Roto/Categories Strategy! Brendan Donovan Traded to the Mariners! (2/3 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Before we get to the strategy talk, Brendan Donovan was sent to the Mariners in a three-team trade (3:50). ... Will JJ Wetherholt be up on Opening Day (10:10)? ... Let's get into H2H categories strategy talk (17:08). ... How should you construct your lineup in H2H categories (26:43)? ... Which hitters gain value in H2H categories (31:30)? ... Should you punt in this format (38:41)? ... What changes in daily lineup leagues (45:00)? ... Let's talk Roto strategy (50:48). ... How does draft strategy change in Roto (57:10)? ... What are your category targets in 12-team Roto leagues (1:04:48)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:04.7 | And first pitch, watching deep left field. |
| 0:08.9 | This is why I want to walk them off. |
| 0:11.3 | Got a fantasy question? |
| 0:12.7 | Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. |
| 0:16.2 | Get ready to win your league. |
| 0:18.5 | Where fantasy becomes reality. |
| 0:21.6 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:23.6 | Strategy Week continues. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome into fantasy baseball today on Tuesday. |
| 0:27.6 | February 3rd. I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. |
| 0:32.6 | Today on the show, all things categories. |
| 0:35.6 | We have head to head categories, 5x five roto strategy. We'll talk a little |
| 0:39.5 | daily lineups as well. And we had a three-team trade that sent Brendan Donovan over to the |
| 0:45.5 | Mariners. More on that a little bit later on. Guess which team was involved in the three-team trade? |
| 0:51.3 | So I saw a stat that since the end of the 2023 season, there have been |
| 0:55.7 | seven three-team trades and the raise have been involved in six of them. |
| 1:00.4 | Totally tracks. I feel like they're just lurking. They're just like, oh, you guys doing a trade? |
| 1:05.7 | Oh, oh. You guys got any trades? You need a third? We can get Ben Williamson. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, that was the funniest thing about this trade is as the details were coming out, they kept being like, okay, here's what's going to the Mariners, and here's what's going to the Cardinals, and here's what's going to the Rays. And every new report was like, but the Rays aren't giving anything up. Right. And it was like, there's an old tweet that was like, love this trade for the raise. |
| 1:30.9 | Who'd they give up? |
| 1:31.6 | What'd they get? |
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