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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Breakout Pitchers with Nick Pollack

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman is joined by Nick Pollack, founder of Pitcher List, to figure out which pitchers off to hot starts are genuinely breaking out and which are merely in a groove.

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0:00.0

We are three weeks into the baseball season, which means it's time to try to figure out which pitchers are actually breaking out and which just seem to be.

0:12.6

I've got Nick Pollock founder of pitcher lists on the line to help us figure out the answer to that question on the Road to Wire Fantasy Baseball Podcast.

0:37.1

Hello and welcome, everybody, to the Thursday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast

0:37.9

brought to you by Vivid Seats. Eric Alterman here, and I've got a special guest today,

0:43.4

Nick Pollock, founder of Pitcher List. And Nick, I think the question on everyone's mind is,

0:49.8

how are your offenses doing so far?

0:52.7

Good enough, hopefully.

0:56.0

Yeah, I mean, I got Vientos in two leagues, and I was really, oh, I was feeling good about

1:01.0

that one.

1:02.3

But I know I got sort of strong, so everything's fine.

1:05.7

Yeah, actually, you're set.

1:07.3

You might need to change your name to hitter list as well.

1:10.5

I mean, I got the recommendations from the playback.tv chat. So it's all good. Good call. Yeah, why don't you, we'll let you preview some more of the things you've got going on later. But that is a cool new thing you've got going on this year. Your playback shows, what's going on there? Yeah, every single time there's baseball, we were able to show it as a live stream. So think of it like Twitch with live sports. And what's really cool, too, is that you can actually come on stage and join us on the game. We go through all the games. So literally anytime there's baseball on you, you're thinking about watching it on your own. Stop watching baseball alone. Just watch it with the pitchless community. we're not going to do DFS and sports betting. We're going to not be vulgar and everything. We're just going to be there enjoying the games. It's pretty dang awesome. You never know who shows up. We had Eino Saris and Lance Wazzowski and Jason Colette and Justin Mason, Chris Blessing, Mike Curlin. Like, we have all these people coming in. So, yeah, it's just a great time.

2:02.0

Stop watching baseball alone.

2:03.1

Playback.tv slash pitcher list.

2:05.5

Sounds very fun.

2:06.5

I'll have to catch a game in there soon.

2:09.0

But we, yeah, we'll work something out.

2:12.2

But we have a busy show today.

2:14.0

We're going to talk about how to figure out which pitchers are actually breaking out

2:18.9

in April. What stat should you actually look at? Maybe we'll ask Nick's cat for some advice.

2:23.9

Yeah, it's the ex-cat, actually. Yeah, what is the ex-cat on all these pitchers? But let's

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