Week 5 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers! (4/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Frank Stampfl and Scott White are previewing Week 5 of the 2026 Fantasy Baseball season! Start or sit Jesus Luzardo with two starts next week? Mick Abel leads the sleeper pitchers. Angel Martinez is off to a great start and has good matchups next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's preview week five up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome in to FPC Express on Saturday, April 18th. |
| 0:08.3 | I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White, and let's kick things off with the schedule for next week. |
| 0:14.4 | The first week that includes teams with five games. |
| 0:17.4 | So we have eight teams with seven games, the Braves, Red Sox, Cubs, Rockies, Tigers, Dodgers, |
| 0:24.5 | Phillies, and Nationals, 20 teams with six games, and two unlucky teams with five games, the D-backs |
| 0:31.7 | and the Padres. So you might want to avoid some fringe hitters on those specific teams. |
| 0:38.2 | What about the Rockies? They do have seven games. Four are at home. |
| 0:42.2 | Three on the road. The home games, one against the Dodgers. I guess that's a |
| 0:46.5 | wraparound series from the weekend. And then three against the Padres. So keep that in mind. |
| 0:51.4 | Starters sit these projected two start pitchers. |
| 0:55.7 | I know Jesus Lozardo was drafted as your SP1, as your SP2. |
| 1:00.9 | He's been bad. |
| 1:02.3 | It's got to restarting him at the Cubs, at the Braves. |
| 1:05.2 | It doesn't really get easier. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, it's, he had one great start and the stuff has looked very good |
| 1:13.7 | and you can't help but wonder if that awful start last time out |
| 1:18.4 | I mean reporters were asking about it was he tipping his pitches again |
| 1:22.4 | Lazardo himself seemed insistent that he wasn't |
| 1:26.1 | but that he'd review the tape and, you know, |
| 1:29.6 | get to the bottom of what's going on. |
| 1:32.7 | It makes you wary, though, |
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