we're two months into the season what overall trends can we examine both from a league-wide standpoint and from a fantasy standpoint did we draft starting pitchers too soon fred zinke weighs in on this and all what a whole lot more coming up next on the Rotelwire fantasy baseball podcast, brought to you by the good folks, folks from So Rare and from prize picks.

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here with fred zincky fred welcome uh busy busy uh day of baseball and uh we're in it now we're

two months in basically a third of the way through the season enough that i think we can uh

look at some overall arching trends yeah absolutely i mean everybody I mean, everybody says, and there's some truth

this, that, you know, scoring will pick up a little bit as the summer comes, the warm weather, things like that. But, but truthfully, like, it's already warm. We didn't have a terrible spring. It's already warm in most of the country. It's been warm a bit in most of the country for a while. so sure, we'll pick it. That'll all pick up.

Pitcher injuries could also like degrade some teams' rotations and bullpens to the point where that also, you know, increases scoring.

But I think we've, we've gone deep enough into the season now where we can see some ways that this year is different than last year.

Yeah, I think so.

So let's jump right into it here because I think there's some interesting overall trends.

One of the things you talked about, and this is out of the start of the play before yesterday's games,

four of the top 20 pitchers in an ERA were drafted in the top 100.

Four.

That's stark.

It's really unbelievable. And that's kind of where I started on this path of trying to figure out, like, that we're going to keep going into. And like I said, like you said, I did it at the start of yesterday's games. There could be a couple more that snuck in yesterday or bumped out or whatever. The bottom line is if it's, if today might be three it might be five or six it's going to bounce up and down four it's not going to 12 you know

anytime soon. So yeah when you look at the ERA leaders rangers Suarez Seth Lugo Rinaldo Lopetz

Tanner Hauk all of those players were on the board in the second half of a 15-team league draft. Then you have Terrick Scoubel, but then you have Luis Heel. Then you have Zach Wheeler, but then you have Javier Asad. Then you have Corbin Burns, but then you have Tyler Anderson and Reese Olson and Brady Singer and Jordan Hicks and Marcus Tremont, again, all available in the second half of drafts

and now I'm you know now I'm up

15 so

it's amazing how

the path to ERA greatness

in your fantasy league right here right now

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