Paul Goldschmidt and a number of other first basemen are off to slow starts.

I'll be talking with Ryan Hallam.

You can find him on Fighting Chance on Twitter.

And part of the Spotlight Network.

We'll talk about him coming up next on the Road Rotowire fantasy baseball podcast.

I'm Jeff Erickson here with Ryan Hallam.

Ryan, welcome.

How are you?

I'm doing great, Jeff. I appreciate you having me on.

It's a beautiful day here in New York and, you know, getting ready for a shortened slate of fantasy

baseball, but it's still a good day for baseball. Indeed. It hasn't been great so far for Paul Goldschmidt.

Only two homers so far. This is kind of following after a bit of a drop-off

season last year, maybe to be expected a little bit, but he's one of a number of first baseman.

We do this little thing on Thursdays where we call it Panic Meter is just kind of a little

branding thing. It's probably hyperbolic a little bit there, but he's only hitting 2.30,

two homers, 11 RBI,

14 runs, one stolen base. What's your level of concern for Paul Goldschmidt?

I mean, it's getting there. Like you said, it was off last year, you know, MVP the year before.

So I was kind of hoping for for somewhat of a bounce back in through one month so far.

We certainly haven't seen it. Hasn't exactly looked like the guy in the batting average i think of course is the is probably the

biggest red flag i mean back in the day he was a perpetual 300 hitter and it slowly started

to to fall off the last few years so uh we are still just a month into the season

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