This week on the fantasy podcast, prospect writer Geoff Pontes and our lead fantasy analyst Dylan White discuss the news of the week, including Bryce Miller’s standout debut, promotions for a pair of strong performing prospects in the Astros organization and some unfortunate injuries to a pair of highly-touted pitching prospects. We finish up the week with a discussion on the top performers over the first month, according to Roboscout.

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Fantasy Podcast: Roboscout Leaders For April

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This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast hosts Geoff Pontes and Dylan White cover some of the news of the last week to open before diving into a five round waiver wire draft. What's a waiver wire draft? Simple, Dylan and Geoff choose from all players with 10% or lower ownership on Fantrax and pick the best players from that group. It's a great exercise to introduce you to ten under-rostered players you should be looking to add. 

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Fantasy Podcast: All-April Waiver Wire Draft

Everyone is talking velocity and the injury epidemic, but on this week's episode we ask, "What's the alternative?" To discuss this far-reaching topic, we invited two friends of the show and high-level coaches to join us. First, old friend Matt Pierce of Kinkaid Baseball and then first-time guest and legendary Juco coach Mike Robbins of New Mexico JC. Mike shares insight into the recruiting process and the different philosophies he's implemented over the years. He identifies what works and what doesn't.

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90th Percentile: What's The Alternative To Chasing Velocity?

The recent run of significant elbow injuries among prominent MLB starters has everyone including us thinking and talking about pitching injuries. On today's podcast, JJ Cooper is joined by Alan Jaeger and Randy Sullivan, two experts who have worked with hundreds of pitchers, to talk about injury prevention as well as their free return to throwing program they have released that proposes a different way to return to throwing after Tommy John surgery. The return to throwing manual is available here. 
 00:00 What are Alan Jaeger and Randy Sullivan's backgrounds/credentials 12:15 Why ramping up is a time of significant risk 20:45 Is our current system actually reducing injury risk? 31:00 What's involved in this new return to throwing program after Tommy John surgery? 45:00 How will you all know if this is a better program, long-term? 52:00 How the new NCAA recruiting rules may help with injuries

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Talking Pitching Injuries And Rehab With Alan Jaeger And Randy Sullivan

Carlos and Peter hop on the draft podcast to talk through some of the most interesting players in the 2024 class from a data perspective.  After the rollout of the top 400 draft list this week, the two go back and forth and trade information on prospects who analysts, or those big on batted ball data and stuff+ metrics, might fall in love with.  The players include a few potential day one hitters, but the bulk of the conversation revolves around names who could be upside picks on the second day of the draft. There’s a hitter whose batted ball data fits with a handful of first rounders but is never mentioned in that range, a slugger with exit velocity data similar to Jac Caglianone, a pitcher with perhaps the best slider in the country and another pitcher who might quietly have the best fastball in the country among others. – Time Stamps (2:30) A well-rounded bat who fits with prominent first-round names (6:50) A deep cut prospect from the Patriot League  (10:15) A day one slugger with elite EVs and strong contact (14:30) An outfielder with elite bat-to-ball skills (18:15) The freakiest sweeper in the class? (24:00) The best fastball in the class you haven’t heard of (30:00) A small school pitcher with unique usage (36:30) A righty with a big velo jump (41:00) A strong contact hitter with sneaky top-end EV data

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Data Sleepers To Know In The 2024 Draft Class

Teddy Cahill and Peter Flaherty break down all the college baseball action from around the country before week 11 of the season. They start with last weekend's showdown between Tennessee and Kentucky, and look at how the Volunteers and Wildcats stack up as national contenders. They look at Wake Forest's surge in ACC play, which has the Deacons in the hosting conversation. They also look ahead to some big rivalry series this weekend, as Oregon visits Oregon State and Oklahoma hosts Texas. Both series have big stakes in conference title races and the NCAA Tournament picture. Time Stamps 1: Tennessee takes down Kentucky 11:30: Around the SEC 19:30: Ad break 19:40: Wake is back 25: Any concern about Florida State? 29:30 Around the ACC 38: Cal sweeps Oregon State 47: Oregon takes on Oregon State 52: Battle for first in the WCC 55:40: Ad break 56: Around the Big 12 61:30: Red River Rivalry on the diamond 71: Coastal beats Louisiana 77: Around the Sun Belt

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Fantasy Podcast: Roboscout Leaders For April

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