We've got our first set of pickup recommendations of the second half here.

Less than half the seeds remaining, but still plenty of time to make a push down the stretch.

We'll give you our recommendations here on the Rotoire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by Draft King's pick six,

Eric Colterman and Ryan Boyer, back on the mic here for the first show of the second half.

Ryan, did you enjoy your break? Come back all refreshed. Refreshed, batteries, recharged, ready to go.

Let's have some more baseball games. Yeah, for sure. I enjoyed my brief break with the

Roto Wire crew down in Las Vegas, managed to not lose money, not gambling very much, is a big key

there. That's my big secret. Fun watching the All-Star game and the Derby on the big screen with

some colleagues. But let's get back to work here. We've got a half a season left to play. Well,

not really. I think every team's got about 65 games left. So we got 40% of the season or so left

to play. But that means there's still time for these pickups to do a meaningful amount of help

to your team in the second half. We will get to those soon. And it'll be an interesting group this

week. I think with what, one day's worth of games since the second half. We will get to those soon, and it'll be an interesting group this week.

I think with, what, one day's worth of games since the last pickup show?

Guys haven't exactly put up a lot of stats or anything like that.

So we've dug a little bit deeper, finding a handful of stashes to round out today's list.

But first, as always, the headlines.

We'll start with Bo Bichette,

and there haven't been many positive Bo Bichette headlines this season,

and that's not going to change now.

Landed on the injured list today with a right calf strain.

So for that on the first game back in the second half,

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