2025 Starting Pitcher Part 1! Pitching Landscape, Strategy & Top-12 ADP! (2/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Fantasy Baseball Today

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Pitcher injuries continue to rise in baseball (3:13)! ... Injuries are pretty unpredictable (13:16). ... How do you approach pitchers returning from injury (19:50)? ... Innings are down across baseball (26:52). ... How are league-wide stats trending (31:32)? ... What is our starting pitcher strategy this season (34:07)? ... Let's get into starting pitcher ADP, beginning with Paul Skenes (46:35)! ... Tarik Skubal is coming off a Cy Young season (51:05). ... Is Zack Wheeler undervalued (53:49)? ... Logan Gilbert is a deserving Top-5 SP (56:40). ... Corbin Burnes signed with the Dbacks this offseason (1:00:45). ... Chris Sale is coming off a Cy Young season (1:05:40). ... Garrett Crochet is a high risk, high reward play this season (1:10:27). ... Cole Ragans had a successful first season with the Royals (1:16:37). ... Is Dylan Cease a SP1 (1:19:22)? ... George Kirby is more of a SP2 (1:25:02). ... Are you OK with the Blake Snell experience (1:28:45)? ... Gerrit Cole has a wide range of outcomes this season (1:33:32). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QiKv Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.8	Best for last. It's time for pitching previews.
0:57.1	Welcome in Tough Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, February 13th. I am Frank Stamphle,
1:02.4	joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
1:07.3	are you suggesting we're not doing a relief pitcher preview? Is that what you're telling me right now?
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