Closers to Add, Week 19 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers (8/5 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Hernandez and Dany Jimenez are emerging as closers on the waiver wire (1:05). ... Jeffrey Springs looks to be back on track (6:18). Springs or Marcus Stroman (10:30)? ... Alec Bohm stayed hot on Thursday (17:38). ... What's going on with Joe Musgrove recently (29:05). ... News (32:53): We have updates on Bryce Harper and Mike Trout plus Edward Cabrera will return on Friday. ... What do we need to know about Bubba Thompson and Cole Ragans (41:45)? ... What is the Week 19 schedule and which two-start pitchers should we target (43:50)? ... Which sleeper hitters should you target (50:00). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens and streamers (56:06).
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| 0:00.0 | www. minutesnavers.com |
| 0:30.0 | Happy! |
| 0:35.0 | Come on Friday and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on August 5th, Frank Sample joined |
| 0:42.6 | by these Scotty Dubs, Scott White, today on the show. |
| 0:46.7 | Jeffrey Springs gets back on track, week 19 sleepers, two star pitchers, and much more. |
| 0:52.6 | Boleschumin. |
| 0:53.6 | Oh my goodness gracious. |
| 0:56.2 | All right, Scotty. Oh my goodness gracious. Stand out or stand out for Thursday's action. |
| 1:04.6 | Yes, yes. I do have a combo meal for you today. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm going to go with a couple of relief pitchers. |
| 1:10.2 | The one who is most rostered is only 34% rostered in CBS Sports League. |
| 1:14.8 | So two highly available relief pitchers who may be pivotal closers down the stretch. |
| 1:23.0 | And we could use some fresh faces in the contributing to the saves category after the trade deadline. |
| 1:31.9 | And obviously that kind of disrupted the whole closer landscape in fantasy as it always |
| 1:36.5 | does. |
| 1:37.5 | Okay, so one of them is Jonathan Hernandez, who pitched a perfect ninth for the save on Thursday, |
| 1:44.2 | struck out two. |
| 1:46.4 | And this was a day after he worked the ninth inning with the two run deficit and made |
| 1:53.2 | it a four run deficit. |
| 1:54.2 | So I didn't look good in a non-save situation the night before, but it was good to see him |
| 1:57.4 | working back to back days because he's coming off Tommy John surgery and sometimes teams |
| 2:01.8 | are reluctant to do that. |
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