It's probably nothing for a veteran pitcher like Max Fried BUT his velo was down again today compared to last year (and has been down all spring). He also allowed 11 hard-hits in this start against the Orioles. His average exit velocity against was 96.2 MPH on 16 batted balls.

Here's the last of my Sleepers, Breakouts and Busts 2.0. Five more players I think can take a huge step forward this season: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

Spring training statcast notes from Tuesday, March 10 (excluding the WBC):

Spring Training statcast notes from Monday, March 9:

Just wrapped up our live 12-team Roto auction draft. Here's who I wound up with:

Here are my Sleepers 2.0, five more players I believe are undervalued based on ADP! www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

Spring training Statcast notes from Wednesday, March 4 to wake up to:

I'm going to *try* and take notes on Statcast stuff each day. If I do, I'll post it here. Here's what I have for Monday, March 2:

By the way, @frankstampfl.bsky.social and I interviewed people who cover all 30 teams for our 'On The Beat" preview series earlier this year, if you want to check that out in this playlist! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDg...

Gut reaction: I moved Corbin Carroll down the 16th overall, just behind Gunnar Henderson and Jackson Chourio. I moved Francisco Lindor down to 27th overall, just behind Kyle Schwarber and Zach Neto.

Big thanks to @swingsandtakes.com for hopping on FBT to do our 2026 Mariners preview! We did record it before the Brendan Donovan trade but don't think that fundamentally changed anything we talked about. Josh Naylor's steals, Kirby's health and more! 📺: tinyurl.com/m8uf7phx 🎧: tinyurl.com/yvnd8u4x

Tune in today at 3pm to hear @rotogut.bsky.social, @frankstampfl.bsky.social, and myself talk about #fantasybaseball sleeper pitchers as part of the opening day of #PitchCon on @pitcherlist.com!!! Head over to pitcherlist.com/pitchcon!

Really excited and privileged to moderate a panel on sleeper pitchers tomorrow at 3pm ET for @pitcherlist.com’s PitchCon 2026, featuring @frankstampfl.bsky.social and @rotogut.bsky.social! Be sure to tune in! #fantasybaseball

BREAKOUTS 1.0 🚀 Here are 10 names I'm pretty excited about that I expect to take another step forward this season, and maybe even be league winners. The last two are for my deep-leaguers out there. www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

I was joined by @jasonbeck.bsky.social for our Detroit Tigers 2026 preview! We talked Tarik Skubal, Kevin McGonigle, the bullpen and more! 📺: tinyurl.com/327yrpw6 🎧: tinyurl.com/4nje5uz9

I was joined by @jmjones.bsky.social to preview the Cardinals for the 2026 Fantasy Baseball season! We talked Ivan Herrera at catcher, JJ Wetherholt and more. Check it out: 📺: tinyurl.com/3983cdxd 🎧: tinyurl.com/49zvjvu8

On our Milwaukee Brewers preview, @cptowers.bsky.social was joined by @matrueblood.bsky.social to discuss the offseason, Brice Turang, Chad Patrick and more!! Watch or listen below 📺: tinyurl.com/mr2abmdw 🎧: tinyurl.com/2y4ntp4n

SLEEPERS 1.0 😴 Here's my first round of sleepers for the 2026 Fantasy Baseball season. I wound up writing about at least one name at each position with some bonus deeper names at outfield and starting pitcher! www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

BUSTS 1.0 ❌ Here's my first round of Busts for the 2026 season. I broke them down into three categories: bottom-out potential, injury risks and don't pay for the career year: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

Our 2026 Fantasy Baseball rankings are LIVE! We have Top 300s, positionranks, auction values for 12-team leagues, AL/NL only, etc. If you play in Roto or H2H categories, use our Roto (cats) rankings. If you play in H2H points, use the H2H (pts) ranks. www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

Just looked into the Kauffman Stadium changes. I think all of their hitters will gain at least a little value. The ones who should gain the most are those who pull the ball in the air. Four names with a pulled air rate over 20%: Vinnie P Salvy Jensen Collins Updated look at what's changing:

Nolan Arenado to the Dbacks seems like a slight uptick for his value. Chase Field is a little better for RHB than Busch Stadium. Not sure he would have gained more homers based on last year's batted ball data (2025 spray chart overlayed with Chase Field pictured below)

Pirates should also sign Okamoto and give Konnor Griffin a fair shot to win their shortstop job. Potential Opening Day lineup: Konnor Griffin Brandon Lowe Bryan Reynolds Ryan O’Hearn Kazuma Okamoto O’Neil Cruz Spencer Horwitz Joey Bart Jake Mangum Go Pirates Go! 🏴‍☠️

Completed my second NFBC Gladiator (15 team roto, draft your starting roster and thats it) from the 5th pick. Betting on some injury bounce backs. No, closers don’t usually go this high but that’s the asking price in this format. PS I like Maikel Garcia and Pepiot a lot for 2026!

Working on my 2026 rankings and here's my first go at the Top-20 SP (Cole Ragans is the hardest SP for me to rank so far)

Houser saw a big jump in velo last season and performed well: 3.31 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 3.81 FIP, 4.03 xERA with a 49% GB rate He's not going to get any strikeouts but a GB pitcher in SF? I'm sure we'll be streaming him a bunch in 2026

Foster Griffin is returning to the majors after three years in the NPB. In 2025: 1.62 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 8.9 K/9, 2.1 BB/9, 49% GB rate, 11.4% SwStr rate over 78 IP (14 G, 13 GS) My guess is he gets a shot to start with the Nationals and is somebody to watch this spring.

Apparently Shane Bieber dealt with forearm fatigue towards the end of the season

Per Alden González, the Padres plan to keep Mason Miller, Adrian Morejón and David Morgan in their bullpen next season.

We have our final 2025 position recap tonight, breaking down the Top-12 relievers and taking an early look at 2026. See ya at 10:30pm ET @cptowers.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/UivMonM...

Talking Dylan Cease to the Blue Jays with @cptowers.bsky.social in about 20 minutes! www.youtube.com/live/HLKtekN...

We've got some big-name players coming over from Japan this offseason, so @frankstampfl.bsky.social sat down with @yakyucosmo.bsky.social to talk about Tatsuya Imai, Munetaka Murakami, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkcV...

Just finished up a NFBC Gladiator draft. 15 teams, 23 rounds, draft your starting lineup and that's it. I went with an unconventional approach, waiting on RP, then taking 5 SP and 4 RP. I was in a league last year where somebody did it to perfection. I wanted to give it a try.

Going live a little later tonight at 11:30pm ET w/ @cptowers.bsky.social to recap First Pitch Arizona and react to all of the latest news! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ0y...

This weekend at #FPAZ I drafted the first 23 rounds of a NFBC Draft Champions league. 15-team Roto draft-and-hold from the 15th pick. I wrote up which picks stood out most and the decisions I faced throughout the draft. Check it out here: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

And Drake Baldwin won RoY in the NL! It wound up pretty close between him and Cade Horton.

Nick Kurtz wins the AL Rookie of the Year UNANIMOUSLY. Well deserved!

Tigers top prospect Kevin McGonigle went 4-5 with 2 HR, 4 runs, 4 RBI today in the Arizona Fall League! In 15 games he’s batting .404 with 4 HR, a 1.251 OPS and 13 BB to 10 K

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

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...

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

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/...

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

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...

George Kirby tonight

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.

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