Scott and guest Brian Slack from BaseballHQ talk about the Marcus Stroman trade, break down an interesting week of free agency including multiple open closer spots and discuss a number of players including Masahiro Tanaka and Andrew Benintendi. Follow us on Twitter: @ScottJenstad I @that_glg20 I @RotoWire
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The Trade Deadline Starts to Heat up

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Clay Link and Todd Zola talk all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more!

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0:00 Intro/Christian Scott is on his way to join the Mets

Pickups

Joey Loperfido

Tyler Black

9:00 Garrett Cooper

Kyle Gibson

10:30 Wenceel Perez $3

Jose Miranda $1

14:00 Jacob Young


22:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 6, 2024)

Zac Gallen 5

Justin Steele 3

Frankie Montas 2

Corbin Carroll

Triston McKenzie 3

33:30 Logan Allen 3

Dakota Hudson 0

Mike Soroka 0

Mike Clevinger 2 (Todd 0)

Jack Flaherty 4 (Todd 3)

Justin Verlander 5 (Todd 4)

39:30 Cole Ragans 5

Seth Lugo 4

Tyler Anderson 3

Patrick Sandoval 1 (Todd 2)

Walker Buehler 4

Braxton Garrett 0

Bryse Wilson 1

Colin Rea 1

Simeon Woods Richardson 0 (Todd 1)

49:00 Bailey Ober 4

Luis Gil 3

Alex Wood 0

58:40 Mitch Keller 3 (Todd 4)

Yu Darvish 3

Luis Castillo 5

Mason Black 0

Kyle Harrison 1 (Todd 0)

Miles Mikolas 1

Sem Robberse 0

Tyler Alexander 1

1:03 Andrew Heaney 2


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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 6, 2024)

Paul Goldschmidt is off to an awful start to the season - what's our level of panic? Ryan Hallam (@fightingchance) joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Goldy and a handful of other struggling first basemen, the Cardinals, and even Fantasy Survivor!
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00:00 - I. Slumping First Basemen
01:00 - Goldy
04:00 - Matt Olson
06:30 - Vladdy Jr.
10:45 - Freddie Freeman* (sort of - a bit of a power drought)
13:00 - Ryan’s work for Spotlight
14:00 - Spencer Torkelson
16:00 - Jordan Walker
18:45 - Yandy Diaz
21:00 - Andrew Vaughn
23:30 - Jose Abreu
26:00 - II. Cardinals Talk
27:00 - 14-17, -30 run differential, 109 R scored
29:30 - Sorting out the OF now and going forward
33:30 - Rotation
36:00 - Manager / Front Office
38:35 - III. Check in on Tout, your other leagues
42:30 - IV. Fantasy Survivor
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PrizePicks

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Panic Meter - Paul Goldschmidt

Lazaro Montes

Roderick Arias

Sebastian Walcott

Brett Wichrowski

Jeral Perez

Ethan Salas

Nelson Rada

Colt Emerson

Jaison Chourio

Ralphy Velazquez

Nazzan Zanetello

Yophery Rodriguez

Alfredo Duno

Leodalis De Vries

Felnin Celesten

Joendry Vargas

Rayner Arias

Paulino Santana

Walker Martin

Welbyn Francisca

Robert Calaz

Jeter Martinez

Yoelin Cespedes

Starlyn Caba

Jose Perdomo

Enmanuel Bonilla

Brailer Guerrero

Dawel Joseph

Fernando Cruz


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The Next Great Prospects w/ Chris Welsh

If you could re-draft today, where would Corbin Carroll go? How about Ranger Suárez? Would Ronald Acuña Jr. still go first? We resolved to find these questions out in the Yahoo! Friends & Family draft on Monday night. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review the results and the shifting player values.
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Full draft results: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/84482/draftresults
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00:00 - Recapping the Yahoo! F&F Draft. 
04:25 - Mookie Betts 1.1
06:30 - Elly De La Cruz 1.5
09:00 - Fred takes Corbin Burnes 1.8
11:00 - Jeff takes Gunnar Henderson 1.11
13:00 - First-round recap
16:30 - Yordan Alvarez 2.16
17:30 - Tarik Skubal 2.19, 3rd pitcher taken
19:00 - Cooling off on early pitchers
22:30 - Corbin Carroll 2.25
30:15 - Adolis Garcia 2.26
33:00 - Two more aces for Fred (Freddy Peralta, Aaron Nola)
34:20 - When to take closers?
36:20 - Mike Trout 3.32
39:00 - Slumping Blue Jays hitters
41:45 - Early positive outliers - Shota Imanaga, Marcell Ozuna, Ronel Blanco
48:15 - Fred’s Full Team
53:15 - Jeff’s Full Team
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Second Chance Draft

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss a busy weekend baseball, cover all the adds / drops in FAAB and discuss some surprising early stars in fantasy baseball. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire


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The Trade Deadline Starts to Heat up

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