We've got the latest on Bryce Harper, Ronald Acuna, and of course, Jordan Alvarez.

We're going to be talking about trades that you must make now, and of course, the forecaster.

My guest today is Tristan Cockcroft from ESPN coming up next. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fancy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff

Erickson here with Tristan Cockcroft from ESPN. You can follow him on Twitter at

Sultan of Stat. He's been going by that for a really

long time. I remember Tristan back at first pitch, Arizona, you and I shared a panel, and

I made a little joke about it. I'm guessing stat there was, I was told there would be no stats,

but I was a wrong person to have up there for that. If it's in the nickname, you had to know what was coming. Come on. We've had a few of them over the years. It's always enjoyable. It's good to get to chat with you again. Yeah, absolutely. So right thing in the middle of the baseball season. About the midpoint of the season right now, some teams are almost 81 games. Some are a couple short here and there.

We're seeing Cleveland and Minnesota playing a five game series, Tampa and Toronto playing a

five game series. It's just a really busy time and we're seeing a lot of big critical

divisional matchups now too. We definitely are and we're seeing a greater volume of those

makeup games, July is so busy with them mainly because of those divisional contests. So, yeah, I expect, you feel like the All-Star breaks up coming in two, what is it, two or, no, I think it's three weeks because it's pushed back. A little bit of a break there surrounded by a lot of zaniness. Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be a flurry of activity.

Unfortunately, we had a flurry of injuries.

Yesterday, Jordan Alvarez and Jeremy Pena collided on pop-up.

Pop-up looked really ugly.

Both are out of the lineup today.

We're waiting to find out if they have concussions.

But the immediate, like, react, exam sounded like it was better off than it looked.

Yeah.

And my fingers are crossed here that this is simply a day-to-day thing.

I mean, any time you get into the whole concussion protocol, you have the worry of the seven-day placement, and does that extend?

I remember, I think Tyler Stevenson was a notable name from earlier in the season

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