We're grading next week's two-star starters on a zero to five scale, as we normally do here on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Welcome to the Rotow Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Clayling here with Todd Zola, the normal Friday combination.

And we're going to be looking ahead to next week's two-starred starters as we normally do.

Storters, starters.

I don't know why I said it like that. But looking forward to that. Todd, I'm hurting in a bad way offensively on some of my fantasy teams, but trying to manage otherwise, trying to stay afloat. How are you doing on this Friday afternoon? Well, you're the only one, Clay. Everybody else is crushing it offensively, and you're the only one.

Yeah, only my teams are doing bad offense.

Ah, man, you know what?

It's just even more important just to keep the lineup spots getting something now

so you don't fall too far behind.

And then when things start to flip back when it gets warmer,

when they put a little more juice in the ball or whatever they might do,

yeah, right now you can't afford to forget to make a move,

something like that.

You need to make sure you get every little stat you can.

Yeah, and it's a rough climate right now offensively across Major League Baseball.

So, yeah, if you're checking your box scores and you're seeing some three for 35s or some

four for 40s, no, you aren't alone.

I've been trying not to look at my standings, but then when I check my daily box scores, I see numbers like that. I'm like, God, it can't be good. I have Kyle Tucker on some of my big teams. Yeah. Kyle Tucker has just been getting super unlucky. It seems like he's hitting the ball well, but just can't find any holes in the diamond. They'll come around. That's what you want to see. You want to see them hitting the ball hard. Contrary to what I talked about six months ago when I was wrong, you want to hit the ball hard. And he's doing that. It'll come around for Kyle Tucker. And they'll start running and everything else will come into place.

Yeah, he's got a lot of red on that stat cast page, 94th percentile X-slug.

So upward mobility in the lineup doesn't seem to be there because Dusty is pretty set in his ways, it seems like.

He'll learn it, I think.

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