Weekend Risers and Cheap FAAB Targets

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Chris Crawford (@crawford_milb) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) look at the latest news of the weekend, including the imminent arrival of Andrew Abbott from the Reds. They also look at the injuries to Jose Altuve and Wander Franco and the strong play of Jake Fraley along with the struggles of Francisco Lindor. In the final half of the show, they look at players you can acquire that could help your fantasy team without blowing your FAAB budget. A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are live on the Road to Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by rival fantasy.
0:06.9	Go to rival fantasy.com or get the rival fantasy app.
0:10.9	Today is Sunday, June 4th.
0:12.9	My name is Chris Crawford.
0:14.4	With me is my friend Ryan Boyer.
0:16.2	Now, on today's episode, we're going to cover some individual risers and fallers from the weekend,
0:20.6	players who showed
0:21.2	something encouraging and some others who did not and then we'll talk about some fab and waiver wire
0:25.5	targets and this week's going to be a little different we're going to help you look at some guys
0:29.3	that shouldn't cost you a whole heck of a lot if anything in terms of your fab bidding we know you got a lot
0:35.1	of money saved for some of these prospects and stuff so that should help help. But before they do that, let's jump into some headlines. And let's start,
0:41.9	Ryan, with Andrew Abbott. Andrew Abbott is going to be making his major league debut on Monday.
0:48.0	Now, it is worth pointing out that this is coming in the absence of Hunter Green, who was being
0:52.9	pushed all the way back to Sunday,
0:54.8	which is a little bit concerning.
0:56.3	That's more than a week off for him with hip stiffness.
0:59.9	But Abbott has been fantastic in the minor league, started in AA, moved up to AAA,
1:04.6	and has been otherworldly.
1:06.6	Are you jumping out to go get Andrew Abbott on your fantasy roster, Ryan?
1:11.1	Yeah, I think so.
1:12.3	I think he's worth adding in pretty much any kind of format.
1:19.0	There's, I know he's replacing Hunter Green for the time being, but frankly, when I saw that he was, the news of Abbott's promotion came prior to the news of
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