I know we're only one day in, but I feel like I'm going to like fantasy basketball more than fantasy hockey. There's a much bigger analytical component, and players have meaningful events very frequently, which is fun.
It's not that the bold prediction was wrong or bad, it's that he's too arrogant to acknowledge that the prediction was wrong, and is claiming to have "spiked" the prediction of Beede being a relevant fantasy starter in 12-team leagues.
Fangraphs writer Brad Johnson is embarrassing himself. Read the Beede part and then his last post in the comments.
https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/brad-johnsons-10-bold-predictions-a-review/
Yup. Imagine a team like Houston or New York just accepting Brandon Drury and offering him $2.5M to stick around for no other reason than that he's already here.
2 years @ 3.5M a year got Washington Howie Kendrick coming off a 1.7 win season, and 1 year @ 2.5 got the Reds Jose Iglesias. I feel like 2.5M gets you most of the way to at least a few of the boring vet infielders on the market:
Kendrick
Gyorko
Gennett
Kipnis
Holt
Iglesias
Ass Dribble
Drury is a minor league contract guy