10 Players Experts are Adding in Fantasy Baseball

Scott Jenstad and Jeff Erickson break down the weekend news and the FAAB results of the week. 

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00:00 MLB Pod 4-27-25

00:30 Player Talk / Week 5 Preview

01:00 Aaron Judge is just ridiculous (.432 / .520 / .792 – 270 wRC+)

05:00 Taylor Ward (Worst OBP in baseball at .215)

09:30 Marcus Semien (.179 with 2 HR / 1 SB – Keep playing him?)

12:20 How good is Hunter Brown?

14:40 Best winning % in the AL? Seattle Mariners – 6 wins in a row.

17:20 NL West is wild, Dodgers 7 Wins in a row, Padres 5 wins in a row.

19:10 7 Gamers: AL: Royals, White Sox; NL: Dodgers, DBacks, Braves, Reds

19:40 Rockies: Home all week: 3 Det, 3 SD

20:20 Padres: 3 @ NYY, 3 @ Col; Braves: 4 v Cin, 3 @ Pitt; Dodgers: 3 @ Mia, 4 @ AZ

20:50 News and notes

21:00 Triston Casas – Likely out for the year with a ruptured patellar tendon

21:55 Shota Imanaga – Left early Sunday, left hamstring strain while covering first.

23:50 Corbin Burnes – Missing start Monday with right shoulder inflammation – Dbacks hope no IL.

24:25 Tommy Edman – 10 Day IL with an ankle injury.

25:20 Yordan Alvarez – Missed the weekend with inflammation in right hand, no imaging needed

25:40 Anthony Volpe – Sat Sunday after feeling pop in shoulder, but x-rays / MRI clean

26:15 - Isiah Kiner-Falefa – IL with a right hammy strain; Otto Lopez – 10 Day IL with right ankle sprain

26:30 Clarke Schmidt – Scratched Saturday with left side soreness, scheduled to now start Tuesday

27:10 Jackson Merrill – Trending towards return on Monday; Jake Cronenworth – Could return next weekend

31:50 Pitcher FAAB

32:00 Starters

32:15 Tony Gonsolin

35:20 Gunnar Hoglund

37:00 A.J. Smith-Shawver

39:30 Ben Casparius (70% ME)

41:50 Lance McCullers, Jr (Not available in most leagues)

43:00 Ryan Weathers

45:00 Michael Soroka

46:00 Hunter Dobbins

47:00 Logan Evans

47:30 Relievers

48:15 Evan Phillips

49:30 Shelby Miller / Kevin Ginkel

52:00 Hitter FAAB

52:15 Coby Mayo & Hyeseong Kim

53:35 Javier Baez (46% ME); Jeff McNeil (65% ME); Miguel Vargas (90% ME, 11% 12)

57:30 Brandon Marsh (44% ME)

1:00:00 Others - Daniel Schneeman; JP Crawford (58% ME); Chase Meidroth (51% ME); Zach Dezenzo (54% ME); Colt Ketih (42% ME); Javier Sanoja; Alexander Canario; Jorbit Vivas; Eli White; Addison Barger; Jhonkeny Noel; Zack Gelof; Jordan Lawlar Stash? (39% ME); Matt Shaw? (81% ME, 21% 12); Connor Wong (75% ME, 26% 12)

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