📅 Published on: 2024-11-27 05:27:22

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Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million deal! What does this mean for Fantasy Baseball leagues in 2025?

0:00- Intro
1:00- Blake Snell to the Dodgers
6:10- Dodgers rotation
10:26- Snell’s early ADP
12:46- Have the Dodgers broke baseball?

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[Music] our first emergency podcast of the offseason goes to Blake Snell welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Wednesday November 27th right at midnight Scott breaking news I am Frank stample joined by Scott White and the rich get richer the reigning defending Undisputed World Champ ion Los Angeles Dodgers have made the first big splash of the offseason signing Blake Snell to a fiveyear 82 million deal how how can they afford this how can they do this well those sh Otani deferrals this is where things start to get interesting they were you know just the best team in baseball 98 games in the regular season they won go on to win the World Series and and now they’re signing Blake Snell so uh Scott I’ll let you get into the analysis on the Snell side of things you could throw the numbers at us and everything when he’s healthy when he’s on he’s one of the best and now he’s joining the Dodgers yeah he’s joining the Dodgers can’t ask for a better destination uh it’s it’s you know I’m not really sure the venue I’m not even sure The Supporting Cast matters that much because it seems like over the past three years the only one who can beat Blake Snell is Blake Snell and yeah when he’s on he’s Untouchable we of course know that from his Sai Young winning uh 2023 season when he had a 118 erra and 105 whip over his final 22 starts and I gotta tell you this past year was shorter the the the span where he dominated but it really wasn’t any less dominant over his final 14 starts this past year Blake Snell had a 123 erra 123 over 14 starts after 118 in 22 Stars the previous year um he had a 78 whip to go with that 123 RA in 2024 in case you needed that additional number so yeah I I mean he’s really good it would seem of course there are those rough stretches early in the season that’s been a four-year Trend now but clearly the Dodgers weren’t deterred by it they’re paying him like an ace and I don’t think we should be deterred by it either this is what I’ve come around to with Blake Snell uh we can ring our hands over those lousy aprils and Mays when he just looks totally unusable but in the end the numbers are there and they’re definitively Ace likee over the past three seasons good start and good starts and bad Blake Snell has a 282 ER 116 whip 12K per n Ace that’s an ace that’s an ace exactly and and like you look at the individual pitch characteristics and all the underlying stats they support it too like it’s it’s a bigger head scratcher why he’s struggles for those uh you know half dozen to a dozen start stretches early in the year then then why he’s so dominant when he’s dominant Blake Snell is just good and hey maybe with the Dodgers he’ll be able to afford he’ll be able to avoid I should say that early ho hole but even if he doesn’t by now I think we can take a deep breath and trust that the numbers will be there in the end clearly the Dodgers like I said they’re paying him like an ace they’re the Marquee franchise right now I I I think we should follow their lead I have Blake Snell’s a top 10 pitcher for next season and I had him there even before he signed with the Dodgers yes and part of this deal 182 million over five years comes with a $52 million signing bonus so the aav on the deal is actually going to come down a little bit for Blake Snell and the Dodgers just keep finding ways to kind of finagle their way around the luxury tax whether it’s deferrals to Otani and now they’re you know giving this huge signing bonus to Blake Snell and you know I wonder if other teams will kind of join in in doing things like that but for now uh yes they are the leaders in the clubhouse and they’re only getting better with Blake Snell you know Scott I know it’s our job to kind of find things to talk about with Blake Snell and react to this but I think you hit it on the head right it it really just comes down to Blake Snell I was trying to look into like ballpark fact I mean I guess if there’s one thing that could play negatively Dodgers Stadium was number two in Home Run Park factor for the past three years and Oracle Park was 30th but I don’t really think it matters you know I agree I think as long as Blake Snell is healthy and he’s on he’s he’s really just one of the best pitchers in baseball uh if you needed added fuel to the fire seven career starts in Dodger Stadium for Blake snell a 203 ra a 107 whip 39 strikeouts over 31 Innings pitch and you have to imagine a bulk of those have come in the past couple of Seasons with him in San Diego and San Francisco and he was going up against that stack Dodgers team so again it’s I don’t really think there’s anything to do with like the environment it’s just yeah if Blake Snell’s there and good to go it’s he’s one of the best so yeah the thing I wonder about this from a fantasy perspective is if this might elay fears that some people have about Blake Snell’s irregularities that the Dodgers are willing to take him on for the next five years uh I don’t know I to me it counts for something but I was an optimist I was a Believer a Blake Snell believer in the first place so maybe not time will tell the other thing though is um it’s kind of a crowded rotation picture right and so maybe the Dodgers are factoring in okay well yeah we could we we could just look at the full season stat line rather than breaking it down like that that doesn’t concern us but you know Blake Snell has missed his share of starts over the years too and and so they’re just kind of they’re they’re building up this this stock pile of of pitching for the inevitable inevitable Blake Snell I El stint the inevitable Tyler glass now I El Stant yoshinobu Yamamoto he hasn’t really proven his durability yet shoan we expect them back pitching in 2025 but we don’t know exactly when it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be at the start of the year uh so those four are obviously locked in when they’re healthy but then you know they got Bobby Miller they have Dustin may coming back from injury Tony gonsolin uh I’m sure Clon Kershaw will be back yeah it’s a good chance of that Landon neck Justin blesi we saw both of them make a fair number of starts this past year and I don’t think they’re out on Roki sasaki’s guys of course not yeah yeah I mean it’s not like that’s going to be a big financial burden so no guarantee that he winds up with the Dodgers but yeah he could be there too so I I would say the one who takes the biggest hit with this news is Bobby Miller because we don’t know we don’t know how consistent his role is going to be now even if he’s pitching well he just there’s he he may get crowded out there uh maybe not I mean if if if everything lines up just right o by the time otani’s ready to return somebody’s going on the iil uh maybe maybe it’ll work out fine but I don’t think you can approach Bobby Miller this season with the expectation he’s just gonna be starting every fifth day and yeah definitely knocks his value down that I agree with completely and you brought up a good point the fact that the Dodgers are building up this depth it almost allows them to a run a six-man rotation which I’m sure they want to do anyway with glass now being as injury prone as he is and Yamamoto previously working you know on a six day schedule in Japan and you Otani coming back from injury so they have that they they probably want to go with the six-man and again this kind of builds in you know if they want to give guys I stints breaks throughout the season this kind of affords them that luxury by by adding another Elite El arm uh in Blake Snell so I almost wonder if you just overall expect Dodgers pitchers to make less starts I mean that kind of feels like a given because a lot of them are injury-prone are coming back from injury but even with a Blake Snell maybe you project a few less starts just because you know they’re GNA be spaced out and things like that two star pitchers two star weeks are are probably gonna be hard to come by for any Dodger starter so yeah I mean obviously we don’t know exactly what the future holds and and how often injuries are going to happen how much they’re going to line up how lengthy they’re going to be and I I would say though just looking at at those names so the the four the four that are going to be there for sure if they’re healthy for sure going to be in the Dodgers rotation if they’re healthy Blake Snell yoshinobu Yamamoto Tyler Gass now and shoh Otani Snell feels like the most durable of them right I I know he had 104 Innings this past year but it was groin strain that cost him that time it wasn’t it wasn’t arm stuff you know which is saying a lot if Blake Snell is your most horrible pitcher it’s it’s kind of a lot well and but I’m I’m just saying obviously 2023 180 Innings no real health issues there but he he’s only surpassed 130 in once in the past five full seasons so yeah it has been a bit of an irregularity for him but the two times in his career he’s gone 180 Innings sa young say young yeah yeah yeah uh taking a look at the early ADP Scott uh it’s 55.2 over at the nfbc there have been 66 early drafts done so far uh so that makes him the sp13 just after Dylan CE uh Cole Reagan and Yoshi noobu Yamamoto so my guess is uh Snell will move up ahead of of Yamamoto at least I would imagine he’ll get a little bit of a bump players just get bumps in general when they sign with a new team let alone the World Series champs uh can you see yourself moving Blake Snell up at all you mention you have him as your eighth ranked starter you would have to move him ahead of like Reagan or Logan Gilbert is that something you could see yourself doing no I can’t see myself doing that because I already had Blake Snell as high as I felt like he could possibly go his win potential does improve a little bit with the well maybe shouldn’t even say a little bit he has he has about as much win potential as you could hope for signing with the Dodgers they’re going to win a ton of games but it does uh because they have that big stable of pitchers if if they wanted to give him a little extra rest when maybe someone else Snell signed with wouldn’t have that luxury I’m I I’m not sure it like I I feel like the advantages of him pitching for the Dodgers kind of get negated by that uh that concern over over his Innings being limited by artificial means you know so no I I don’t see myself moving Blake Snell up higher than I have him at eighth but yeah eth is where I think he should be and I’d take him over Yamamoto Yamamoto was the one who stood out there as being surprisingly High to me because if if you’re if you’re devaluing Blake Snell over durability concerns I don’t know why you wouldn’t do the same to Yamamoto who wasn’t even available for half of his first season yeah no I agree with that I I haven’t ranked pitchers yet but I think I will have Blake Snell ahead of Yamamoto it’s you know Yamamoto was great but you laid out the numbers for Blake Snell over the last three years I know it’s frustrating but when it’s all said and done you know we still have got Ace production in that in that time and he’s done it over a bigger sample than someone like Yamamoto so I I think I’m gonna have him ranked ahead of Yamamoto as well before we wrap up here Scott uh to all the Dodgers fans out there maybe this is the part of the podcast you want to stop listening I just have to bring it up because I’m sure there will be a lot of chatter on the internet and the talking heads will go crazy have the Dodgers broke baseball Scott um I mean we kind of knew this we we knew this was a possibility when Otani signed the deal the way he did with so much of that $700 million defer being deferred so that they could bring in even more talent for his prime years and uh I didn’t necessarily expect them to sign Blake Snell but I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that they did and I wouldn’t like it it shouldn’t be a surprise anytime the Dodgers sign a marquee free agent at this point so have they broken baseball baseball is really hard to predict uh on on a team level anyway what am I trying to say like we’ve seen obviously the Yankees went through a stretch it was a couple decades ago at this point where it seemed like they landed every mark key free agent and they weren’t Invincible they had a really good run they they won four World Series in five years but uh they were beatable and a lot of times they were favored going in and and then they didn’t pull it out so that’s certainly the baseball postseason is unpredictable so have the Dodgers broken baseball no I do wonder if yeah I mean there will certainly be chatter about uh all the deferrals and everything how if there should be some kind of limits placed on that I would imagine but any team could have done it you know and I I imagine we’ll see more teams do it yeah no I agree man um yeah it’s it’s tough to say I mean I think a lot of people living in the moment right now are going to see the Dodgers won the World Series and you know they’re making the first big signing of the off season so will be lots of heavy reactions to that I’m I’m sure uh but you’re right I mean it’s not always the best team on paper that goes on to win I mean we just we had a stretch of years where uh you know it wasn’t just the top payroll team was winning every year I mean it’s we’re being honest over the past couple decades it it really hasn’t been that way so um maybe they’ll go on and just create a Dynasty now that they have all these amazing player signed but uh we’ll see it doesn’t always work out where the you know best team on paper goes on to win so um you know they’ll have a Target on their back for sure that that’s uh that we know uh all right we are going to wrap there uh for anyone listening we do have a podcast coming out tomorrow as well Chris and I broke down his early top 50 starting piters so if you listen to that and we don’t mention Blake Snell signing with the Dodgers that’s because we recorded it uh yesterday two days ago I guess when you’re gonna listen to it so uh that’s why it might sound a little bit weird but no worries that that’s coming out tomorrow as another podcast we are going to wrap there for Scott I am Frank thanks as always for tuning in to this emergency edition of fantasy baseball today please make sure to follow and leave a fivar rating on Apple or Spotify and Chris and I will be back again tomorrow bye-bye

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