Temperature Check! Is Kyle Harrison An Ace? (5/21 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Kyle Harrison just mowed down the Cubs (2:20)! ... Who is Drew Anderson (8:39)? ... Trey Yesavage vs. Cam Schlittler was awesome (12:30). ... News (20:43): Tarik Skubal will need a rehab assignment before he returns. ... Let's do a temperature check on CJ Abrams, Randy Arozarena, Austin Riley, Tanner Bibee and Connelly Early (26:53). ... These six hitters are heating up (43:55). ... Brandon Marsh keeps hitting (50:10). ... Merrill Kelly or Andrew Abbott (56:12)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens and streamers (1:03:06).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:04.5 | And first pitch, watching deep left field. |
| 0:08.9 | This is why the one. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to me. |
| 0:11.2 | 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 | Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Where fantasy becomes reality. |
| 0:21.5 | Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello, welcome into fantasy baseball today. |
| 0:26.6 | On Thursday, May 21st, I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White. |
| 0:31.5 | Today on the show, we have a temperature check. |
| 0:33.9 | See how we feel about some polarizing players rest of season. |
| 0:38.9 | I've got hitters who are trending up, a pitcher's duel in the Bronx, and much more. Let's jump in. Oh my goodness. |
| 0:46.5 | Holy cow, do you believe it? And that was exactly what I said while watching Kyle Harrison |
| 0:53.5 | pitch here on Wednesday. He destroyed the Cubs. |
| 0:57.9 | Seven shutout innings with 11 strikeouts. Two hits, one walk. He had 19 whiffs on 94 pitches. |
| 1:04.9 | 13 on the fastball, six on the slurve. He used both of those pitches a little bit more in this one. |
| 1:11.6 | And that's all he needed. I mean, fastball was just unbelievable much like it has been all season. I mean that fastball |
| 1:17.3 | entering this start had a 32% whiff rate and that is like top of the league type stuff and |
| 1:23.9 | that number is only going to go up because the fastball had a 43% whiff rate here in this start. |
| 1:29.4 | I have been, I guess, a little hesitant or slow to really boost Kyle Harrison up the rankings, |
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