Scott Pianowski
Sports Writer at Yahoo Sports
tweets in crayon. in love with subtlety. yahoo sports fantasy scribe. grinder. hecky bean. @fswa hall of fame, class of 2021. grateful.
Articles
-
1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Scott Pianowski
We're only a couple of weeks inside the fresh fantasy baseball season, but I'm human like anyone else. I'm starting to wonder what I might have been wrong about. Here are eight players who are giving me pause and reflection at the moment. Let's understand this for what it is. I've always loved Tucker's skill set and my fade of him last month was more of a soft fade — I even drafted him on one co-managed team when my partner was persuasive.
-
1 week ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Scott Pianowski
There's one MLB club outscoring everyone else right now, and it's by a wide margin. And it's not the Yankees or the Dodgers, it's not the Mets or the Padres. It's not the Red Sox. It's not even the perennially-underrated Diamondbacks, who quietly led the majors in scoring last year. Meet the 2025 Chicago Cubs. Offense as it oughta be. AdvertisementOkay, it's been just 18 games and they have a few games in hand over most teams because of the two-game opening series in Japan, we get it.
-
2 weeks ago |
wsbtv.com | Scott Pianowski
When trying to make sense of early-season baseball trends, walks and strikeouts are a good place to start. Walk and strikeout rates stabilize quickly, giving us a better chance of locating a reliable signal. Tuesday, we meandered about some hitters. Today's assignment: the pitchers. The unlucky sign should be flashing with Chris Sale, who carries a 6.75 ERA despite the best K/BB ratio in baseball. The usual culprits are at play: a .386 BABIP and an unlucky 57.3% strand rate.
Fantasy Baseball: Knowing when to trust early-season stats is tough, but this ratio offers big clues
2 weeks ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Scott Pianowski
It's a conundrum we face every fantasy baseball season. Our best decisions will be made from meaty chunks of data, but to be a good player, we have to make educated guesses off limited amounts of data. Wait for proof is a losing strategy in a competitive league. We need to see plausible upside and act, and we need to make decisions long before we know things for sure. We also should consider the water of fantasy stats, walks and strikeouts.
-
2 weeks ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Scott Pianowski
It was a good week for contract extensions. Garrett Crochet and Kristian Campbell will be with Boston into the next decade. Jackson Merrill is part of the foundation in San Diego. Ketel Marte pushed his Arizona deal through 2031 (player option pending), though he unfortunately suffered a hamstring injury on the weekend and will miss some time. But the most surprising contract of the week dropped on Sunday.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 53K
- Tweets
- 158K
- DMs Open
- Yes
This is an excellent look at eras and greatness in hockey.
Ovi is the greatest goal scorer ever. We know that. But it didn't happen with goal No. 895, writes @AdjustedHockey. Ovi has been the goals G.O.A.T. for much longer, and no one – including Gretzky – is in his stratosphere. Five arguments to explain why: https://t.co/hwnjQOOnQN
Sacramento overs remain a gift.
The Ben Crenshaw/Harvey Penick Masters was 30 years ago. All I want to know is, where does the time go?
