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

Welcome back, everybody. It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 186. Happy Thursday, for those of you on the podcast, July 17th, fresh out of All-Star Break here.

And for those you guys joining on the live stream, welcome as always.

Steve, I know it's been a nice little breather.

I also wrapped up a big work project.

So I'm feeling good heading into the second half.

And that's what we're talking about tonight.

Second half breakout picks. We got some hitters and pitchers that you and I are both going to kind of profile some picks that we think are going to break out. And yeah, it should be a lot of fun, man. So a couple of these names we've talked about throughout the year, but there's there's some fresh names as well. So I can't wait to get into it.

I know we were talking offline.

I had the busy work schedule, so I did not get to watch live, either the Home Run Derby or the All-Star game, but pretty awesome action on both fronts and the All-Star game,

especially with the swing off and the comeback and everything.

So it was a very cool moment for baseball, which it always is. And yeah, just curious if you tuned

in what your thoughts were and excited to be back talking with you, man. How's it going?

Yeah, it's good. It's been a nice break.

I also can't lie and say that I haven't sat down, grabbed my phone and gone to the

score app and look for scores just out of habit the last few nights. Yeah, exactly. But it's

been nice not having to stress and worry about that for a few days,

as we talked about a bit last week.

And it's still one more day, right?

As this comes out, games don't start until Friday.

I think back in the day, there used to be games on the Thursday after All-Star break.

Like maybe one or two, like they would have like a primetime one.

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