Buy Into The Smoak Monster Before You’ve Lost Your Opportunity
Justin Smoak isn't simply the hottest hitter in all of baseball. No! There's more! He's hitting near-.400 in the last week with four homers. But wait, there's more! Justin Smoak is the world's...
View ArticleFanDuel: Severino on a Mission
Are you also old enough and/or vaguely goth enough to know “Severina” by The Mission (if you do, hit me up in the comments! 1986 represent!)? And perchance does that song also pop into your head every...
View ArticleKenya Believe How Much Ryan Zimm Bombs Away
When Ryan Zimmerman hits a homer, they should play the Coming to America clip where Murphy says, "In dee face," at the basketball game. Speaking of Africa (sentence intro commonly found on fantasy...
View ArticleAstros Find The True Successor To Kevin Bass
Derek Fisher was called up by the Astros to replace the concussed Reddick. First off, Derek needs to stop singing that jingle, "Trust the Astros Fisher, man." Tres annoying. Saying tres instead of...
View ArticleMatt Davidson Hosts “Homerwood Squares”
After homering in his fourth straight game, Matt Davidson (2-for-4, 2 runs) is halfway to Dale Long's record of home runs in eight straight games. A record I didn't think would ever be matched, aside...
View ArticleAmbulance Chasers, Week 12: Razzball + RuPaul = A Match Made In Heaven
This might be the only Razzball article where you will find a RuPaul’s Drag Race quote, some lyrics from the Broadway musical Wicked, a reference to Matt Harvey’s sex appeal AND a Tyra banks gif. It’s...
View Article“To Kill A Fantasy Team” By Harper Knee
On Saturday night, Bryce Harper lunged for first base, slipped and his leg went the wrong direction. Like two white guys meeting, one goes for the handshake and one goes for the hug and it just goes...
View ArticleGray Pilots The Plane While Rockies Take Braves Pitchers To Bathroom
On the ones and twos, it's not DJ Khaled, with a cigar in his baby's mouth, dropping another one in a major key. It's yo' boy, DJ LeMahieu (4-for-5, 4 runs, 1 RBI), the French-sounding EDM mixmaster,...
View ArticleFanDuel: Big Maple
"Big Maple" James Paxton takes the mound on Thursday in his second start off the disabled list, facing the Rangers at home. Paxton's first start off of the DL was a disaster, but that's often the case...
View ArticleFanDuel: Play Stressbird!
It’s actually really unfair that poor Stephen Strasburg still has the “Stressbird” moniker in these here Razzball parts, but old habits and nicknames die hard. [Sidebar: Plus I went to a music festival...
View ArticleGreen Tells Chirpy Jays Bats To Chad Up
Chad Green was out there painting corners like he was on work release and someone decided the yellow curb needed to be yellower! Green ball in the corner pocket is what he felt! Green was dealing...
View ArticleDraftKings: Trea Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’)
It wasn't very long ago that Dusty Baker's preference at shortstop was Danny Espinosa. You know Dusty--he loves his veteran guys. Fast forward a couple of months and Espinosa is still at shortstop....
View ArticleHouston Sings, “And I Gurriel Always Love Yulieski”
When I was fresh out of college, I worked at a web company (everyone did in the 90s). There was four of us. The other three had real job titles; I was the gofer/do-whatever. It was about a month...
View ArticleThis Is 40-Man Rosters
As we always do about this time! *beat drops, Grey does the worm, Grey’s iPhone alarm goes off, time to put more money in the meter* Damn, how long was I worming for? September 1st hits and teams...
View ArticleOh Lord, Byron’s Back, Don Juan Him?
I went over some September call-ups primer yesterday. It was written pretty smoothly. Meaning: I took a laxative and crapped out a post. I'm a modest man of modest means. What can I say? Everyone...
View ArticleCouch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft Recap, Rounds 1-6
Greetings, friends. I hopped over to the football side of things once last year's baseball season ended, but now I'm back. And apparently, I am such a disturbed individual that I am doing fantasy...
View ArticleTop 20 2nd Basemen for 2017 Fantasy Baseball
Our 2017 fantasy baseball rankings are humming right along. The last post, the top 20 1st basemen for 2017 fantasy baseball, was the longest post ever written on the internet by a relatively sane...
View ArticleCouch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft Recap, Rounds 13-18
Here we are, the third of four posts about the Couch Managers 2017 Industry Mock Draft. Previously, I posted recaps of rounds 1-6 and rounds 7-12. This post is for rounds 13-18. The final post will be...
View ArticlePoints Leagues: Reflecting On My Projecting
As I begin to prepare my projections and rankings for the 2017 season, I like to look back on the previous season's attempt to not only assess my work, but also to learn how I can do better next time....
View ArticleFantasyDraft: Donut Go Against Gausman
The man who used to eat donuts before and in between games, will now try to fill up the scoreboard with them. If you aren't familiar with Kevin Gausman's love for donuts, he had a ritual throughout...
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