Excitement Meter - Paul Skenes Getting the Call

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Pirates announced that pitcher Paul Skenes is going to make his Major League debut on Saturday. Travis Sawchik, the Senior Baseball Writer for The Score and author of Big Data Baseball and The MVP Machine joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Skenes and the Pirates, the limitations of MRI's, and his experience in the NFBC so far. --- 00:00 - Welcome Travis Sawchik 00:30 - Paul Skenes getting the call 02:45 - Did the Pirates develop Skenes properly? 08:45 - How are the Pirates structuring their rebuild? 16:30 - Big Data Baseball 21:00 - Henry Davis 23:45 - Ke’Bryan Hayes 25:30 - Oneil Cruz 30:40 - Christian Encarnacion-Strand 31:30 - Limitations of MRI’s 39:15 - Reds slumping 40:30 - Wild prospect trades 41:45 - Travis’s experience in the NFBC Main Event 45:00 - The Difficulties of drafting live 54:00 - Managing FAAB --- Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%. Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. PrizePicks Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Paul Skeens is getting the call from the pirates.
0:04.6	And we're going to have a lot of other great pirates talk.
0:07.6	Plus,
0:08.4	wire MRIs not necessarily the,
0:10.3	like the be all and all.
0:11.5	I've got Travis Sautic.
0:12.6	We're going to talk about those topics and more coming up on the
0:15.5	Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:17.1	Music podcast.
0:34.1	Everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fancy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erick.
0:35.2	I'm here with Travis Sautick, the senior baseball writer for
0:38.0	the score, and also the author of Big Data Baseball and the MVP machine. Travis, thank you so much
0:44.8	for joining us today. Great to be with you. Let's jump right into the big news. That is Paul
0:50.7	Skeens is getting a call from the Pirates. Everybody has been stashing him in their fantasy leagues, super excited,
0:57.2	Dynasty Leagues, Keeper Leagues, they're beyond excited.
1:00.3	And Pirates fans, they now have two aces in their staff.
1:04.3	Yeah, if you were willing to be patient, you're feeling pretty good this morning about having
1:09.2	them on your roster.
1:09.9	And it's interesting, the pirates, you know, since the Garra Cole, James and Tyone, Tyler Glassnow group that came up, you know, almost a decade ago, they really haven't developed much pitching.
1:23.0	And now all of a sudden, they have baseball America's top two ranked pitching prospects, I believe, in their rotation.
1:31.1	So, yeah, Jared Jones is more of a developmental success story.
1:36.9	Suppose Skeen's is more of just winning the tanking lottery.
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