Baseball Elite

  Here’s ‘The Starting 9’ for today’s show.  1. NL Tout Wars - first name out of the hat “value” (Tatis for $38)/deGrom at $40 … no other NL SP over $27/Coming up constantly short in the bidding 2. AL Tout Wars - Trout reaches $50/Witt appears and goes for $10/’Big 4’ in TOR going for an average of $31   3. MLB News/Notes - Ohtani with 5 K’s in 4 IPs … and reaches base in all 3 of his PAs/Adell will start the year in the minors/CLE starts Mercado in the minors/HOU says Pressley is ‘fine’ despite not appearing since March 11/Antone (hip) shuts down bullpen session early/4.2 innings for F. Peralta … starter?/Realmuto (thumb) scratched from 1st appearance/Votto (COVID) returns to CIN camp/S. Perez re-up’s with KC at 4/$82   4. Player Profile - Emilio Pagan   5. Target Practice - Big arms out of the that could flip between rotation and ‘pen - late-20s Round - Kopech, Al. Reyes, Puk   6. Head-to-Head Advice - Understand the rules, Pay attention to consistency and health, Avoid too many rookies, Power of more importance   7. Head-to-Head … Who Ray likes, Who Ray Doesn’t Like   8. 'Random Reference' - Jim Johnson.    9. 'Stamp of Approval' – Fried Fish/To Go Margarita’s and Cheese.  

Welcome! This episode includes an introduction to the show and to Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink.  The games have arrived ... did anything catch your eye this past weekend? One month from now ... Season begins one month from today on April 1... the guys give a few predictions as to what will be 'in the news' or noteworthy coming out of camps, at that point. Playing in a league with 'IP' instead of 'Wins' (such as your Tout Wars draft Tuesday).