Starting Pitcher Tiers! Strategy, ADP and Targets (2/2 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Before we get into the tiers, what does the pitching landscape look like in 2023 (3:20)? ... Let's start with the elite tier (7:40). Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer are screaming values. ... Floor-ceiling combo of Woodruff and Wheeler (17:40). OK with Rodon, Strider, and Cease as your SP1? ... No Joe Musgrove love (26:10)? Buying these breakouts? ... News (37:14): Paul Sewald should be good to go for spring training. ... Buy the Hunter Greene hype (39:25)? ... Fade the veterans from last season (47:10)? Will Berrios, Giolito and Flaherty bounce back? ... We wrap up with the deep-league names to know (56:32).
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| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball. |
| 1:01.2 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. I feel like we haven't talked enough about starting pictures, |
| 1:05.6 | so let's change that. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball Today on Thursday, February 2nd. |
| 1:10.7 | I am Frank Sample, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, |
| 1:15.3 | starting picture tears. All of them. All the pictures we're going to talk about every single. |
| 1:19.6 | No, we're not going to talk about every single one of them. |
| 1:21.3 | Scott, I didn't see your face because one of my screens was blocking it. How was the intro today? |
| 1:26.1 | Was it a ride or? Yeah, I was surprised to hear you say you don't feel like we've talked about |
| 1:30.9 | starting pictures enough because I feel like that's half of Fantasy Baseball is starting. |
| 1:34.8 | So how could we not talk about it? But then I was just thinking it through just now, |
| 1:39.2 | and I was like, you know, there may be a reason for that. And it's just that it feels like |
| 1:44.8 | starting pitching isn't nearly as interesting going into this year as it's been in recent years. |
| 1:51.6 | The stakes feel so much lower at this position than they felt in the past few years. |
| 1:58.9 | Like the middle class is back like when we're going through the tears, we're going to say, |
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