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Four Big Starting Pitcher Questions Entering 2025! (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 podcast)

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Download and follow Fantasy Baseball Today in 5! You can find FBT in 5 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the Audacy App and wherever else podcasts are found.

How early is too early to draft Paul Skenes? Which Mariners starting pitcher gets traded? Can Corbin Burnes still be a legit ace? Should we bet on a Gerrit Cole bounce back?


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0:00.0

What are some of the biggest questions at starting pitcher?

0:03.0

Find out next on Fantasy Baseball today in five.

0:06.0

Welcome into FBT and 5 on Saturday, November 16th.

0:10.0

I am, for example, joined by Chris Towers.

0:13.0

And today we're looking at some starting pitcher questions.

0:16.0

Chris released a great newsletter, FBT newsletter,

0:18.0

so make sure to subscribe if you want to read more.

0:21.4

But we will start with Paul Skeens. Chris, how early is too early to draft Paul Skeens?

0:28.2

Well, I suppose that depends on who you ask. I think there is going to be someone in every single

0:35.5

draft who thinks he's worth a first round pick. It won't be me,

0:41.3

but I have seen in some of these early drafts, I'm doing one, he went seventh. I think you said

0:46.4

you were in one where he went fourth. Yeah. He's gone top five a few other times. There,

0:51.4

there aren't many drafts happening right now, but we are seeing first round Paul Skeens.

0:56.0

And personally, I can't justify that.

0:59.3

Like, if you think Paul Skeens is the best pitcher in baseball,

1:02.6

I think that's a reasonable statement to make.

1:06.3

Being that much more certain about him being the best pitcher in baseball

1:10.6

than anyone else

1:11.7

that you take him 8, 10, 12 spots ahead of any other starting pitcher, I just can't

1:17.9

justify that, right? Like, you look at all the underlying stats, uniformly suggest Paul

1:23.2

Schien's was one of the three to five best pitchers in baseball, but like, that was over 130 innings at the major league level.

1:31.1

If you think he was maybe a little better than Terrick Scouble last season,

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