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The #TDGX Transaction Report: Closers Be Expensive, Yo
You’ve been following TDGX. You love TDGX. We all love TDGX. And every week here at The Dynasty Guru, I am going to be bringing you commentary from our flagship experts’ league, directly from the...
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Unexpected Aces: Keuchel, Beckett, Simon, Richards, McHugh and Chavez
We are now two full months into the 2014 season and several unheralded starting pitchers have been making headlines. None of these guys were ranked highly this Spring and some of them weren’t ranked...
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Unexpected Aces: Porcello, Duffy, Keuchel and Simon. Will Their Success...
Last week we talked about some pitchers who have come out of the blue to deliver excellent results this year. In that article we covered Tyson Ross, Jake Arrieta, Garrett Richards and Tanner Roark...
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Dallas Keuchel: Can We Trust Him in 2015?
In a year full of surprising breakout pitchers, Dallas Keuchel was perhaps the biggest surprise of all. After all, Keuchel had thrown 239 major league innings prior to 2014 and his results were dismal...
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The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, Nos. 76-125
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...
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Rankings Counterpoint: Matt Shoemaker is not a Cobbler
As you know by now, the industrious team of writers here at The Dynasty Guru put together a complete set of rankings for players at every position. If you haven’t seen them yet you should definitely...
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Prospect Spotlight: Nick Tropeano. Possible 2015 AL Rookie of the Year?
Nick Tropeano does not get mentioned as an elite prospect. In fact he rarely gets mentioned at all. He didn’t make any of the top 100 prospects lists that have been released this Spring. He doesn’t...
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Grading the Unexpected Aces: Archer, Keuchel, Hammel, Miller and Pineda
We are getting close to the halfway point of the baseball season and there are several pitchers having great years despite low pre-season rankings. All of the pitchers below are currently ranked in the...
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I Love Prospects, I Hate Prospects!
It goes without saying that a good knowledge of prospects is mandatory for long-term success in dynasty leagues. No matter how good your team is right now you still need to plan for the future. If you...
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The Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Dynasty Starting Pitchers, 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...
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“We both know that Dallas Keuchel is an ace, right?”
“We both know that Dallas Keuchel is an ace.” Or so my potential trading partner claimed. The message in question was in regards to a trade-block entry I submitted indicating my interest in making one...
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The Verdict on 3 Struggling Aces: Keuchel, Archer, Wainwright
We are one fifth of the way into the season already. That is a pretty good chunk of games so the sample size is getting big enough to be meaningful. There are quite a few elite pitchers who are off to...
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The Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows
It’s not just drafting, pickups, and trades that make a dynasty league champion. It’s also the small week-to-week roster management decisions that add up over the course of the season. Beyond the...
View ArticleThe Verdict on Dallas Keuchel’s Bounceback Chances
In 2015 Dallas Keuchel went 20-8 with a 2.48 ERA and 216 strikeouts in 232 innings and rode that wave all the way to the American League Cy Young Award. Many fantasy owners owed their league...
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s Top 200 Starting Pitchers, #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 ArticleTDG Podcast, Episode 26: SP Ranks and Listener Questions!
The Boys are back! This week the guys break down TDG’s SP rankings and answer your listener questions! Suggested Talking Points- The Twins rotation, old pitchers, Keaton upsets Ian, Patrick buys Ian’s...
View ArticleBuying Off-Brand
One of the best pieces of advice my dad gave me growing up was to buy off-brand. He would always say, “they cost less money, and if you look at the ingredients, they are exactly the same”. This advice...
View ArticleContrarian Investments
I recently learned of the Magazine Cover Indicator. Per Wikipedia, the Magazine Cover Indicator works because it assumes that, “by the time an idea has had time to make its way to the business press,...
View ArticleMid Season Awards: 2018 First Half All-Disappointment Team
Everyone loves a downer at the party, right? [Citation needed] We’re just a couple weeks shy of the halfway point of the 2018 MLB season, and now is a good time for reflection upon the season that is....
View ArticleThe Dynasty Guru’s All Second-Half Team
It’s hard to believe that the baseball season is already half over. The good news for all of us is that there is a lot more ball to play after the All-Star Break. When we look back at the first half,...
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