Where did we find our best and worst pitching values in 2026? Was the Garrett Crochet disaster enough to dissuade us from taking an early ace? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss. 

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00:00 Fred Pod 8-11

00:20 Jays 4-Outs Play

04:00 Fred’s Blue Jays Fan Reaction to the Deadline

07:45 News

08:00 Cam Smith Improving

11:40 Zac Veen Getting the Call

15:00 Trey Yesavage Meniscus Surgery

17:40 Devin Williams to the IL. Drop him? Kodai Senga closer?

22:00 Nathan Eovaldi to the IL. Drop him?

23:00 Jacob Lopez is becoming a thing again

26:30 Monday Starts - Andrew Painter

29:30 Adley Rutschman will make his Red Sox debut today.

32:00 Kyle Stowers to the IL

33:00 Circa

33:59 BlueWire

34:05 Pitching Pockets

35:45 Defined Tiers - Main Event ADP

37:00 Were the Aces Worth It?

39:30 Next 10

44:30 SP 21-30 - Second Most Profitable Tier

48:30 SP 31-40 - So Many Nice Values

50:50 SP 41-50 - By Far the Worst Value

55:00 General SP Strategy

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad cover the entire weekend in fantasy baseball, including the struggles of Mookie Betts, Jazz Chisholm and Gunnar Henderson, the success of Dylan Cease and Brandon Lowe and all the details of an extremely busy FAAB period highlighted by active bidding on George Lombard, Jr, Kaelen Culpepper and Jackson Jobe. 

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Erik Halterman and Marty Tallman share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

09:00 Dylan Crews

11:25 George Lombard Jr.

15:00 Bryce Eldridge

16:55 Kaelen Culpepper

20:15 Tyler Stephenson

26:20 Clay Holmes

28:10 Martin Perez

30:10 Jackson Jobe

35:00 Bailey Ober

40:10 Luke Weaver

44:30 Deep-league pitchers

58:40 Deep-league hitters

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Intro/Kalen Culpepper called up to Minnesota

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Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to discuss the biggest winners of the trade deadline and figure out where to spend your money in AL- and NL-only leagues.

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00:00 Headlines

12:45 Only-league Trade Deadline FAAB Strategy 

16:45 NL to AL trades

38:50 AL to NL trades

47:00 Intra-league trades

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James Anderson and Spencer Michaelis discuss the Brewers' trade deadline before breaking down all the remaining high-end hitting prospects in the system!

01:05 Dustin May trade

03:05 Alexander Frias

05:50 Josiah Ragsdale

09:20 Juan Martinez

11:40 Grading the Brewers’ deadline

20:40 Cooper Pratt

24:25 Jesus Made

29:05 Luis Pena/Brady Ebel

34:50 Jett Williams

36:55 Andrew Fischer

40:50 Blake Burke/Luke Adams

47:00 Josh Adamczewski

49:45 Braylon Payne

53:00 Brailyn Antunez/Handelfry Encarnacion

55:00 Dominican Summer League Brewers

01:00:00 Marco Dinges

01:01:50 Bishop Letson

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Approximate time stamp when each team was discussed

:10 ARI

:12 ATH

:15 ATL

:19 BAL

:22 BOS

:26 CHC

:30 CHW

:34 CIN

:37 COL

:39 DET

:43 HOU

:44 KCR

:46 LAA

:51 LAD

:54 MIA

:58 MIL

1:01 MIN

1:03 NYM

1:05 NYY

1:07 Sponsor Ads

1:10 PHI

1:13 PIT

1:17 SDP

1:20 SEA

1:23 SFG

1:26 STL

1:30 TBR

1:33 TEX

1:35 TOR

1:38 WSN

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Scott Jenstad and special guest, Paul Sporer of Fangraphs, break down the weekend in baseball, including the fantasy impact for a number of big trades that went down prior to Monday's deadline, the down seasons for Vlad Guerrero and William Contreras, the Gavin Williams breakout and all the moves in a busy week of FAAB, focusing on heavy bidding for Tigers rookie Max Clark and a few new closer options, plus much more!!

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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2:49 Max Clark

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Intro/Casey Mize, Freddy Peralta scratched tonight, calm before the trade storm

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