BaseballHQ Radio 2025-Feb-21: Friday Full Edition w Gene McCaffrey and Jeff Zimmerman

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Show No. 3 is a Friday Full Edition featuring expert interviews with Gene McCaffrey, fantasy columnist at The Athletic, and Jeff Zimmerman from Rotographs, the Launch Angle pod and 'The Process' annual fantasy baseball manual... In our first interview (3:20), Gene and PD discuss his Wise Guy comments about players at every position, and his Boons and Banes at each position... In the Market Watch player news report, PD and Ray Murphy discuss hitter and pitcher news from the AL (59:40), including HOU SS Jeremy Pena and DET 1B Spencer Torkelson, and AL pitchers including the A's bullpen and Taj Bradley and the Rays' rotation... and the NL (1:25:40), including CHC catcher Miguel Amaya and DH Justin Turner, and pitchers Frankie Montas of the Mets and the Reds bullpen... In our second expert interview (1:43:30), Jeff tells PD about his 'Mining the News' reports at Rotographs, including players showing up in the best shape of their lives, a sneaky interesting OF candidate in TOR, and the 2025 edition of his fantasy baseball manual, 'The Process' (including showing the uselessness of a hot new Statcast metric)... Plus we'll have Jeff's boons and banes for the draft season... In the Minor League Minute (2:42:20), BaseballHQ Minor Leagues analyst Rob Gordon updates six prospects, including some top prospects who could make the Opening Day rosters, like DET P Jackson Jobe, Angels 2B Christian Moore and Cubs 3B Matt Shaw... Runs 2:48:00