Six Stretch-Run Stars

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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6 players that can push you over the top for the stretch run, including how the revamped Jays look following their trade deadline deals. --- 00:00 - Fred Pod 8-13 01:30 - Players to mention 02:00 - Junior Caminero, 05:30 - Christopher Morel 06:45 - Jordan Walker, 09:40 - Zebby Matthews, 12:00 - Seth Lugo 14:45 - Kerry Carpenter, George Kirby 19:40 - Lane Thomas 22:30 - MLB has played exactly one month of games since the start of second-half play. Here are some stats that are relevant for fantasy discussion. 23:50 - Luis Robert leads the Majors by a wide margin with 40 SO. Given his second half slash line (.123/.155/.210) and lackluster offense, is it reasonable to bench him? Maybe he has mailed it in? 27:20 - Aaron Judge ranks first in walks by a wide margin (27). He also ranks second in OPS. I still go back to all the projection systems, who told us to draft him in the top-5. Do we need to learn a lesson about overrating injury history, especially with hitters? 35:15 - Jake Burger has already hit more homers in the second half (12) than the first half (10). He is also among the second half strikeout leaders, if that matters. He is the leader in second half homers. 36:30 - Xavier Edwards places first in steals (13). Hitting .360. Have the Marlins found a piece to the puzzle? 41:50 - Vladdy leads the Majors in second half OPS (.1475). Hitting .464 with more walks than strikeouts. Is this a hot streak, or is Vladdy finally turning the corner? Along with Judge, Vladdy is another player who the projection systems told us to draft ahead of his ADP. 48:15 - Tanner Houck 5.48 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 12:12: K:BB in 23 IP. 51:40 - Elly De La Cruz ranks second in strikeouts but first in steals and is batting .310. Which shows that nothing can stop Elly from being valuable. 53:30 - Ryne Nelson 3.19 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 36:9 K:BB. Spencer Arrighetti 3.60 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 36:6 K:BB. Spencer Schwellenbach (3.12 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 36:2 K:BB). These three SPs are second in SO, behind Blake Snell. --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've got another wave of prospects getting called up.
0:03.8	We've got about a month of action since the All-Star break to review.
0:07.1	All that more coming up on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:27.6	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:32.3	Jeff Erickson here with the Fred Zinke back from his failed mission of getting Brandon Ayuk traded to the Cleveland Browns.
0:36.0	Instead, actually, I know you were just traveling all the
0:38.9	great lakes. Every single one of them. Superior was tough, but you made it. Welcome back. Glad to have
0:45.1	you back. How are you doing? I'm good. Actually, we don't usually do this at the start of the podcast,
0:48.9	but I'll give you a quick speaking of the Cleveland Brown's 30-second story. I was in Chicago last week. On my way to Chicago,
0:56.0	I took the whole family through Cleveland. We stopped to watch a Browns training camp practice.
1:00.4	I think I told you about that off the air. We were there for about 30 minutes. The practice was
1:05.9	just about to start. We had driven six hours to get there. Tornado warning. The whole place cleared out.
1:13.3	We didn't see one second of practice. And then we continued on our way. I drove the kids all
1:20.2	my boys. I have two sons. I drove them all over there. They're super excited to watch an NFL practice.
1:25.2	Like I said, we were there maybe half an hour or so, just kind of walked around, seeing the things around the practice. We're just about to start. All of a sudden, those alert buttons went off on our phones, and they said everybody had to leave. And bad weather did actually come through. At least they didn't, I guess, clear for no reason. But anyways, that was my, speaking of Brandon, I, you kind of Cleveland Brown. Sounds like he's going to stay in San Francisco, not the topic for tonight. But yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. All right. Good stuff. Uh, yeah. Greatest laid plans laid away. Yeah. Um, so it goes. Lots of players to discuss. uh the kind of under the radar called up Junior Cominero.
2:04.5	He's got to play every day, right? Yeah, the raise have already said that he's going to play regularly.
2:08.8	Now, it's the race, so he still could get a day or two off a week. But they said that he's going to play regularly.
2:15.9	So let's take them at their words.
2:17.8	So now for fantasy purposes comes the decision on like, what is the value of junior
2:23.9	Caminero if he's playing regularly?
2:26.8	Right.
2:28.4	Well, this season, his number is in the minors.
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