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

Welcome back, everybody. It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 174. I'm Van Burnett, joined as always by Steve Gisweli.

Happy Thursday, for those you guys joining on the podcast, welcome, welcome on the live stream as well.

Steve, April baseball, got to love it.

This is peak analysis season where we can look at guys.

It feels like it's still early enough where they're kind of sprouting up from the ground and can

impact your roster all year but it's also not so early that we have nothing to look at so

I know we're probably a show or two away from statistical relevance on like batted balls in play

but we can still kind of cheat ahead and look

at some stuff. And that's what we're doing tonight. The theme of the show is finding value in

hitter changes. So some of that can be approach based, maybe a little bit more aggressive at the

dish or a little bit more patient looking

for their pitch.

We also got a handful that are more tangible batting stance or swing changes that you always

hear about and it's good to be aware because it's not always a surefire hit that a swing change is going to lead to

a breakout, if you will. But you can think back on ones throughout the history. The one that stands

out to me is like the Justin Turner leg kick. But it seems like every year you hear a little

something about this guy's doing this differently or that differently.

One that's not even on the list that we've talked about is like Lars Neupar with an approach change last year that he got injured and couldn't do.

And he's having a great start of the season.

So we got like 10 names we're going to talk about.

And they vary widely from low roster guys.

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