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Critical insight into Fantasy Baseball and how to dominate your competition. Join Lou Blasi, Schuyler Dombroske, Brandon Kamerman, and Anthony Perri as they get you ready for your draft and help you manage your team throughout the MLB season.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns projections and league context into practical fantasy baseball decisions without pretending every number carries the same weight.
Player value is always conditional on The Fantistics Fantasy Baseball Podcast. Lou Blasi, Brandon Kamerman, and Anthony Perri argue through draft price and playing time, treating every projection as something that can move when roles or skills change.
Opening-week panic meets small-sample math before your next FAAB bid does something regrettable.
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Contact, context, and a sane read on pitcher value make this a useful midseason listen.
This episode starts in a slightly messy All-Star-break mood, with golf talk up front before it settles into a clear look at Ben Rice. The discussion stays grounded in the numbers and keeps asking the right question: real fantasy edge, or just a hot stretch dressed up as more…
A steady look at early-season fantasy discipline.
Lou Blassie and Brandon Cameron treat early-season fantasy management as a test of nerve, not a verdict. They lean on pre-draft evaluations and warn against reading too much into the first two days, then use Rafael Devers, Carlos Rodon, and Mackenzie Gore to show how roster…
A practical early read on fantasy baseball draft prep, anchored by a solid first-base tier discussion.
The episode spends its time on early January fantasy baseball prep, with Lou Blassie and Anthony Perry working through undervalued players, ADP, and the way preseason projections get tightened up before draft season.
A steady look at draft-day inflation, built on playing-time doubt and market sense.
The episode takes a plainspoken look at the problem of paying too much for familiar fantasy baseball names. It keeps coming back to playing time, split data, and lineup pressure, which makes the argument feel grounded instead of theoretical.
Cousin Sal and rotating Ringer co-hosts handicap NBA, college hoops, and golf betting lines daily.
College prospects before the dynasty market moves.
This episode of The Fantistics Fantasy Baseball Podcast focuses on barrel rate as a key indicator for evaluating player performance in fantasy baseball.
On the "National Day of Potential Concern," the hosts review slumping fantasy hitters a third of the way through 2025, starting with Jose Altuve, whose in-zone swing rate is down 7.5% and who is 4-for-7 on steals.
Lou Blasio and Sky Dabrowski evaluate hot pitchers for fantasy pickups, ranking walks first, strikeouts second and ground balls third as their core filters.
Lou Blassie and Skylar Dombrowski use Fantistics' Draft Advisory Program to find hitters whose Fantistics Draft Position (FDP) runs several rounds ahead of their ADP.
The May 8, 2025 Fantistics episode uses contact rate, where roughly 75% is average and about 90% is elite, to build a list of hitters to discuss, including Brendan Donovan (.331 average, .349 expected) and Mikael Garcia (87.5% contact rate).
Hosts Skylar and his co-host sort 2025 early-season hot hitters by asking 'what changed,' using about 13 games of data and three-start samples for pitchers.
This episode of The Fantistics Fantasy Baseball Podcast discusses the importance of understanding basic stats like platoon splits and ballpark effects in Fantasy Baseball, using examples such as Joey Gallo and OBP to illustrate how deeper analysis can enhance draft and management strategies during the MLB season.
Hosts Lou Blassie and Anthony Perry of the Fantistics Inside of Baseball podcast preview the 2025 fantasy baseball season, using StatCast data and their projection models to identify undervalued hitters and pitchers for upcoming drafts.
Lou Blassie and Brandon Cameron open by treating the first regular-season games as a live test of fantasy judgment.
The hosts start by grumbling about the break and detouring for a moment into golf before getting back to baseball.
The hosts kick things off with some pre-show banter and a note that Tout Wars auction talk will wait for the weekend episode.
Lou Blassie and Brandon Kamerman examine how fantasy managers should interpret early-April results when two weeks of statistics provide limited evidence.
The Fantistics Fantasy Baseball Podcast examines hot second-half players on August 13, 2025, with Lou Blassie and Skye Dombrowski weighing sustainable skills against short-term streaks.