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Rundown
2:38 Big Bids on Nate Pearson?
6:31 Cristian Javier: More than a Consolation Pickup
11:32 Trusting Tyler Chatwood?
16:14 Taijuan Walker Renaissance?
19:24 Kris Bubic Debuts; Temper Expectations?
21:27 Daniel Ponce de Leon Gets A Chance in St. Louis
24:16 Is Rowan Wick the Cubs’ New Closer?
28:51 Ryan Pressly as Roberto Osuna’s Replacement
33:45 Waiting for Another Save Chance in Cleveland
40:35 Nick Madrigal vs. J.P. Crawford
45:41 Ben Gamel vs. Nick Markakis
53:15 Buying Teoscar Hernandez & JaCoby Jones?
57:42 Willing to Drop Austin Riley?
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Rundown
0:28 More COVID-19 Related Postponements
3:34 Bullpen Issues for the Cubs
7:37 Talent Over Role
9:09 Raisel Iglesias' Job in Jeopardy?
11:46 Nick Burdi the Man in Pittsburgh?
13:40 More Troubles for Edwin Diaz
18:19 Those Darned Tampa Bay Rays
20:39 Speculating in Texas with José LeClerc on the IL
24:11 Non-Closer RPs We Want, Starting in San Diego
26:31 Pay Attention to James Karinchak and Cleveland's Pitching Infrastructure
31:41 Adrian Houser Worth an Add?
33:16 The Maddening Caleb Smith
36:34 Buying Corbin Burnes and Garrett Richards
39:30 Deep-League Targets, Including Cristian Javier and Jordan Montgomery
44:08 Two-Start Pitchers
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Rundown
3:06 Ian Tries to Deal with Nando
7:27 The Braves Part Ways with Mike Foltynewicz
10:50 Hoping for the Best
16:57 Ian Takes an L with Craig Kimbrel
20:51 Rowan Wick vs. Jeremy Jeffress
26:50 Nando's Moral Dilemma
37:12 Playing Fantasy Baseball More Like Fantasy Football This Season?
50:01 Ian's Trades This Week
60:33 Cardboard Cutout Face Time!
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Rundown
2:44 Make a Bid for Dustin May?
6:40 Where's the Love for Ender Inciarte?
12:31 Travis Shaw and Rowdy Tellez
15:39 Mariners Trusting the Youngsters, Shed Long and Kyle Lewis
21:43 Victor Caratini's Role Increasing?
24:02 Isiah Kiner-Falefa's Floor
26:21 Phil Gosselin and Leury García
30:09 Where Do the Brady Singer Bids Land?
33:55 Willing to Chase Any Mets Relievers?
37:23 The Back End of Atlanta's Bullpen
38:49 Concern for Nick Anderson?
42:05 Greg Holland Comeback? Cut Ian Kennedy?
45:36 Any Targets in Cincinnati Behind Raisel Iglesias?
48:28 Kwang-hyun Kim, Giovanny Gallegos and José Leclerc
51:04 Tough Drops: Gavin Lux, Mike Tauchman, Brendan McKay
DVR's Adds and Drops column
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Rundown
0:21 Hooray for Opening Day!
2:19 How Long Do You Hold Clayton Kershaw?
7:16 Ken Rosenthal's Piece on Changing Approach to Return from Positive COVID-19 Tests
11:01 Late Draft Bargains on Yordan Álvarez
15:12 Finding Pitchers Who Can Make an Immediate Impact
18:24 Why Beller Loves the Matt Barneses of the World
20:46 Streaming Against Bad Offenses
22:44 Watching Brady Singer This Weekend
26:18 Interesting Pitchers in Miami
32:17 Two-Start Week Coming for Kyle Gibson
34:50 Washington Pitchers to Target
37:28 A Difference of Opinion on Homer Bailey
39:56 Scraping the Barrel with Josh Lindblom, Tyler Chatwood and Alex Cobb
45:23 Where's the Love for Brandon Kintzler?
48:27 What We're Excited to Watch this Weekend
51:59 Brewers vs. Cubs Beer Sidebet
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Rundown
0:40 A Gift From Ian to Nando?
7:45 Why Does DVR Always Bid on the Same Player as Derek Carty?
12:01 Varying Strategies
15:20 Explain Isiah Kiner-Falefa To Me
21:24 Paying Up For Aces? (Kershaw at $30)
29:00 Impact of Late Spring Performances
33:21 Bids Ending in '9'
39:22 An In-Auction Money Management Tip
41:45 The Case for $1 Players
51:31 Kenta Maeda vs. Lance Lynn
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Rundown
2:16 Top Options: Aaron Hicks & Yoenis Céspedes
9:02 Smashing the Piggy Bank for Rich Hill?
14:20 Low Bids On Stephen Piscotty?
17:53 Buying a Jake Lamb Bounce Back?
21:27 Is Cameron Maybin Lined Up For Everyday Playing Time?
24:25 Franchy Cordero's Opportunity In Kansas City
28:22 Tricky Stash: Brendan Rodgers
32:32 Monte Harrison & The Need for Speed
36:57 A Case For Isan Díaz
40:59 Questions About Joey Bart
42:47 Austin Voth's Push Toward the No. 5 Starter Job in D.C.
45:00 Trevor Richards & Multi-Inning Relievers
49:49 Unstable Closer Situation
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Rundown
0:52 Explaining the Wins League
3:11 Picking the Draft Order
4:50 First Round Begins with the Dodgers
6:44 DVR and Beller Pass on the Astros
12:13 Al Grabs Last Year's World Series Teams
14:26 Beller Loves Cleveland
16:14 DVR Loves Small Markets
20:49 Beller Starts an NL Central Run
23:16 Al Takes Us out West
29:48 DVR Hates the Mets
31:17 Beller Doubles up on Chicago
33:15 Al Also Hates the Mets
34:32 Beller Doesn't Hate the Mets!
37:15 DVR Gambles on a Couple of West Teams
39:23 How Bad Could the Red Sox Be?
41:53 We Arrive at the Bottom Tier
47:14 Pirates, Royals, Tigers and Orioles the Last Four Teams on the Board
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Rundown
1:57 Nando's Relief Pitcher Rankings & Archie Bradley Love
6:54 Josh Hader's High Value, Even Without Saves
12:33 Mychal Givens' 2020 Outlook
17:25 Why Does Ian Like Craig Kimbrel?
23:19 Battle Testing Rankings
26:22 Sleeper for Saves: Nick Burdi
30:45 Grouping Players On Lower Portion of Lists
33:43 Matt Kemp in Colorado
38:26 Reynaldo López: Is 2020 His Year?
47:27 Are We Underrating A.J. Puk?
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Rundown
3:34 Players We Like More Now
9:06 More Interest in Middle Relievers
12:11 Organizations We Trust This Season
16:58 Players We Like Less Now
21:53 Considering Opt Outs (Which Are Fine) and Bad Behavior (Which Is Not)
25:18 Tweaks to Your Fantasy Leagues
30:29 New Strategies for the Shortened Season
36:58 Who Can Make Himself into a 2021 First Rounder?
44:12 Major League vs. Bull Durham
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