Show No. 33 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Joe Orrico of SportsEthos.com and the Fantasy MLB Today podcast, discussing must-add hitters and pitchers (and a few fades) for the stretch run, why his fantasy baseball writing and podcasting focuses on shallow online leagues and H2H, and his Boons and Banes (Part 1 3:45, Part 2 1:34:35)... also NL news with Harold Nichols (28:00) and AL News with Ray Murphy (49:50) ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary (2:31:30) and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment (2:35:55) ... Runs 2:44:50

Show No. 33 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Joe Orrico of SportsEthos.com and the Fantasy MLB Today podcast, discussing must-add hitters and pitchers (and a few fades) for the stretch run, why his fantasy baseball writing and podcasting focuses on shallow online leagues and H2H, and his Boons and Banes (Part 1 3:45, Part 2 1:34:35)... also NL news with Harold Nichols (28:00) and AL News with Ray Murphy (49:50) ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary (2:31:30) and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment (2:35:55) ... Runs 2:44:50

2022-08-12 Show No. 32 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Doug Dennis of Bullpens columnist at BaseballHQ.com, discussing his winning no-starters strategy in Tout Wars-AL, trade fallout in bullpens, a look ahead to 2023 bullpens, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:31:25

2022-08-06 UPDATED! Editing error in NL News segment resulted in a few minutes of out-of-synch audio. Show No. 31 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring interviews with Chris Blessing, a scouting analyst at BHQ.com, discussing ranking the prospects moved at the trade deadline; and Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and Sirius XM, discussing the false logic of not dealing within the division, his by-the-numbers look at humidors, rethinking assumptions about pitcher streaming, and a surprising forecast for the early rounds in 2023... Also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:26:40

2022-08-05 Show No. 31 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring interviews with Chris Blessing, a scouting analyst at BHQ.com, discussing ranking the prospects moved at the trade deadline; and Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and Sirius XM, discussing the false logic of not dealing within the division, his by-the-numbers look at humidors, rethinking assumptions about pitcher streaming, and a surprising forecast for the early rounds in 2023... Also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:26:40

2022-07-29 Show No. 30 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Rudy Gamble of Razzball, discussing the lessons of the Mookie Betts trade, managing player projections in a crazy season, hot takes on the latest baseball news, , and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:33:15

2022-07-22 Show No. 29 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Ian Kahn of The Athletic Fantasy Baseball podcast, discussing psychology in fantasy baseball; his successful partnerships in the NFBC Main Event and other leagues; how to respond when you overdo a FAAB bid; dynasty and keeper leagues; and a few prospects and the recent MLB draft;, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:54:20

2022-07-19 Show No. 28 is a special Allstar Break Roundtable Edition, with Todd Zola, from Rotowire, ESPN, Mastersball and SiriusXM, and Ray Murphy, from BaseballHQ.com, joining host Patrick Davitt for a three-part discussion about the big stories in baseball and fantasy baseball, least valuable fantasy players and 2nd-half collapse candidates, and 2nd-half rebound picks and fantasy player awards ... Runs 1:06:30

2022-07-15 Show No. 27 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Steve Gardner of USA Today, discussing the red-hot M's and O's, the extinction of starting pitchers, a winning manager fired, full-season all-stars, second half surgers, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:34:40

2022-07-09 Show No. 26 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Fred Zinkie of Yahoo! Sports and the Rotowire fantasy baseball podcast, discussing how to trade more effectively by targeting the other managers in your league, and not just targeting players ... His teams and leagues in the year to date ... What we might learn from Italian Breakfast, Paul Goldschmidt, Julio Rodriguez and Jhoan Duran ... When to cut an injured star like Bryce Harper, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:37:15

2022-07-01 Show No. 25 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Mike Gianella of Baseball Prospectus, discussing the in-season mistakes fantasy managers make with starting pitchers and relievers, his FAAB analysis reports at Baseball Prospectus, his Doubt Wars team from the Memorial Day Tout Mock Draft, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:59:15

2022-06-24 Show No. 24 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Jason Collette of Rotowire, discussing finding SBs, summer slugging, injry management, players like Oneil Cruz and Jack Suwinski, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:49:15

2022-06-17 Show No. 23 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Ariel Cohen of Rotoballer and Rotographs, and hosts the Beat the Shift podcast, discussing in-season projections, in-season category punting, when to release an IL player, the fun of actuarial science, and his Boons and Banes ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:39:20

2022-06-10 Show No. 22 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports, discussing his fantasy year to date, lessons from the Tout Wars Memorial Day mock draft, a bunch of players including Julio Rodriguez and Tarik Skubal, and a very quick Stanley Cup update, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:43:55

2022-06-03 Show No. 21 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Tim McLeod of Patton and Company, Prospect361.com and the P361 podcast, discussing Trading, slow-starting players, Japanese and Korean baseball, waivers, prospects, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:45:55

2022-05-27 Show No. 20 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Gene McCaffrey, the Wise Guy of fantasy baseball, of The Athletic, discussing Julio Rodriguez vs. Mike Trout, the early days of experts' leagues, assessing our fantasy teams and individual players now that we're one-quarter of the way into the season, arriving prospects, and his Boons and Banes ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:32:50

2022-05-21 Show No. 19 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Carlos Marcano of from PitcherList and Baseball Prospectus, discussing two-start pitchers, roster construction, the real influence of pitch velocity, and his Boons and Banes... also NL and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary ... Runs 2:26:05

2022-05-13 Show No. 18 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring two expert interviews: Tanner Smith, the Arsenal Report columnist at BaseballHQ, discusses pitcher deception, using advanced pitching data, pitch labelling, the breakout of Shane McLanahan, the current state of sticky stuff and spin, and world-class competitive cup-stacking, and his Boons and Banes... and Todd Zola, the king of fantasy sports media, talks about the physics of the 2022 baseball and when is the right time to start thinking and talking trades ... also NL and AL news with Harold Nichols ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:45:00

2022-05-06 Show No. 17 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Steve Gardner of USA Today, discussing some pre-season bold predictions, what to make of standout starts by some hitters and pitchers, and his Boons and Banes ... Also NL news with Matt Beagle and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:42:50

2022-04-29 Show No. 16 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Derek Carty of The Bat and BatX projections systems, discussing revisiting some of his research findings from ten years ago, the power outage in MLB so far this season, the future of research in baseball and fantasy baseball, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Ray Murphy and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:40:10

2022-04-22 Show No. 15 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Mike Gianella of Baseball Prospectus, discussing surprising starts by star players, baseball media coverage, FAABing in experts leagues, and his Boons and Banes... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Matt Beagle ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:22:15

2022-04-15 April 15 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 14 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Harold Nichols ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 45:50

2022-04-08 Show No. 13 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment⦠Runs 1:24:00

2022-03-29 Show No. 11 of 2021 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an expert interview with Peter Kreutzer, of Pattonand Co.com, the AskRotoman blog, Tout Wars and the annual Fantasy Baseball Guide magazine, discussing how to manage keeper leagues and their owners, his Tout Wars NL-only auction, and his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:33:30

2022-03-25 Show No. 10 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Doug Dennis of bullpens columnist at BaseballHQ.com, discussing the closer situations in all 30 MLB bullpens, an unorthodox league he recently drafted, an unorthodox strategy in a normal league he recently drafted, and his Boons and Banes ... Also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:13:15

2022-03-22 Show No. 9 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, RotoWire, SiriusXM, and many others, discussing issuing a mea culpa, his drafts, Tout Wars Weekend, player moves, and his Boons and Banes... Runs 1:38:30

2022-03-18 Show No. 8 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports, discussing the Salvador Perez problem, being selected for the Fantasy Sportswriters Hall of Fame, OF values, player signings and trades, and a jumbo-sized set of Boons and Banes ... Also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:12:05

2022-03-15 Show No. 7 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an interview with Jeff Erickson of RotoWire and SiriusXM fantasy sports radio, discussing the new CBA and its effects on fantasy baseball ... His dozen or more drafts this season ... How Tout Wars changes its rules ... And comments on player moves including Nelson Cruz, Clayton Kershaw and Carlos Rodon, and his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:15:20

2022-03-11 Show No. 6 is a Friday Expert Edition, featuring an interview with Ariel Cohen of Rotographs, RotoBallers, the Sleeper and the Bust podcast, and the ATC projections system, discussing the variations in player projections ... his early drafts ... the Data of Baseball and the effect of machine learning on fun ... his discussion with Brian Bannister, the Giantsâ director of pitching ... and his Boons and Banes for the quickly arriving 2022 season... Runs 1:32:45

2022-03-09 Show No. 5 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an interview with Gene McCaffrey, the Wise Guy of fantasy baseball and a columnist at The Athletic, discussing his early drafts, the wisdom of drafting top closers early, and a position-by-position review of players, including a boon and a bane at every one! ... Runs 1:25:00

2022-03-04 Show No. 4 is a Friday Tout Edition, featuring an interview with Jason Collette, the "Collette Calls" columnist at RotoWire, discussing if we can chase wins, should chase wins, and how to at least chase wins methodically... also chasing stolen bases, and how changes in the game have meant changes in our approach to that category ... and Boons and Banes are back, Jason starts us off with some hitters and pitchers to consider (or not) for draft season ... Runs 1:13:15 -

2022-02-25 Show No. 2 of 2022 is a Friday HQ Spotlite with Ryan Bloomfield, Speculator columnist at BaseballHQ.com, discussing his recent LABR draft and its middle-rounds strategy, pitch-mix changes, risky hitters and pitchers in the early rounds, and more ... 1:14:05

2022-02-23 Our first show of 2022, out 17th season, is a Roundtable edition, with regular guests Todd Zola, of RotoWire, SiriusXM and ESPN; and Ray Murphy, co-GM and columnist at BaseballHQ.com; joining host Patrick Davitt to discuss how the Lockout might affect drafts and draft risk, player projections, and prospect advancement ... Player stuff, including how the pool looks in terms of value pockets, positional tiers, and that kind of thing; which positions to target early in drafts; and the effect of an NL DH on National League pitching ... The rapidly retreating LF fence in Baltimore; and some Value hitters and pitchers and sleeper hitters and pitchers ... And for some reason, Toddâs root canal... Runs 1:04:55

2021-10-19 Show No. 45 of the 2021 fantasy season is a year-end roundtable live from First Pitch Arizona. Ray Murphy of BaseballHQ and Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, SiriusXM and RotoWire join host Patrick Davitt to dish out fantasy MVP and Cy Young awards, to discuss the big stories from the 2021 season, and pick positional boons and Banes for 2022. Runs 1:07:30

2021-09-17 Show No. 44, our last of the regular season, is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:46:50

2021-09-10 Show No. 43 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:21:20

2021-09-03 Show No. 42 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, Rotowire, SiriusXM, and more podcasts than Malcolm Gladwell, discussing managing fantasy rosters in September, monthly variance, SB surprises, how counting stats can turn into rate stats,, and his Slump, Pump, Dump and Jumps... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:12:20

2021-08-27 Show No. 41 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with the âBaseball Professor,â Andy Andres of Boston University, discussing the state of the game in university classrooms, why he loves playing in Ottoneu fantasy baseball, and his Slump, Pump, Dump and Jumps... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:40:10

2021-08-20 Show No. 40 is a Friday (almost) Full Edition, featuring an interview with Matt Dodge, Playing Time Tomorrow roster analyst at BaseballHQ,com, discussing where last year's top-drafted players should go next season, the techniques of medium-term roster forecasting, and his Slump, Pump, Dump and Jumps for the rest of this season... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Runs 2:08:05

2021-08-13 Show No. 39 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Justin Mason of Rotographs, Friends with Fantasy Benefits, and the TGFBI podcast, discussing the state of fantasy sports content creation, how he picks pitchers to recommend for a start, established stars returning from injuries, bullpens in MIN and STL, and his Slumps, Pumps, Dumps and Jumps ... also NL and AL news with Harold Nichols... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:14:00

2021-08-06 Show No. 38 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Paul Sporer of Rotographs and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast, discussing how the flameouts of top-round pitchers might affect drafts next season; the outcomes we might see in the aftermath of this year's trades; and his Slump, Pump, Dump and Jumps ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:22:20

2021-07-31 Show No. 37 is a Special trade-deadline roundtable edition with Ray Murphy, co-GM and columnist at BHQ.com and our reporter on the AL Beat here at BHQR; Alex Beckey, an analyst at BHQ.com and our Frequent Flyer commentator at BHQ Radio; Ryan Bloomfield, Speculator columnist at BHQ.com; Matt Dodge, Playing Time Tomorrow analyst covering the AL Central for BHQ.com; and Jock Thompson, the Director of News and Analysis at BHQ.com and the reporter emeritus on the AL Beat here at BHQR ... Runs 1:03:40

2021-07-30 Show No. 36 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, Rotowire, ESPN, SiriusXM, discussing the ethics of fantasy baseball trading, analyzing the roto categories to see where opportunities and risks are, his Slumps, Pumps, Dumps and Jumps, and other stuff... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:24:50

2021-07-23 Show No. 35 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Derek Carty, the developer of THE BAT and THE BAT X projections systems at RotoGrinders, EV Analytics, Fangraphs and The Athletic, discussing building better projections, auctions vs drafts, stabilization rates of metrics, how Statcast metrics are often misused, and more... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:35:40

2021-07-16 Show No. 34 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Tanner Smith of Arsenal Report analyst at BaseballHQ.com, discussing analyzing pitch mixes and beyond, the effects of losing the sticky stuff, his Slumps, Dumps Pumps and Jumps ...... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:28:25

2021-07-13 Show No. 33 is a Tuesday Special Edition, our annual mid-season roundtable ... Todd Zola and Ray Murphy discuss the season so far with host Patrick Davitt, including the big stories of the year to date, post-break fallers and risers, mid-year fantasy player awards ... Runs 1:11:30

2021-07-09 Show No. 32 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Doug Dennis, the bullpens columnist at BaseballHQ.com, discussing fantasy bullpen management, the fantasy season's first half, particular closers, and his closer slump, pump, dump and jump ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:14:15

2021-07-02 Show No. 31 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Shelly Verougstraete of Dynasty Guru and the Dynasty's Child podcast, discussing playing in dynasty formats, and a whole lot of prospects talk... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:22:30

2021-06-25 Show No. 30 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Dave Potts of RotoGrinders, discussing his methods for building a consistent winning record in fantasy baseball, his estimation of Wander Franco, and the extremely thorough DFS advice he provides at RotoGrinders.... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:32:50

2021-06-18 Show No. 29 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Jeff Zimmerman of Rotographs, BaseballHQ, the Launch Angle podcast, discussing measuring the likelihood of a player being traded, what it's like sitting atop the overall standings in the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, why average exit velocity doesn't matter in assessing hitters, actionable platoons, starting pitchers facing the same opponent ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:38:00

2021-06-11 Show No. 28 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with James Anderson, lead prospects analyst at RotoWire, discussing His updated Dynasty top-400 rankings and revamped top-100 prospects ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:30:30

2021-06-04 June 4 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 27 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Far East baseball expert Tim McLeod of Prospects361.com, discussing some ins and outs of baseball in Japan and Korea, interesting players in DET, the Rays' method of promoting top prospects like Wander Franco (or not), some bullpen situations worth watching ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:45:10

2021-06-04 June 4 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 27 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Far East basabeall expert Tim McLeod of Prospects361.com, discussing some ins and outs of baseball in Japan and Korea, interesting players in DET, the Rays' method of promoting top prospects like Wander Franco (or not), and some bullpen situations worth watching ... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:45:10

2021-05-28 May 28 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 26 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, RotoWire, SiriusXM and many podcasts, discussing what we can or should do about injuries, no-hitters, evaluating underperforming pitchers... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute and BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary ... Runs 2:12:50

2021-05-21 Show No. 25 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Gene McCaffrey of The Athletic, discussing why the latest 'year of the pitcher' has so many bad pitchers, his pending world record, parsing hard contact, how hitters deal with particular pitches, also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:36:35

2021-05-15 Show No. 24 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Chris Blessing, of the scouting team at BaseballHQ.com, discussing how scouting prospects for fantasy differs from scouting for real baseball, the best place to sit in the ballpark, the new BaseballHQ scouting podcast... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:30:00

2021-05-07 May 7 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 23 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Ryan Bloomfield, Speculator columnist at BaseballHQ.com, discussing managing through all those injuries, hidden and otherwise, Bloomboards, Taylor Swift and a ham sandwich, his Slumps, Pumps, Dumps and Pumps... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:16:15

2021-04-30 Show No. 22 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, Rotowire, ESPN, SiriusXM... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:45:55

2021-04-24 Show No. 21 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring an interview with Vlad Sedler, analyst and writer at FantasyGuru.com... also NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:29:15

2021-04-16 Show No. 20 is a Friday Full Edition, features an interview with guest expert Jeff Zimmerman, from Rotographs and the Launch Angle podcast ... plus all the usual good stuff, Harold Nichols with NL news, Ray Murphy with AL News ... BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 2:31:40

2021-04-09 Show No. 19 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:19:25

2021-04-02 Show No. 18 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:03:45

2021-03-30 Show No. 17 of 2021 is a special Roundtable Edition, with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, SiriusXM, and Ray Murphy, co-GM and columnist at BaseballHQ.com joining host Patrick Davitt to discuss how their drafts have gone, the coming season, and a massive Boons and Banes extravaganza ... Runs 1:25:00

2021-03-26 March 26 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 16 is a Friday News and Notes Edition ... Join host Patrick Davitt and the HQ team for NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our commentaries: BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, and BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer comment ... Runs 1:08:40

2021-03-23 March 23 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 15 of 2021 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, as host Patrick Davitt is talking baseball with fantasy experts Jeff Erickson, from RotoWire and SiriusXM, discussing his Tout Wars draft, including top prices for a starter and a reliever, caution vs aggressiveness, and why Jeff always gets Nelson Cruz; and Mike Gianella, from Baseball Prospectus and their Flags Fly Forever podcast, discussing his Tout-AL and LABR-NL drafts, including how he ended up with two very different spending strategies ... Runs 2:07:35

2021-03-19 Show No. 14 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Our regular HQ Spotlite segment features Matt Cederholm, Market Pulse and Big Hurt columnist at BaseballHQ.com ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute and BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary ... Runs 1:45:50

2021-03-16 Show No. 13 of 2021 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, as host Patrick Davitt is talking baseball with two fantasy baseball experts, Steve Gardner, USA Today, discussing LABR NL and AL, the annual Leviathan fantasy baseball special, his Boons and Banes, and Glenn Colton, the 'Colton and the Wolfman' show on SiriusXM and FantasyAlarm.com, discussing his LABR AL and NL drafts with partner Rick Wolf, the SMART system for fantasy baseball, plus his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:52:55

2021-03-12 Show No. 12 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:11:35

2021-03-09 Show No. 11 of 2021 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, featuring interviews with two baseball experts: Alex Chamberlain, Fangraphs (and Tableau), discussing how much data is too much data, progress on ERA estimators, the one important use of Max Exit Velocity for hitters, and his Boons and Banes ... and Todd Zola, from Mastersball, Rotowire, SiriusXM, ESPN, and podcasts, discussing the new normal in fantasy terminology, including formats in which pretend money is assigned to players, alternatives to wins and saves, ⦠Runs 2:02:30

2021-03-05 March 5 BaseballHQ Radio is up! Show No. 10 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring NL and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Our regular HQ Spotlite segment features BaseballHQ Strat-o-Matic analyst Matt Beagle ... Plus BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment⦠Runs 2:11:55

2021-03-02 Show No. 9 of 2021 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, featuring interviews with two top fantasy baseball experts: Jason Collette, from RotoWire and Fangraphs podcasts, discussing big risers and fallers in between experts' drafts, the changing distribution of saves, and some bold predictions for his Boons and Banes; and Derek Van Riper, who writes and podcasts about fantasy sports for The Athletic, discussing where to take closers, how to pick your draft slot, his top player lists versus BaseballHQ's projections, and his Boons and Banes ... Runs 2:07:20

2021-02-26 Show No. 8 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Our regular HQ Spotlite segment features Doug Dennis, bullpens columnist at BaseballHQ.com ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, BaseballHQ analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and BaseballHQ Radio host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment ... Runs 1:35:45

2021-02-23 Show No. 7 of 2021 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, featuring interviews with two baseball experts: Joe Sheehan, from the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, discussing his draft in the LABR 15-team mixed, observations on the Red Sox and A's, and Scott Pianowski, from Yahoo Sports, discussing his draft in LABR Mixed, Adalberto Mondesi, Tim Anderson, DJ LeMahieu ⦠Runs 2:01:25

2021-02-19 Show No. 6 is a Friday News and Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Our regular HQ Spotlite segment features Jock Thompson, analyst and news director at BaseballHQ.com ... Plus BaseballHQ minor-leagues analyst Rob Gordon has our Minor League Minute, analyst Alex Beckey has his Frequent Flyer commentary and podcast host Patrick Davitt has his Extra Innings comment⦠Runs 1:44:50

2021-02-16 Show No. 5 is another Two-Tout Tuesday Edition, featuring interviews with two experts: Ron Shandler, the founder of BaseballHQ and BABSBaseball.com, discussing his forthcoming fantasy baseball memoir, zigging and zagging through drafts, Fishing with BABS, and his Boons and Banes ... and Rob Silver, a past overall champion of the NFBC and a longtime fantasy analyst, discussing the false promise of Adalberto Mondesi, the implications of a deflated baseball, and his Boons and Banes ⦠Runs 1:50:50

2021-02-12 Show No. 4 is a Friday News & Notes Edition, featuring NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Minor League Minute and Frequent Flyer commentary ⦠Runs 1:27:00

2021-02-09 Show #3 is a Tuesday Two-Tout Edition, featuring interviews with experts Ariel Cohen, from Fangraphs and ATC projections, discussing projections, including a new update to quantify variability, and his Boons and Banes ... and Todd Zola, from Mastersball, RotoWire, ESPN and SiriusXM, discussing early draft trends, misuse of Statcast metrics, and why he drafted Trea Turner ahead of some likelier picks ... Runs 1:52:55

2021-02-05 Friday News and Notes Edition features NL news with Harold Nichols and AL News with Ray Murphy ... Plus our Minor League Minute, Frequent Flyer commentary⦠Runs 2:13:15

2021-02-02 We launch our 2021 season Tuesday Tout edition featuring our traditional Opening Day starter, Gene McCaffrey, of The Athletic and Wise Guy Baseball, talking about draft strategy; pitchers, hitters and relievers; how you can get a free e-copy of his 2021 Wise Guy Baseball, how he won a wet T-shirt contest in New Rochelle, New York; and how Trevor Bauer could become his Number 1 starting pitcher for 2021 ... Runs 1:33:40

2021-01-31 The first BaseballHQ Radio of the 2021 season is coming on Tuesday.

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