Opening Weekend Recap! Add Yermin Mercedes? (4/5 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Fantasy Baseball Today

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4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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I know we talk about Shohei Ohtani all the time but let's just start there (2:36). The guy is a freak! ... Let's hit our OMGG players from the weekend, starting with Chris Paddack who doesn't look right (7:55). Is Yermin Mercedes a must-add player? Is Jose Berrios finally taking that next step? ... We have news and notes (19:27), including an update on the Nats COVID situation, Ke'Bryan Hayes to the IL and the Dbacks closer situation. ... Believe it or not (27:51)! Julian Merryweather is the closer for the Blue Jays, John Means Business, and Zack Wheeler is a fantasy ace. ... Who are the top waiver wire hitters from the weekend (37:42)? ... How about waiver wire pitchers (47:37)? ... What's going on with the closer carousel (54:00)? ... We wrap up with 'To Stream or Not To Stream' and leftovers from the weekend (57:55). ... Email us at [email protected]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports
0:11.4	Got a fantasy question email fantasy baseball at CBS I dot com get ready to win your lead
0:21.4	Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam so much to talk about where do we begin happy belated Easter?
0:27.7	Hope everybody had a great weekend and welcome into fantasy baseball today Frank sample joined by Scott white and Chris towers
0:35.7	How is your fantasy weekend guys? How you doing? How you feeling? I went to a major league baseball game
0:43.0	Actually for the first time I was realizing the other day since 2018
0:46.8	I didn't go to any games in 2019 because I was living in West Palm Beach and it would have been like an hour and a half drive to get to a
0:53.4	Marlins game. So that was my first baseball game in almost three years. You went to Yankee Stadium right nuts
0:59.1	I went to the Yankees blue jays game on Sunday Saturday. I watched Cory Klubber pitch
1:06.4	Pretty poorly. Yeah, honestly
1:09.0	That's all Vladimir Guerrero hit a ball hard. So you know, he's been doing a lot of that
1:13.4	He's been doing a lot of that. Would you think of the stadium in general Chris?
1:16.9	It's it's fine. It's nice. It's it's nice
1:21.8	Sure, I don't know like I don't think there's another word for it besides just nice like it's just like that's fine
1:28.2	No, it's like like if you go to like one of those like
1:31.2	You know like one of those planned communities where they have the houses that they build in like two and a half months and they
1:36.2	That's like a four bedroom house. It's like 1,400 square feet
1:39.1	They've got like stainless steel friend and you just like yeah, this is nice
1:43.4	This this looks exactly like your neighbor's house. It's nice. I've never heard anyone describe Yankee Stadium that way
1:49.8	But I'll take it. It's better than you saying it sucked so I'll take it actually reminded me of Marlon's park
1:58.0	I don't know if that's that's something that people will get mad at actually like that or work
2:02.8	I actually really like Marlon's park like just the aesthetic of it. I do too. It's a nice park
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