It’s funny Christian Yelich (2-for-5, 2 runs, 4 RBIs with a grand slam and legs) had a big game, because I was thinking about him yesterday. Well, his mom:
Milwaukee is actually full of attractive mature women
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— Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social
Please, blog, may I have some more?
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Woke up yesterday morning and Googled to see if there ever was a movie made called, Call Me By Your Mom with Timothee ChalaMILF, then
Christian Yelich (4-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs, 5th homer) hits his third cycle vs. the Reds. Could this be a coincidence or deja vu? Whenever I think of Yelich, I think of Mr. Redleg:
Excuse me! His name is Mr. Redlegs! Wait, am I talking about cojoined twins now? Co-Dick? Corey Dickerson did nothing yesterday (or all year). Yelich was an early season goof-up by yours truly. He looks markedly better than last year. I saw his sample size -- hey now! -- in the first two weeks and thought we were in for another long season of ground balls, but he's actually improved. He's hitting everything hard, and in the air again. Yelich might not be the Yelich of old -- the top 10 overall Yelich -- but he could easily be a low-end top 20 outfielder. Now, I'm off to see if anyone will invest in Call Me By Your Mom. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Howdy-do, Razzgals n guys. Thanks for dropping in another depressing issue of Ambulance Chasers, where ambulance drivers are going bananas and your fantasy lineups are paying for it. Let's just jump right in this week, since injuries are piling up faster than $DOGE-ers are piling into the bandwagon.
It's a relatively rare feat to witness a player finish in the top-two overall on the Razzball player rater as well as in NL MVP voting two consecutive seasons, then follow up such elite fantasy production with a 99th percentile exit velocity, 98th percentile hard hit rate and 88th percentile xwOBA in the third year to follow. That's two years of high-end, top-two fantasy production followed by sexy batted ball metrics in the third year. What's even rarer is to see a player with that exact profile currently possessing an ADP of 12th overall in drafts entering the 2021 season. Impossible, you say? Well, so is the story of Christian Yelich. And although we all know those batted ball metrics don't tell the full story of Yelich's 2020, we can at least all agree that his current ADP is straight-up bonkers, right? Especially when considering that Yelich's two consecutive seasons in the top two on the Razzball player rater (2018, 2019) represented full seasons, while his disastrous 2020 campaign came in an abbreviated 60-game slate. What is this madness -- and how can you capitalize on it as a fantasy owner this upcoming season?
Let’s take a moment of silence for Christian Yelich’s season
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On to the picks...
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There haven't been any big callups and there may not be again this year. The cards are mostly on the table. Best of luck in your final push for fantasy greatness. Hopefully you're flush with Yelich's and Lindor's but a Moore or Rojas may do in a pinch. Like Billy Idol said, and I think it was in reference to September steals in fantasy baseball, we need "More, more, more. More, more, more."
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Christian Yelich hit his 6th homer and his...wait for it....here it comes...where'd it go...did I leave it in the car...no, it's right here under my ass...and his 7th homer and his...crap, this one is in the car, isn't it...nope, under the other cheek...and his 8th homer! Add in 7 RBIs and he's hitting a zillion. Can we just crown him with back-to-back MVPs and sneak him into Ariana Grande's room already? After he wins his 2nd straight MVP, there will still (!!!) be someone next March who is saying something like, "Grey, you are wildly handsome, but I just don't trust Yelich. Can you talk me into him?" Which they will say right after I've written 1,200 words on Yelich. Doode is a beast who powers the Milwakuee's Best. Don't funk up my jam! Which is what Mr. Smuckers says to his wife when she messes up his DVR recordings of The Voice. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
In last week’s article, we went over bargain bin players, so we’re going to go a different route here. This is going to be a two-part piece where we focus on players that I won’t draft. These are guys that simply won’t end up on any of my fantasy teams for a number reasons, as they're all being drafted too highly. We compared last week's bargain bin players to tasty donuts but these players in this article are closer to rotten milk. While they may look normal on the surface, you get a whiff of them up close and nearly fall to your knees because of that sneaky smell.
In this first article, we’re going BIG! We’re going to give you three guys in the top-50 that I’m going to fade. In the next article, we’ll pick players that are going between 50-100 that we want to avoid. While none of these guys are necessarily busts, I just have a hard time seeing any of them live up to their draft price because of numerous outlier statistics. So, with that in mind, let's get started with an MVP.
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Yesterday, Christian Yelich hit for the cycle, going 6-for-6, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 26th homer, hitting .319. Yelich has been sexier than that random porn that was released of him. Speaking of porn (always a great intro to a sentence), you know you have a cougar problem when...True story, I woke up yesterday morning and Googled to see if there ever was a movie made called, Call Me By Your Ma’am with Kimothee ChalaMILF. That feels like too much information, but I trust you with everything, except any identifying details about me in real life. Any hoo! Yelich! Are you kidding me? Keyword is kidding, because he looks like he's 12. Yo, you super pre-teen? You in Stranger Things? We're at the point now when I'm starting to think about 2019, and Yelich, well, is there any way he's not top 20? Yelich or Springer? Gotta be Yelich, right? Yelich or Bregman? Okay, tough call, but damn close. He's definitely better than Kimothee ChalaMILF! Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
42 days into the new year and 50 percent of you abandoned your new year's resolution. Last year, according to sources that don't exist, our attrition rate on things you shouldn't need an arbitrary date to commit to, sat around 55 percent. I'm proud of you all for the improvement. Your reward is Grey's fantastic videos which we've embedded into his positional rankings,
enjoy!
My resolution was to exercise more. But instead, I've opted to toy with semantics and perform more
exercises, like the one we're about to coast through: comparing Razzball's
Player Rater ranked auction values for 15-team NFBC leagues, to
NFBC's average draft position (ADP).
Is this comparing apples to oranges? Kind of. I'd say it's comparing opples to aranges, which are two fruits I just made up and am sure exist (
confirmed). The value here is highlighting who the Player Rater
is actually bullish or bearish on, and by how much compared to where they are going in the upper echelon of industry leagues. If our Player Rater has "Player A" - one of my sleepers this year - inside the top 50 in terms of production, but Player A is going outside of the top 100 in NFBC leagues, it might be valuable to look at the dissenting opinions.
Below, my "difference" is calculated by subtracting NFBC's ADP from the Player Rater's ranking of the same player based on their total dollar return. Players with positive values mean Razzball is expecting the player to produce more value than NFBC's ADP is suggesting.
This edition features two outfielders - Christian Yelich and Byron Buxton - who have values that differ between our two sources of information. I plan on publishing multiple versions of this column with different players before the season starts, but if you just can't wait for more value differentials, take a look at the aggregated list by
following this link.
Well, I didn't expect to write this post. I thought I was overrating
Christian Yelich when I ranked the
top 20 outfielders. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect others to be so much more excited about him. By the way, my wildest dreams include Giancarlo, marmalade and a goat wearing pants. In my dream journal, I call that dream, "Ecstasy: My Bleating Heart." A schmohawk is so extreme, and I don't like doing schmohawk posts for guys that are young, and Yelich is younger looking than Neil Patrick Harris when he played Doogie. Yelich should be peaking, but, Hayzeus Cristo, Yahoo and ESPN have Yelich ranked crazy-pants-high. I had a friend who sniffed glue, we called him Elmer, and, after a solid glue-in-nose sesh, he still made more sense than where these people have ranked Yelich. Anyway, why is Christian Yelich overrated for 2017 fantasy baseball?
There's a benefit to playing for the Marlins besides learning the value of having to buy your own equipment and refreshments. "Guys, money's tight, you're gonna have to bring your own Gatorade from now on." That's a Marlins exec on the first day of the spring. The other benefit is the Marlins don't care what the hell you do as long as you're playing for the salary minimum. You know that guy who always brought Popov back to the dorm room? Did he return from the liquor store saying it would go best with orange juice? Nope. Popov was proven to cause cancer in vermin, but it got you drunk and was cheap. That's the Marlins team. And sometimes the Marlins, like Popov, cause projectile vomiting and lead you to wonder how you ended up with so much orange and teal in your closet. The Marlins don't care if [player]Christian Yelich[/player] hits. He will play every day because he's cheap. Since we don't need to collect every 20% off Bed, Bath and Beyond coupon we've ever received in the mail when we put together our fantasy team, the cheap thing doesn't matter to us. It does matter when you're wondering if Yelich will get 550 ABs and hit in a relatively good spot in the lineup. Who else are they moving up in the order? Ed Lucas? You throw Lucas the ball because he can't hit it. Casey McGehee? I just vomited onto my bathroom mirror and it spelled out, "Gross." Adeiny Hechavarria? More like Adon'tthinkso Hereallysucks. So, what can we expect from Christian Yelich for 2014 fantasy baseball and what makes him a sleeper?
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