Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie discuss tough hold-vs-cut-vs-trade decisions with early struggling pitchers.

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00:00 RW Pod 5-5-26

00:15 News:

00:30 Tarik Skubal is out for a few months. That’s two of the Big-3 starters on the IL…..

10:00 Joe Ryan doesn’t need to go on the IL.

11:00 Roman Anthony left with a wrist injury…..

14:20 Jhoan Duran and Raisel Iglesias return today. Closer normalcy!……

15:40 Emilio Pagan blows the save

17:40 Caleb Killian save

25:30 Jackson Chourio is back and got four hits…..

29:17 BlueWire

29:22 Main topic: Pitchers to consider dropping

29:45 For every pick up there’s a drop

32:00 Three different tiers for each of them.

32:15 “I wouldn’t cut the player in XX size of league.”

32:30 2. “I would cut the player if there was someone I liked on waivers and this player was the necessary cut.”

32:45 3. “I would actively look to get them off my roster, for basically anyone.”

35:00 Pitchers

35:10 Jack Flaherty

39:30 Luis Castillo

44:30 Trevor Megill

46:30 Aaron Nola

48:00 Ryan Walker

49:00 Zac Gallen

51:10 Andrew Abbott

52:45 Ryne Nelson, Merrill Kelly, Eduardo Rodriguez, Mike Soroka

56:00 Jack Leiter

57:20 Roki Sasaki

58:15 Andrew Painter

1:01:45 Chad Patrick

1:02:10 Noah Cameron

1:02:30 Rhett Lowder

1:03:20 Brady Singer

1:06:30 Brandon Sproat

1:07:10 Dustin May

1:08:30 Chris Bassitt

1:09:00 RotoWire Smart Money

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