Fantasy Baseball Quiz: Blind Resumes

Like cocaine and waffles, we bring you here today to celebrate two things that go great together: fantasy baseball and quizzes.

We’re still in the land of small sample sizes, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun with the tried-and-true blind resume quiz. You know the deal. Player A vs. Player B in a three-row, multiple-column chart, testing just how closely you have been poring over MLB box scores this season.

Since it is still early in the season, part of this exercise will be to highlight players whose surface statistics (wins, batting average, etc.) might be a bit fluky and might be due for some regression, either positive or negative. These comparisons will also act to break down the early-season “name barriers” we get stuck behind, as certain players keep ending up on your roster simply because of the recognition of their name and no other reason. Statistics are the great equalizer after all.

That being said, Call to the Pen and this fantasy-obsessed author are not suggesting you go out and cut Manny Machado for Hernan Perez just because Perez has had a better first three and a half weeks than Machado. No, this exercise is meant more to call attention to some of those under-the-radar players who deserve your attention and maybe poke holes in a few of those fast starts that seem to have won folks over.

Of course the main purpose of this article is to test your fantasy baseball knowledge in a creative and (hopefully) fun way. As such, we’ll be using the slideshow setup of this article to its advantage. At the end of each slide, starting with this one, the reader will get a chart comparing the 2017 resumes of two players at the same position. You can scrutinize them all you want, make your guesses and then click onto the next slide where the answers will be revealed. There will be a few words on each player and then the next blind resume comparison, and so on and so forth.

Best of luck to all in this quiz and their respective fantasy baseball endeavors! (Unless we’re going against each other in a daily league today, in which case, worst of luck!)