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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Has Reid Detmers Finally Figured It Out? | This Weekend’s MUST-START Pitchers & Sleeper Hitters (Ep. 1219)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Join Joe Pisapia and Chris Welsh as they highlight their favorite waiver wire adds to help you secure your matchups this weekend, and also a few names to consider picking up before next week gets underway!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.5

Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pro's MLB.

0:12.0

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:14.1

It's me, Joey P.

0:15.0

Joe P. Zapia.

0:15.8

With me, of course, is the Welsh.

0:17.1

And it's time to look ahead to the weekend in Fantasy Baseball.

0:19.8

We're going to talk about some streamers on the pitching side. some guys you can pick up off the waiver wire as hitters, and some other guys you might need in your lineups this weekend to win those matchups. And last week on this show, very successful. I gave you a Mickey Moniac and he gave you two home runs. I gave you Braxton Ashcraft. I gave you Chad Patrick. And guess what? It was a pretty damn good weekend. So I'm going to give you more guys. Welsh is going to give you more guys. Welsh, let's start with you here. And let's continue on here on our fantasy journey this weekend. And let's talk about a start of the week that you want to make a guy who's maybe a mid-rotation guy that you think is

0:54.5

absolutely a guy you got to throw in this weekend. Yeah, my mid-rotation guy, and I think a lot of

0:58.8

people are jumping on board with this finally, is Jeffrey Springs. Jeffrey Springs has got the

1:03.3

Chicago White Sox on Sunday, it looks like, and I absolutely love this start for him.

1:08.9

146 ERA through four starts.

1:11.2

WIP has been super low.

1:13.6

K percentage is kind of back up again.

1:16.4

He's inducing a bunch of just like really bad contact against.

1:19.8

Every pitch he throws has had a batting average of under 200 or more.

1:24.3

And his changeup has been getting whiffs like crazy.

1:27.4

Like that's like vintage type

1:29.1

of Jeffrey Springs and now you're going to put them up against a team that has had a bunch of

1:34.0

swinging whiff and guys like Colson Montgomery they're probably going to have to readjust and put

1:38.2

some of the scrubby players in if they're going to take out lefties like it's going to just be a

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