Aaron Judge to the IL & Defend Your Rankings! (6/5 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Judge has a stress fracture in his rib and will be re-examined in 4-6 weeks (1:00). ... Who are the top Judge replacements (8:03)? ... What to do with Shota Imanaga (16:47)? ... News (24:23): Max Muncy and Ildemaro Vargas left after a nasty collision. ... Jared Jones looked much better in his second start (32:20). ... Isaac Paredes is waking up (42:23). ... Defend your rankings (45:30)! ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (59:27).
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| 0:00.0 | Alconra, Suroka, you look so good in Volka, |
| 0:05.0 | Beralta, Manoa bounce back for Aeronola, |
| 0:12.0 | Gilido, Castillo, Yoshido Mos Suco |
| 0:16.0 | Vado, value's so high but 80p so low. |
| 0:21.6 | Frank loves hips, some kind of Joe. |
| 0:26.6 | Now let's get on with the show. |
| 0:29.6 | Happy Cocoa Friday and welcome in to fantasy baseball today. |
| 0:35.6 | On June 5th, I am Frank Stanful, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. |
| 0:40.7 | Today on the show, Aaron Judge is going to be out a while. |
| 0:44.7 | We will defend our rankings. |
| 0:47.0 | And what do we do with Shota Imanaga? |
| 0:50.4 | Another clunker, partially PCA-a-aided and inside the park home run there against Imanaga, |
| 0:57.0 | but we will talk about all of it, and we've got to start with bad news. |
| 1:01.1 | Breaking news on Aaron Judge. |
| 1:03.6 | It certainly is not good, but it could have been a lot worse. |
| 1:07.2 | So he has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the first rib on its right side. |
| 1:12.6 | It requires rest and limited activity. He will undergo imaging in four to six weeks to determine |
| 1:18.9 | the next steps. The Yankees say they expect him to return this season, but he will undergo |
| 1:25.0 | imaging in four to six weeks. That doesn't mean he will be back in four to six weeks. |
| 1:29.2 | So we'll find out more than if it's good. |
| 1:32.7 | He'll go out on a rehab assignment. |
| 1:34.1 | And I think the best case scenario is probably late July, early August. |
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