Luis Robert has been both terrible and injured to begin the season for the Mets, and now they are calling up a top prospect in A.J. Ewing to fill in for him. Should be dropping Robert in all of our leagues? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss a list of problem hitters and what to do about them.

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00:00 Hitters to Cut Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Fred Zinkie

00:30 News

02:40 Mookie Betts is back…..

03:50 Christian Yelich activated

05:45 Jacob Wilson out long-term?

09:00 Addison Barger returned to the IL after just one game….

10:30 Jose Caballero will undergo an MRI on his finger while Anthony Volpe waits in Triple-A….

12:00 Nathan Eovaldi was scratched…..

14:00 Bryce Eldridge not playing.

16:00 Rafael Devers is turning things around and Willy Adames finally had a decent game. Harrison Bader returned and may have been forgotten in some leagues…..

19:30 Ryan Helsley is aiming to return in late May…..

21:10 Mets call up speedy center fielder A.J. Ewing….

23:30 Sean Murphy out again

25:30 RotoWire Smart Money: Colorado ML

27:30 Main topic: Hitters to consider dropping

27:45 Reminder of the rating system.

28:00 1. “I wouldn’t cut the player in XX size of league.”

28:15 2. “I would cut the player if there was someone I liked on waivers and this player was the necessary cut.”

28:30 3. “I would actively look to get them off my roster, for basically anyone.”

29:00 The Players

29:30 Michael Busch

32:45 Jose Altuve

35:45 Trevor Story

38:15 Luis Robert

39:40 Jac Caglianone

41:00 Ezequiel Tovar

44:00 Agustin Ramirez

47:50 Matt McLain

50:45 Luis Garcia

54:00 Adolis Garcia, Alec Bohm

56:30 Royce Lewis

58:00 Matt Chapman

1:01:30 Jordan Westburg, Caleb Durbin

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad cover the weekend in baseball, discussing, among other things, CJ Abrams, Davis Martin, the Rays, injuries and a big weekend of FAAB highlighted by Spencer Jones, Ryan Waldschmidt and Bryce Eldridge.

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer share their top waiver wire pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

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0:00 Intro/the Cincinnati Reds have now lost seven straight games…

25:15 Two-start pitchers:

57:40 Recap

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Erik Halterman is joined by Chris Towers of CBS Sports to check in on how this year's top sleepers and most-hyped players are doing after six weeks of play.

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00:00 Pitcher injury news

7:20 Robby Snelling set for call-up

12:55 More headlines

18:30 Nolan McLean, Cam Schlittler, Jacob Misiorowski

22:10 Emmett Sheehan

26:25 Chase Burns

28:40 Bubba Chandler

33:25 Samuel Basallo

35:40 Carter Jensen

39:00 Konnor Griffin

43:00 Sal Stewart

47:25 Jac Caglianone

50:35 Kazuma Okamoto

54:45 JJ Wetherholt and Kevin McGonigle

58:40 Ryan Weathers

1:01:45 Braxton Ashcraft

1:02:55 Mike Burrows

1:05:10 Kyle Harrison and Brandon Sproat

1:08:30 Justin Crawford

1:11:30 Chase DeLauter

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With over a dozen high-profile prospect graduations, James Anderson and Aram Leighton discuss what the new top 10 prospects will look like when prospect rankings get updated later this month!

01:30 Jesus Made vs. Leo De Vries

15:10 Colt Emerson, Walker Jenkins

19:20 Rainiel Rodriguez, Edward Florentino, Josue De Paula

27:50 Mike Sirota, Eduardo Quintero

31:40 Luis Pena vs. Eli Willits

37:10 Caleb Bonemer

43:10 Seth Hernandez, Kade Anderson

47:15 Up-Arrow Prospects

53:45 Bryce Rainer

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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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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad talk some strong first months from Matt Olson, Mike Trout and a whole bunch of catchers, break down a slew of weekend injuries and discuss all the adds and drops in FAAB, including active bidding for Christian Scott and Travis Bazzana.

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Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Halusker to discuss their top waiver wire adds of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

13:00 Jared Jones

16:40 Janson Junk

19:00 Jack Perkins

23:00 Logan Henderson

25:15 Jacob Latz

28:45 Luis Severino

31:15 Travis Bazzana

35:15 Daniel Schneemann

38:00 Cole Young

40:00 Nathan Church

42:50 Jake Bennett

46:35 Christian Scott

49:40 Rico Garcia

53:20 Tyler Phillips

55:10 Kyle Finnegan

58:50 Other Relievers

1:02:45 Kody Clemens

1:04:20 Nathaniel Lowe

1:08:15 Austin Hays

1:10:10 Tyler Black

1:13:30 Ezequiel Duran

1:16:30 Smart Money

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0:00 Intro/the Atlanta Braves might have an Austin Riley problem

21:40 Two-start pitchers:

1:02:00 Recap

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