Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy baseball podcast.

Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinke.

Political scientist Thomas Frank wrote a book that gained a lot of traction about a decade

ago called What's Wrong with Kansas?

Fred Zinke authored a podcast titled, titled, What's Wrong with the New York Mets?

We're going to cover that, some slumping teams and their slumping offenses and teams.

What's gone wrong with them when we expected them to be pretty decent?

We'll hit that up next year on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

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Fred, welcome. Busy day, busy news day in the baseball cycle. And it's perfect time for us trying to battle between being baseball analysts and football analysts at the same time. That's right. Yeah. I mean, if you want to win your baseball leagues and I do, like you have to keep on top of the news. There's a lot of football news right now. And you and I both did a draft today and everything. And you've been on the air talking about football today,

but this baseball news keeps rolling and stats accumulated in August. This is the time of year where

if you're on top of the waiver wire, it's now, but more so in September, obviously, but if you're

on top of the waiver wire, even now in the next couple weeks, you can get a major advantage because

some people either because of football or because their teams have fallen behind in the standings.

Their interest really starts to wane in August.

All right.

Our main topic of the day is what's wrong with these teams?

And you selected five teams that are really slumping offensively.

Why don't you introduce the topic?

Yeah, so I looked at because sometimes we get into, like, your season long stats are good because it's bigger sample size.

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