Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of BaseballHQ (@RyanBHQ) to discuss the players improving in multiple ways at once this season.

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00:00 Headlines

17:15 Vinnie Pasquantino

24:00 Brice Turang, Brenton Doyle

28:15 Tyler Stephenson, Willy Adames

32:15 Alec Bohm, Christian Walker, Salvador Perez

39:15 More top hitters showing improvements

41:15 Sleeper hitters showing improvements

53:45 Pitchers showing improvements

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Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest headlines, including the Luis Arraez trade, and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week.

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Headlines: 00:00

Priority FAAB Pitchers: 20:53

Priority FAAB Hitters: 35:09

Budget Pitchers: 51:41

Budget Hitters: 1:00:25

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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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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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• 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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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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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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Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Chris Towers of CBS Sports (@CTowersCBS) discuss which first-rounders were drafted too high and which April standouts should have gone much earlier.

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00:00 Headlines

13:00 Ronald Acuna

21:45 Other First-Rounders: Julio Rodriguez, Corbin Carroll, Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge

42:45 Standout April hitters: Elly De La Cruz, CJ Abrams, Mike Trout

57:45 Standout April pitchers: Jared Jones, Ranger Suarez, Shota Imanaga

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Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) hit on the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week.

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Todd Zola welcomes ESPN's Tristan H. Cockcroft as co-host to discuss early season management, streaming pitchers in points leagues and rank next week's two-start pitchers.

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Actress and Podcast Host Ellen Adair joins Jeff Erickson to talk Phillies, including whether there's reason for panic on Nick Castellanos and Aaron Nola, and why Ranger Suarez is pitching so well right now. Plus we talk about the intersection of her fandom and her career.

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00:00 - I. Phillies talk

00:30 - Zack Wheeler

01:30 - Bullpen

05:15 - Ranger Suarez

09:30 - Spencer Turnbull / Taijuan Walker

15:45 - Aaron Nola

18:20 - Nick Castellanos

24:45 - Alec Bohm's hot start

27:00 - Slow starts for Stott, Realmuto

29:30 - Anyone under the radar at the majors or minors we should look out for?

30:35 - Johan Rojas

33:00 - II. Career & Fandom

33:15 - Take Me In To the Ballgame

35:00 - Finding time w/ auditions/callbacks

37:30 - Acting in an emerging AI universe

45:00 - Congrats on your award - HERD

48:00 - Favorite Projects

51:00 - MLBN Off Base

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