🚨Alex Bregman to the Chicago Cubs! - Emergency Podcast (1/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Alex Bregman is headed to the Cubs on a five-year, $175 million deal (2:22)! What's his early ADP (6:55)? ... As of now it looks like Matt Shaw is on the outside looking in (13:50). ... What's next for the Red Sox after losing Bregman (17:22)?
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| 0:00.0 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:02.2 | It was a big night in Chicago. |
| 0:03.8 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome into an emergency edition of fantasy baseball today on Sunday, January 11th. |
| 0:09.5 | I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Chris Towers. |
| 0:12.3 | While DeBairs were making a heroic comeback against the Packers, |
| 0:17.0 | the Cubs were busy signing Alex Bregman to a five-year $175 million deal, with $70 million of that deferred. |
| 0:26.1 | It's a great real-life edition for the Cubs. |
| 0:28.1 | Obviously, they get a veteran who's been there before, ads leadership, still productive on both sides of the ball. |
| 0:34.6 | But what about the fit in Wrigley for his fantasy value? Chris, my |
| 0:38.4 | original thought was, man, this move could just be absolutely terrible for Alex Bregman's value. |
| 0:44.0 | Dug in a little bit more. I don't feel as badly about it now. What do you think about Alex |
| 0:47.8 | Bregman in Chicago? It depends on which way the wind blows. |
| 0:54.1 | That's like actually literally the answer, unfortunately, |
| 0:57.1 | because by dimensions, |
| 0:59.1 | Riggily is not a great place for right-handed pull power. |
| 1:02.6 | If you look at the dimensions, |
| 1:04.8 | it is super deep down the line, |
| 1:07.0 | 355 feet down the left field line, |
| 1:09.3 | but because of the way it's angled, |
| 1:10.6 | because it's in |
| 1:11.1 | this city block, uh, it's actually very shallow in left center. It's one of the most, uh, shallow |
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