
Fantasy Sports
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Listen in the appInteresting trends in 2026
Closers or the complete lack of closers
80th% pace in ME is 65 - 67 in 2025, 72 in 2024
50th% pace in ME is 48 - 54 in 2025
Emergence of young stud pitchers
Schlittler, Misiorowski, McLean, Hancock, Messick, Burns Top 20 in K-BB %
Champions League Draft Strategy
Your approach to your drafts this year
Multipliers
Josh - more willing to draft same players across multiple leagues
Taking risk vs being safe
Josh - Took way more swings this year in OC & DC
Wheeler, Snell on OC/Wheeler, Cole, McGonigle
Champions League Qualifier
2,676 is the current line to gain - just under 63% of the points
Last year's line to gain was around the same point at this time of year and slowly rose through the season to 65%. Same as 2024.
65% of points would be 2,769. 2,800 is what I’m aiming for (just over 930 per contest)
Fun list of people in the top 14 thus far
John Pausma - 3,156 and his OC is his worst format so far
Jared Radbel - 3,066 and first in the DC
Russell Withers - 2,946 with OC driving
Mark Northan - 2,899
Michael Thompson - 2,891
Dustin McComas - 2,874
Michael DeCavalcante - 2,866
Dustin Anderson - 2,816
Aaron Jones - 2,800 (at final table currently)
Todd Hoppe - 2,774
Doug Gruber - 2,740 (would be fun to see him vs John at final table)
Ian Hubbard - 2,728 with 1,776 in pitching
Rob DiPietro - 2,708
Justin Aspite - 2,676
Michael Brophy 16th at 2,653 only has Sale on 2 of 3 teams
Steve Weimer 19th
Phil Dussault 21st
Champions League
Aaron Jones - 1st at 112 points
Solid squad, healthy for the most part and good balance
Michael Hughes - 2nd at 101
Solid roster, working to figure out saves (14th) after losing Diaz
Andrew Geller - 3rd at 94.5
Super balanced, Fairbanks on IL
Michael Brophy - 4th at 92.5
Solid Pitching, looking for some gains on offens
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"EP 358: MLB Trends and Champions League Action w/ Josh Pettersen" is an episode of PullHitter Fantasy Baseball. Runtime 1 hr 11 min. Published May 6, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.