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Five Overachieving Offenses

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Sparked by the emergence of Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Cubs lead the list of overachieving offenses a quarter of the way through the season. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson evaluate the sustainability of these overachievers, and review the recent Yahoo Friends & Family draft.

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0:00.0

Pete Crow, Armstrong has led a surging Cubs offense to be one of the most productive in the game.

0:07.6

Can it continue?

0:09.1

Will PCA continue?

0:11.2

And how do we value that going forward?

0:13.1

All that.

0:13.6

And recap of the Yahoo Friends and Family Draft, which is tied into that, all coming up next.

0:31.5

Music into that all coming up next. Hey, everybody.

0:32.3

Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy

0:33.8

of baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson, here with Fred Zinky.

0:37.4

We are happy to be talking about a lot of different things today, including the Yahoo Friends and Family Draft. We're going to be talking about overachieving and underachieving units, hitters, you know, team units. We're talking about the overachieving teams, underachieving teams, hitters and pitchers, both. First, though, and this kind of ties it all in together. We did the Yahoo Friends and Family Draft Day, yeah, last night, Fred. This is like the thing, the third year in a row we've done it as an in-season draft, which means, you know, reflecting the change in values of breakout players. Yeah, it was really cool experience, I thought, a lot of fun.

1:12.9

Scott Pianowski, who organizes it, he waited, I feel like this might be the latest we

1:16.6

draft, but I could be wrong, maybe it was this late again last year.

1:19.8

But waiting this late in the season, like really, like April 20th, I don't know,

1:24.9

I could probably just mostly sit on my preseason values minus

1:28.2

injuries, but May 20th, like that's a long way into the season to just leave your rankings

1:33.2

alone. And so it was really cool to be put into all these different dilemmas where we were

1:38.0

balancing recency bias versus maybe players who are at, like, actually pretty deep now we're quarter of the way past

1:45.5

a quarter point pull right of the baseball season so players who are a quarter of the way into

1:50.4

you know a breakout season so it was it was really interesting to see where everybody went yeah it was

1:56.9

and i'm going to pull up the draft grid and we're going to do it I've got it by teams well

2:03.5

we can also do it by uh individual like the draft itself and hopefully those you are streaming

2:11.5

with us there can uh it's not too small of a font there and I apologize there is I will post the link

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