What are we doing big picture wise to address the lack of offense in baseball?

Is it just facing the Reds?

Is that going to do the trick?

Or is there something we can do in fantasy to try to optimize the current offensive environment baseball?

That and a whole lot more on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast with me and Fred Zinky.

Everybody, welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky.

We're going to talk a little trading. We're going to talk overall baseball environment.

We'll talk about what's going on in tonight's games. We'll do that and a whole lot more on this podcast.

Fred, how are you? I'm good. My Blue Jays just took the lead. We'll see how by the time anyone hears this, if that all turned out. But I've been incredibly enjoying watching them so far this year. And last night was another really nice game. And so far, they're off to a nice clean start tonight. Yeah, they are. They are. Who got their RBI? How did they score the run? George Springer got an RBI. Now I was just getting ready to start. So I didn't see who was on third base. But George Springer hit an RBI single. They're up on-1-0 on Canadian Nick Povetta, who's towing the rubber for the Red Sox tonight. So I don't want Povetta to get rocked because we Canadians in baseball don't want to root against our own. But a nice tidy little three-0-0-0-0-something or something like that would be fine.

I want like 10-0 because I have a bunch of Blue Jays in my DFS lineup for Tout Wars,

Tout Daily today.

I have, I went with Bichette, I think, went back to the well and I got cheated by that mush ball because he hit a ball of 104.1 miles an hour and was caught in the first inning on the warning track.

It's just, it's just insane.

It just drives me nuts.

I'm going crazy watching this here.

But we'll see.

I actually don't want your happy fun ball back, Jeff. I want my happy fun ball back. I want course field back. Screw the humidifier. Screw the deaden ball. I want 15 to 14 games. I don't care if we're having to go through all these pitchers. Let's just, let's get me, give me some offensive fireworks, please. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't sound that bad. You're right right around now. I don't know. What do you think baseball's goal? Is it, is the goal here two hours and ten minutes per game? Like, is it they bring scoring down and then they bring in the pitch clock that they're raving about in the minors right now and all of a sudden we're down to games that are anywhere from like two hours to two and a half hours and they're all they're all three to one

not all three to one but you know what I mean it's a rob manfred fever dream i mean it's it's what

you it's someone who doesn't love baseball complaining about the length of games i just

i i don't care that games run long sometimes.

That's fine, especially when I'm at a game. I went to that. When I went to the Dodgers Reds, it was zero, zero going to six. The game was over so fast, you know, beer sales were cut off. I only had time for one beer. I don't want to miss games, you know, you don't want to miss things. and it's hard enough getting into the stadium.

I don't need a fast game.

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