🚨 Baseball is Back! Prepping For a 60-Game Season (06/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After months of waiting, it looks like baseball is set to return! MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has implemented a 60-game season, with spring training 2.0 scheduled for early July. How does that affect Fantasy Baseball (2:40)? How should you approach H2H leagues with only 60 games? ... What kind of changes are we looking at (6:38)? How do we approach the universal DH? ... Will teams be more aggressive with prospects in a shortened season (9:20)? We could see more of Nate Pearson and MacKenzie Gore than expected. ... With the DH in the National League, should we downgrade NL pitchers (12:39)? ... Are Scott or Chris changing their draft strategy now (17:46)? ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:05.0 | I drive Senator Fier, Victor Rol, and Simon. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Magnificent. |
| 0:11.0 | Got a fantasy question, email fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. |
| 0:16.0 | Get ready to win your league. |
| 0:18.0 | What fantasy? |
| 0:19.0 | It comes reality. |
| 0:21.0 | Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam. |
| 0:24.0 | Baseball is back, baby. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, kind of, hopefully. |
| 0:28.0 | Frank's sample here with scowlite and Chris Towers, an emergency edition of fantasy baseball today. |
| 0:34.0 | And guys, this isn't exactly how we thought we were going to get here. |
| 0:38.0 | It wasn't really agreed upon. |
| 0:39.0 | It now looks like Rob Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, will have to implement the season himself. |
| 0:45.0 | And as of now, it looks like we are going to get a 60 game MLB season. |
| 0:50.0 | And the statement released from MLB has two questions the players need to respond to by tomorrow. |
| 0:55.0 | Right now we're recording this late Monday night, June 22nd. |
| 0:59.0 | The first question that they need to respond to is whether or not the players will be able to arrive in camp by July 1st. |
| 1:07.0 | And the second is whether or not the players association will agree on the operating manual which contains the health and safety protocols necessary to give us the best opportunity to conduct and complete our regular season and postseason. |
| 1:21.0 | Scott. |
| 1:22.0 | What's going on, man? |
| 1:24.0 | What does this all mean? |
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