On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes & Scott Braun weigh the returns of four big trades last week. Who did well and who could’ve gotten more?

Plus, we take a look at winners & losers following last week’s MLB Draft Lottery with Carlos Collazo.

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• (0:55) Red Sox/White Sox Garrett Crochet trade
• (7:15) Are catching prospects treated differently in trades?
• (10:50) Cubs/Astros Kyle Tucker trade
• (15:00) A's/Rays Jeffrey Springs trade
• (16:20) Yankees/Brewers Devin Williams trade
• (20:30) Carlos' thoughts on the lottery winners & losers

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Carlos and Peter break down the third annual draft lottery. They talk through the process, pick out a few winners and losers and then discuss the first, way-too-early complete first round mock draft of the 2025 cycle. Players to know up top, a strong trio of college catchers and then a few more split-camp names at the back of the first round who are interesting for various reasons. 

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• (3:00) General draft lottery thoughts
• (6:00) Winner & Losers
• (11:00) Cold comfort for White Sox and A’s?
• (14:00) Talking through the first full mock draft
• (22:00) A trio of college catchers
• (26:00) Back of the first round names

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The Baseball America Fantasy Podcast is back with news from the Winter Meetings. Geoff is live in Dallas and Dylan is in cold in Canada but they bring you all the insight for fantasy on the players moved. We then finish off the show with some top names to target and some sleepers from our recently released Dynasty Outfielder Rankings.

• (2:30) Garrett Crochet Trade
• (9:00) Gimenez Trade
• (12:30) Max Fried Signs With Yankees
• (15:30) Juan Soto Signs With Mets
• (19:00) Emmanuel Rodriguez
• (22:00) Ian Happ
• (26:00) Matt Wallner
• (28:00) Heliot Ramos

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Geoff Pontes and JJ Cooper take a look at every pick in the 2024 MLB Rule 5 Draft and explain why they were chosen and their chances to stick on MLB rosters. But then we get a little crazy and ping pong back and forth on MiLB Rule 5 picks as well.

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Garrett Crochet Trade Quick Thoughts

04:00 Explaining The Rule 5 Draft

05:30 Geoff and JJ's Favorite Picks

08:00 Marlins Pick C Liam Hicks

10:00 Angels Pick LHP Garrett McDaniels

11:30 A's Pick RHP Noah Murdock

12:30 Nationals Pick RHP Evan Reifert

14:00 Blue Jays Pick RHP Angel Bastardo

18:30 Reds Select 2B/OF Cooper Bowman

22:00 Rays Select LHP Nathan Lavender

24:00 Twins Select RHP Eiberson Castellano

24:30 Cubs Select 3B Gage Workman

27:00 Braves Select RHP Anderson Pilar

28:30 Padres Select RHP Juan Nunez

30:00 Brewers Select LHP Connor Thomas

33:00 Rays Select RHP Mike Vasil

35:00 Braves Select SS Christian Cairo

37:00 MiLB Rule 5 Geoff And JJ Challenge

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On this week's Hot Sheet Show, Ben Badler, Geoff Pontes, Carlos Collazo & Scott Braun discuss the state of the Mets and Yankees following the big Juan Soto news.

Do the Mets have players to properly surround Soto? How will the Yankees regroup?

The guys also tip their caps to the Padres, who were named Baseball America's 2024 Organization of the Year, before Carlos takes us through a Rule 5 draft and MLB draft lottery preview.

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• (1:30) The Mets' farm system and getting help for Juan Soto
• (8:10) The fallout for the Yankees
• (12:30) Padres are BA's 2024 Org of the Year
• (16:30) MLB draft lottery preview
• (19:50) Prospects in next year's draft
• (24:50) Rule 5 draft

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Carlos and Peter complete their divisional draft review series of the 2024 draft class with the National League West. The two talk through each team’s draft, pick out players to know, sleepers they are intrigued with, standout debut performers and then pick out which class of the division they’re most excited about. 

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• (3:30) D-backs
• (13:00) Rockies 
• (30:45) Dodgers
• (39:00) Padres
• (53:00) Giants
• (1:05:30) Which class do we like the best?

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This week on the Baseball America fantasy show hosts Dylan White and Geoff Pontes dig into the recent hot stove news as a handful of bigger names have new homes. While in the second half of the show they cover some targets and sleepers from the recently released Middle Infield Dynasty Rankings for 2025.

(2:00) Blake Snell signing with Dodgers and looming Sasaki deal.

(10:30) Jonathan India and Brady Singer deal. The aftermath and fantasy impact of new home parks.

(15:00) Hye-Seong Kim, what to expect

(21:00) Kris Bubic return to the rotation.

(24:00) Aroldis Chapman to the Red Sox

(27:00) Kristian Campbell

(30:00) Bo Bichette

(36:00) Tyler Fitzgerald

(40:00) Adael Amador

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On this week's Hot Sheet Show, Ben Badler, Geoff Pontes and Scott Braun welcome Blue Jays outfielder Joey Loperfido. The guys dive into the latest rumblings revolving around Japanese star Roki Sasaki’s possible MLB destination, and we take a look at dynasty fantasy baseball sleepers and early breakout rookies to watch in 2025.

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• (1:00) Roki Sasaki's potential landing spots with Ben Badler
• (4:35) Endorsement opportunities for Roki
• (7:45) How Sasaki's deal will differ from other international signees
• (9:35) Joey Loperfido joins
• (23:00) Dynasty baseball talk with Geoff Pontes

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If you're a regular listener/reader of Baseball America content, you probably know that we love the Rule 5 Draft. JJ Cooper and Geoff Pontes have Rule 5 Fever, which means we'll go in depth on what worked in the 2023 Rule 5 Draft, what doesn't usually work and also what players are catching our eyes for the 2024 Rule 5 Draft, set to be held on Dec. 11.

02:00 What Is The Rule 5 Draft

04:00 Explaining Who Is Eligible For The Rule 5 Draft

06:00 Why The Rule 5 Draft Eligibles List Has Taken A Hit

10:00 Should The Eligibility Rules Be Tweaked?

14:00 Which Teams/Players Stood Out From The 2023 Rule 5

19:00 What Are The Characteristics Of Successful Rule 5 Picks

24:00 A Few Players We Really Like For This Year's Rule 5 Draft

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Carlos and Peter continue their divisional draft review series of the 2024 draft class with the National League Central. The two talk through each team’s draft, pick out players to know, sleepers they are intrigued with, standout debut performers and then pick out which class of the division they’re most excited about. 

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• (3:00) Cubs
• (18:30) Reds
• (30:00) Brewers
• (41:00) Pirates
• (54:45) Cardinals
• (1:11:00) Our favorite draft classes

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This week on the Baseball America fantasy podcast, hosts Dylan White and Geoff Pontes dive into the expanded First Year Player Draft rankings published this week. We break down changes and additions to the top 50 before calling out some names to target in deeper FYPD settings.

• (2:00) Angels moves
• (8:00) Updated top 50 in FYPD
• (17:00) Kale Fountain
• (20:00) Tytus Cissell
• (23:00) Daniel Eagen
• (25:00) Cole Hertzler
• (28:00) Potential future closers

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