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Welcome into Fantasy Pros.

This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host, Joe O'Riko, joined today by a very special guest.

He is one of my good friends in the industry.

Ryan Bloomfield from Baseball H.Q and the Bubba and the Bloom podcast. He's joining us today to talk about some disappointing hitters. Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time today. I know the topic is a little bit glum, but we are going to have some fun regardless, my friend. How you been doing? Doing good. The topic aligns with some of my fantasy team seasons so far this year. So we are in alignment. It's good to see you. It's good to catch up with you, Joe, as always.

It's been too long. We were trying to think the last time we did a show together. I know you were joining me on leading off a couple times at the end of last year to fill in for P for for for pisapia and welsh it was the two

of us a couple of times and i'm trying to think if we did a show in the off season i know you did

the fantasy fest panel and maybe we haven't done a show together it may have it may have been the

golf course which which which at first pitch arizona which which probably a good thing not

recorded that was a show all in itself but that's a show we cannot discuss all at first pitch Arizona, which probably a good thing not recorded.

That was a show all in itself, but that's a show that we cannot discuss over the air,

maybe privately if you guys want to know about that, send some DMs.

We cannot talk about it.

We don't want to get ourselves canceled here, but we are going to be talking about some disappointing stud hitters.

I've gone through the Fangraph's Player Rater and sorted by ADP and just looking at guys that have not lived up to either their dollar price in an auction or in a snake draft where they were drafted as well. We're going to kick things off with a first round player with a couple of first round players here actually. And the first one is Kyle Tucker. Now, he did hit a ball out of the yard yesterday. Very good to see. But as a whole, we're looking at five homers, four steals. He's hitting 243. It's been rather unimpressive. And also, his barrel rate is down to 5.8%. He has been living in the low double digit numbers for the last five or so years. But he's cut that in half this year. The average exit velocity is a little bit down.

He's chasing more. The contact's a little bit worse. Everything is just slightly worse for Kyle Tucker.

Is this just a prolonged slump, bloom? Is this potentially, you know, first year of a big contract?

We tend to see this sometimes. What is your evaluation on Kyle Tucker? Is somebody you'd

be looking at as a buy low in a trading league? Or is this maybe just not the year for him?

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