You're listening to Wins Above Fantasy, part of the Pitcherless podcast network with Van Burnett and Steve Giswelly.

Welcome back, everyone. It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 146. Today is July 4th. Happy Independence Day, everyone.

What is more American than baseball and talking fantasy baseball, Steve?

I'm just picturing the sandlot and the fireworks in the sky and a little Ray Charles, America, the beautiful.

We got a beautiful episode on deck tonight talking second

half pitching breakout candidates. It's an exercise of trying to catch a lightning in a bottle

sometimes. And some of these guys are higher rostered. Some of these guys are lower rostered.

Some of them are stashes. But overall, as offense seemingly is warming up and some of the pitchers that we thought were aces are cooling off,

everyone is kind of back to that mode of looking for pitching wherever they can find it.

And every year, it seems like there are some mega breakouts in the second half that end up

you know swaying our opinions all offseason long and uh can't wait to get into it steve

i think we've done our best on short notice to pull some good names together but we can uh you know

we can keep it loose we can explore some. I think we got some good names here.

And I can't wait to get into it, man.

How's it going?

It's good. It's good.

Glad you brought up Sandlot there.

I actually recently, for the first time, not Sanlott.

I've seen Sandlot before, but for the first time I saw a little big league this week.

Shout out to my buddy Luke, who has been ragging on me for being a baseball fan that hasn't seen a little big league and very much enjoyed it up there with the sandlots and other amazing baseball like childhood movies, at least for us.

I know we're around the same age.

So, you know, you grow up with that stuff.

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