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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Not Flying High Enough

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bryce Harper went through a lengthy home run drought. Lars Nootbaar isn't hitting as many fly balls as he did in the past. Brendan Tuma from Underdog Fantasy joins Jeff Erickson as they discuss those two hitters, select trade deadline reactions and the playoff races. --- 00:00 - Underdog Fantasy Baseball 02:30 - Bryce Harper 05:00 - Lars Nootbaar 07:00 - Joe Ryan 11:50 - Cubs/Reds 16:45 - Red Sox 21:30 - Andres Muñoz 27:00 - Shane McClanahan 29:30 - Bo Bichette 34:00 - Matt McLain 39:00 - Trea Turner 41:00 - Jordan Walker 44:20 - Brett Baty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

is Bryce Harper hitting enough fly balls?

0:04.8

What's going on with Shane McClanahan?

0:07.0

What's going on with the Cubs and the Reds?

0:08.4

We'll talk about that and a whole lot more with Brendan Tuma from Underdog Fantasy.

0:11.9

Coming up next on the Rototo Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erickson. We are here brought to you by the Blue Wire Network and Home Run Index lot in their home run forecaster. We'll talk about that a little bit later in the podcast. I'm here with Brendan Tuma from Underdog Fantasy and he's got his own substack as well. Brendan, thank you so much for joining us today. Jeff, no, thank you for having me on. I grew up, you know, just getting into fantasy baseball, you know, going on road a wire, you know,

0:54.5

following people like yourself. So it's not lost on me to be here. It's really, really cool for me.

0:58.7

Oh, I'm glad. Thank you for saying that. I really appreciate it. Let's talk what you do in

1:03.0

underdog first of all before we jump into Bryce Harper. Underdog, it's, as you've told others,

1:09.2

it's known mostly for its football best ball leagues.

1:12.7

But the baseball side of things, the profile is growing there too, and you're doing a big part of that.

1:17.7

Yeah, I think Underdog was built as a company to be a really great draft experience.

1:21.5

And we've seen the football community rally around that exceptionally.

1:25.3

It seems like that's like the default content that people are making

1:28.1

around nowadays. And our baseball games are equally, I think as exciting. It's different,

1:33.1

you know, than season long manage. It's not roto. But it's just another way to experience baseball

1:38.6

and have a little skin in the game. And yeah, we've seen a little bit of growth in the past year.

1:43.6

I think it's trending in the right

1:45.1

direction i'm excited to keep pushing that yeah and uh it yeah baseball baseball is fun and it's a little

1:52.1

bit of a crowded marketplace not one one you know operator has dominated that market and i think

1:57.7

baseball is more traditional so maybe aka. And so we are less inclined to

2:03.4

doing best ball as much. Whereas I think football, I mean, it was, you know, eagerly embraced pretty

2:08.2

quickly. But it's a fun game, guys. I've played it myself. Really enjoy it. And I know they were

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