Baseball Elite Podcast, May 3, 2021
Here’s ‘The Starting 9’ for today’s show…
1. Mayday! Mayday! – D. May (arm) could be done for May.
NOTE: After the podcast, news came out that May has a damaged UCL.
2. Player Profile – Daniel Lynch
3. Waiver Wins (SXM $Bids) – Dn. Lynch ($17), Staumont ($124), W. Calhoun ($39), T. O’Neil ($57), McClanahan ($61), Alzolay ($63), Knizer ($3)
4. d’Arnaud (torn thumb ligament) out for a majority of the season … Catching options?
5. With offense crashing-and-burning everywhere, are the offensive fantasy objectives severely altered? – Over a thousand more K’s than hits in April … MLB average is now .230 (gulp!) and slash categories are all near absolute historic lows
6. MLB News/Notes – L. Robert (hip) headed to the IL/Ohtani’s (elbow) two-start week could be in jeopardy/Story (finger) with no fractures according to X-ray/Luzardo fractures hand … playing video games/ I. Happ to an outfield collision
7. Weekly Preview – Rob Povia, FantasyGuru.com
8. ‘Random Reference’ – 1986 Yankees.
9. ‘Stamp of Approval’ – Fantasy Guru’s Draft Coverage and belts/wastebands.
