For Real or Fade: Hitters

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0	We are live on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to by rival fantasy.
0:08.3	Go to rival fantasy.com or get the rival fantasy app.
0:12.2	It is the morning of Saturday, April 22nd.
0:15.2	I am Drew Silva with me.
0:16.5	Here is Ryan Boyer.
0:17.9	On this episode, we're going to be perusing the offensive category leaderboards standard
0:23.7	five-by-five fantasy scoring.
0:25.9	And we'll try to identify some players on there who we think are for real, who can sustain
0:31.3	their current level of production or come close to sustaining it.
0:35.2	And then also some players from atop those leaderboards who we would fade,
0:39.2	who we think are in for regression or a loss in playing time, et cetera.
0:44.6	First, let's jump right into some of the bigger headlines from the late weekday games
0:49.7	in the early part of the weekend.
0:51.4	Man, this Bryce Harper story, I said with Chris last week, like,
0:56.1	he's totally going to return well before anyone expects from Tommy John surgery. And that's
1:02.1	kind of the storyline now from the Phillies. Yeah, I mean, I guess knowing him, we shouldn't be
1:09.9	too surprised.
1:11.0	It's kind of a guy who's renowned for his work ethic and commitment to his craft.
1:17.0	But, I mean, this is less than six months removed from Tommy John.
1:22.9	Like, I realize the position player rehab length is way different than pitchers.
1:29.2	But yeah, I mean, when we got our first hint, I guess,
1:34.4	when they didn't immediately put him on the 60-day IL,
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