Baseball Hq Radio

2020-09-25 Our annual end-of-season roundtable features BaseballHQ columnist and co-GM Ray Murphy and Todd Zola, from Mastersball, RotoWire, ESPN, and SiriusXM, discussing the 2020 season⦠What we learned, the big stories, our 2020 fantasy awards, including Fantasy RoY, Cy Young, MVPs and busts ⦠And in Part 2 we sneak a peek at 2021, discussing potential new first-rounders, some possible sleepers and a prospect or twoâ¦Runs 1:26:30

2020-09-18 Show #28 is a Friday News and Comment Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Hey Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Our last regular show of the season before next weekâs roundtable wrap-up ... Runs 1:11:15

2020-09-11 Show 27 is another Friday Full Edition, featuring a guest expert interview with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, RotoWire, ESPN and MLB Network Radio, discussing roster planning for the last three weeks, chasing decimals, young pitchers, and projecting 2021 ... Also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Hey Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 2:10:00

2020-09-04 Show 26 is another Friday Full Edition, featuring a guest expert interview with Jason Collette of Rotowire from before the trading deadline, discussing hidden RBI sources, surging offenses, pitching Zacks, his Boons and Banes, and more ... And Howard Bender of Fantasy Alarm and SiriusXM fantasy sports radio, from after the deadline, talking about some key trades and prospects, and his Boons & Banes... ... Also, NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Hey Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 2:58:50

2020-08-28 Another Friday Full Edition features a guest expert interview with Mike Gianella, fantasy writer and podcaster at Baseball Prospectus, discussing why we play fantasy, impact callups, trade pieces, bona fide aces, some short-season observations about pitchers and hitters, and his Boons & Banes... ... Also, NL news with Ray Murphy and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Hey Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 2:04:30

2020-08-21 Another YUGE Friday Full Edition features a guest expert interview with Scott Pianowski, from Yahoo! Sports, discussing using the LIMA Plan for the shorter season, coping with ultra-low batting averages, asterisks, and lots of player talk: Teoscar Hernandez, Khris Davis, Anthony Santander, Mike Yastrzemski, Randy Dobnak, Merrill Kelly, plus his Boons and Banes ... Also, NL news with Harold Nichols, discussing two top prospects, the COL bullpen, injuries roiling the SD lineup, and AL News with Ray Murphy, discussing Yordan Alvarez out for the year, demotions for Oscar Mercado and Mallex Smith ... Plus our Hey, Taxi commentary and Extra Innings... Runs 2:39:15

2020-08-14 Friday Full Edition features two guest expert interviews. Ariel Cohen, a player projections and valuation expert at Rotographs, discusses the challenges in player projections in the shortened season, a pitching metric based on individual pitch outcomes, some bold predictions from July, and his boons and banes... Matthew Cederholm, a researcher and injury analyst at BaseballHQ.com, explains his injury analysis process, and discusses injuries to key players... Also, NL and AL player news, plus Hey, Taxi and Extra Innings... Show runs 2:55:55

2020-08-07 Aug 7, Show 22 ... Another Friday Full Edition features a guest expert interview with Gene McCaffrey, the Wise Guy of fantasy baseball and a fantasy baseball writer at The Athletic, discussing closers in the time of Covid, selling low, chasing relief wins, playing the percentages, home-field advantage ... Also, NL news with Ray Murphy, discussing Max Scherzer leaving a game, Will Smith returning to the ATL bullpen, two star STL players positive for Covid... and AL News with Ray Murphy, discussing Jo Adell, Shohei Ohtani, Roberto Osuna, and Surprisingly Productive Years ... Also our Hey, Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 2:18:00

2020-07-31 Friday Full edition has features and expert interview with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, RotoWire and SiriusXM, discussing early-season takeaways including stat volatility, as well as some DFS talk ... Also, NL and AL News with Harold Nichols and Ray Murphy ... the Hey, Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 1:56:40

2020-07-24 Friday Full edition features an expert interview with Alex Chamberlain, from Rotographs, discussing ERA estimators from the past, in the present, and into the future, and the development of new, more accurate tools to project ERA. ... Also, NL and AL News with Harold Nichols and Ray Murphy ... the Hey, Taxi commentary, and Extra Innings... Runs 2:10:15

2020-07-10 July 10 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Friday News edition features NL News with Harold Nichols and the latest from the AL with Ray Murphy... Runs 1:12:05

2020-07-03 Our first post-Covid pod is a special roundtable edition, featuring BaseballHQ co-GM Ray Murphy and Mastersball-SiriusXM analyst Todd Zola... Ray, Todd and host Patrick Davitt discuss how fantasy owners can manage the forthcoming short season, both at the league level and when it comes to drafting and managing their rosters. Ray also discusses how BaseballHQ.com is adjusting to deal with the changed season. The podcast runs 1:11:30.

2020-03-24 Tuesday Tout guest expert Jeff Barton, from Scoresheet Baseball, discusses what makes simulation-style fantasy baseball a different kind of game, how Scoresheet baseball works, some players who look different in sim uniforms, and his boons and banes, his Boons and Banes, and more... Also Frequent Flyer and Three-Minute Warning ... Runs 1:12:10

2020-03-20 Friday News and Comment edition features NL and AL News with Harold Nichols and Ray Murphy ... the Frequent Flyer with Alex Beckey, and the 3-Minute Warning with host Patrick Davitt... Runs 1:25:40

2020-03-17 Tuesday Tout Doug Dennis, BaseballHQ bullpens columnist, discusses strategizing for the short season; bullpen sleepers, gambles, and endgame values; players from his Tout Wars team; his Boons and Banes; and more... Runs 1:43:35

2020-03-15 In a Saturday Special Edition, host Patrick Davitt and HQers Doug Dennis and Ryan Bloomfield discuss their takeaways from the 2020 Tout Wars-AL draft, including strategies for the shortened MLB season... the online-drafting experience ... bidding wars with one another ... and other owner strategies at the draft ... No boons and banes, but the guys chime in with their best and worst buys on the day as well.... Runs 32:20

2020-03-13 Friday News and Comment edition features NL and AL News with Harold Nichols and Ray Murphy ... the Frequent Flyer, and the 3-Minute Warning ... Runs 1:21:45

2020-03-11 Tuesday Tout is BHQ Speculator columnist Ryan Bloomfield, discussing LABR Mixed, speculations non bounceback hitters and pitchers, Bloomboards and Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:40:25

2020-03-06 Friday News and Comment edition features NL and AL News with Harold Nichols and Ray Murphy ... the Frequent Flyer, and the 3-Minute Warning ... Runs 1:25:25...

2020-03-03 Tuesday Tout is fantasy baseball writer and researcher Alex Chamberlain, from Rotographs ... He discusses correlations between Statcast metrics like barrels and exit velocity with more common hitter metrics; his Deserved Barrels metric; Spray Angle effects, player values vs their ADPs, his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:32:05