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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

First Quarter Observations and a Bad Streaming Week

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson view some of the surprising results from the first quarter of the season and discuss whether they are sustainable, plus they review the paltry streaming options for the week. --- 00:00 - We are roughly ¼ of the way through the season.  02:15 - Do we buy MIL as a top-5 offense?  15:30 - Alexis Diaz blows it 19:45 - CIN as a bottom-5 offense?  27:30 - Reds Godfather Offer? 31:30 - Will SEA strike out this much all season? 36:00 - Streaming for strikeouts instead of wins 43:00 - Is the OAK offense actually decent? 49:00 - Is the STL offense this bad? 55:00 - Hitters called up really struggled 58:30 - Shaky Streamers --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  --- 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

we are a quarter of the way through the season which team trends are going to persist and which ones are mirages

0:07.5

fred and i are going to break that down among other topics here on the the Roto Wire Fantasy baseball podcast. I'm Jeff

0:30.3

Erickson here with Fred Zinky, and we've got a lot to talk about here today, including a really bad streaming slate for the week. Fred's going to lament about that. We're going to talk about here today, including a really bad streaming slate for the week.

0:39.2

Fred's going to lament about that.

0:40.6

We're going to talk about my woful reds and just the way they're finding new ways to lose

0:46.1

all of a sudden there.

0:47.8

We're going to do all that.

0:49.0

Of course, we're brought to you by the good folks from Serre and from prize picks.

0:53.6

So thank you there for their sponsorship.

0:56.1

Fred, let's jump right into it here.

0:59.0

We're a quarter of the way through the season.

1:00.5

There's a lot of interesting team trends.

1:03.9

Yeah, there's, it's like, because, I'm sorry, I'll start over there, a quarter.

1:09.6

Kind of sneaks up on us a little bit earlier, I find now, because play starts about a week earlier than it used to.

1:15.4

We used to talk about kind of like May long weekend, but now I'm finding, we're hitting the quarter pole a little bit earlier.

1:22.1

So, yeah, I noticed we're a quarter of the way through.

1:24.4

That's a good sample size, like baseball is a quarter way through the season and hockey or basketball will be halfway through the season. So at 40, 45 games. So, you know, it's time to start looking at some of these team trends. And because I write a lot of articles about pitching matchups, right? And I'm advising, you know, hey, stream your pitchers against the A's hey don't stream your

1:44.6

pitchers against you know maybe in Cincinnati does that still matter does that is that accurate

1:49.8

because so far the raise have been really or the A's have been not really good but average

1:53.8

offensively Cincinnati's been poor offensively so we got to figure out what's useful among

1:59.5

the stats so far and what's just an aberration.

2:02.4

You should continue to ignore it.

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