This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast, hosts Geoff Pontes and Dylan White cover some of the news of the last week to open before diving into a five-round waiver wire draft. What’s a waiver wire draft? Simple, Dylan and Geoff choose from all players with 10% or lower ownership on Fantrax and pick the best players from that group. It’s a great exercise to introduce you to ten under-rostered players you should be looking to add. Powered by RedCircle Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player FM The post Fantasy Podcast: A ..read more

It’s the final prequel in the trilogy of RoboScout ‘soft launches’ as April concludes and short season leagues begin next Friday. Now as sample sizes start to reach more reasonable sizes, we’re beginning to see the names start to settle in in the rankings. Interestingly, even though it’s been around four weeks, there hasn’t been much week-to-week volatility, speaking to the relative “stability” of RoboScout. A lot of these players could find themselves on Top 100 lists or, for upper-level players, soon called up to the majors. Low-A Pitchers (min 5 IP):  Rank Name Team Robo RoboCast ..read more

This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast, hosts Dylan White and Geoff Pontes discuss struggling stars and give a panic level for each. In other words, don’t panic yet. We open up the show by talking about some news and notes before diving into our discussion around underperforming stars. We finish the show by talking about some Roboscout standouts for Triple-A and Double-A. Time Stamps 0:00 – 14:00 – Breaking down injuries and promotions 14:00 – 15:30 – Corbin Carroll 15:30-16:30 – Ronald Acuna 16:30 -19:30 – Julio Rodriguez 19:30 – 22:00 – Francisco Lindor 22:00 – 24:00 – Jackson Ho ..read more

Welcome to the RoboScout 2024 teaser. As Vlad Guerrero Jr. might say: the trailer before the movie. It’s only been a couple weeks in the minor leagues—the average number of plate appearances in the lower minors is around 25 and the most innings thrown thus far is only 18 innings in Triple-A—so it would be malpractice to make any conclusions thus far. But, still, there have been some interesting storylines thus far when running the stats through RoboScout, and I’ve already taken some action in my Dynasty Leagues. There is actionable data—but the error bars are quite wide. It’s always fun to see ..read more

On this week’s episode of the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast, Dylan White and Geoff Pontes discuss the epidemic of pitching injuries and how we’re navigating it with our own fantasy teams. We released an updated Top 700 for Dynasty with a few major adjustments due to the injuries to Spencer Strider, Gerrit Cole and Eury Perez. Powered by RedCircle Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player FM The post Fantasy Podcast: In-Season Top 700 Dynasty Rankings Update appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball Am ..read more

Welcome to the first installment of the dynasty stock watch—reporting on the movement we made to the Dynasty 700 in light of new playing time information, small sample performance, and (gulp) injuries. Even this early in the season, even with only over a week of performance, there are still some changes to dynasty values. In most cases, it is still extremely early in the season, and we should refrain from overreacting to a week’s worth of major league performance and some Spring Training. Although this is generally true, there are some news items or actionable performance outcomes that we shou ..read more

This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast, Geoff Pontes and Dylan White cover some of their early regrets and reactions to the first week of play in Major League Baseball. They call out some potential breakouts from early-season performances like Garrett Crochet and Jared Jones. The second half of the show is focused on Dylan and Geoff’s recently released Prospect Breakout Teams. Intro: 0:00 – 3:00 Imanaga: 3:00 – 6:30 Crochet: 6:30 -12:00 Jared Jones: 12:00 – 15:00 Pirates future and Paul Skenes: 15:00 – 18:00 Eury Perez Tommy John surgery reaction: 18:00 – 22:00 Josh Jung injury rea ..read more

With Opening Day just one day away, hosts Dylan White and Geoff Pontes pick 12 players they believe will break out in 2024 and be drafted within the first 100 picks in re-draft next season. Lots of exciting names are covered with explanations for why we believe these players will move up rankings in 2024. Powered by RedCircle Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player FM The post Fantasy Podcast: 2024 Breakout Player Draft appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America ..read more

The first time you watch Logan Evans, the dissonance between who he is now and what he’s always been seems hard to explain. Evans was a 12th-round pick of the Mariners in 2023 as a fourth-year junior out of Pittsburgh. Considering his college career, the fact that he was even picked seems to be an impressive find by area scout Jackson Laumann and the Mariners’ scouting department. In college, Evans struggled. Over his four years at Penn State and Pittsburgh, the righthander allowed 8.35 runs per nine innings while giving up 174 hits in 138 innings. While his draft year was better, a 5-3, 5.88 ..read more

After my first foray into the NFBC high stakes redraft leagues last year met with success, I felt emboldened to join my first NFBC Draft Champions (Draft & Hold) league this upcoming season. The format is quite similar to NFBC Main Event leagues (and TGFBI) but without the weekly FAAB component. In other words, it’s a standard 5×5 roto league (batting average and saves) with 14 hitters (2 C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, 5 OF, MI, CI, UT) and 9 pitchers. The hitting lineups can be set for Monday-to-Thursday and then Friday-to-Sunday, whereas pitching lineups are set for the entire (Monday-to-Sunday) wee ..read more