Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) finish out their categories sleepers series with their favorite ERA and WHIP targets.

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Erik Halterman is joined by Paul Sporer of FanGraphs to discuss Paul's favorite pitchers at each point in the draft.

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00:00 Headlines

11:00 Top Fantasy Aces

15:45 High-Floor Aces

19:30 High-Ceiling SP2s

25:30 High-Ceiling SP3s and SP4s

33:45 Fantrax and NFBC

35:10 High-Floor SP3s and SP4s

39:20 SP3s and SP4s to fade

45:45 Staff Filler SP5s and SP6s

49:50 High-Ceiling SP5s and SP6s

54:20 Very late SP targets

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00:00 Intro

01:40 Auctioning For Beginners

08:50 Early Main Event prices

31:40 Pitchers Shooting Up

01:01:00 Players We’re Drafting

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Fred Zinkie (@FredZinkieMLB) and Jeff Erickson (@Jeff_Erickson) host their annual auction special, including Fred Zinkie's ways to improve auction formats. We'll also talk about Gerrit Cole's season-ending injury and what that means for the Yankees, and how our mid-to-late round pitching targets are getting more expensive.

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00:00 3-11 Zinkie Pod

00:45 It’s official. Gerrit Cole needs TJS.

08:00 Evaluating early spring training returns with Jared Jones & Clay Holmes

12:00 Dustin May will be the LAD SP5.

18:30 Gunnar Henderson is still unsure about Opening Day.

21:45 Rafael Devers delayed

28:15 Fantrax

29:15 Auctions

31:00 Auction Improvements

32:40 Use Ronald Acuna Jr. to illustrate

34:00 Jeff’s Home League as example

39:00 Nominations

43:00 Budgeting for the endgame

44:00 Avoiding Bidding Wars

46:00 Keeper Inflation in Auction Leagues

50:10 NFBC

50:50 BlueWire

51:00 Reserve Round SPs

52:45 Names to Consider: Max Meyer, Lucas Giolito, Dustin May, Luis Ortiz, Eduardo Rodriguez, Michael Soroka, Tony Gonsolin, Will Warren, Hayden Wesneski, Kyle Harrison, Ben Brown, Sean Burke, Tylor Megill, Andrew Painter, Osvaldo Bido, Tyler Mahle, Quinn Mathews, Trevor Williams.

1:09:00 Labor Gloom & Doom

1:13:20 Matt Shaw is going to Japan.

1:16:00 Cam Smith in RF

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad catch up with the abundance of injury news over the weekend from spring training and then go position by positions discussing which players they are fading in 2025 drafts. Talking targets is always fun, but knowing who to avoid is just as important so Jeff and Scott reveal a a player (or two or three) at every position that they are avoiding that is currently being drafted in the top 150. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire.

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer share their favorite late-round targets for strikeouts and wins.

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00:00 Headlines
20:00 Brandon Pfaadt
22:12 Nick Pivetta
24:33 Taj Bradley
26:27 Nick Lodolo
28:38 Spencer Arrighetti
30:27 Edward Cabrera
32:58 MacKenzie Gore
35:06 DJ Herz
37:37 Gavin Williams
39:17 Joe Boyle
43:35 Kris Bubic
47:24 Zach Eflin
48:49 Cristopher Sanchez
50:53 Walker Buehler
53:10 Grant Holmes
54:55 Michael Wacha
56:34 Matthew Boyd
58:27 Merrill Kelly
59:51 Tobias Myers
1:01:53 Cody Bradford
1:03:36 David Peterson

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0:00 Intro/Junior Caminero is “probably very day-to-day” with back tightness

Latest news from around MLB:

• Junior Caminero is dealing with back tightness, but just Day-to-Day – he’s been a steady riser throughout the spring.
• 4:26 Grayson Rodriguez undergoing tests for sore triceps.
• Christian Walker undergoes ultrasound on oblique.
• 10:15 Sandy Alcantara will be facing an innings limit, especially early on, per Jeff Passan of ESPN.

15:04 AL LABR Review:

• https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/article/collette-calls-my-2025-al-labr-squad-90753

32:13 More bold predictions

• NL Central
  • Clay: Matt McLain is a top-three 2B
• NL West
  • Clay: Tirso Ornelas NL ROY
• AL West
  • Clay: Cam Smith makes Opening Day roster

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Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Dave McDonald (@RunDMcD) discuss the importance of taking shots on high-upside players in the back half of your draft and share their favorite sleepers to take a chance on.

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00:00 Headlines
11:20 General sleeper strategy
19:15 Mid-round sleeper hitters
32:30 Mid-round sleeper pitchers
43:45 Late-round sleeper hitters
1:00:55 Late-round sleeper pitchers
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