Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Dear readers, listeners, and friends this is my final post on Razzball. After years of working a variety of jobs here, I have taken a full-time role with Baseball America. So this is an emotional podcast for me and not just because we discuss the CBA! I want to thank everyone for their support over the years. The podcast will be in good hands as BDon will be taking over hosting duties -- Good luck...

You know we had to do it em! We're wrapping up the year in classic Razzball fashion with our annual end of year draft for next year. Will I take Michael Conforto? Is Tyler O'Neill in the mix? Will I guilt Grey into drafting a pitcher? All this and more on this year's edition of the Top 25 Players For 2022 Fantasy Baseball. It's like January Grey but with less Crazy Uncle vibes.

It's coming to an end boys and girls. Don't be sad that it's over, just be happy that it happened. Seriously, we had a full season of baseball this year. That's reason enough to celebrate in my book. Unfortunately it led to some STRONG taeks early on in the season. One such strong taek was the demise of confirmed alien Juan Soto. Grey and yours truly, take a moment to dig in on Goato's second half...

Vlad vs. Ohtani - is there a better way to start off this week's show? Probably but we discuss it anyway. After that we slide into Shane Baz and Ryan Vilade before talking September Stars Eddie Rosario and Wily Peralta. Then we touch on all sides of Jorge Polanco. His lovefest with Rudy's WAR Room and his value this year and historically. We round it out with some 2022 discussions around Logan Gil...

Grey has the red ass and he's not going to stop yelling for anyone, even Robbie Ray! So what else could we do but record all of it and get his takes on a variety of topics. "Which topics Geoff?" Well, first you sound like Oliver Twist in my head when you ask questions. Second, I'm glad you asked. We talk Corbin Burnes and his unbelievable season, Wander Franco's ADP for 2022, Adam Duvall, Alejandr...

This is the episode where we chant Donda for the first 15 minutes of the show. After that we talk baseball. But not just baseball fantasy baseball. Gentlemen and three ladies, we're hitting the closing weeks. That means it's time to talk about 2022 and what top rounders from 2021 will be values after disappointing seasons. We talk Lindor, Bellinger, Bieber, Yelich and others. Then we dive into wai...

Wait another former Cardinals prospect is tearing it up with a team that isn't the Cardinals? No way, that's never happened before, or even over and over again over the last few seasons. We're of course discussing Patrick Wisdom. It's gotta sting that he ended up with the Cubs, no? This run doesn't even make sense. So Grey and yours truly talk about it, we mix in some talk of Starling Marte's unbe...

It's been said before, but I'll say it again, the Angels have done a tremendous job of wasting two generational talents over a ten year period. It's frankly impressive. Mr. Albright and yours truly debate which should go higher and where you're comfortable valuing each going into 2022. We then touch on the string of 4.2 IP starts this season, waiver wire adds, and some potential rookie call-ups. I...

Is Tyler Gilbert good? Will anyone remember his name in 6 years? Did Grey break Joe Musgrove? Did Geoff watch Chris Sale's return? Did Geoff sidetrack us into Sean Manaea conversation to praise him just as he was giving up seven runs? Is there an easier way to make Century Eggs? These are many of the questions we answer this week on the Razzball Podcast. We also talk Edward Cabrera, Lewis Brinson,...

Grey overate... Too many dumplings for the fantasy master lothario. So, he leaves mid-show several times to take bathroom breaks. We edited those out. As for the baseball, we talk Ramón Laureano's suspension, Abraham Toro's current burner, Zack Wheeler's emergence as an ace, and who exactly is Luis Gil. All that and more on this week's show. Don't forget to listen for Easter eggs, which are really...

The boy are back and ready to talk about the wildest trade deadline in at least a decade. We talk the Cubs fire sale, how the new homes impact fantasy production from the top names. Players set to gain playing time based on trades, and some of the top callups over the last week. We also spend 10 minutes at the top of the show trying to figure why the Rockies didn't trade Trevor Story and why they...

Well, we got sucked into name talk to open this one, but don't worry it last around 90 seconds and we promptly move on to baseball. We talk Nelson Cruz, we talk Rich Hill, and we talk potential trade deadline moves. We discuss shooting Cody Bellinger into space with Jeff Bezos, talk some returning pitchers, some waiver wire names and Grey bakes a delicious tart. All of this and more on the latest...

The All-Star break has passed, I, Geoff have returned from vacation, and Grey is ready to talk trade deadline buzz. With that in mind we talk about some of the top names that could be moved, Joey Gallo, Trevor Story, Craig Kimbrel to name a few. We speculate on the potential for a fire sale in Chicago, and walk you through our thoughts on some recent callups and how their playing time will shake o...

It's about that time where we take a look back at the first three months of the baseball season and take some inventory. On this week's episode Grey and myself dig into the best surprises of 2021 and it's biggest disappointments. We celebrate Vlad Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Jesse Winker, Kevin Gausman's remarkable splitter and a host of others. To Ying this Yang we talk about the disappointing players to...

B_Don is guest hosting so that Grey has an easy target to make fun of all show. The Cubs fan of the group has to discuss the combined no hitter that Craig Kimbrel didn't know about...? Grey walks you through is backwards Tout Wars team and, "he's saying there's a chance" that he could still possibly come away with #4 (Fred Zinkie, did your ears ring?). Grey's BOLD prediction from the pre-season ha...

Is Grey my Winnie Cooper? Perhaps. The truth is how many of you even understand that reference? Probably not too many. As you can likely take away from the title of the podcast we talk about Wander Franco's promotion to begin the show. We then follow that with more prospect talk as we discuss Matt Manning, Jesus Sanchez, and others. We briefly discuss potential trade deadline movers like Trevor St...

Another week and so much to talk about, starting with our greatest 2021 re-draft regrets at the halfway point. There's many, and we air them out, because we are nothing if not an open book. We then dive into the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. coming of age story. Is Matt Olson a sell or hold? Carlos Rodon, is this for real? We then dive into a ton of "low-energy" waiver wire adds. It's another week of the...

We don't invite guests onto the podcast often, but when we do we do it big. Did I just quote Black and Yellow? I don't know if Laura is a fan of a sport franchise with black and yellow colors but I hope for her sake it's not the Pirates. Our Deep Leagues writer Laura Holt joins us this week and the collective IQ of the show was raised by at least 70%. We talk sticky stuff and it's impact on fantas...

Did you know that Grey Albright is collector of art? He's a man of sophisticated tastes and by art and sophisticated tastes I mean Alek Manoah and Chase De Jong shares on his fantasy baseball teams. What one person calls waiver wire adds, are another's art collection. Other exciting items Mr. Albright has procured in recent weeks; an original Eric Hasse, a Seth Brown, a DJ Stewart, and even someth...

When even our handsome mustachioed leader is tossing no-no's you know that something is terribly wrong in Major League Baseball. The remarkable part is he did it throwing underhand eephus pitches to the Mariners. The lineup is that bad, what can ya say? They swing and they miss. All joking aside, we run through the growing no-no trend and a whole bunch of names you need to keep an eye on for the w...

One Grey Albright is many things, a fantasy master (lothario), a collector of Reggie Jackson memorabilia, a dog lover, and a man that struggles with names. He still hasn't figured out the LL in the Spanish alphabet. This week he is met with his greatest challenge yet, saying Johneshwy without butchering it. That said, I'm not sure I did any better! Outside of our general lack of feel for other cul...

We're back with a handsome helping of callup talk, and this was recorded before the news of Jarred Kelenic dropped. We run through a handful of interesting names making noise the first week of the minor league season before we complain about Cody Bellinger and ask if Juan Soto can throw... It's a good question. We then ask the age old question "Is Tyler Anderson good now?". Feels like we hit that...

Does Grey have special powers? Can he see the future? Is he in your driveway with Christopher Walken and Todd Bridges? I can't tell you but I bet Grey can! The man told you that Keston Hiura would be demoted and guess what? It happened. All praise FML! For you are all knowing. Don't worry this is not a 45 minutes victory lap. It's a 25 minute victory lap with some random fantasy baseball gems mixe...