RotoGraphs Audio: Field of Streams 5/13/2015

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May 13, 2015

Episode 28 – The Legend That Is Dallas Keuchel

The latest episode of “Field of Streams” is live!

In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Dylan being excited about his trip to Seattle, Matt taking pride in his cheap DFS recommendations, Dylan explaining The Vedder Cup a second time, Aaron Sanchez’s modest improvements, more sounds outside of Dylan’s house, Drew Stubbs losing most of his value, digging around on a tough pitching day, and looking for a new pitcher for the podcast to sponsor.

Contest pick for Wednesday, May 13: Jimmy Nelson vs. CWS (Dylan and Matt).

Contest picks for Thursday, May 14: Chase Whitley @ TB (Dylan) and Drew Hutchison @ HOU (Matt).

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Contest pick for Friday, May 15: Chase Anderson @ PHI (Dylan and Matt).

Suggested DFS picks worth attention for Wednesday, May 13: Josh Phegley, Yasmani Grandal, Buster Posey, James McCann, Paul Goldschmidt, Chris Davis, Adrian Gonzalez, James Loney, Eric Hosmer, Brian Dozier, Robinson Cano, Ian Kinsler, Trevor Plouffe, Todd Frazier, Mike Moustakas, Kyle Seager, Nolan Arenado, Marcus Semien, Troy Tulowitzki, Jose Iglesias, Adeiny Hechavarria, Mark Trumbo, Bryce Harper, Kole Calhoun, Gregory Polanco, Starling Marte, most anyone in the Tigers lineup, Francisco Liriano, Raisel Iglesias, Jason Hammel, Jimmy Nelson, Tim Hudson, and Yordano Ventura.

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Dylan assists in producingFanGraphs Audio, Effectively Wild, and the FanGraphs Live Twitch channel. He also enjoys the Waxahachie Swap (RIP), the Air Bud principle, and the Oxford comma. You can Tweet him about any of those things @dhhiggins.

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Sancho
10 years ago

Ugh, hate to ask, but thoughts on Quintana today?? Brewers have a 24.6% k rate and a .267 wOBA against right handed pitching. Quintana is pitching below his normalization for right handed batters which is what the brew crew just trotted out…..
…But it’s still Quintana, which is like sending a chicken into a gunfight with a shotgun strapped to it’s back when everybody else is using a rocket launcher. The chicken could win…

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Dylan HigginsMember
10 years ago
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Hey Sancho! Sorry I didn’t get to this in time. I was up in Seattle all day to see the game. Hope you went with Quintana!

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