Subscribe to The Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Podcast
Apple Podcasts• Stitcher • Google Podcasts • Spotify

As April draws near, the list of players who wont be ready for the start of the season seems longer and longer. Clayton Kershaw is very unlikely to make his customary opening day start and on Monday, the Braves confirmed Mike Foltynewicz won’t be ready by opening day either. Meanwhile, starting pitchers in general are playing fewer innings overall, which inspired Scott Pianowski and his guest Dalton Del Don this week to dive heavily into some overall pitching strategy for the 2019 fantasy season.

[Batter up: Join or create a 2019 Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for free today]

First they start with the recent news that 3B Vlad Guerrero, Jr. is expected to miss at least three weeks with an oblique strain and whether it means anything considering he was not expected to be promoted it to the majors for a number of weeks anyways (2:10).

They also discuss OF Adam Jones signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks over the weekend (6:00) and the aforementioned injury to Braves SP Mike Foltynewicz (7:00).

For the majority of the episode, Scott and Dalton discuss a few different strategies for drafting starting pitchers, how the position compares to the running back position in fantasy football and some bargains and fades in the field (8:30).

[Positional Rankings: Top 300 Overall | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | P ]

Finally, Scott wraps up the show by asking Dalton to participate in a draft of the best TV shows ever made (35:00).

[Best bracket wins $1M: Enter our Best Bracket Millionaire contest for free now!]

We’ll be here every Monday through the baseball season, so please remember to rate, review and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.

Follow Scott @scott_pianowski

Follow Dalton @DaltonDelDon