Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups | Must-Have Players to Add to Your Roster
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody it's me Joey P Joe peace appear back with other waiver wire video it's week eight in major league baseball right here on the fantasy |
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| 0:13.7 | Those things you can know every time a piece of content drops here well should do in the trade videos |
| 0:17.9 | I'm doing the waiver wire and of course we're both doing leading off live every single day in this week |
| 0:22.4 | There's a lot of names to add including some offenses that are looking for a little bit of a jolt |
| 0:26.4 | So if your fantasy offense is looking for that too here are some names to add plus some pictures to all kinds of fun |
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| 1:09.5 | With so rare MLB so let's get after it here are the names to add in week eight in major league baseball |
| 1:16.2 | Let's kick things off with Casey Schmidt third baseman for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1:20.4 | rostered already in roughly 50% of leagues now since Casey Schmidt's been called up to the big leagues |
| 1:26.2 | He has produced 438 batting average just four strikeouts already two home runs and six runs scored in his first eight games |
| 1:34.2 | The interesting thing about Schmidt he was more of a contact hitter in the minor league |
| 1:38.1 | So the immediate power has been a little bit of a surprise, but he's not bereft of it |
| 1:41.9 | So the question is can he maintain any sort of power pace in the big leagues |
| 1:45.9 | That is an interesting question to ask ourselves, but that's not why we're picking him up |
| 1:50.3 | What we're trying to do here when we're looking for a guy like Casey Schmidt is can he continue to make contact |
| 1:55.6 | And if he continues to do what he did at AAA where he hit at a 313 clip with a 352 OBP |
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