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Buy Low or Let Go? Seven Underachieving Early Hitters
Episode 1165

Buy Low or Let Go? Seven Underachieving Early Hitters

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson take a look at seven (mostly) healthy top-50 hitters that have failed to return their draft price so far and discuss whether to buy low or let it go with them.

RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast · Fred Zinkie, Jeff Erickson

July 1, 20251h 4m

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Show Notes

00:00 Fred Pod 7-1

00:30 Welcome

01:00 Blue Jays - Max Scherzer looked much better in a tough matchup….

05:30 News: Chase Burns must be an all-time story of FAAB bids blowing up so quickly…..

10:30 Wilyer Abreu had a memorable game…..

12:50 Jeremy Pena and Zach Eflin to the IL…. Hunter Goodman to go on the IL….

17:10 Trevor Rogers continues to put himself back on the radar….

19:40 Marcus Semien had a great night, which wrapped up an excellent June where he had a .932 OPS and cut his strikeout rate….

22:30 NFFC

23:15 Ryne Nelson had another good start…..

27:00 Kerry Carpenter to the IL

29:15 Zack Wheeler is so damn reliable…..

32:30 Junior Caminero homered again and has lived up to all the hype….

36:30 BLUEWIRE

36:40 “buy low or let him go”.

37:00 We will look at top-50 hitters who have not earned $15 and discuss whether we would trade for them or trade them away.

38:05 Mookie Betts, 13

43:45 Gunnar Henderson, 12

46:30 William Contreras, 14

50:00 HOME RUN FORECAST

50:35 Jarren Duran, 14

53:00 Wyatt Langford, 9

55:45 Austin Riley, 13 and Michael Harris II, 2

1:00:00 Freddie Freeman barely made the cut, at exactly $15.

1:00:15 And if I lowered the playing time bar to 200 AB, I would have included Jackson Merrill at $-1.

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Topics

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