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May MLB Quirkjians — A month of May, May and Mays, plus Anderson, Anderson and Anderson
May began with two Mays pitching. The month also included the 90th birthday for Willie Mays. And that is just the beginning — because there was plenty of wild, weird and wacky. Here are The Quirkjians for May. May 1 Dodgers pitcher Justin May made his first appearance ever in a game in the month […]
Continue readingArizona Diamondbacks shuffle Zac Gallen and Christian Walker over to a crowded injured list
Gallen has a sprained right ulnar collateral ligament, which is the ligament replaced in Tommy John surgery. Walker has a sore right oblique; a similar injury put him on the IL earlier this season. Gallen has emerged as one of baseball’s top young pitchers. He finished ninth in the NL Cy Young Award voting last […]
Continue readingArizona Diamondbacks-Atlanta Braves game postponed by weather; doubleheader on Sunday
A storm brought hail and heavy rain to Truist Park on Saturday afternoon, and the probability of additional rain forced the postponement. The game will be made up with a traditional doubleheader on Sunday. The first seven-inning game is scheduled for 1:20 p.m. ET. The second game will begin approximately 40 minutes after the conclusion […]
Continue readingFantasy baseball daily notes: Pitcher and hitter rankings for Thursday
With few No. 1 and 2 starters taking the hill, the hitting matchups are what stand out on Thursday, so make sure you take advantage if you have any vacant lineup spots. Here’s a look at the day’s top streaming options, focusing on players rostered in fewer than 50% of ESPN leagues. Trevor Rogers (L), […]
Continue reading2021 MLB season preview: Power rankings, best (and worst) case and most exciting player for all 30 teams
After a shortened 60-game schedule in 2020, Major League Baseball returns to a full 162-game season in 2021. The Los Angeles Dodgers ruled last year’s unusual campaign, beating the Tampa Bay Rays in six games for L.A.’s first World Series title since 1988, but are they still the team to beat over the course of […]
Continue readingTim Kurkjian’s 30-team MLB excitement guide
It’s the little things in baseball, often the pointless stuff, that excite me. Arcane stats, wild coincidences, names that randomly connect. Here are 30 things, one per team, that excite me about this season, these teams and these players: Baltimore Orioles The first at-bat at Camden Yards, with Orioles fans in the stands, for first […]
Continue readingAdvanced stats to use for fantasy baseball
Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie was first invented. Back in 1980, most anyone interested in baseball was lured in by such bubble-gum-card numbers as batting average, home runs, wins and ERA. Over the years, the brightest minds in the game brought to light the fact that there were […]
Continue readingDoes Starling Marte’s fantasy value change in Miami?
Marte entered Monday as the No. 15 outfielder on the Player Rater and 26th in points formats, perhaps not the top-10 outfielder for fantasy so many hoped for, but a solid, reliable, five-category fantasy hitter who, truncated 2017 aside thanks to suspension, rarely fails to deliver appropriate value. The Marlins figured out early this season […]
Continue readingTim Kurkjian’s Baseball Fix: Major League Baseball gave us plenty of reasons to despise it, but here are 100 reasons it’s OK to still love it
The past three months, baseball has given us 1,000 reasons to hate it. In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the players and owners have acted like petulant children bickering over money, settling scores and improving bargaining position for future negotiations instead of understanding that all that mattered this year was agreeing on something and […]
Continue readingAll the ways MLB teams could use new 26th man on the roster
The most intriguing MLB rule change, however, is the change from a 25-man roster through Aug. 31 to 26 players. I’ve long advocated for a change in roster size, an acknowledgement that pitcher usage — and the number of pitchers rostered — has changed dramatically in the last two-plus decades. For example, in 1977, six […]
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