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Five Second-Half Risers

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman joins Jeff Erickson to use a sabermetric approach to identify five second-half risers, plus they discuss NL playoff contenders. --- 00:00 - Braves news (Nick Anderson, Max Fried) 07:00 - Yordan Alavarez 13:30 - Matt Manning 16:00 - Tarik Skubal 20:00 - Second-Half Risers - Approach 21:30 - Triston Casas 26:00 - Bobby Witt Jr. 30:00 - Michael Harris Jr. 32:15 - Aaron Nola 35:30 - Yusei Kikuchi 40:00 - Phillies 42:00 - Padres 43:30 - Marlins 47:30 - Strength of Schedule 49:30 - Giants 55:00 - Brewers 58:00 - Diamondbacks 1:02:00 - Reds 1:05:00 - Q&A Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

we are back in action right after uh recharging our batteries in Vegas ready to start the second

0:06.8

half here on the rhodower fantasy baseball podcast here with eric halterman where we're going to talk about

0:11.7

news of the day of course risers and also the nl playoff race all coming up next on the rhodower

0:18.0

fantasy baseball podcast.

0:36.5

Hey everybody. Welcome to Rotowire and the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:55.2

Jeff Erickson here with Eric Alterman. As always, we are happy to be on the Blue Wire Network. Get some recordings from the Blue Wire Studios at the Wynn in Vegas. It was super awesome. Great studio there. We're also brought to you by Home Run Index. And we'll talk about what they have to offer a little bit. I'm Jeff Erickson here with Eric Alterman. and we are happy to be here talking a lot about the second half, you know, trying to offer a little bit i'm jeff ericson here with eric alterman and uh we are happy to be here talking a lot about the second half you know trying to find a saber metric approach to risers

1:00.0

and fallers but first eric we got a little bit of news let's start off in atl bad news out of the

1:05.2

atlll indonesson to the 60 day i'll yeah i guess this is not news that would have been unexpected at the start of the year,

1:14.6

if you would have told me Nick Anderson's going to get hurt at some point.

1:17.8

I guess, yeah, I wouldn't have been too shocked.

1:21.0

And I don't think anybody invested him in him at a price point at which they're being crushed

1:26.6

by this.

1:26.9

But he was turning into somebody who, in those deeper leagues,

1:30.9

the sort where you can afford to roster a reliever who's probably not going to get

1:34.5

you many saves.

1:35.8

You know, maybe you picked him up earlier in the year when Atlanta had that chaos in the

1:39.3

bullpen and thought you were going to get a few from him.

1:41.4

I was happy with him.

1:43.3

So this is definitely going to be someone that people are going to have to get a few from him. I was, I was happy with him. So this is definitely going to be someone

1:45.6

that people are going to have to get out of maybe more lineups than you'd expect for somebody

1:49.7

who's basically just a setup man. Exactly. Exactly. And you know, you never know,

1:54.9

Iglesias spent one trip on the IL. Another one could be in the offing. Could happen at some point in time.

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