Take 10 with Tim – September 19, 2025 – 45 minutes to an hour
Microsoft Teams:

1.Yordan Alvarez is hurt again. This time, it’s a significant ankle sprain. He’s been a huge bust this season for fantasy managers. Let’s provide our Top 5 bust of the season. Mine are listed.
a.Adley Rutschman (C, Bal, 56) – 85 games, 9 HR, 29 RBI, .227 BA
b.Marcel Ozuna (DH, Atl, 61) – 137 games, 20 HR, 58 HR, .233 and became a part-time player in the second half. The last two years he hit 40 and 39 home runs.
c.Brenton Doyle (OF, Col, 68) – 23-30 last season and 14-16 this season. He has been better of late.
d.Mark Vientos (3B, NYM, 90) – 112 games, 17 home runs, 58 RBI, and .237 BA
e.Tyler Glasnow (RHP, LAD, 95) – He only pitched in 16 games with 3 wins. 3.06 ERA

2.Arizona Fall League Preview
a.I wrote a large post on Thursday of all the ranked players attending. We will discuss some of the players and who you are looking forward to seeing how they do?

3.Listener Questions:
a.David - Is O'Neil Cruz a bust at this point?

b.Mark – Does Konnor Griffin make his MLB debut in 2025? What is your comp?

c.Hoppy - Who's your favourite (and least favourite) fantasy baseball player of all time?

d.Michael - Hey Rich- I tend to do a number of early draft and hold redraft leagues. It would be great to hear a few lesser known / further away names you expect to contribute in ‘26. I have names like Wetherholt, McGonigle, Snelling.. is Aidan Miller likely up?m early? ERC with Yankees? Barco?. I may be early on this but any names you like would be great to hear., thanks.

i.Robby Snelling, Aidan Miller, Carson Benge, Gage Jump, and Ryan Waldschmdit

e.Jermey - With their recent success, is it time to start putting the Mets pitching development up with the elites (Mariners, Dodgers, Guardians, etc)?

f.Nick - When working a Dynasty League where you can keep anyone you want for any amount of time, what is the cut off of your rankings that you are willing to throw them back into the draft to see what else you can get? Top 300? Top 15 at position? And does that differ slightly on age, like willing to keep someone who is a lot younger or not so much older?
i.Context: I am in a 12 team Dynasty league with normal roster positions, with a 15 person minor league roster in CBS. I find myself sometimes keeping too many players so I really only change over 1 or 2 on the active roster, then struggle to figure out who to cut when a prospect gets called up and wonder if I should cut more people out the gate to take some risks, to be willing to cut them for prospects.

4.What one or two hitters are you targeting for this weekend’s FAAB?

5.What one or two pitchers are you targeting for this weekend’s FAAB?