it is Sunday night. A lot of baseball to talk about here. Another big prospect call it we'll talk about in Fab as well. All coming up next in the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Happy Sunday night, everybody.

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I am Scott Jansda.

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Jeff, how are you?

Doing good, doing good. Sports teams aside, I'm doing well.

But yeah, and maybe even main event team aside also given, we'll see what happened here.

It's a nervous weekend. Let's just put it that way. Yeah, no, I hear you there. I hear you there.

My nervous weekends are over because, you know, someone, someone strained their hamstrings.

So my nervous weekends are over, but I get what you mean. Let's talk some baseball here. It was a fun week in baseball. I think the biggest story of the week was the Phillies. Phillies were on fire. They did lose today. Finally, the A's finally won a game first time in two weeks. but Phillies took over first place in the Mets.

And, you know, Mets seemed to be kind of stepping back in love.

They did beat the Dodgers tonight. But Phillies are on fire right now. They look really good. They do. They do. They finally lost tonight or this afternoon to the swing in athletics. But you know what? The Lord gave them the Rockies in athletics this week.

They took advantage of it there. And so you know, credit to them because, you know, you take

good teams take advantage of bad schedule. I mean, of easy schedules of bad teams. They did that.

And they deserved it. So good for them. Yeah, you got to, you got to beat who's put in front of you and uh cow swarber has been huge uh 18 home runs uh 40 rbi i 40 runs score that's the key with him is like he leading off he scores a ton of runs too he hasn't been he hasn't been leading off as much this year but he has in the past and trey turner had a huge week this week, too. But Chwarber has four stole Mases, too.

He's been huge. 58% heart rate, 15% bail rates. He's been massive for them. Yeah, he has. And you've got to be, you know, I mean, it was one of those where Shwerber or Azuna or Rooker. Yep. And guess what? I did not choose Schwabber in any of my league, Scott. And I told you why. It was because of my concerns with batting average. Last year, he beat those concerns. This year, he's way ahead of those concerns. So kudos to Kyle Schwerber and those who took the chance on him. It's not even a chance. It was like a fifth round pick. Um, so I guess everything's a chance,

but you know what I mean? Like risking the batting average so far, so good as if that,

that's worked out so far. And he's hitting 255 going into today. Uh, is he at a different level now?

I know, is 248 last year, 255 this year? Is he, you know, is he league average as a batting average guy? If so, it just makes him a completely different valued player. So I think right now he is because of the fact these cut his strikeouts down so much this year. He's at, he's usually, he's been 29, 30, 28% last three years. He's at 21.5% right now. His bat is actually only 250 right now. There's only lucky Babb in this right now. He's hit 255, like you mentioned. The OBP is 397. He's walking a ton. He's become a really, really valuable players. WRC plus right now is 168, which is the highest of his career by a pretty good margin. Highest ever was 2021. He was 145. If he can keep that strikeout rate from instead of the high 20s or the low 20s, he becomes a completely different fancy player because the batting average is kind of, it suddenly is okay. And if his battle gets up a little bit, he could actually be a good batting average guy at that, at that strikeout rate. Yeah, exactly. And yeah, it's just, it's just a whole new world. It opens up a lot for him, for you, for everyone that's had them. I don't have them anywhere. Four stolen bases, too. That's a nice little touch at five last year. So it's not completely out of character. But when you're on base more, guess what? More chances to run 397 OBP.

If you play in an OBP league, you're already valuing them to begin with there. 40 walks, 50Ks. I mean, you know, this is a great player. And it's bought them time when other hitters were struggling at the top of this line. Now, like, Trey Turner's firing on all cylinders, you know, Harper's heated up, go figure again on facing the pace eaters earlier in the week.

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