Here’s ‘The Starting 9’ for today’s show. 

1. NL Tout Wars - first name out of the hat “value” (Tatis for $38)/deGrom at $40 … no other NL SP over $27/Coming up constantly short in the bidding

2. AL Tout Wars - Trout reaches $50/Witt appears and goes for $10/’Big 4’ in TOR going for an average of $31

3. MLB News/Notes - Ohtani with 5 K’s in 4 IPs … and reaches base in all 3 of his PAs/Adell will start the year in the minors/CLE starts Mercado in the minors/HOU says Pressley is ‘fine’ despite not appearing since March 11/Antone (hip) shuts down bullpen session early/4.2 innings for F. Peralta … starter?/Realmuto (thumb) scratched from 1st appearance/Votto (COVID) returns to CIN camp/S. Perez re-up’s with KC at 4/$82

4. Player Profile - Emilio Pagan

5. Target Practice - Big arms out of the that could flip between rotation and ‘pen - late-20s Round - Kopech, Al. Reyes, Puk

6. Head-to-Head Advice - Understand the rules, Pay attention to consistency and health, Avoid too many rookies, Power of more importance

7. Head-to-Head … Who Ray likes, Who Ray Doesn’t Like

8. 'Random Reference' - Jim Johnson. 

9. 'Stamp of Approval' – Fried Fish/To Go Margarita’s and Cheese.