Waiver Wire Pickups for the Second Half of the Season | Must-Have Players to Add to Your Roster
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, friendos, I'm Chris Welsh here with Fantasy Pros MLB and I am usually talking |
| 0:06.3 | trades with you while our dearest Joe Pisa Pia gives you the waver wire scoop every week. |
| 0:10.8 | Well guess what, Joe's been DFA'd and I've got you covered on who we're looking out at |
| 0:15.7 | on the wire. |
| 0:16.7 | And that's what we're going to do in this episode today, which is brought to you by |
| 0:19.2 | so rare where you can collect cards, you get to own them and you can put them in line |
| 0:23.3 | ups to win prizes, real prizes as well. |
| 0:26.6 | Now, you always find great articles on Fantasy Pros each week covering some of the biggest |
| 0:35.5 | pickups, but today these are my bad boys. |
| 0:38.9 | This is where I'm turning my sights on the waver wire this week. |
| 0:42.3 | The top player to be paying attention to on the waver wire is CJ Abrams. |
| 0:47.1 | If he's still available, look over at CBS's numbers 60% ownership on CBS, which if you |
| 0:53.5 | play the translation game on a lot of other platforms, that's less ESPN Yahoo. |
| 0:58.4 | It's not going to be that same number. |
| 0:59.9 | It's quite a bit less and he has been pretty awesome. |
| 1:03.0 | Last 14 days, Abrams has eight stolen bases while hitting 389, it's got a Homer and a 12% |
| 1:09.8 | K percentage. |
| 1:10.8 | That's what I get really excited about is that K percentage going down 12 runs scored |
| 1:15.6 | in 11 games. |
| 1:17.4 | He also has hits in it looks like nine of his last 10 games. |
| 1:23.3 | He's been the stolen base leader over the last two weeks. |
| 1:26.0 | He's hitting the ball a ton harder and he might be a super sneaky quiet 15 Homer 25 stolen |
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