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MLB Prospect Mailbag

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Chris Crawford (@Crawford_MiLB) answers your prospect questions in a fantasy mailbag. Is Luisangel Acuna a player who could help the Mets in 2023 and was it enough for Max Scherzer? Should fantasy managers be concerned by the struggles of Elly De La Cruz? Does Jackson Holliday have a chance to help fantasy teams this summer? Who are some prospects who are currently struggling who still have a chance to help in the long-term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast. My name is Chris Crawford. Thanks

0:06.9

everybody for joining me. Today is a solo effort. I am just going to be answering your fantasy

0:12.2

questions. For those of you who are joining us live on YouTube right now, we really appreciate that.

0:17.5

And also, feel for you to drop your questions. I've got a bunch, but I will do my

0:21.2

very best to get to everybody. I'm going to just answer these in order. It's going to be very

0:27.3

prospect heavy. In fact, I think every question I have so far is prospect related, which is fun.

0:32.8

As some of you know, I've covered prospects for a very long time, and I'm always happy to talk about

0:37.9

those young players in the minors who have a chance to help you in the coming years.

0:42.8

All of these are in order, but one, and I'm going to skip to that very first one.

0:47.9

Thoughts on the Scherzer trade.

0:49.0

Could Luis Anhele Ikunia play this year?

0:53.0

So for those of you who watched our show yesterday, you saw that Drew and I,

0:59.8

at the very end, we just had a little bit of fun and we predicted who the biggest name would be

1:04.2

dealt.

1:05.2

And I said Max Scherzer.

1:08.2

And Max Scherzer trade happened about 20 minutes after we stopped recording,

1:12.4

which was pretty darn funny. I think it's really interesting for both teams. And I think it's a

1:17.6

win for both teams as well. I will point out, the original report had Walcott and Brock Porter

1:25.8

heading to New York in the deal. I didn't love that for Texas.

1:31.4

A lot of upside leaving the organization in that deal. All due respect to Luis Anhello O'Cunia,

1:36.8

who we'll talk about in just one second, really good player, has a chance to hit for average,

1:43.2

steal bases, can be a solid center fielder. I think he could be a

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