Better in Real Life, Better in Fantasy

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Inspired by Daulton Varsho, Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie review which players are better in real life than fantasy, and which players are better in fantasy in real life, and try to find some underlying trends. --- 00:00 - Fred Pod 9-2 01:00 - Daulton Varsho comment from Sunday night. 02:15 - Varsho isn’t a good real-life hitter, but he’s been decent for fantasy this year ($8) and hit .281 with 18 runs and four homers in August. 04:50 - Players who were better in real life than fantasy this year. 05:00 - Bryce Harper. 11th in OPS but just a $22 player. He will hit 30 homers, but without many steals and his batting average is more good than great. 10:00 - Freddie Freeman. 14th in OPS but a $20 player. He may not reach 25 homers or 10 steals. Hitting .285, which is fine but not special. 17:00 - Riley Greene. 20th in OPS. But hitting .259 with 20 homers and 4 steals. Missed a bit of time, but his R/RBI aren’t great either. An $11 player. 22:15 - Popular opinion is that J.D. Martinez has been very good for the Mets. It’s true. He has a .777 OPS. But he has generated just $4 in fantasy. Just 16 HR, 0 SB, 108 R+RBI. 29:00 - Orioles talk - Jackson Holliday, Coby Mayo 32:00 - Better in fantasy than real life. 32:20 - Maikel Garcia is second last in OPS. Has generated $17 in fantasy. The 33 steals and 83 runs scored are pretty awesome. 35:15 - Jacob Young is a poor man’s version of Garcia. Eighth worst OPS but a $9 player thanks to hitting .258 with 31 steals and 69 runs. He’s one of baseball’s worst hitters but is helping fantasy teams in 3/5 categories. 38:35 - Zack Gelof has the 4th worst OBP of any qualified player. He also has 16 HR and 20 SB. A $4 player so far. 42:30 - Christopher Morel is batting .196 while somehow generating $3 in fantasy value. That’s what 21 homers and 8 steals will do for you. 44:25 - Brice Turang has sunk to 13th worst in OPS but has generated $18 in fantasy production thanks to seven homers and 40 steals. Almost as valuable as Freeman. 46:15: - Firing up Julio Rodriguez, who’s next? 47:00: - Alexis Diaz 52:25 - Good News for the Padres: Yu Darvish may return Wednesday; Joe Musgrove had a great start against the Tigers; Tatis is back. --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	there are players better in real life than they're on fantasy and then they're the opposite better
0:05.5	in fantasy than in real life we're going to jump into some of those we'll talk some news and notes
0:09.7	all that more with fred zinke here on the rotaWire fantasy baseball podcast.
0:30.5	Brought to you by the Draft King's Pick Six app.
0:33.1	I'm Jeff Erickson.
0:33.9	He's Fred Zinky.
0:34.7	Thank you for joining us today.
0:36.1	Appreciate you coming on board.
0:38.1	We're going to talk a September notes here and there, but, you know, it's always like a little
0:43.5	throwaway comment that kind of sparks a discussion sometimes. This happens all the time when we're
0:48.5	streaming live. And it happened here for tonight. You know, I meant it's players that are better than real life and fantasy and better
0:56.1	than in real life.
0:57.7	Fred, why don't you explain the genesis of this discussion?
1:00.8	Yeah, so I was out for my morning run today.
1:04.4	And I was listening to you and Scott, you know, from your podcast late last night.
1:08.7	And you made, as you referred to it as a flippant little comment about Dalton Varshow.
1:13.6	You know, you were talking, Scott brought him up.
1:15.4	And then you kind of made a comment about him just, like, maybe it would be good if you just could get rid of Dalton Varshow or something like that.
1:21.1	And as I was running, I thought, you know what?
1:22.9	Dalton Varshow is, it's true that he isn't really a great real life hitter like if he has an ops over 700 then that's
1:28.5	he's doing pretty well uh but he has like a decent fantasy profile uh he's not going to help
1:35.4	your batting it was going to hurt your batting average uh but this year uh he's got 17 homers
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