Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) and Jason Anthony (@booms62) discuss Nick Kurtz, Agustin Ramirez, recent injuries and activations, bullpens to watch, weekend matchups and a look ahead at Week 6 FAAB.

News and Notes

• Royce Lewis getting ready to return, Willi Castro, Luke Keaschall
• The return of 3 catchers: Alvarez (NYM), Stephenson (CIN), Herrera (STL)
• Spencer Strider's hammy
• Jake Mangum (aka Magnum PI) and the Rays' outfield
• Corey Seager & Josh Smith
• David Festa demoted, Kumar Rocker injured
• Stashing Joe Boyle?

Early-Season Offensive Production

• Hot starts from the Cubs, Yankees, Dbacks and the surprise Giants
• Guess who's 3rd in team wRC+?
• Cubs and Angels on the opposite side of the stolen base spectrum
• Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers corrections?
• Toughest teams to strike out
• PCA and Turang are incredible

Closers & Bullpens

• Ryan Walker vs. Camilo Doval - Giants
• Justin Martinez and the gang - Diamondbacks
• Emmanuel Clase, Cade Smith, Hunter Gaddis - Guardians

Weekend Matchups highlighted by Yamamoto vs. Skenes

Look Ahead at Week 6 free agent bidding (FAAB)

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Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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FTN's Dan Thompson (@redfoxroto) breaks down the latest news in the world of MLB bullpens, relief pitchers and save opportunities. In this episode, Dan examines the state of the Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen and answers FTN subscriber questions.

Dan updates the FTN Bullpen Report (leverage chart) daily!

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Our weekly content schedule:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

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FTN's Dan Thompson (@redfoxroto) breaks down all things bullpen, saves and relievers before Week 5 of the fantasy baseball season. Enjoy this new quick-hitter!

The 2025 FTN Fantasy Baseball Guide is loaded with the best preseason fantasy baseball content, rankings, projections and fantasy tools! Join us this season at www.FTNFantasy.com. No team of analysts is better equipped to help you dominate your leagues. Featuring three NFBC overall champions!

Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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Vlad Sedler is joined by FTN colleague Lucas Biery to discuss recent fantasy baseball news, weekend matchups, a look ahead to Week 5 FAAB and a deep dive into fantasy-actionable prospects on the horizon.

News and Notes

• Return of Spencer Strider
• Matt Shaw demoted
• Bye, bye Clevinger
• The Foley Experiment is over
• Matt Wallner hammy
• Alex Verdugo in ATL
• Aranda and Soderstrom

Prospects on the Radar

• Caleb Durbin, Brewers - promoted
• Edgar Quero, White Sox - promoted
• The Legend of Nick Kurtz
• Agustin Ramirez, Marlins
• Juan Brito, Guardians
• Hyeseong Kim, Dodgers
• The Dalton Rushing slow death
• Roman Anthony, but when?
• Chandler Simpson, Rays
• Zebby Matthews, Twins
• Bubba Chandler, Pirates
• Noah Cameron (KC) and Ian Seymour (TB)

Weekend Start Sits

Week 5 FAAB Look Ahead

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The 2025 FTN Fantasy Baseball Guide is loaded with the best preseason fantasy baseball content, rankings, projections and fantasy tools! Join us this season at www.FTNFantasy.com. No team of analysts is better equipped to help you dominate your leagues. Featuring three NFBC overall champions!

Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) and Jason Anthony (@booms62) run through a variety of fantasy baseball news, notes and strategies. Is this Kyren Paris start "for real"? What does "for real" even mean? Do we give Hunter Greene the NL Cy now? Is Tylor Megill actually going to earn his nickname Baby Goat? Will Yainer Diaz and Willson Contreras ever start hitting? Is Zac Veen the most relevant Zac since Morris? So much to cover and the boys do just that on this week's episode of the FTN Fantasy Baseball podcast!

News and Notes

• Return of Freddie Freeman, Gleyber Torres and Zach Neto
• Dodgers rotation with Bobby Miller and Tony Gonsolin?
• Clarke Schmidt - get him
• Spencer Strider's return
• Ranger Suarez on the mend

Players and Strategies

• Hunter Greene throwing harder and faster
• The real ace of the Angels
• Moncada and curse of Rendon
• Tylor Megill, Chris Bassitt, Casey Mize and other strong starters
• KYREN PARIS!!!
• Struggling on new teams: Toglia, Walker, Santander, Vientos, Adames
• Struggling hardcore: Max Muncy

Weekend Start Sits

Week 4 FAAB Look Ahead

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The 2025 FTN Fantasy Baseball Guide is loaded with the best preseason fantasy baseball content, rankings, projections and fantasy tools! Join us this season at www.FTNFantasy.com. No team of analysts is better equipped to help you dominate your leagues. Featuring three NFBC overall champions!

Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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On this week's episode, Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) is joined by FTN colleagues and NFBC overall champions Mike Mager (@bronxyankees23) and Dan Thompson (@redfoxroto). The trio discuss a variety of topics including torpedo bats, Sutter Health Park & Steinbrenner Field, early-season studs, FOMO players, bullpens, the weekend schedule and Week 3 FAAB.

First Week of Action

• Torpedo bats and sample sizes
• Dan's deep dive on the state of stolen bases
• Elly de la FOMO
• Kyle Tucker and Seiya Suzuki in Sactown
• All the Ivan Herrera
• Can't tell you enough not to overreact and rage/anger drop

Bullpens and Closers

• David Bednar will be back eventually, maybe
• What's going on in Cincy
• Can Luke Jackson hold?
• Detroit is a committee
• How to pronounce Faucher
• FAAB you some saves this Sunday

Weekend Matchups

• FRI-SUN FTN MLB Projections
• Astros-Twins only play two
• The A's go to Coors
• Dodgers vs. Phillies Pitcherfest x3
• Braves off the schneid soon?
• Sit a red-hot Ben Rice?

Week 3 FAAB Preview

• Mager's early look at drop candidates
• Mager's surprise victory lap
• What's the deal with Jake Mangum (not Magnum)
• Value of category specialists in 12s like Jacob Wilson and Ryan Bliss

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The 2025 FTN Fantasy Baseball Guide is loaded with the best preseason fantasy baseball content, rankings, projections and fantasy tools! Join us this season at www.FTNFantasy.com. No team of analysts is better equipped to help you dominate your leagues. Featuring three NFBC overall champions!

Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Mondays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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Vlad Sedler (@rotogut) and Jason Anthony (@booms62) kick off the 2025 fantasy baseball season with a look back at their live NFBC Vegas drafts, top targets and player exposure and the hitters and pitchers they missed out on, aka the FOMO List. Vlad and Jason review the highs and lows of Opening Day stat lines, review starts and sits for weekend lineups and preview some starting pitcher options for Week 2 FAAB. It's an Opening Day Bonanza!

Review of the weekend in Las Vegas for NFBC drafts

Players Vlad and Jason targeted and drafted most in 2025

• Vlad: Jung Hoo Lee, Jonathan India, Lars Nootbaaar among others
• Jason: Nick Pivetta, elite catchers, Jose Miranda and more

The FOMO List - players who Vlad and Jason didn't scoop up enough of

Opening Day Action

• Mackenzie Gore's magnificent day on the mound
• Why draft the next Zack Wheeler when you can draft Zack Wheeler
• Boston DFS Stacks bomb against a stout Nathan Eovaldi
• CGSO Master (but not today), Framber Valdez
• The impressive debut of Sean Burke
• Carlos Rodon surprise and Freddy Peralta settles in
• Jose Berrios gets bombed
• Shaky Elite Closers - Williams, Hader, Clase
• Bullpens in Pittsburgh, Texas and other shaky spots
• Kyle Manzardo's near cycle
• Tommy Edman: Dinger Machine
• Jackson Chourio, more than a sombrero
• Wilyer Abreu with a day for the record books

Looking Ahead to 2025 FTN Content + our Weekly and Daily Projections

Weekend Starting Pitchers to Wawtch

Weekend Hitters to Start or Sit

A preview of Week 2 FAAB

A FAAB game in honor of Mike Mager

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The 2025 FTN Fantasy Baseball Guide is loaded with the best preseason fantasy baseball content, rankings, projections and fantasy tools! Join us this season at www.FTNFantasy.com. No team of analysts is better equipped to help you dominate your leagues. Featuring three NFBC overall champions!

Our in-season content is loaded and includes our Industry Most-Accurate Daily and Weekly Projections & Rankings.

Our weekly content schedule includes:

• Mondays - The Week Ahead (Lucas Biery)
• Tuesdays - NFBC Waiver Watch (Todd Whitestone)
• Wednesdays - The Bullpen Report (Dan Thompson)
• Thursdays - Gut Feelings (Vlad Sedler)
• Mondays/Fridays - Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (Joe Orrico/Adam Young)
• Saturdays/Sundays - Trust the Gut FAAB (Vlad Sedler) and Drops & Disasters (Mike Mager)

Plus two of our roto-famous tracking tools:

• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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Vlad Sedler and Jason Anthony get you ready for your drafts with the latest spring training injury and position battle news as well as a deep dive into the first few NFBC Main Event high stakes drafts and new ADP. Welcome to the second round, Wyatt Langford!

Spring Training News and NFBC High Stakes ADP Helium

• San Diego Padres - Who is Stephen Kolek? Gavin Sheets, Jackson Merrill, our boy Tirso Ornelas
• Los Angeles Dodgers - New SP5 Dustin May a target or fade?
• San Francisco Giants - Heliot Ramos helium, Jung Hoo Lee # 3, Roupp and the rotation
• Colorado Rockies - Battle of the Mid (the outfielders)
• Mets rotation - Tylor Megill, Sean Manaea update and...that Griffin Canning?
• Brett Baty or Luisangel Acuna for Jeff McNeil
• Pete Alonso is like Pete Alonso
• Ronald Acuna Jr. and Spencer Strider updates
• Boston Red Sox rotation and the 6-man pipe dream (that sounds awkward)
• HELIUM! 2nd round Langford, 3rd round Lawrence Butler - you guys are crazy!
• recent risers - Clay Holmes, Jackson Jobe, Mike Soroka
• recent fallers - Shane Baz, Jesus Luzardo, Justin Steele

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A few of our preseason tools:

• FTN VDP Projections
• Top 500 Roto Rankings
• Underdog VDP Rankings
• Biery's Offseason Tracker
• FILTH Pitcher Metric Leaderboard
• Bullpen Report

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