Worryometer Wednesday; Kenta Maeda is AWESOME! (08/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Happy Wednesday, especially if you have Kenta Maeda on your Fantasy team! What is Maeda's value rest-of-season (1:09)? Unfortunately, Taylor Rogers blew another save. Is it time to add Sergio Romo? ... The unwritten rules of baseball are dumb (7:02). That is all. Keep swinging away, Fernando Tatis. For our OMGG players of the night, Frankie Montas gave you -18.5 Fantasy points (9:28) while Antonio Senzatela was awesome again. Should we buy-low on Montas and trust Senzatela? ... Onto news and notes, the Astros have finally placed Yordan Alvarez on the IL due to discomfort in his right knee (15:16). Christian Pache is being promoted by the Braves and is it time to drop David Dahl? ... Let's fire up the Worryometer (21:40)! How worried should we be over Jose Altuve, Eugenio Suarez, Cody Bellinger, Rhys Hoskins, and Mitch Garver? ... Who were the good standouts from Tuesday's action (34:22)? Snell's pitch count is up while Tony Gonsolin and Marco Gonzales were both great. Did you know Bryce Harper is a Top-5 hitter in FPPG and these Blue Jays hitters have been impressive. ... With the good, comes the bad and the ugly (45:30). What happened with Dylan Bundy and Carlos Carrasco? ... Is it time to drop Nate Pearson, Masahiro Tanaka, and Tarik Skubal? ... Email us at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com.
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| 1:02.3 | hitter on Tuesday night from our boy, Kenta, my aide. Welcome to fantasy baseball today, |
| 1:08.1 | auto Wednesday, August 19, Frank's N'File alongside scout white and scout. We often talk about |
| 1:14.4 | my aide as pitch counts. Well, this is one way to stay in games, Scott. You just don't give up any |
| 1:18.9 | hits, right? Eight innings pitched the final line. He took a no hitter into the ninth inning. He |
| 1:23.2 | did allow a hit to the first batter that he faced in that inning, two walks, 12 strikeouts, 26 |
| 1:30.4 | swinging strikes on 115 pitches. He entered this game as a top 12 starting pitcher in fantasy points |
| 1:38.7 | for game. Scott, I know that you have the trade chart coming out on Wednesday as you do every |
| 1:44.1 | single week. How high do you foresee, Kenta, my aide, and moving up those starting pitcher ranks? |
| 1:50.4 | Yes, because I wasn't already working on it before this happened and I have to revisit it now. |
| 1:56.7 | No, I mean, you said it with the pitch count thing because that he'd been great up to this point |
| 2:02.2 | this year, but the way we were hoping he'd take a leap forward, he hadn't actually demonstrated |
| 2:08.8 | yet because he'd been so efficient. He'd been just throwing 85 pitches every time, basically 115 |
| 2:14.9 | in this start, going eight innings, actually eight plus 12 strikeouts. He mentioned the 26 |
| 2:21.2 | swinging strikes. He has been secondary heavy all year, like fastball usages down. So he's actually |
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