Panic Meter - Juan Soto and Other Hitters

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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How concerned are you about the slow starts by Juan Soto, Jose Abreu, Christian Walker and Gunnar Henderson? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review them, the latest pitcher injuries and recent call-ups. --- A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Swing into the MLB season with Vivid Seats and score tickets to all of the hottest matchups and biggest games of the year. Every crack of the bat, every deep center fly, and every heart-pounding double-play of your favorite team, live and in person. Visit Vivid Seats today. (https://www.vividseats.com/?wsUser=948&wsVar=SITE) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fancy Baseball podcast, where we talk about the panic level that we have on certain struggling hitters.
0:10.0	We'll talk about some major pitcher injuries yesterday, at least major pitchers, and we don't know if they're major injuries.
0:14.9	That and a whole lot more coming up on the Rrire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:36.5	Welcome everybody to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by Vivid Seats and Rival Fantasy.
0:38.2	Appreciate their sponsorship, as always.
0:40.6	I'm Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinke as we try to tackle a lot of, I was going to say,
0:47.4	we could parse through our way of certain topics, topical issues of the day.
0:53.1	I want to start off right off the top.
0:55.1	Juan Soto is hitting 164.
0:57.3	He has three homers.
0:58.4	He's struck out 17 times.
1:01.4	He's also walked 17 times.
1:03.5	But this is a definitely disappointing start to the season if you have Juan Soto.
1:09.0	11 runs 7 RBI.
1:11.2	Not what you're paying for when you get that first round pick.
1:14.9	No, I think it's always also, you know, a lot more concerning when it comes on the heels of a downseason the previous year, right?
1:23.7	Like, yeah, when it's a bounce back player, potential bounce back player, that's always the
1:28.9	big concern, right? So now it's not, you know, any other slow starter or a lot of other slow starters
1:34.6	who are high picks. You're just like, well, whatever, guys, it's two bad weeks. It's two bad weeks.
1:39.1	It just happens to be in April and not in July. It's two bad weeks. But when it's two bad weeks coming off,
1:45.3	you know, a down year last year where his OPS dipped about 100 points. And now we've got
1:51.5	another drop so far this year. You start to wonder, I mean, this is, Juan Soto is, what,
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