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Fantasy Baseball Today

Weekend Recap! Ranking Waiver Wire Options & Gausman Concern (8/23 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Fantasy Baseball Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Is Triston McKenzie the top waiver wire pitcher right now (3:20)? Nicky Lopez is running wild and Tyler Naquin is hitting bombs again! ... Chris Sale's velocity was down again in his second start (13:25). Should you start him this week? ... News and notes (14:51). Anthony DeSclafani went to the IL, Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th career homer, Kenta Maeda is dealing with a forearm injury and more. ... Daulton Varsho or Elias Diaz (27:30)? Any interest in these deep league hitters? ... Who were the hitting standouts from the weekend (32:32)? Is Christian Yelich showing signs of coming around? ... Let's rank a bunch of pitching streamers for this week (36:07)! How worried are we about Yusei Kikuchi and Kevin Gausman (42:00)? ... Start or sit these SP (47:34)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, and streamers for Monday and Tuesday (52:18). 


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What's going on everybody? Welcome into Fantasy Baseball's day on Monday, August 23rd.

1:02.0

Frank Stamford joined by Scott White and Chris Towers to recap the weekend, get you the latest

1:08.0

waiver wire ads. Aaron Nola and Christian Yellich might be back and much more.

1:13.0

First and foremost, hope everybody is doing all right. This tropical storm that hit the northeast is...

1:18.0

It's pretty bad. We're recording around midnight and I just got my power back about an hour ago.

1:24.0

So, tweeted out, Christmas Miracle. Thankfully we're here. We're all together.

1:28.0

Chris Scott, me, Frank.

1:31.0

What's up Chris? How you doing? How was the weekend?

1:34.0

It was good. I went to a concert on Saturday. I saw my favorite band Wilco.

1:38.0

I saw a little bit of sleeter Kenny as well but unfortunately the tropical storm kind of wrecked that.

1:44.0

They had to stop the concert for like an hour because of lightning and all that.

1:48.0

But I got to say watching a concert in the rain when everybody's just decided that we're okay getting soaked.

1:56.0

That was kind of a really good time. Like, I'm hoping I don't get sick as a result of it.

2:03.0

You know, running around and just a perpetual downpour for like three and a half hours.

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