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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

This Weekend’s MUST-START Pitchers & Sleeper Hitters (Ep. 1277)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Join Joe Pisapia and Chris Welsh as they highlight their favorite waiver wire adds to help you secure your matchups this weekend, and also a few names to consider picking up before next week gets underway!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.5

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB.

0:11.8

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:13.8

It is me, Joey P.

0:14.7

Joe P. Zapia.

0:15.4

With me, of course, is the Welsh.

0:17.0

And we're here on the YouTube channel, Fantasy Bros. MLB.

0:19.1

Subscribe.

0:19.7

Like this video.

0:20.4

You know what to do for all your fantasy baseball action. In Welsh, we're going to the YouTube channel, Fantasy Bros. MLB, subscribe, like this video, you know what to do.

0:21.5

For all your fantasy baseball action in Welsh, we're going to look ahead to the weekend action. We've got a lot of fun games going on. We've got some returning pitchers. That's very exciting. If Jared Jones is still out there in your league, go grab them. Of course, somebody else does in a shallow league. and we're going to talk about some streaming pitchers potentially, some guys here on the fence about,

0:37.8

and of course some hitters too.

0:39.3

They can help you if you've got some holes in your lineup.

0:41.2

But let's start here with the start of the weekend. You might be on the fence about starting Red Detmer's against the Tampa Bay raise. But I'm going to start Redetmers. I've talked already on the show about Detmer's on the year. I understand the ERA is north of four and a half, but the expected ERA is a 287.

1:11.6

The expected batting average is a 209. He struck out 75 guys in 63 innings, and the whip is at 1.14. He's been a guy that's had some really bad luck. The FIP, the X FIP are all much lower than the ERA too. So for me, Detmer's is a guy that I think is a good situation here against Tampa, despite the fact Tampa has obviously been very good this year, I would go ahead

1:16.1

and start him. And look, he is basically rostered in just 61% of CBS League. So in more shallow

1:21.8

leagues, he's even a streamer potentially in some formats. But Dettmers, I know some of the results

1:27.1

haven't been where we wanted, but the underlying metrics are still really good, and I'm still willing to ride those this weekend with Redetmers, hopefully, to some good fantasy baseball productivity. Welsh, who's a guy that maybe people are on the fence about starting that you would throw out there? I'm going to jump into kind of similar talking to you about your percentages.

1:44.8

Our boy, Zebby Matthews, Zebby Matthews, at 29% ownership across Yahoo and ESPN.

1:51.8

That's the Fantasy Pros consensus here. Very, very available across the board.

1:56.4

It's going up against Pittsburgh Pirates. You've also got Connor Griffin that's out of the lineup,

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