
Over the last several weeks, we have identified catchers, first basemen, second basemen, third basemen, shortstops, and outfielders who have the potential to contribute to three or more hitting...
View ArticleThe *Other* Top 500 Dynasty Baseball Rankings, March 2017
I’ll make it clear off the top – these aren’t the Official Dynasty Guru Top 500 Rankings. But you’re already here, aren’t you? So stay a while and make yourself at home. Comment about where I’m wrong,...
View ArticleAustin Slater: Great Name, Great Investment
Being an expectant father, I’ve found that reactions to pregnancy announcements are generally the same. The order of conversation topics goes something like: congratulations, then due date, then sex,...
View ArticleTDGX2- Draft Pick Analysis
The following is a review of the first 2 rounds of The Dynasty Guru Experts League (Volume II) initial draft. This is a 20 team, 5×5 league that utilizes OPS and SV+HLD instead of AVG and SV. We...
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s Top 125 Dynasty League Outfielders, #1-20
It’s been a slow off-season. Like, a really slow off-season. With the hot stove frigid, fantasy baseball players haven’t had many ways to quench their thirst, unless they’ve thrown themselves...
View ArticleThe Top 500 Dynasty Baseball Players for OBP Leagues, February 2018
Everybody – RANKS, RANKS, RANKS-RANKS-RANKS! Today we go 500 deep, on base flavored. The Dynasty Guru, Bret Sayre, posts his Top 500 later this month so don’t forget to … hey, where are you going? Get...
View ArticleTDG Podcast, Episode 24: Shortstops and Listener Questions!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thedynastygurupodcast/2018/02/26/the-dynasty-guru-podcast-episode-24-shortstop-rankings-and-listener-questions The Baseball Boys are back! First half: the guys talk about...
View ArticleHow to Take Risks in Fantasy Baseball
Flags fly forever. We play fantasy baseball to win our leagues, not to just put together a consistent, above-average team. However, we all are working off similar rankings with essentially equal...
View ArticleHow Good is Rhys Hoskins?
I’m not writing about Rhys Hoskins today because he is an unknown gem, because he will be cheap to acquire, or because he is under-owned. The Phillies’ outfielder is very well-known after he exploded...
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