Weekend Risers & Fallers
RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast
dj@rotowire.com
4.6 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are live on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by rival fantasy. |
| 0:08.6 | Go to rival fantasy.com or get the rival fantasy app. |
| 0:12.2 | Today is Sunday, May 14th. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Drew Silva. |
| 0:15.4 | With me here is Chris Crawford. |
| 0:17.5 | On this episode, we're going to cover some individual risers and fallers from the |
| 0:21.5 | weekend players who showed something encouraging and others who did not and we'll talk some |
| 0:27.1 | fab and waiver wire targets surround things out here on Sunday afternoon first let's jump |
| 0:33.2 | into some headlines the lead story from Saturday I might be the Wilson Contrera situation, maybe because |
| 0:41.0 | I'm a Cardinals fan. |
| 0:42.4 | And I know you guys touched on it a bit on your Saturday show, but man, what an odd turn |
| 0:48.4 | of events. |
| 0:49.4 | So I guess for people unfamiliar, last Saturday manager Oliver Marmal came out and said that Contreras would no longer be catching and would be moving to the outfield and DH. |
| 1:01.6 | Mind you, this was or is less than a quarter of the way into the first year of a five year, 87.5 million dollar deal to be the replacement at catcher for Yadir Malina. |
| 1:14.3 | And Contreras didn't find out about this decision until he saw Trace Barrera in the Cardinals |
| 1:19.6 | clubhouse that he had been called up to now back up Andrew Kisner behind the plate. |
| 1:24.7 | The next day, Cardinals, president of Baseball Operations, John Moseilak, |
| 1:28.7 | does an exclusive interview with Ken Rosenthal and Katie Wu of the Athletic to kind of get |
| 1:33.9 | the message out there that Moselec says conturis would not play the outfield, he would |
| 1:39.4 | DH, and that they wanted him to return to catching eventually. It all just, it points to a bad disconnect and communication. |
| 1:48.7 | A franchise used to succeeding that is not having success and seems to just be panicking. |
| 1:57.6 | Reading between the lines of everything management was saying, |
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