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Speaker 1: What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros MLB. I

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Speaker 1: am Chris Welsh. That is Joe Rico, and today we

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Speaker 1: are tackling the waiver wire, specifically waiver wire hitters. Four.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Joe, whatever the numerical week you're in, we're

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Speaker 1: in week two. This is more designed for week three.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some people consider it's still week one. Whatever it's

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Speaker 1: for the coming week, whether it's now that you're tackling

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Speaker 1: your daily waivers or weekly. These are players hitters that

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Speaker 1: we are targeting, and we got a couple of different specialties.

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Speaker 1: How are you looking at the weeks, because like again,

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Speaker 1: some people stretch week one to the first couple of

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Speaker 1: days in to hear some people were already into week two.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be tackling this more as like a

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Speaker 1: next week thing. So what is your assumption? And this

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Speaker 1: ambiguous week of baseball we're in.

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Speaker 2: It always kind of messes me up when I'm writing

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Speaker 2: my own stuff for looking at other people's content. Week

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Speaker 2: four waiver suggestions, Week five waiver suggestions. So it's the

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Speaker 2: same week with two different sites saying this, it's still

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Speaker 2: technically like the first week because we've only had five games.

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Speaker 2: But we're into week two, but we're looking ahead to

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Speaker 2: week three pickups, so week one through three waiver wire,

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Speaker 2: something like that.

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Speaker 1: Who's on first, what's happening is first week of April.

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Speaker 1: First week of April is what we're looking to tackle.

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Speaker 1: We're going to give you some of our waiver suggestions

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Speaker 1: and we've got some categories that we're going to use

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Speaker 1: them in. As a reminder is always though, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about this, make sure you're checking out the tools

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Speaker 1: on Fantasy pros. They can help you in a lot

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Speaker 1: of these picks with all of our amazing data back

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Speaker 1: behind it. But today this will be more centered around Joe,

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Speaker 1: Rico and myself, So let's kick this off. We have

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Speaker 1: got three names each six total for the hitters that

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Speaker 1: you guys are going to want to take a look at.

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Speaker 1: We're going to start with some high priority pickups. These

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Speaker 1: are players that I think it's safe to say whether

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Speaker 1: it is a percentage of ownership or whatnot, these are

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Speaker 1: players that we think are in the must own territory.

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Speaker 1: And we've both picked some middle infielders or some corner infielders,

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Speaker 1: actually some infielders if you will, jo Rika, why don't

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Speaker 1: you kick us off your high priority pick up a

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Speaker 1: hitter for the week is who Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's est Soak Parades. I do not like to make

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Speaker 2: a lot of moves in the first week of the season.

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Speaker 2: I think people tend to overreact and they'll you know

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Speaker 2: Owen Miller. A couple of years ago, two consecutive seasons,

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Speaker 2: it was like the hottest first week of April, and

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Speaker 2: then who is Owen Miller? Most people probably don't even

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Speaker 2: know who that is. You need to give things time

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Speaker 2: to stabilize. But Eastock Parades is a guy where I'm

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Speaker 2: not waiting in my home league. I've only made one

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Speaker 2: move and it was to pick up east Soak Parades.

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Speaker 2: He's played five of the first six games for Houston,

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Speaker 2: following an offseason where all the talk was all Parades

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Speaker 2: doesn't have a job, He's not gonna play. There's nowhere

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Speaker 2: to put him. And yet he's played five of the

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Speaker 2: first six games, including one at second. You get four

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Speaker 2: more of those on Yahoo. He's second and third base eligible,

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Speaker 2: but even just at third, which is a horrible position,

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Speaker 2: I think Estoc Parades is really valuable.

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Speaker 1: He is made for that ballpark.

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Speaker 2: We talk a lot about pulled fly balls, and that's

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Speaker 2: pretty much all that East Soak Parades does. Last year,

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Speaker 2: in just one hundred and two games, it was twenty

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Speaker 2: home previous three seasons it was nineteen, thirty one and twenty.

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Speaker 2: He can hit for power, and that is something that

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Speaker 2: is kind of hard to come by on the waiver

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Speaker 2: wire in the middle of a good lineup. Brady's for

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Speaker 2: his career. He's not killing you in the batting average department,

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Speaker 2: while being eligible at at least one bad position with

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Speaker 2: the next few weeks as well. I think, based on

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Speaker 2: the way that injuries work, there will always be one

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Speaker 2: I think that what we've seen over the first week

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Speaker 2: five out of every six games, and you'll absolutely take

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Speaker 2: that for a guy with thirty home run upside.

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Speaker 1: The guy I'm going to talk about I've been talking

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Speaker 1: about for the last couple days. We're in this weird

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Speaker 1: a weird place where one game can stabilize or destabilize

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Speaker 1: making big aggressive moves right now. It's kind of tough,

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Speaker 1: with Nolan Shanwell with the Angels. Nolan Shanwell had a

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Speaker 1: his launch angle seventeen degrees. His barrel had doubled. Those

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Speaker 1: is that the launch angle sweet spot. It's it's a

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Speaker 1: is really interesting because it's that ability to hit the

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Speaker 1: pull the ball in the air. And that is still happening.

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Speaker 1: And that's like a really key important thing for a

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Speaker 1: those other numbers have stabilized a twenty just about a

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Speaker 1: own that. So the percentages are low, it's very early

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Speaker 1: on hate for you to cut anythings significant. But I

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Speaker 1: think Nolan chan Well is a high priority pickup in

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Speaker 1: We are going to talk about category specialist next, but

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Speaker 1: if you want some extra help, you want a Joe

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Speaker 1: Rico or Chris Welsh right next to you to help you.

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Speaker 1: not talking about the exact player that you're looking for,

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Speaker 1: so go and check it out today. All right, high

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Speaker 1: priority check. What about if you are trying to lock

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Speaker 1: into somebody that can get you a category. This could

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Speaker 1: be someone with runs either more traditionally stolen bases or homers.

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Speaker 1: And you and I have both taken on the mantle

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Speaker 1: for homers here. I really like yours. Of course, I

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Speaker 1: talk to us about a home run category specialist you'd

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Jake, and he's a guy that I was

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Speaker 2: pretty heavily targeting at the end of my drafts. Heading

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Speaker 2: into the year, we've seen the roster rate tick up

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Speaker 2: but it still feels very very low. Over the previous

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Speaker 2: All throughout the year he was banged up and yet

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Speaker 2: Jake Berger reverts exactly back to what he was in

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Speaker 2: hurting you. It's really not. The league average is probably

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Speaker 2: Jake Berger. He can hit anywhere. I'm expecting another thirty

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Speaker 1: I like it. So if you got to go a

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Speaker 1: You want strong sides, you also want some of this early.

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Speaker 1: savant look of elite barrel, elite hard to hit, top

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