BP Fantasy Podcast

RUNDOWN

TOUT WARS update: Jason and Paul are in first.

Baseball HQ Symposium in Arizona. More at the end of the show.

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Jenrry Mejia out for the season

Matt Dominguez is the new Jorge Cantu

Bow to Lord Farquar

Alexi Ogando and relievers turned starters

Chris Archer


CALL UPS


Kolton Wong

Travis d'Arnaud (catchers have a low success rate early on)


PITCHERS


Tyler Thornburg (3 starts, 0.47 ERA, 1.26 WHIP since end of July)

Alex Wood (allowed 1 home run in his last 5 starts, 27% strikeout rate)

Sonny Gray (schedule is not kind the rest of the way)

Brad Peacock (3 hits in 30 some odd plate appearances against lefties since coming back up)

Chia-Jen Lo getting some saves for the Astros (0.00 ERA, 1.09 WHIP through 7 appearances)

Marco Estrada (If he limits homers, he has value)

Jeff Samardzjia


HITTERS


Brandon Belt

Brett Lawrie (cut strikeout rate from 23% to 11%)

Jedd Gyorko

Khris Davis

Jason Heyward

Will Venable

Corey Dickerson

Next Year: Mike Trout or Miguel Cabrera?


RAPID FIRE 89:55


Billy Butler

Jeremy Hellickson

Jon Lester

Tyson Ross

Dan Haren

Alfonso Soriano

Pablo Sandoval

Josh Reddick

David Freese

Instant Replay

Ron Shandler's monthly format

Jered Weaver

Prince Fielder


OTHER STUFF


AFL Fall Symposium

Jeff Locke and regression

Eraser Update: 7 innings, 2 runs (1 earned) against Texas

Dane De La Rosa sharing closer role with Ernesto Frieri