🚨Nelson Cruz Traded To The Tampa Bay Rays! - Emergency Podcast (7/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Nelson Cruz was just traded to the Tampa Bay Rays! What does this mean for his Fantasy value? Well... he's awesome. Who might lose playing time on the Rays? What do we need to know about the prospects Minnesota received in Joe Ryan and Drew Strotman? Who will gain playing time on the Twins now?
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| 0:00.0 | Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam. |
| 0:06.0 | Just like that, we have our first decent-sized trade of the trade deadline season with Nelson |
| 0:11.4 | Cruz headed to the Tampa Bay Rays. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome into an emergency edition of Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday night, July 22. |
| 0:19.5 | Frank Stample joined by Chris Towers, the final deal, Nelson Cruz and minor league |
| 0:25.0 | reliever Calvin Fautcher in exchange for two pitching prospects from the Rays, Joe Ryan |
| 0:30.8 | and Drew Stratman. |
| 0:32.9 | Honestly, Chris, we haven't talked about Nelson Cruz seemingly all season long because |
| 0:37.6 | he's just doing what he always does. |
| 0:39.3 | He's currently the 57th ranked player in Roto. |
| 0:41.9 | Does this do anything for his value? |
| 0:43.7 | No, probably not. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, the one thing I guess would be it's the Rays, so you never know if maybe they |
| 0:49.0 | won't play him as much as the twins were, but they probably will. |
| 0:54.6 | He steps on the field and I mean, he has to be their best hitter by a decent margin. |
| 0:59.7 | So given that they have a designated hitter spot available and a ton of guys can play |
| 1:04.9 | a ton of different positions. |
| 1:05.9 | I don't see any reason to think that they wouldn't just put him out there every single |
| 1:09.9 | day and let him mash. |
| 1:11.1 | This is a team that needs offense. |
| 1:13.8 | They've got a lot of really interesting pieces, but it's been a, you know, we talked about |
| 1:17.7 | on the podcast yesterday. |
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