Is Aaron Nola still good? Plus our Week 20 preview (8/6 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Chris Towers and Scott White look closer at Aaron Nola, Framber Valdez, and Sonny Gray's recent struggles. Is Nola still a top-20 pitcher? Are Valdez and Gray still top-40 options? Plus, Scott's sleeper hitters and pitchers for Week 20 as the playoffs loom.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today presented by Lining Cougles about whom we'll talk more about later |
| 1:04.0 | when we get to the week 20 pitching and hitting planners. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Chris Towers. That's Scott White. |
| 1:10.0 | It is a Co-Como Friday. |
| 1:12.0 | It is the last episode until Frank comes back and I can get a full night of sleep. |
| 1:18.0 | So I'm looking forward to that. |
| 1:20.0 | On today's episode, you know, kind of weird night of baseball. |
| 1:24.0 | Scott and I were talking about this before the show and there were only really three pitchers on the schedule, I think. |
| 1:34.0 | I think you can say three, yeah, three pitchers on the schedule who in the recent past at least have been legitimate must-start pitchers. |
| 1:46.0 | I guess you might be able to make a case for a couple of other ones. |
| 1:49.0 | At some point this season, but who were legitimately viewed as really, really good reliable must-start fantasy pitchers. |
| 1:57.0 | All three of them pitch today. |
| 1:59.0 | All three of them pitch poorly today. |
| 2:02.0 | And that has been in keeping with a theme. |
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