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For Full Show in Audio Format click here Can Alex Reyes Save Your Fantasy Baseball Season? Can Alex Reyes save your Fantasy Baseball season? Ready for another week of the best Fantasy Baseball talk you can find? The Baseball Show is ready to steer you towards victory. This week our featured player is Alex Reyes, who is ready to take the world by storm for the St. Louis Cardinals. Fully recovered from Tommy John surgery, and his suspension put behind him as well, Reyes is pitching like he's making up for lost time. He's…

Dr. Mike Tanner provides MLB injury updates for all the players fantasy owners are worried about. Dee Gordon, Seattle Mariners If you watched Sunday’s game, it was apparent Gordon was in pain when he stole second base and scored the winning run against the Tigers. He was later diagnosed with a mild fracture in his right big toe. A natural response from his owners would be complete panic, as a broken toe sounds bad for a speedster. Fortunately, this appears to be more of a mild stress fracture than a true displaced fracture…

Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers For the record, Kershaw was not in my tier one of starting pitchers. I have no idea why you'd expect more than 150 innings at this point his career. Chronic back problems and the Dodgers' generous utilization of the DL are enough to bump him to the top of tier two for me. Speaking of evaluating Dodgers injuries, it can be a bit tricky because of their ... ahem, shall we say "creative use" of the DL?  So we have two very different scenarios. First, this could be DL manipulation to…

Johnny Cueto, San Francisco Giants/Jordan Montgomery, New York Yankees Call it forearm tightness or elbow inflammation; semantics don't matter. These two players find themselves in danger of Tommy John surgery. Both are shut down for now and could be at least a month away from pitching if they receive good news. For Cueto, this problem stems back to July 2017 when he missed significant time in July and August with a similar injury. Montgomery said he has experienced mild elbow pain in the past and didn't expect to miss much…

I usually do not record baseball games and watch them, but last Friday night was the exception. This was because the Dodgers were playing the Nationals, and the pitching matchup was Max Scherzer versus Clayton Kershaw. First, this was the first time two pitchers with three or more Cy Young Awards have matched up since 2006. Second, I took a little grief during the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational when I took Scherzer with the eighth pick over Kershaw. At least for one night, Scherzer was just a bit better, as he allowed…