2022 Relief Pitcher Preview! The State of Closers (2/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Before we get to relief pitchers, we have an updated Kokomo Friday! Make sure you stick around to the end of the pod to hear it. ... What is the state of the closer in Fantasy Baseball (3:43)? ... What is your relief pitcher strategy in 5x5 Roto leagues (8:45)? ... What are SPARPs (14:00)? What is our relief pitcher strategy in H2H points leagues? ... How do we handle H2H categories and what is the Marmol strategy (21:20)? ... Let's take a look at each American League bullpen (26:35). ... Who are the definitive closers in the National League (41:05)? ... Let's take a closer look at relief pitcher ADP (55:33). ... Who are our favorite sleeper, breakout and bust candidates (1:07:45)? ... We wrap up with the brand new Kokomo Friday (1:24:22)!
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| 0:55.6 | Happy Cuckamo Friday and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on February 18th. |
| 1:10.0 | I am Frank Sample joined by Sky White and today is a huge day, not just because it's a relief |
| 1:16.1 | picture preview, but I have in my possession an updated version of Cuckamo Friday, which we will play |
| 1:23.9 | at the end of today's podcast, huge shout out to our buddies, Doc Rotser and Dave Scaff. |
| 1:30.5 | For putting it together, it is truly amazing. Move over at him. There's a new host in town. |
| 1:37.5 | I kind of feel like this is my coronation onto the podcast. |
| 1:42.0 | You're included in the new version of the Cuckamo Friday song. Yeah, that was great. |
| 1:48.4 | This is a momentous occasion. Everybody will want to listen through to the end because of that. |
| 1:57.4 | As if they don't have enough reasons to. |
| 2:00.6 | Who doesn't want to hear my sleepers outside of the top 480p by the end of this podcast? |
| 2:06.2 | A relief picture. We got two bar lows to talk about. We got to talk about Scott, |
| 2:12.3 | not me, but Scott Barlow and we got to talk about Joe. |
| 2:15.3 | Oh, we have a lot to talk about. A lot to talk about indeed here, Scotty. Today on the show, |
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