r/DynastyBaseball

My dynasty fantasy baseball squad is going for it all, at hitting I’m pretty set, pitching is another thing though, this is who I got right now— Skenes, Crochet, Ragans, H. Brown, Woodruff, Hancock, Gausman, Wrobleski, Elder, D. Martin and Detmers.

I drafted Misiorowski 2-years ago then traded him not thinking much of it, never thought he’d be what he is. My question is would you trade Konnor Griffin for the best pitcher in baseball (Misiorowski)? Even though pitchers have much higher probability of getting injured.

How is everyone ranking the following in a dynasty h2h points?

Tyler Glasnow
Spencer Strider
Blake Snell
Jackson Jobe
Spencer Schwellenbach

We're officially past the halfway mark, and the trade deadline in both MLB and our leagues is looming large. This is the time of year when you can really separate the contenders from the pretenders, and the trade market starts to heat up. I wanted to get a pulse check from the community on a few names,with the trade deadline chatter reaching a fever pitch, it feels like we could see some seismic shifts that shake up our dynasty rosters the Dodgers and Padres rumors alone are enough to make your head spin.Here are a few guys I'm thinking about:
Buying: I've been eyeing Zyhir Hope (LAD). He's the Dodgers' no.2 prospect and a top 20 guy in baseball after a strong 2025 season. He's a stash for a 2027 debut, but the dynasty value is real. Anyone else buying in before he becomes untouchable?
Selling: How we feeling about Shota Imanaga (CHC)? He's been the Cubs' staff anchor with a solid 1.08 WHIP, but his 4.39 ERA is well above his elite 2024 mark. Surface stats are still decent, but the underlying numbers are concerning. Is it time to shop him to a contender in need of pitching?
The "Cashman Special": There's chatter that Ben Hess (NYY) — the Yankees' no.5 prospect could be a trade chip as New York aggressively pursues Ryan Jeffers from the Twins. If you're holding him in the minors, is he a hold to see if he gets a massive value bump in a trade, or a sell to a rebuilding team?The Dodgers might prioritize holding their long-term prospects over going all in for Tarik Skubal. That could shake up the deadline landscape in a big way.I always find the July rankings and trade advice from the various sites super helpful this time of year what are the moves you're looking to make in your leagues?

We're in the middle of an auction draft. 20 team league, 3 year contracts + escalating extensions, 24 man minors, $250M cap. Were at pick 160 in the auction draft, both these teams are in rough but salvagable spots.

First team owns Cristopher Sanchez for $31.7M leaving $218.3 in remaining cap. Second team owns Brice Turang for $30.1M leaving $219.9M in remaining cap.

Points league on Fantrax, we also have a discord server. Let me know if youre interested and ill send the discord link.

Question came up in my league that had interesting responses and wanted to pose it here.
H2H, cats, keep 10 max.

There’s a manger willing to dealing Ohtani the batter for Chourio. It seems like an easy yes to acquire ohtani however some managers are saying Chourio in dynasty due to production at age and of course contender vs rebuilder. There’s a 10 year age gap which does beg the question, how well will Ohtani age? is this Chourios next level? Did ohtani really steal more cause he wasn’t pitching? Is ohtani going to age like schwarber? Will Chourio ever be a top 5 redraft pick?

It really seems to be a discussion of next 3 years and next 10 years which is funny to think about in dynasty how we all love to perpetually rebuild.

What do you think?

Does it sway you that the trade could be Ohtani, Raleigh, and Neto for Chourio and willits?

What’s the pulse on him at the moment:
buying, selling or staying Pat.

Everyone needs a mental break from time to time.
I’m not the only one glad he’s back, there’s quite a few people who seem like they’d run through a brick wall for him

Which would you prefer in an obp league? Offensive cats are obp, runs, rbis, hr, and steals.

One of my favorite things to do is to look at young pitchers that have the potential to be great, both now and in the future. This is my debut deep dive and I truly hope you learn something from this.

Walbert Ureña - RHP - LAA - 22yoa

Walbert Ureña’s current numbers through 71.2 IP: 3.14 ERA, 69 SO, 1.34 WHIP

Judging by those numbers Walbert Ureña has been a very fine ball player for the Angels. Personally speaking, I have had Ureña since his first few Major League starts, and he has not disappointed me. Ureña is currently on 3 of 4 of my fantasy teams. 

Let's dig into the underlying metrics for Ureña. The first thing I usually look at when taking a peak at underlying metrics is xERA (Expected Earned Run Average). Currently Ureña’s xERA is 3.27, this suggests that his ERA is accurate and should hover around 3.00-3.50. Looking deeper, Ureña has a concerningly high SIERA (Skill-Interactive Earned Run Average) at 4.41 (League average is around 4.00). It is important to identify the key differences between xERA and SIERA before continuing. xERA uses metrics like exit velocity and launch angle to decide whether the hitter or pitcher should get rewarded. SIERA does not use exit velocity or launch angle and instead relies much more heavily on strikeouts and walks. Now that you understand the difference between xERA and SIERA we can continue to look deeper into Ureña’s metrics. Ureña holds a 48th percentile K% and a despicable 16th percentile BB% (This explains the stark difference between Ureña’s xERA and his SIERA.) On the other hand Ureña holds a 74th percentile Barrel%, an 80th percentile Hard Hit%, and a lovely 93rd percentile GB% (Ground Ball Percent). Looking at those two groups of statistics we can understand why Ureña’s xERA and SIERA are so different, it’s because he doesn’t strike out a lot of batters, walks a lot of batters, but simultaneously gives up very weak contact. To look even deeper into Ureña we can look at his pitch types. Ureña’s pitch type run values are as follows: Fastball Run Value: -4, Breaking Run Value: 2, Offspead Run Value: 6 (98th percentile). What's clear is that Ureña’s fastballs are very bad, his breaking pitches are good, and his offspead pitches are excellent, let's find out why. Ureña’s fastball velo is definitely not the problem as his fastball velo is ~97.5 (92nd percentile), but the first thing that lets Ureña down is his 18th percentile extension, but many Major League pitchers have had successful careers without velo or extension so everything can’t just be on that. Let's look more deeply into Ureña’s arsenal, but more specifically his arsenal against LHH and RHH. Versus LHH Ureña’s pitch types and percents are as shown: LHH: 27% Sinker, 22% Four-seam, 43% Change, 8% Sweeper. Versus RHH Ureña’s pitch types and percents are as shown: RHH: 38% Sinker, 18% Four-seam, 19% Change, 25% Sweeper. Ureña is a completely different pitcher depending what side of the plate you stand on. If you’re a lefty, you will see a changeup a preposterous 43% of the time and almost all the other times you will see some fastball variation. The numbers definitely show that LHH have an easier time facing Ureña. Versus LHH Ureña has given up 23 walks, versus RHH he has given up just 14 walks (Ureña’s innings pitched against LHH and RHH are virtually identical). I believe that this is a result of left handed hitters realizing that Ureña throws changeups more than any other pitch against them, leading them to taking more pitches and not chasing. This hypothesis is also supported by Ureña’s splits per inning. Ureña has an ERA under 3 in innings 1-4, but an ERA over 7 in inning 5 (I decided not to include innings 6-9 because his innings pitched in those innings are not sufficient.) This could be because Ureña is tired, but I believe that along with Ureña being tired, his low variety pitch mix against different handed hitters leads them to being able to hit Ureña easier the third time through. 

All of this evidence leads me to believe that Ureña has a bright future as a Major League Baseball player but needs to develop more depth in his pitch mix, or needs to throw more variety to both handed hitters without getting slammed. Ureña may have a better career as a relief pitcher that is more specialized for RHH but can face the occasional LHH. Talking more about the near future, Ureña’s ERA will probably inflate purely because teams will start stacking their lineups with lefties, leading to Ureña giving up more walks, getting less strikeouts, and giving up more runs. Ureña may not be a good fantasy choice right now but could be in the future particularly as a closer (since his stuff plays better in early innings shown by his 1.38 ERA in the first inning.) or as a starter but only if he develops more variety and doesn’t rely on one pitch.

Another snippet I wanted to mention is that Ureña has a 1.0 player match with 2026 Sandy Alcantara on Baseball Savant and a .91 player match with 2026 Paul Skenes.

Overall, I believe that Ureña has a bright future ahead of him and you should look at him in dynasty leagues or even deeper leagues, say 12 teams or more. This is my first article or whatever you want to call it and I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to read it as it’s definitely not short. I’ll probably post more of these in the future since I have plenty of more pitchers that I can make articles like these on. Anyways, I hope you truly enjoyed this reading and look forward to my next post, see you later and stay sharp!

I know Dodgers prospects are usually overhyped, but I’m intrigued to see who y’all think is actually legit in their farm

Contracts league on Fantrax. $250M salary cap, 24 man minors, points scoring. Owner had to leave abruptly but hes got a solid start to the team.

Update: owner found for the original team i was asking about. need another one for a team whos current roster is Brice Turang for $30.1M. $219.9M in remaining cap. Lmk if youre interested!

Current roster with salary- (new owner found) Nick Kurtz $40.3M Zach Neto $20.5M Wyatt Langford $20M Mike Trout $9.9M Hunter Brown $19.3M $140M remaining cap space. DM or comment if interested!

Who do people like long term? Delauter is one of my favorites but is smith a high end guy also?

Smith's OBP seems really low and I assume he is vulnerable to prolonged slumps

Delauter seems like a better overall hitter

Am I off base?

It’s the end of June and that means summertime. Oh, and it also means it’s time to overreact about a great start (or a few different pitchers who had great starts last week). Come have a look at this week’s piece, complete with new news and notes and a shuffling of names with a bunch of returning arms. Happy Monday!