DO NOT DRAFT: Pitcher Edition; How To Evaluate Pitchers (05/20 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today we're revealing our pitchers to avoid this season but first, how do we evaluate pitching for Fantasy Baseball? What stats do each of Scott, Adam, and Chris look at? ... How much has a pitcher's workload changed over the past few seasons (12:15)? Has 180 innings become the new 200 innings for starting pitchers? ... Our email of the day asks how we're handling injuries in the shortened season (16:27). Does it change how you look at Mike Clevinger or Carlos Correa? ... Finally, which pitchers are on our DO NOT DRAFT teams this season (28:30)? Why is Chris avoiding Mike Clevinger? ... Scott and Frank seem to be off of Blake Snell (36:15). Is it all injury related? ... Are the second-round pitchers overpriced this year (40:37)? ... Mike Soroka broke out in 2019 but Adam seems wary (43:43). Who's the most accurate long-term player comp for Soroka? ... Scott delivers a FANTASTIC Michael Caine impersonation (51:45). ... We end with the relievers we're avoiding for 2020 (53:49). ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports |
| 0:11.4 | Got a fantasy question email fantasy baseball at CBS I dot com get ready to win your lead |
| 0:21.4 | Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam happy hum day everybody and welcome to fantasy baseball today on this Wednesday |
| 0:28.8 | May 20th Frank Samful here with Chris Adam and Scott yesterday |
| 0:34.4 | We did our hitter edition of the do not draft team and today we're gonna get into our pitchers |
| 0:39.8 | Our starting pitchers and relievers who we will not be drafting in 2020 and |
| 0:45.8 | Yesterday I started the show asking Adam how he identifies players that he avoids considering we're gonna focus more on pitchers today |
| 0:54.6 | I figured |
| 0:56.6 | Why not ask |
| 0:58.1 | How do you evaluate pitchers in general for fantasy baseball? |
| 1:01.9 | What are the things that you are looking for it seems like a loaded question and the only person who can really encapsulate the answer |
| 1:09.3 | would be see P T |
| 1:12.5 | Chris how do you evaluate pitchers for fantasy baseball? |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, I actually I |
| 1:18.9 | Actually find evaluating pitchers a lot more enjoyable than evaluating hitters because there's a lot more that goes into it |
| 1:24.7 | And so you know you wrote that call last week about pitchers who made adjustments and so you know you start with the top line numbers |
| 1:34.3 | You know |
| 1:35.5 | ERA whip yes, but also fit X-Fip Sierra DRA all those stats and you just try to identify |
| 1:43.7 | The guys who you think will be best on a perning basis and then |
| 1:49.9 | It's a little harder to do the innings now because there's really only |
| 1:54.9 | I don't know eight guys that you could reasonably predict a throw 200 innings in any given season so you give those guys a |
| 2:01.8 | Little bit of a boost |
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