Players We Draft: Central Edition; Shohei Ohtani's Value (06/04 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we're talking about our players to draft from the AL and NL Central divisions but first, we answer some questions on Shohei Ohtani (2:00)! Will he be more injury-prone than the average player? What format are you most likely to draft him in? What is his dynasty outlook? ... Taking a look at the players we love to draft in the Central divisions, we start off with the Cleveland Indians (9:44). Everybody loves Franmil Reyes! ... For the White Sox, Chris is buying into the adjustments Yoan Moncada made in 2019 (13:02). Scott and Frank are trusting Lucas Giolito. ... Is it possible to draft every hitter on the Twins (16:57)? Will Nelson Cruz ever stop mashing? ... When it comes to the Detroit Tigers, there is only one option (20:40)! ... For the Kansas City Royals, Scott favors Jorge Soler while Frank is on Salvador Perez (23:33). ... Chris has to run but first he gives us his favorite NL central players (26:45). ... Scott thinks Nick Castellanos can have Nolan Arenado type upside with the Reds (32:13). ... Why is Ian Happ such a popular sleeper (36:37)? ... The Brewers are known for advancing hitters' careers (40:05). Can they do it with Avisail Garcia? ... Even though the Pirates are expecting to be a bad team, they have some interesting players (44:00). ... Is Dylan Carlson the next big thing with the Cardinals (47:00)? ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com.
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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 how good Ken show hey, O'Connie really be |
| 0:27.0 | We answer that question and many more here on fantasy baseball today on a Thursday June 4th Frankstample alongside |
| 0:34.5 | Scotty dubs Scott white Scott. We're alone for now. Just us two men. Hmm. How's it going? Yeah |
| 0:43.0 | Chris is gonna join us later, right that is correct |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, let's look forward to that CPT busy man Adam Azer another one. How dare he take off? |
| 0:53.4 | Adam |
| 0:54.4 | Anyways, you know I realized now that we should have talked about O'Connie yesterday because we were talking about the |
| 1:00.2 | AL and NL West teams, but I guess because we had the Chris Archer news just |
| 1:05.6 | Couldn't really fit it in what are you gonna do Scott? You know, what are you gonna do? |
| 1:09.2 | That's what we're having trouble do it right now with all this stuff happening fitting things in to our fantasy baseball podcast |
| 1:15.4 | There you go |
| 1:16.6 | Well, I wanted to talk about O'Connie because we we've been getting more questions about O'Connie recently and then I |
| 1:22.9 | Realized the two questions we have are probably from the same person because they're both from Andrew and Canada |
| 1:28.4 | So I will just I'll read one of them because they're basically they basically asked the same questions, but dear ace backster |
| 1:35.7 | Bernie and Billy |
| 1:39.4 | Ace backster Bernie and man |
| 1:43.5 | Not no, do you know? |
| 1:45.5 | These are I did not know but he included the answer |
| 1:48.8 | These are MLB mascots for the blue jays diamond backs brewers |
| 1:54.0 | Bernie the brewer I guess and the marlins Billy the Marlin. Ah |
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