Frank Stampfl

This group of starting pitchers will be a fun one to rank. I've still got deep dives to do but my early lean is to rank them in this order for 2026 redraft leagues:

Chase Burns
Nolan McLean
Emmet Sheehan
Trey Yesavage
Cam Schlittler
Jacob Misiorowski

2026 FBT Offseason Survey For our live show at First Pitch Arizona, the FBT podcast will be talking about some of the biggest questions for 2026 and we want your thoughts!

For First Pitch Arizona, @frankstampfl.bsky.social and I will be doing a special LIVE episode of Fantasy Baseball Today, and even if you aren't going, you can still help us out by filling out this "Biggest Questions for 2026" survey forms.gle/7iHap1fJVgNV...

Additionally, we know the Orioles have speed. While sprint speed doesn't necessarily correlate to steals, the Orioles were 5th in sprint speed as a team this past season. Could Gunnar Henderson, Jackson Holliday, Jordan Westburg, Dylan Beavers, Colton Cowser all run a bit more?

Thinking out loud but I wonder if the Orioles' hiring of Craig Albernaz could lead to more steals as a team next season. He's coming over from the Guardians, where they ranked 8th in SB as a team since Stephen Vogt took over.

Juan Soto (and other Mets) credited Richardson for helping improve improve their running game. This adds another variable to one of the biggest questions for next season in Fantasy: Soto's stolen bases

(also the pod will be a live KOKOMO FRIDAY theme so if you're going to FPAZ, be sure to pack a Hawaiian shirt and where to that day!)

2026 FBT Offseason Survey For our live show at First Pitch Arizona, the FBT podcast will be talking about some of the biggest questions for 2026 and we want your thoughts!

So @cptowers.bsky.social and I will be doing a live pod at
@baseballhq.com's First Pitch Arizona next Friday, 11/7. The main topic of the pod will be toughest questions for 2026. We created a Google survey to gather data on those questions. Feel free to answer here:

docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

the home/road stuff worries me a little bit going back into the trop next year! but also he's 22 and amazing, so maybe it shouldn't

Studying up third basemen for tonight's pod. Junior Caminero's spray chart is so impressive. The dude has legit power to all fields.

2025 First Base Position Recap! Busts, Breakouts & Early 2026 Rankings! | Fantasy Baseball Advice YouTube video by Fantasy Baseball Today

Later tonight on FBT we'll have our 2025 first base recap! Nick Kurtz, Devers, breakouts, busts, top-12 finishers and way too early 2026 ranks. See ya around 11pm ET with @cptowers.bsky.social (we'll wait for the ALCS game to end)

www.youtube.com/live/SvckMJ3...

For those of you going to First Pitch Arizona in a few weeks, @frankstampfl.bsky.social and I will be recording a special, live, Kokomo Friday edition of Fantasy Baseball Today where we'll be talking about the biggest 2026 questions + SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW! www.baseballhq.com/articles/Eve...

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George Kirby tonight

Drafting the FIRST TWO ROUNDS in 2026 & Evaluating Preseason Busts! | Fantasy Baseball Advice YouTube video by Fantasy Baseball Today

If you want to see the draft Scott and I put together, you can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/yBCmEXv...

Scott's first two rounds for Roto and H2H points here: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

2.01- Crochet
2.02- Skenes
2.03- Tatis Jr.
2.04- Chourio
2.05- Gunnar
2.06- Jazz
2.07- Trea Turner
2.08- Schwarber
2.09- Raleigh
2.10- Kurtz
2.11- Caminero
2.12- Alvarez

Just missed: Vlad Jr., Alonso, PCA, Wood, Marte, Yamamoto, Logan Gilbert

Of course this is subject to change

Last night on the pod, Scott White and I drafted the first two rounds for 2026. Here's my own personal first two rounds:

1.01- Judge
1.02- Ohtani
1.03- Witt Jr.
1.04- Soto
1.05- J-Ram
1.06- Skubal
1.07- Carroll
1.08- Tucker
1.09- J-Rod
1.10- Lindor
1.11- Acuña
1.12- Elly

Another year goes by, a different team celebrates in Yankee Stadium. The worst part is wasting away historic seasons from Judge.

Anywho, congrats to the Blue Jays and their fans. You were the better team all season long. Even more impressive doing it without Bo Bichette.

Congrats man! Maybe I should listen to more of Vlad and myself 😂

I enjoyed it! We’ll be doing something similar on the pod soon as recap positions and take a look at early 2026 ranks.

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A star is born! Trey Yesavage was FILTHY against the Yankees in his postseason debut:

5.1 no-hit IP, 1 BB, 11 K, had 18 whiffs on 78 pitches, 11 on the splitter, 5 on the slider, 2 on the fastball

I always pride myself in transparency since people can always go back and listen to my takes on the pod. Most of these team results are public, too, but people like to know how we did in our leagues. And that last part is key, just have to diagnose the problems and try to be better the next year!

good questions and topic! tbh I'm not sure what the answer is. A lot of the time there's just no way for us to know. Sometimes teams or players tell us after the season but throughout the season it's usually pretty vague.

We were back and forth for first in Tout the final month and then he just pulled away. He's a great player, indeed.

And here's how I did in NFBC leagues. Another subpar showing on that front. Safe to say we got beat pretty badly in the 'Beat FBT' league! I'm still in the process of diagnosing what went wrong on these teams. I'll talk more about that on pods this week, lessons learned, etc.

I had some close finishes: 2nd in Tout Wars (15-team Roto auction with OBP), 2nd in Memorial magazine league (12-team Roto auction, we actually did that draft live on YT back in March)

How did I do in other industry leagues?
7th of 12 in NL LABR
6th of 15 in TGFBI (cont.)

We spoke about it on @FBTpod but here are my results from this Fantasy Baseball season:

I was in 16 total leagues, 7 normal redraft leagues, 6 draft-and-hold, 1 dynasty, 1 keeper, 1 scoresheet

I only won one: my home keeper league, 12-team H2H points (cont.)

Thank you for the support!

Another Fantasy Baseball Today regular season in the books! That's now five full seasons on the podcast and I couldn't be more grateful! I want to thank everybody who supports FBT, whether it's the podcast, watching on Youtube, or consuming our work on the CBS Sports website. We appreciate you!

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Zac Gallen's last 9 starts:

2.68 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, strikeouts are down but he's doing a much better job limiting walks and hard contact while inducing more ground balls