Show No. 23 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Joe Orrico, from the 90 Feet From Home Patreon and podcast... in Part 1 (2:55), Joe and PD discuss hitters including Cedric Mullins, Richie Palacios and Colt Keith... and in Part 2 (1:13:15), Joe tells PD about pitchers including CLE RHP Tanner Bibee, HOU RHP Hunter Brown, the…

Show No. 22 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Mike Kurland, from MLBplayingtime.com... in Part 1 (2:50), Mike and PD discuss playing time for ATL, what happens in BOS PT with David Hamilton out of the lineup, PT questions in KC about Kyle Isbel and Michael Massey, and Jonny DeLuca's PT in TAM... and in Part 2 (1:36:30), M…

Show No. 21 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jeff Zimmerman, from Rotographs, the Launch Angle podcast, and The Process fantasy baseball manual... in Part 1 (2:30), Jeff and PD discuss the effects of rest days on hitters and applying pitch modeling to fantasy baseball... and in Part 2 (1:33:45), Jeff tells PD about hitte…

Show No. 20 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:55), Todd and PD discuss the addition of Negro Leagues players to the official MLB stats, and a new draft to get those players and other alltime greats onto fantasy teams, plus a look at the early drop in…

Show No. 19 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Lenny Melnick, from of Lennymelnickfantasysports.com... in Part 1 (2:40), Lenny and PD discuss the good old days of fantasy baseball, including the earliest experts' leagues ... and in Part 2 (1:19:50), Lenny tells PD about assessing player disappointments, including Andrew Be…

Show No. 18 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Steve Gardner, Senior Fantasy Editor and baseball writer at USA Today ... in Part 1 (3:25), Steve tells PD about players in his experts' leagues, including Bo Bichette, Elly de la Cruz, Jackson Merrill, and Javier Assad ... and in Part 2 (1:41:05), Steve and PD discuss the new…

Show No. 17 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Ariel Cohen, from the ATC projection/valuation systems, the Beat the Shift podcast and Rotoballers... in Part 1 (2:55), Ariel and PD discuss pre-season and in-season strategies for managing SP injury risk, as well as player valuations ... and in Part 2 (1:52:45), Ariel and PD …

Show No. 16 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Larry Schechter, from the author of 'The History of Fantasy Sports'... in Part 1 (2:25), Larry and PD discuss his leagues and injuries, the early days of fantasy sports ... and in Part 2 (1:29:30), Larry tells PD about the growth of fantasy sports, and the entrepreneurs who dr…

Show No. 15 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an expert interview (2:35) with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... Todd and PD talk about the relationship between flyball distance and HRs, about using the latest stats and probabilities, and about what's up with Kevin Gausman ... plus a new approach to Boons and Banes! ... La…

Show No. 14 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jason Collette, from Rotowire and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast... in Part 1 (2:25), Jason and PD discuss the injuries rocking his fantasy teams, player news including Amed Rosario's fast start and Victor Scott's slow start ... and in Part 2 (1:44:05), Jason tells PD about …

Show No. 13 is a Friday Two-Tout Extra-Full Edition featuring an interview (2:50) with Dr. Peter Chalmers, professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Utah, an expert on baseball-related injuries to the elbow and shoulder, and a practicing surgeon ... Dr. Chalmers and PD discuss Tommy John surgery, the UCL, its connection to pitching mech…

Show No. 12 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jeff Erickson, from Rotowire and SiriusXM fantasy sports... in Part 1 (2:35), Jeff and PD discuss managing through injuries, extreme strategies in drafts, and being OK with being outbid in FAAB ... and in Part 2 (1:22:30), Jeff tells PD about the usefulness of including coache…

Show No. 11 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Joe Orrico, from sportsethos.com and the Fantasy MLB Today podcast... in Part 1 (3:00), Joe tells PD why he focuses on shallow leagues, and analyzes hitters including Esteury Ruiz, Jared Walsh, Michael Conforto, and early-season 1.000-OPSers ... and in Part 2 (1:39:05), Joe te…

Show No. 10 is a Roundtable Edition featuring interviews with Ray Murphy, from BaseballHQ.com, and Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:05), the panel talks about end-of-spring and Opening Day storylines, including changes in Shohei Ohtani's fantasy value, Jackson Holliday's demotion, JD Martinez's signing, and m…

Show No. 9 is a Two-tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Mike Gianella, from Baseball Prospectus, and Doug Dennis, bullpens columnist at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:10), Mike and PD discuss the no-starting pitcher strategy at Tout Wars-AL, his BP series on bid limits, touching on hitters like Josh Lowe, Josh Jung, and Este…

Show No. 8 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Paul Sporer, from Rotographs and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast ... in Part 1 (2:15), Paul and PD discuss fantasy pitcher breakouts, including George Kirby, Hunter Brown and Yu Darvish ... and in Part 2 (1:43:05), Paul tells PD about fantasy hitter breakouts, including Oneil Cruz, Anth…

Show No. 7 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Nick Pollack, from PitcherList.com, and Ed DeCaria, director of research at BaseballHQ.com... In our first expert interview (1:35), Nick and PD discuss some of the starting pitchers he's been talking about over at PitcherList.com, like Eury Perez of MIA, Anthony Desclafani of MIN an…

Show No. 6 is a Friday Full Edition, coming to you on Thursday because of Tout Wars weekend... We'll have interviews with Peter Kreutzer, from the Rotoman Guide at Substack and the Rotoman Fantasy Baseball Guide, and Matt Beagle, Strat-o-matic analyst at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:30), Peter and PD discuss Tout Wars and drafting ph…

Show No. 5 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Jeff Zimmerman, from Rotographs, the Launch Angle podcast, and The Process fantasy baseball manual, and Jock Thompson, team analyst at BHQ.com... in our first expert interview (2:20), Jeff and PD discuss player analysis including a "modern lineup" in HOU, the possibility of Esteury …

Show No. 4 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Ron Shandler, founder of BHQ.com and the BABS fantasy baseball system, and the author of the new book Fantasy Expert... and Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports... In our first expert interview (2:40), PD asks Ron about his book: how the fantasy baseball industry got rolling, how he rolled w…

Show No. 3 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring interviews with Ariel Cohen, the ATC projection/valuation systems Fangraphs and the Beat the Shift podcast ... and Ryan Bloomfield, Speculator columnist and analyst at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:20), Ariel and PD discuss Ariel's drafts so far, how he manages the ATC projections system,…

Show No. 2 is our first Two-Tout Tuesday Edition of 2024, featuring interviews with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, and SiriusXM, and Brant Chesser of BaseballHQ.com... In our first expert interview (1:50), Todd and PD discuss why he took Kyle Tucker second overall in a recent draft, the effects on pitchers when they change divisions, …

Show No. 1 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Gene McCaffrey, fantasy baseball writer at The Athletic, and Brent Hershey, co-GM, BaseballHQ.com... in our first expert interview (2:15), Gene and PD discuss some of the hitters he'll be featuring in his columns at The Athletic, including Yainer Diaz, Vlad Guerrero, Zach Gelof, Francisc…

In our annual end-of-season roundtable, PD is joined by Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, SiriusXM and Rotowire and Ray Murphy, the co-GM, projections meister, analyst and writer at BaseballHQ.com. In Part 1 (0:50), PD, Todd and Ray have their top stories from the year for MLB and fantasy, and key takeaways for 2024... In Part 2 (25:40), they look…

Show No. 34 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Gene McCaffrey of the Wise Guy of fantasy baseball and a columnist at The Athletic... in Part 1 (2:05), Gene and PD discuss items in the news and SPs for 2024 ... and in Part 2 (1:34:40), Gene and PD discuss post-hype hitters, the 2024 catcher scene, his Boons and Banes for 2024, and …

Show No. 33 is a Friday Full Edition talkin' prospects with Eric Longenhagen, lead prospect analyst at Fangraphs... in Part 1 (2:35), Eric and PD discuss which organizations improved between the draft and the deadline, and why teams are pushing young prospects aggressively ... and in Part 2 (1:31:55), Eric and PD discuss which prospects might and m…

Show No. 32 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Nick Pollack of PitcherList.com... in Part 1 (2:40), Nick and PD discuss the tools at PitcherList.com, especially their " Pitch Level Value" metric ... and in Part 2 (1:54:10), Nick and PD discuss Nick's weekly top-100 SPs, with a special focus on young starters like George Kirby, Bry…

Show No. 31 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Paul Sporer of Fangraphs, the Sleeper and the Bust podcast... in Part 1 (3:20), Paul and PD discuss start-sit decisions for pitchers, drafting "name" closers, and analyzing pitchers with big 1H-2H xFIP changes ... and in Part 2 (1:50:10), Paul and PD discuss 2H hitters, hold or fold o…

Show No. 30 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Ariel Cohen of Rotographs, the Beat the Shift podcast, and the ATC player projection and valuation systems... in Part 1 (2:45), Ariel and PD discuss rest-of-season player projections and how to use them to work the categories ... and in Part 2 (51:20), Ariel and PD discuss setting lin…

Show No. 29 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:35), Todd and PD discuss CIN LHP Andrew Abbott and major-league equivalents, and the biases that can affect us as we assess players for our rosters ... and in Part 2 (1:46:30), Todd and PD discuss the trades on Monday …

Show No. 28 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Jason Collette of Rotowire and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast ... in Part 1 (2:35), Jason and PD discuss his fine fantasy season, and his research into whether rising statistical tides lift all players' boats ... and in Part 2 (1:29:35), Jason and PD discuss how some of his pre-seas…

Show No. 27 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with fantasy baseball researcher Rob McCabe, who specializes in FAAB analysis... in Part 1 (3:15), Rob and PD discuss monitoring the volatility and movement in the overall standings in NFBC leagues ... and in Part 2 (1:45:35), Rob and PD discuss his FAAB research, including strategies, 'ch…

Show No. 26 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Greg Jewett, who covers relief pitching at the Reliever Recon website and The Athletic, and writes the Lineups Outlook batting-order feature at BaseballHQ, ... in Part 1 (2:30), Greg discusses the 'Big Picture' elements of reliever research and his 'Lineup Outlook' batting-order work …

Show No. 25 is a Special Allstar Break Roundtable Edition, with host Patrick Davitt and guests Todd Zola and Ray Murphy discussing the fantasy landscape through the first 60% of the season... in Part 1 (1:25), the guys discuss the big stories from the season so far ... and in Part 2 (51:40), they discuss players of note in the first half, busts, MV…

Show No. 24 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Justin Mason of Friends with Fantasy Benefits, Rotographs, FantasyPros, and multiple podcasts... In Part 1 (2:35), Justin discusses a few buy-lows and sell-highs and the young pitchers of this season ... and in Part 2 (1:55:55), Justin discusses the year of young hitters and has Boons…

Show No. 22 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Mike Gianella of Baseball Prospectus... in Part 1 (2:15), Mike discusses whether two pitcher starts in a week is actually better than one, and paying minor celebrities to record podcast intros ... and in Part 2 (1:18:45), Mike discusses how the conventional wisdom about saves isn't ac…

Show No. 21 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Rob DiPietro of the Dead Pull Hitter Patreon and podcast, and the Launch Angle podcast... in Part 1 (2:25), Rob discusses Elly-palooza weekend, rating the new young pitchers ... and in Part 2 (1:24:30), Rob discusses players going on heaters over the last 14 days ... Also Ray Murphy a…

Show No. 20 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Eno Sarris, writer and podcaster at the Athletic... in Part 1 (2:45), Eno discusses Elly de la Cruz and where all of CIN's great prospects will play, Alek Manoah's demotion all the way to the Complex League, how teams are using advanced tracking to spy on pitcher tells, and wh…

Show No. 19 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Vlad Sedler, the 'FAAB Whisperer' at FTN Fantasy and co-host of the FTN Fantasy Baseball podcast... in Part 1 (2:50), Vlad discusses how to fit a busy fantasy baseball workload into even busier real-world situations, and his strategies and tactics in his competitive team in the NFBC M…

Show No. 18 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Jeff Zimmerman of Rotographs, the Launch Angle podcast, and The Process fantasy baseball manual... in Part 1 (2:40), Jeff discusses in-season decision-making, effectively monitoring player performance, and the true advantage of two-start pitchers ... and in Part 2 (1:35:25), Jeff disc…

Show No. 17 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Mike Kurland of Gaining the Edge, The Athletic, and the Bases Loaded podcast... in Part 1 (2:25), Mike discusses tracking lineups in NYM, ARI, SD, TAM, TOR and TEX ... and in Part 2 (1:15:25), Mike discusses his processes for lineup analysis, player analysis, and FAAB analysis ... Als…

Show No. 16 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Paul Sporer of Rotographs and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast... in Part 1 (3:10), Paul discusses the process and analytical foundations of his daily starting pitcher notes ... and in Part 2 (1:30:25), Paul discusses analyzing last week's FAAB run, and analyzes this week's FAAB run, …

Show No. 15 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Derek Carty of The Bat and TheBatX projections systems and Zack Waxman of the Draft Champions podcast... in the first interview (2:25), Derek discusses projecting new young pitchers and playing the odds in different ways, and has his Boons and Banes for this weekend's FAAB run ... In th…

Show No. 14 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Tim McLeod of Prospect361.com, and our go-to guy for Japanese and Korean baseball... in Part 1 (2:30), Tim discusses some of his biggest surprises and disappointments, waiver-wire targeting, and the closer-go-round ... and in Part 2 (1:31:55), Tim discusses baseball in the Far East, i…

Show No. 13 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Ariel Cohen from Rotographs and the ATC player projection and valuation systems... in Part 1 (2:40), Ariel discusses how his pre-season bold predictions are doing so far, the challenges of projecting performance and very different baseball environment, and his softball season so far .…

Show No. 12 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Glenn Colton, co-host of the weekly "Colton and the Wolfman" show on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio ... in Part 1 (2:20), Glenn discusses early observations from the new season, including the parade of injuries ... and in Part 2 (1:46:45), Glenn discusses in-season management from the …

Show No. 11 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Joe Sheehan, of the Joe Sheehan baseball newsletter ... In Part 1, Joe discusses his drafts, the pitch clock, and the end of the two-leagues era in MLB... In Part 2 (1:23:20), Joe talks about his 2023 team rankings, reasons to pay more attention than usual to Mookie Betts, and instead…

Show No. 10 of 2023 is a Friday News Edition, featuring Ray Murphy and PD discussing Opening Day (2:10) ... OFs in TEX and BOS and more AL hitters news (7:30) ... A mystery starter in CLE and other AL pitcher news (21:45) ... A crowded offense in STL, a spec pick for 2023·s NL SB leader, and more NL hitter news (32:15) ... And woes in the Mets rota…

Show No. 9 of 2023 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an expert interview with Scott Pianowski, of Yahoo! Sports, discussing drafting by proxy, last-minute drafting tips, and yes, the Final Four and the amazing season of the Boston Bruins, plus his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:17:45By Patrick Davitt - BaseballHQ.Com

Show No. 8 is a Friday News Edition featuring an interview with Ray Murphy of co-GM and analyst at BaseballHQ.com, discussing injury news with Rhys Hoskins, Raisel Iglesias, Mitch Haniger and others (2:30) ... managing the Grayson Rodriguez conundrum and other AL East notes (11:10) ... the STL leadoff situation and NL Central notes (18:00)... sprin…