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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Weekend Risers & Fallers

RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Drew Silva (@drewsilv) and Chris Crawford (Crawford_MiLB) comb through weekend headlines and then identify three players who shined on Saturday and three players who showed reason for concern. They also discuss several waiver wire targets to close out the show. 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 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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