RotoGraphs Audio: Field of Streams 7/01/2015

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July 1, 2015

Episode 63 – Goofball Fun Team

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

In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Matthew Dewoskin discuss Matt’s new yoga habit, an apology to post commenters, Danny Espinosa’s usefulness, Brayan Pena’s sudden relevance, Mike Napoli’s strong splits, stretching to compare the Twins to the Brewers, Jon Lester and attitudes towards players with potential hidden injuries, the return of Matt Moore, and trying to analyze Carlos Carrasco.

Contest pick for Wednesday, July 1: Chris Heston @ MIA (Dylan and Matt).

Contest picks for Thursday, July 2: Roenis Elias @ OAK (Dylan) and Matt Moore vs. CLE (Matt).

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Contest picks for Friday, July 3: J.A. Happ @ OAK (Dylan) and Chase Anderson vs. COL (Matt).

Suggested DFS picks worth attention for Wednesday, July 1: Stephen Vogt, Brian McCann, Miguel Montero, Welington Castillo, Matt Wieters, Brayan Pena, Joey Votto, Mike Napoli, Mark Teixeira, Anthony Rizzo, Paul Goldschmidt, Chris Davis, Adam Lind, Danny Espinosa, Wilmer Flores, Howie Kendrick, Joe Panik, Adrian Beltre, Kris Bryant, Kyle Seager, Mike Moustakas, Maikel Franco, Manny Machado, Jose Reyes, Xander Bogaerts, Jhonny Peralta, Nick Ahmed, Jay Bruce, Mookie Betts, Josh Reddick, Charlie Blackmon, Brett Gardner, Denard Span, Michael Brantley, Brandon Moss, Randal Grichuk, A.J. Pollock, Jason Heyward, Orioles lefties, Johnny Cueto, James Shields, Taijuan Walker, Chris Heston, Carlos Carrasco, and John Lackey.

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Approximately 39 minutes of joyous analysis.

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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
11 years ago

It’s alright bro we’ll still listen even though you ignore us. To be fair I ignored your Marco Estrada warning and torpedoed half my DFS day.

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Dylan HigginsMember
11 years ago
Reply to  Sancho

That just makes you brave! Or something. Thanks for listening!

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WBaker0621
11 years ago

Hey Guys,

I enjoy the podcast and am a daily listener. I do, however, wish you would provide more substantiation for your suggestions (e.g. wRC+, WOBA, xFIP, etc…). Seems like you are picking off the top of your head at times and not actually researching the players you are picking (see Justin Upton). Surprising for a FanGraphs-related program.

Just a suggestion.
Thanks

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Dylan HigginsMember
11 years ago
Reply to  WBaker0621

This is a very fair point. I think we try to stay a bit on the surface to cast as wide of a net as we can in terms of listeners, but we should keep in mind that we are at FG. I’ll bring this up with Matt and Brad.

Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for listening!

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