Ronald Acuña Is Back! Week 5 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers (4/29 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Fantasy Baseball Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ronald Acuña is back (1:00)! What are our expectations? ... Adalberto Mondesi is out for the season while Zack Wheeler had his best start of the season (5:07). ... Freddy Peralta and Trevor Rogers are getting back on track (8:50). ... Justin Verlander, Alek Manoah and Kyle Wright continue to look like studs (15:00). ... Is Alec Bohm a must-roster hitter (18:06)? How do we rank the latest waiver wire outfielders. ... News and notes (27:14): hitting is down in the minors plus we have starting pitcher injury updates. ... Let's get you ready for Week 5 with two-start pitchers and sleepers (33:50). ... Where did this Jose Quintana start come from (48:25)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (53:30).

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is
0:13.6	then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps
0:17.9	and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath
0:21.6	but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
0:25.0	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:55.0	Happy.
1:05.0	Go about Friday and welcome in to Fantasy baseball today on April 29th Frank Stanford
1:11.7	joined by Scott White today on the show. We had some pictures get back on track.
1:17.5	We'll talk about those week five sleepers two star pictures and much more but first
1:23.6	even before we get to oh my goodness gracious welcome back welcome back is in order for
1:29.2	Ronald Acunia Jr. Three weeks into the season he is back on Thursday goes one for four two strike
1:37.2	outs but two steals already are you kidding me Scott this guy looks healthy he looks good
1:43.5	and honestly hopefully he can be the start of the return to offense in fantasy baseball
1:50.4	because it was great to see him back on the field. Yeah it was great to see him back for sure
1:57.2	turns out more than a week sooner than expected which yeah I think we saw that coming right even
2:04.4	when they announced even before he began his mind I'll agree have his line right it's like
2:10.2	you're really gonna need three weeks that seems excessive and so he's back and the fact he's running
2:17.1	I think is a good sign for that knee if you're worried that any skill would be diminished after
2:23.4	a torn ACL it would be what he does on the base paths obviously a big part of what he provides in
2:29.5	fantasy of course now the line from the braves is that he's not gonna be ready to play every day
2:38.4	yet in fact I one of the beatwriters was tweeting out they're not expecting him to be ready to play
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