Launch Angle Changes, Early Season Trends & Slow Starts (4/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Alex Verdugo has raised his launch angle while Christian Yelich is hitting more ground balls (2:10). Shane McClanahan struck out a career-high nine batters on Monday. ... Revenge is a dish best served cold (13:30)! ... What do the early season trends say about the baseball (16:00)? ... Which hitters have underperformed and overperformed the most according to Statcast (23:16)? ... News and notes (32:20): we have updates on Mike Trout, Ronald Acuña and more. ... Brendan Rodgers, Joey Votto and others are off to very slow starts (36:25). ... Which hitters stood out on Monday (43:52)? ... What about the pitchers (46:45)? ... We wrap up with bullpens, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (56:22).
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.1 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of |
| 0:17.3 | romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Join in every sip with Red Carps now Back at Starbucks. |
| 0:32.9 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:40.9 | Got a fantasy question, email fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. |
| 0:45.8 | Get ready to win your league. |
| 0:47.8 | What's up and welcome in to fantasy baseball today on Tuesday April 19th. |
| 0:57.4 | Frank Sample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. |
| 1:00.8 | Today on the show we're going to recap all of Monday's action but it was a light slate. |
| 1:05.2 | So we'll also talk about early season trends, hitters that are off to slow starts and we've |
| 1:10.2 | got team name Tuesday. |
| 1:11.8 | Thankfully Chris is here because if anyone listened or watched last week you know it's |
| 1:16.9 | got and I were struggling. |
| 1:18.8 | First and foremost Chris how you doing man it feels like it's been a while. |
| 1:22.0 | How was softball? |
| 1:23.0 | I had a good day today. |
| 1:25.6 | We won 13 to 2. |
| 1:27.0 | I went 4 for 4 with two walks, probably some friendly home cooking from the score. |
| 1:33.2 | There were a couple of bad at balls that I don't know if the defense got a glove on them |
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