Fred Zinkie
@FredZinkieMLB
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Freelance fantasy writer, currently contributing to @YahooFantasy and @RotowireMLB . Formerly the Lead Fantasy Writer for .
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I can’t wait for hockey Twitter to find a way to blame Tom Wilson for the fights in the MIN-LV game tonight.
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@warriors
Warriors. Easily. Anyone saying Bulls is drunk on documentary nostalgia. But the Bulls are the greatest dynasty. They managed to hold it together much longer than the Warriors did (unless the Warriors rise again!)
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The players who went to that club should be sent home until 2021, and the organization should be fined. Multiple teams thrown into disarray because a couple Marlins couldn’t control themselves. Brutal.
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I would watch a 30 for 30 on the career of Ankiel.
May 6, 2008: The Rockies test Cardinals CF Rick Ankiel’s arm twice. It did not go well.
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If you're looking for a reason to unfollow me, I somehow managed to select all three members of the Orioles outfield during the Mixed
#LABR
draft last night.
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Walter Gretzky and Chris Schultz within 24 hours. An awful time for Canadian sports fans. RIP to two legends, and condolences to their families.
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With so many drafts this weekend, my tip is to ignore bad closers. Pretend they don’t exist. If you don’t want to punt saves, then pay for two RPs who can at least give you 75+ SO and a low 3.00’s ERA. But I would rather own Chad Green than guys like Boxberger or Romo.
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The
@astros
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I'm excited to announce that I will be regularly contributing to Yahoo fantasy baseball coverage throughout the 2019 season! I'm a little worried about the inevitable rookie hazing from
@scott_pianowski
,
@andybehrens
and
@daltondeldon
, but I've survived worse!
We'd like to welcome
@FredZinkieMLB
to our fantasy baseball coverage for 2019.
He kicks things off with position battles to watch
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Don’t worry about your April 6 fantasy baseball standings. If you haven’t lost any of your top players to injury, things are going fine.
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After looking at the respective saves and holds leaders lists, I can't figure out why there is so much resistance to SV+HD as a category. Let's get to a place where we look at RP skills over managerial tendencies/preferences.
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Happy Opening Day, everyone! I'll be rolling out a few big announcements today. The first one is that I will be contributing multiple articles each week to the great team at
@BaseballHQ
this season! My first article is here. Enjoy!
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Bryce Harper 2019: 37-105-95-10-.280
Too high, too low or just right?
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The treatment of young MLB players is hard to watch. Nico Hoerner isn’t 19....he’s 23 and easily good enough to help the Cubs. Good 23-year-olds aren’t forced into the Minors in any other sport. Hopefully this is something that changes in the coming years.
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A few days ago it was Jimenez. Today it's Mondesi. This weekend it will be someone else. Injuries happen. If your team doesn't have injuries, it will. Managing injuries is a major part of success in this game. Stop staring at your draft results and start grinding to build depth.
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How is Yasiel Puig still unsigned after adding the DH in the NL and a handful of veterans opting out of the 2020 season?
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No matter who wins tonight, we will have 4 teams remaining who were among the consensus elite clubs heading into the season. A 60-game schedule worked fine. An 8-team playoff worked fine. Many fan bases were excited and had hope. And in the end, the right teams are still playing.
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Nothing in 2019 baseball bothers me more than the lineup the Indians are choosing to send out in support of their ridiculous rotation. Useful outfielders aren’t that hard to find.
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The NFL Covid issue isn't going away. For fantasy football managers, if you're considering someone in the Thursday game each week, use him. Bank the stats. Avoid having to take a zero (or use an undesirable option) if things fall apart around the league by Sunday.
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And I’ll be the first to say that the 2020 MLB plan isn’t great. But when stuff like this happens, let’s start by holding the players accountable when they exhibit no common sense and respect for their colleagues.
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Fantasy baseball are seriously stressing over the randomness of a 60-game season, while at the same time, fantasy football owners are totally comfortable projecting the 15 games that will decide their success/failure.
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I’m calling BS on this. If the Twins don’t want him to bunt, then they have to defend him straight up. Can’t shift over and then tell him he can’t bunt.
Jose Berrios on Chance Sisco's bunt in the ninth: “I don’t care if he’s bunting. I just know it’s not good for baseball in that situation. That’s it.”
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Really, really excited to announce that I will be providing regular content for
@Rotoworld_BB
throughout the 2018 season! And some of my weekly work will be dedicated to providing (what else?) trading tips! Check out my first article here:
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Just when all the free agents are finding homes, I go the other way and hit the open market!
This is my last day with . It has been 7 great years, and I have no regrets. So many great experiences with terrific people. And, I'm sure I'll land on my feet!
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The sensible solution is for MLB to push back start of the playoffs one week and use that extra week to play all of these postponed games. I know...TV etc. But the season has to come close to 60 games per team.
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Honestly, fire him.
Here's much more from the pool report with umpire Marty Foster explaining his obstruction call in the Marlins-Brewers game today:
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One of my biggest annual letdowns occurs when I get excited for Spring Training games, only to remember within the first hour what it’s like to watch Spring Training games. Opening Day can’t come soon enough!
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Tiers are the worst thing that ever happened to fantasy draft advice. They don’t exist. But they make for an attractive crutch. Creating tiers is the first step towards inaccuracy. And it inhibits the ability to be imaginative on draft day.
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After spending countless hours for several months trying to accurately rank players for the 2018 season, I’m watching Ty Blach outduel Clayton Kershaw. Why didn’t I just put the names in a hat....?
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This has to be the dumbest take I’ve seen on the Astros story.
“To go public with it and call them out and start all of this, it’s hard to swallow.”
-
@jessmendoza
on former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers revealing the Astros sign-stealing scheme.
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@RobSilver
Just get it. The whole plan from this point forward should be to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible. Especially since the variant is putting young, healthy people in the hospital. Don’t overthink this one!
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What the Astros did in 2017 was beyond despicable. The Dodgers can throw at them as much as they want.
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@RotoGut
Vlad, you just pushed me over 10K followers! Thank you for the kind words. I’m not sure I deserve them, but I’ll keep grinding away and hopefully stay relevant.
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Opening Day is less than one week away! Send your fantasy baseball questions to
@fantasy411
and I will provide answers tomorrow at 3pm ET.
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It would be a classic MLB move to finally end the lockout and then have no one sign for the first 2-3 days.
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To be successful in leagues with daily lineups, you need to spend a significant amount of time online every afternoon/evening, going through lineups. I love fantasy baseball, but not at the expense of my family and friendships.
Weekly lineups are archaic. Apparently this is an INDUSTRY standard. If you're too busy for daily lineups then leave it like it was a weekly lineup anyways while the rest of us who want daily access have the ability. Seems reasonable to me. Is this absurd?
#FantasyBaseball
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Let’s be honest: managers are going to hate the 3-batter rule because it will make their jobs harder. The cookie-cutter decisions to go play the splits one batter at a time are so easy. I love the rule, as it rewards well-rounded RPs and managers who can see multiple moves ahead.
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I’m watching my first ever MLB game on YouTube. I thought it would be bad. It’s so much worse than I imagined.
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I think this is the first time I’ve ever retweeted myself.
Going to predict that Josh Donaldson will be on the Indians by the end of August.
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Being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan is the worst. The absolute worst.
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I don’t think anyone has ever messed up my fantasy baseball teams as much as Wade Miley in the past six days.
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The
#LABR
Mixed Draft takes place at 8:00 ET tonight, and I couldn’t be more excited! I’m currently debating between Kershaw and Blackmon at No. 3 overall, unless
@SteveAGardner
leaves me an Altuve treat. Follow along here:
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I have a confession: I love interleague games. I can’t figure out why most people don’t like them. 162 games per team....a little variety a few times per season is great.
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Millions of people are suddenly out of work. Listening to billionaire owners complain that they are going to take a hit is going to get old really fast.
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Roy Halladay is my all-time favorite Blue Jays player. Class act. Fierce competitor. Just awful, awful news today.
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As pretty much everyone knows, I love to draft skilled middle relievers. And here are 10 setup men who are squarely on my radar right now!
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I can’t believe that Royce Lewis has already done all the things.
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My biggest takeaway from participating in last night’s LABR draft: when debating between two hitters, go with the outfielder.
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26 years old. Healthy, pro athlete. Read this and then decide how bulletproof you are. And think about your responsibility towards your neighbors.
Phillies infielder Scott Kingery talks about the hell that is coronavirus
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It’s official: I’m part of the Rotowire podcast crew! Check out my debut episode with
@Jeff_Erickson
. We talk Reds, Dbacks, Astros and much more.
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The most impressive people are the ones who know enough to be fully aware of how little they actually know.
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Recently watched Remember The Titans with my 9-year-old son. Had to pause the movie in the 1st minute because he didn’t understand why everyone was angry. The thought of a racial divide had never crossed his mind. There is hope. Change is hard, but can happen. Empathy is golden.
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I just dropped Aaron Sanchez and Marco Estrada in the same league. It felt good!
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We’ve reached the point in Spring Training where you realize the awesome pitching staff you drafted isn’t going to be as awesome as you thought.
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I don’t normally post anything about the fam, but 65,000 steps in one day is pretty impressive for a 9-year-old.
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The longer I watch baseball, the most I detest pitchers batting. It ruins rallies, in an era where rallies are hard to come by. I really hope the universal DH is permanent next year.
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Doesn't Rougned Odor know that he and Jose Bautista are on the same team in thousands of fantasy baseball leagues?!
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Almost every major projection system values Aaron Judge as a top-3 pick, which is where he landed in '23 drafts. His February NFBC ADP is 11. Recency bias? Are managers overrating the injury risk? Are projections underrating the risk?
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20 regular season games so far. 4 wins by starting pitchers.
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I’m benching all Titans, Bills, Pats and Broncos.
And please don’t waste your breath complaining about all of this. We all knew what we were getting into when we signed up this season. This is part of the 2020 strategy, like it or not.
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There is no perfect way to draft/build your fantasy team. But here is how I like to do it:
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Max Scherzer gets traded in July, right? The Nats are bad, he's in the last year of his contract, and as long as he's healthy in the summer he will really help a contender.
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Really proud to be a part of this project each year. More than 800 players, ranked, projected and explained. And, it will be updated daily through Opening Day! This is definitely a link to bookmark!
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If there’s one guy not to ask about tiers......
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Going to be unpopular: you shouldn't draft you kicker in the last round. In most 12-team leagues, the last 2-3 rounds are garbage anyways (assuming about 20 rounds). Might as well draft a K with about 3 rounds to go and get one you prefer. He's going to start 15 games for you.
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I wonder to what degree Tony La Russa lost his locker room in the past 48 hours. Players like Lynn and Anderson had no hesitation in contradicting him.
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In 2007, I read Fantasyland while laying by a pool in Cuba, and decided that one day I would be a participant in
@ToutWars
. In 1 hour, I’ll start my 10th year in the contest, and I’ve never lost sight of the special opportunity. You can follow along here:
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Talk about a closer run! In the
#ToutWars
Draft and Hold league, 9 closers were selected within a span of 11 picks. Here is the order:
Munoz
Romano
Kimbrel
Sewald
Helsley
Scott
Phillips
Holmes
Alzolay
In your eyes, does any closer stand out as the best or worst in that group?
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Might be the worst call I’ve ever seen.
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(Immediately scratches Aubrey Huff off his list for tomorrow night’s 2007 retro draft.....)
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I feel like I spent half my childhood on a hockey bus. The
@HumboldtBroncos
tragedy is every hockey parent’s worst nightmare. Great young men, doing great things. No one deserves this, especially them. Hug your kids a little tighter tomorrow. Cherish each day with them.
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I’m not interested in trading this season.
YOU'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED!
You get to send one sports related tweet that would alarm your followers that you're in trouble.
What's your tweet?
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So, this is pretty amazing. I’m sooo ready for Vlad Jr to make his debut.....in 2019.
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Although I’m not looking to pick fights for a second straight week, I like the concept of tiers much, more more than the concept of mock drafts! There are so many better ways to spend your draft-prep time. Analyze ADP, look at contingency plans and you’ll be be ready.
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In my mind, both of these things are true:
1. Anyone who wins their 2020 fantasy baseball leagues deserves full credit.
2. Anyone who struggles mightily in their 2020 fantasy baseball leagues should be cut plenty of slack.
Now, let's have some fun with this!
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First break at Tout Wars. Bad news: I'm broke. Good news: I own Bryant, Harper, Arenado, Donaldson, Bumgarner and Darvish!
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Why isn’t Craig Kimbrel already on the
@Cubs
? And please don’t talk to me about money, but that club has plenty of it. To me, that’s the one club that should contend and really needs him.
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Hard to overstate how amazing this video is. If you have kids who play sports, take a couple minutes. It will either change you, or reinforce what you already know.
Frank Martin discusses the sad reality of parents attempting to coach their kids from the sideline
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The Browns should be calling Seattle. Offer Baker and Chubb. Work from there. Pete loves the run game.
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It is with great regret that I announce the end of my '17 trade sobriety. Offers have been sent. I didn't even make it through Opening Day.
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J.D. Martinez has 40 homers. He has played in 108 games. Should he get first-round consideration in 2018?
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Anthony Bass looked calm and effective tonight. Pick him up.
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@Alden_Gonzalez
@SteveAGardner
I have no idea if this is a valid point....but is it possible that there were far fewer pitchers on the IL on Opening Day then in past seasons? Maybe many of those 56 pitchers would have landed on the IL during March in a regular Spring Training.
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I want to thank
@SteveAGardner
for organizing LABR and
@Jeff_Erickson
@RonShandler
@kroyte
and
@ToddZola
for organizing
@ToutWars
. This wasn't the easiest year to run a fantasy baseball contest, but both Tout and LABR were handled smoothly.
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Although I rarely tell others about things I don't do, I feel compelled to announce that I have held my Tout Wars roster for more than 24 hours without sending out a trade offer! Full disclosure: I did come close on two occasions.....
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Going to predict that Josh Donaldson will be on the Indians by the end of August.
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Got my passport, credit card and a single piece of paper. Tout Wars, here I come!
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This thing still isn’t over?
Let them both start today with a runner on second. It wasn’t that bad of a rule change.
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Investing heavily in the CLE rotation was certainly my worst fantasy plan in recent years.
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Empathy is beautiful. Full marks to those around the world who speak out for issues on which they aren't directly impacted.
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I would like to find a fantasy football league in which at least 6-8 first rounders are QBs. QBs are by far the most important players in the NFL. They should be very important in fantasy leagues.
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For me, Matt Harvey and Stephen Strasburg are forever linked. One shut it down, one didn’t. I know, sample sizes of one don’t teach us much, but I’ll always wonder where Harvey would be today if he threw fewer innings in 2015.
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If your entire fantasy rotation is still healthy, consider yourself lucky (and, living on borrowed time).
Danny Duffy is now leaving the game after another visit with the trainer.
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My injury history is clean, I haven’t lost any velocity on my fastball and I’m not represented by Scott Boras. So, I should find work fairly quickly!
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ICYMI, here are some sleeper bats that I would target in the late rounds of
@YahooFantasy
drafts:
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