should you cut hilly rodriguez in redraft leagues that and more heretical advice offered by fred zinke and me supporting him coming up next on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erickson here.

He is Fred Zinky. Fred is the one that is issuing all this, you know, horrible, terrible, mean advice. No, it's not horrible or terrible. Mean advice about Hula Rodriguez. I'm not the one that's responsible for that, even though I agree with them. But I have Huluie Rodriguez in Scarf. It's a 15 team mixed league. It's one of the, you know, expert leagues where we do a local in-person draft. I I took J-Rod over Bobby Witt, you know, he's killing me, Fred. He's killed me all season long. We were talking about him in the Sunday podcast and where he goes, but you've got a place for him to go right now. It's funny because I, I've been complaining about Corby and Carroll on this podcast all year. and then you and Scott pointed out, which I knew from having Carol in so many leagues, that now Corbin Carroll has been much more productive than Julio Rodriguez this year, partly because he's in a way better lineup, which is all part of my reasoning. Yeah. For what I was going to explain is, you know, I put in our notes and I'm interested to float this out there. Could Julio Rodriguez be both a potential first round pick in 2025 and someone

you could drop right now? And my thinking is, first of all, the Mariners offense is brutal.

So he's not going to just back his way into a bunch of RBI or a bunch of runs scored.

You know, he's going to have to earn those in that offense the rest of the way.

Next, he's brutal.

So in August, he's hitting 180 with a 508 OPS.

He was actually really good in July.

I give him full credit for that.

But he hasn't, like as I already said, he hasn't been stealing bases. So one steal since July

first. Now with the ankle, he's not going to steal bases. So brutal offense. So he's not going

to get easy runs in RBI. He's probably not going to steal bases. Like how many, what would

you set the over under at for steals for Julio for the rest of the year?

One and a half?

I'd probably even take the under on that. Right. So, right. That's what I'm thinking is somehow maybe when it's convenient or something, he steals one or two. So, okay, so forget it. So he's not a base dealer for the rest of the year. and then with the, I don't know if it's the ankle or why.

Like he hasn't hit well all year, except for July when he hit 375.

But he hasn't really hit well all year.

July is the only month this year where he hit more than three home runs.

Like, his best month this year was 10 RBIs. And now he's playing hurt. So his best month was year was 10 RBIs and now he's playing hurt.

So his best month was 13 runs scored.

That's not great.

So I just am like,

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