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Drafting For 2027 w/ Dominic Rello Aug 12, 2026

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James Anderson and Dominic Rello preview the 5th annual Too Early Meatball Draft (the first high-stakes draft of 2027), which will take place next week!

02:45 2026 check in

10:20 Predicting the first round

18:40 1B is DEEP

25:25 3B is shallow again

30:15 Where does Cal Raleigh rank at C?

34:00 Buy low on Kyle Tucker?

38:55 Big names who might not get drafted

48:45 Players who lost eligibility

53:00 Multi-eligible players

01:07:20 Rookies for 2027

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Pitching Pockets Review Aug 11, 2026

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Where did we find our best and worst pitching values in 2026? Was the Garrett Crochet disaster enough to dissuade us from taking an early ace? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss.

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00:00 Fred Pod 8-11

00:20 Jays 4-Outs Play

04:00 Fred’s Blue Jays Fan Reaction to the Deadline

07:45 News

08:00 Cam Smith Improving

11:40 Zac Veen Getting the Call

15:00 Trey Yesavage Meniscus Surgery

17:40 Devin Williams to the IL. Drop him? Kodai Senga closer?

22:00 Nathan Eovaldi to the IL. Drop him?

23:00 Jacob Lopez is becoming a thing again

26:30 Monday Starts - Andrew Painter

29:30 Adley Rutschman will make his Red Sox debut today.

32:00 Kyle Stowers to the IL

33:00 Circa

33:59 BlueWire

34:05 Pitching Pockets

35:45 Defined Tiers - Main Event ADP

37:00 Were the Aces Worth It?

39:30 Next 10

44:30 SP 21-30 - Second Most Profitable Tier

48:30 SP 31-40 - So Many Nice Values

50:50 SP 41-50 - By Far the Worst Value

55:00 General SP Strategy

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Busy Week of Rookie FAAB Aug 10, 2026

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad cover the entire weekend in fantasy baseball, including the struggles of Mookie Betts, Jazz Chisholm and Gunnar Henderson, the success of Dylan Cease and Brandon Lowe and all the details of an extremely busy FAAB period highlighted by active bidding on George Lombard, Jr, Kaelen Culpepper and Jackson Jobe.

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FAAB Targets (Week of August 10, 2026) Aug 08, 2026

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Erik Halterman and Marty Tallman share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

09:00 Dylan Crews

11:25 George Lombard Jr.

15:00 Bryce Eldridge

16:55 Kaelen Culpepper

20:15 Tyler Stephenson

26:20 Clay Holmes

28:10 Martin Perez

30:10 Jackson Jobe

35:00 Bailey Ober

40:10 Luke Weaver

44:30 Deep-league pitchers

58:40 Deep-league hitters

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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of Aug. 10, 2026) Aug 07, 2026

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Intro/Kalen Culpepper called up to Minnesota

Steak League FAAB:
- George Lombard $12
- Carmen Mlodzinski $10
- Spencer Jones $7
- Angel Genao $6
- Jacob Lopez $5
- Mitch Bratt $5
- Cristian Javier $4
- Sammy Natera $3
- Hector Rodriguez $3
- Andrew Painter $2
- Yennier Cano $1
- Other names to consider: Kaelen Culpepper, Moises Ballesteros, George Klassen
Two-start pitchers (week of Aug. 10, 2026)
- Jacob Lopez 2
- Bryce Elder 3 (Todd 2)
- Trevor Rogers 3
- Sonny Gray 5
- Ranger Suarez 3
- Nick Lodolo 3 (Todd 2)
- Tanner Bibee 3
- Gabriel Hughes 1 (Todd 2)
- Sean Burke 4
- Drew Anderson 1
- Hayden Wesneski 2 (Todd 3)
- Noah Cameron 2 (Todd 3)
- Reid Detmers 3
- Tarik Skubal 5
- Eury Perez 5
- Logan Henderson 3
- Dean Kremer 1
- Christian Scott 3
- Ryan Weathers 4 (Todd 5)
- Andrew Painter 2 (Todd 1)
- Paul Skenes 5
- Casey Mize 3 (Todd 4)
- Bryan Woo 5
- Blade Tidwell 0 (Todd 1)
- Hunter Dobbins 2
- Freddy Peralta 4 (Todd 3)
- MacKenzie Gore 2
- Cody Bradford 1
- Jameson Taillon 0
- Dylan Cease 5
- Jake Irvin 0

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Trade Deadline Winners with Jason Collette Aug 07, 2026

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Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to discuss the biggest winners of the trade deadline and figure out where to spend your money in AL- and NL-only leagues.

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00:00 Headlines

12:45 Only-league Trade Deadline FAAB Strategy

16:45 NL to AL trades

38:50 AL to NL trades

47:00 Intra-league trades

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Brewers Prospects + Trade Deadline w/ Spencer Michaelis Aug 06, 2026

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James Anderson and Spencer Michaelis discuss the Brewers' trade deadline before breaking down all the remaining high-end hitting prospects in the system!

01:05 Dustin May trade

03:05 Alexander Frias

05:50 Josiah Ragsdale

09:20 Juan Martinez

11:40 Grading the Brewers’ deadline

20:40 Cooper Pratt

24:25 Jesus Made

29:05 Luis Pena/Brady Ebel

34:50 Jett Williams

36:55 Andrew Fischer

40:50 Blake Burke/Luke Adams

47:00 Josh Adamczewski

49:45 Braylon Payne

53:00 Brailyn Antunez/Handelfry Encarnacion

55:00 Dominican Summer League Brewers

01:00:00 Marco Dinges

01:01:50 Bishop Letson

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MLB Trade Deadline Deal Reactions Aug 04, 2026

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Approximate time stamp when each team was discussed

:10 ARI

:12 ATH

:15 ATL

:19 BAL

:22 BOS

:26 CHC

:30 CHW

:34 CIN

:37 COL

:39 DET

:43 HOU

:44 KCR

:46 LAA

:51 LAD

:54 MIA

:58 MIL

1:01 MIN

1:03 NYM

1:05 NYY

1:07 Sponsor Ads

1:10 PHI

1:13 PIT

1:17 SDP

1:20 SEA

1:23 SFG

1:26 STL

1:30 TBR

1:33 TEX

1:35 TOR

1:38 WSN

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Max Clark FAAB Week / Trade Reactions Aug 03, 2026

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Scott Jenstad and special guest, Paul Sporer of Fangraphs, break down the weekend in baseball, including the fantasy impact for a number of big trades that went down prior to Monday's deadline, the down seasons for Vlad Guerrero and William Contreras, the Gavin Williams breakout and all the moves in a busy week of FAAB, focusing on heavy bidding for Tigers rookie Max Clark and a few new closer options, plus much more!!

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FAAB Targets (Week of August 3, 2026) Aug 01, 2026

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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2:49 Max Clark
6:58 Matt McLain
9:37 Tommy Edman
12:00 Heriberto Hernandez
16:00 Dominic Canzone
19:07 Quinn Mathews
25:02 Kyle Leahy
27:45 Mason Montgomery
30:54 Clayton Beeter
34:00 Steven Cruz
41:00 Circa
42:13 Hayden Wesneski
45:15 AJ Smith-Shawver
50:11 Carson Whisenhunt
53:56 Tomoyuki Sugano
57:00 Brandyn Garcia
1:00:35 Tyler Tolbert
1:03:25 Dane Myers
1:05:21 Pedro Ramirez
1:08:22 Hao-Yu Lee
1:10:40 Andruw Monasterio

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