Eno and DVR begin Pitcher Week with the first installment of the 2025 Starting Pitcher Preview! This episode focuses on the starting pitchers often drafted among the Top 100 Overall in early fantasy baseball drafts. Should you build your roster around Paul Skenes or Tarik Skubal and take a pitcher in Round 1, or wait a couple of rounds and find a potentially undervalued ace? How much will the Dodgers' use of a six-man rotation impact the value of their top-end starters? And which risers still have another level they could reach in the upcoming season?
Rundown
0:00 Intro Starts
2:19 ADP Tier 1a -- Paul Skenes v. Tarik Skubal in Round 1!
12:37 ADP Tier 1a -- Zack Wheeler, Logan Gilbert & Garrett Crochet
25:21 ADP Tier 1b -- Corbin Burnes, Chris Sale & Jacob deGrom,
40:22 ADP Tier 1b -- George Kirby, Cole Ragans, Dylan Cease & Blake Snell
55:55 ADP Tier 2 -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Gerrit Cole, Michael King, Pablo López & Framber Valdez
1:05:32 ADP Tier 3 -- Shota Imanaga, Bryce Miller, Bailey Ober, Aaron Nola, Luis Castillo, Hunter Greene, Roki Sasaki, Spencer Schwellenbach & Tanner Bibee
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
Zack Wheeler Cover Photo: Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
Tarik Skubal Cover Photo: Tim Warner/Getty Images
Paul Skenes Cover Photo: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images