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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 382: MLB Trade Deadline Recap aka the Juan Soto Sweepstakes

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My thoughts on the winners and losers of the MLB trade deadline and the importance it holds for the rest of the season. Pretty telling indictment of the league that over half of these teams are not even trying despite two wildcard spots in both leagues. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fantasy-throwdown-podcast/donations

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the fantasy throw-down podcast.

0:04.0

The fantasy throw-down podcast.

0:07.0

Bringing you the latest from the world of daily fantasy sports and gambling

0:12.0

so you can stop googling how to join a squid game to cover all those

0:16.4

parlays you thought were such a sure thing.

0:20.0

Now sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

0:23.9

Here's your host, Duane calendar.

0:27.1

All right, folks, welcome back to the show.

0:31.4

We have Baseball Trade Deadline news to catch up on this Tuesday night

0:37.0

so let's just get right down to it I'll go through the various divisions, but let's just start off with the division that made the most

0:47.8

news, and that is the N.L. West because, guess what? Moncoto actually got traded and you know the bottom line

1:01.4

is the best player to pretty much ever get traded at the trade deadline

1:08.1

Given he's an MVP caliber player of this of this stage like at the deadline

1:17.0

realistically you know yeah you can make a case and again at the time it wasn't I mean I'm trying to think like of notable

1:29.2

trade lines like how many are pretty much locked in the prime of their careers as one

1:36.5

setto is I'm really struggling to come up with a comparable comparison just

1:41.8

because you don't move guys like Juan Soto at the trade deadline.

1:45.0

But the Washington Nationals are, you know, so poorly managed, and we talked about this for years,

1:52.0

the fact that they committed, Mike Rizzo committed to,

1:57.0

Strasbourg, when it didn't make any sense, he wasn't the integral part about why they won the championship.

2:04.0

They put in the money on Scherzer and ownership wasn't looking to pay for

2:09.0

positional players so that's why you lost Tra Turner.

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