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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 496: 2023 MLB Wildcard Round Preview

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

My thoughts on the wildcard round matchups and why I think some of these squads are already dead in the water unless something drastic happens.



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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of sports,

0:08.0

DFS and gambling. With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later, I guess he's been doing something right.

0:18.0

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

0:23.5

Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

0:26.2

Alright folks, I know some of you have been asking for this for quite some time so happy to finally be able to

0:36.5

break it down we have the MLB post-season

0:40.0

Preview with the games getting underway with the wild card round that's best of three series and I'll be honest

0:51.0

the AL is wide open but I think the ANL has some flaws too.

0:56.4

The Dodgers are not as solid as people think they are.

1:00.5

I don't think they're as safe and even the braves you know the pitching

1:06.4

who death is not there so you can get some upsets depending on how these

1:11.8

match-ups go so So I'm going to give my thoughts on both sides of the bracket and yeah we'll go from there. So we're going to start off with the AL.

1:23.6

Overall number one seed is a shocker, it's the Orioles.

1:28.1

Tampa just kind of fell apart down the stretch

1:31.5

due to injuries and the Wanda Franco situation which can we talk

1:36.9

about the Wanda Franco are we are we allowed to talk about that yet like basically

1:41.8

like ESPM went silent on this. For those of you who don't

1:46.4

know, Wanda Franco, by far the best player on the Tampa Bay Race, has been gone from the team

1:51.6

for the better part of three months now, which is where the season

1:56.2

started to turn for Tampa and Baltimore started gaining on them and I eventually overtook them.

2:02.2

But Wanda Franco is still under investigation for lack of a better term grooming a minor

2:19.0

overseas that he's being investigated allegedly of course but he's being investigated and is not actually moving forward with the team like he's on the

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