Waiver Options for the Final Week, Hitter Updates & Early 2025 SP Rankings! (9/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Shane Baz has been pitching well (2:22)! ... Griffin Canning dominated the White Sox and faces them again next week (8:22). ... The Yankees tee'd off on Bryan Woo (17:02). ... News (23:43): Steven Kwan was placed on the IL. ... Which pitchers could be used as streamers in the final week (28:57)? ... We have some deep league waiver wire hitters (31:58). ... Let's take a closer look at five hitters who've recently returned to the Majors (36:50). ... We got more pitcher letdowns on Tuesday (50:55). ... How do we plan to rank these starting pitchers in 2025 (55:02)? ... We wrap up with some unsung heroes, leftovers, bullpens and streamers (59:01).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today Podcast from CBS Sports. |
| 0:05.0 | And first pitch rushing deep left field. |
| 0:09.0 | This is Wied Rock the Wall! |
| 0:11.0 | Got a Fantasy Question. Email Fantasy Baseball at CBS. Welcome! Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. |
| 0:23.6 | What's up and welcome in Tough Fantasy Baseball today on Wednesday, September 18th. |
| 0:28.4 | I am Frank Stample joined by Chris Towers. |
| 0:30.9 | Today on the show, we have potential waiver wire options for the final week of the season. |
| 0:36.0 | We have updates on five hitters who've recently returned to the majors, some early 2025 starting pitcher talk and much more let's jump in |
| 0:45.9 | can you believe it wow all right Chris you are up player night. And I said I would do Shane Boz, who |
| 0:55.8 | had a very good start. |
| 0:57.2 | He's a two-star pitcher this week. |
| 0:59.3 | Got the first one out of the way against Boston. |
| 1:01.2 | Seven innings, two earned runs two hits one walk six |
| 1:04.8 | strike out to 18 whiffs on 96 pitches and that feels like an especially big deal |
| 1:11.0 | for Boz because while he has pitched well for the most part this season and coming back from Tommy John surgery |
| 1:16.2 | The strikeouts and the whiffs have not really been terribly impressive and |
| 1:22.2 | I want to be more optimistic about this start because he had 18 whiffs and what was, |
| 1:28.2 | six strikeouts and seven innings, which is fine but not great, but the 18 whiffs, that's great. 10 of them on the four seamer on 26 swings that's really good. |
| 1:37.6 | Everything else is still kind of not that impressive five whiffs on 20 swings with the curveball. He was pounding the zone in this one 60% in zone contact rate and or in zone pitch rate overall for Shane Boz in this one and I |
| 1:56.5 | started him in my big Rota League this week with two starts. I'm happy that I did with this start. He's for the most part been quite solid this season, but when we're |
| 2:07.8 | talking about projecting for 2025, I still can't quite figure out where I'm at on Shane Boss because what we've seen this season is the floor looks pretty high right like he's managed a 321 ERA, the X ERA is right around 370, so not quite as good but |
| 2:28.0 | playable and that's without you know big strikeout stuff. |
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