Chris Crawford (@Crawford_MILB) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoye) offer up their overrated and underrated fantasy options from the AL East.
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Overrated/Underrated: AL East

Jeff Erickson, Clay Link, James Anderson, Scott Jenstad, Todd Zola, Fred Zinkie, Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer cover fantasy baseball year round, including draft prep, strategy and much more!

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Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking fantasy baseball news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more!

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0:00 Intro/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Pickups

5:30 Jalen Beeks - $9

Nick Gonzales - $4

Alec Burleson - User comment

10:40 Tylor Megill - $4

Charlie Blackmon - $3

Luke Raley - $3

Carlos Santana - $3

Eddie Rosario - $2

Griffin Jax - $0

13:35 Clay is still waiting on James Wood


Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 20, 2024)

Slade Cecconi 1

Chris Sale 5

Charlie Morton 3

Kyle Bradish 4

Tanner Houck 3 (Todd 4)

Javier Assad 3

Andrew Abbott 2 (Todd 1)

29:15 Ben Lively 1 (Todd 2)

Cal Quantrill 0

Erick Fedde 2

Garrett Crochet 3 (Todd 4)

Reese Olson 3 (Todd 4)

Casey Mize 2

Michael Wacha 1

Reid Detmers 1 (Todd 2)

Gavin Stone 3

Ryan Weathers 3

Joe Ross 1

42:00 Pablo Lopez 5

Tylor Megill 3 (Todd 2)

Marcus Stroman 2

Clarke Schmidt 3 (Todd 4)

Aaron Brooks 0

45:30 Ranger Suarez 4

Martin Perez 0

Michael King 4 (Todd 3)

Dylan Cease 5 (Todd 4)

Logan Gilbert 5

Bryan Woo 3

Logan Webb 5

Sonny Gray 4

Taj Bradley 3

Jon Gray 3 (Todd 2)

Jose Berrios 4

Yusei Kikuchi 4

Mitchell Parker 1


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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 20, 2024)

Larry Schechter joins Jeff Erickson to discuss his new book, "The History of Fantasy Sports." (https://tinyurl.com/b63urwjx)
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00:00 - The History of Fantasy Sports
03:00 - 18 Months of Research
04:20 - First Tabletop Games in 1800’s
05:20 - Difference between fantasy & Strat-O-Matic / APBA
08:00 - Paring Down to Make the Book
09:30 - FSTA / FSGA
13:00 - Founders of Rotisserie
19:00 - Early Reviews
22:30 - Early different formats
25:00 - Variations of the game
30:00 - Larry’s personal background - CDM
31:45 - Transitioning to LABR/Tout
34:30 - Mixed Leagues
35:40 - Football dwarfs baseball
37:30 - Role of the leagues / players’ associations
39:00 - AL ToutWars this year
42:30 - NFBC Main Events
43:20 - Corbin Carroll 
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The History of Fantasy Sports

James Wood

Coby Mayo

Walker Jenkins

Xavier Isaac

Dylan Crews

Brady House

Colson Montgomery

Lazaro Montes

Roman Anthony

Aidan Miller


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The New Best Prospects w/ Aram Leighton

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson view some of the surprising results from the first quarter of the season and discuss whether they are sustainable, plus they review the paltry streaming options for the week.
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00:00 - We are roughly ¼ of the way through the season. 
02:15 - Do we buy MIL as a top-5 offense? 
15:30 - Alexis Diaz blows it
19:45 - CIN as a bottom-5 offense? 
27:30 - Reds Godfather Offer?
31:30 - Will SEA strike out this much all season?
36:00 - Streaming for strikeouts instead of wins
43:00 - Is the OAK offense actually decent?
49:00 - Is the STL offense this bad?
55:00 - Hitters called up really struggled
58:30 - Shaky Streamers
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First Quarter Observations and a Bad Streaming Week

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss all the adds and drops across fantasy leagues this weekend and also talk Paul Goldschmidt, Teoscar Hernandez and of course, the Paul Skenes debut. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScotJenstad I @RotoWire

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Overrated/Underrated: AL East

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