everybody welcome to the rhodower fantasy baseball podcast jeff ericson here with fred zinky

we are brought to you by the good folks over at sling we are going to be talking today

about eight signs that your fantasy team is better than you think.

And Fred, that's going to be our topic, but it is going to be so news heavy today.

So many news items on it.

I just don't, there's so many places where we can start.

Let's start with a real life news before we get into fantasy news, the Phillies.

Well, behind the Red Sox, they fire at Tompson. Yeah, I mean, I think Mets fans were maybe making, I felt like in, at least on Twitter and et cetera, like in the news, Mets fans were complaining so much about the Mets poor start, that the Phillies poor start kind of, I felt like slid under the radar a little bit and then has really come in public

view in the last few days.

So yeah, I think the question is like do we see, I think it was you when you start talking

to Scott that said like maybe we need to reevaluate this Philly's team.

Like maybe it is an old bunch that is past its prime and I don't know.

They were so good and so consistent last year.

Yeah, they were, but they are old and they also are like they didn't do much to improve

this off season.

They peeled off a starter and Ranger Suarez.

They flipped, you know, it wasn't a trade.

They exchanged one struggling older corner outfielder for another, getting rid of Nick Castellanos, adding Adelis Garcia, Garcia, yes, he's a better defensive player, at least a better arm. But he's really not that much of a better hitter. And their young guys are not hitting at all. I mean, Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm are really terrible this year.

Baum, there's, you know, there's extraneous circumstances, you know, with this family issue,

suing his parents. We found out about that a couple days before opening day, after all my

drafts, of course. But yeah, you know, none of those guys are contributing. Justin Crawford's been just

okay. And there's no real help coming along the way either. No, I mean, the no real help is

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