Luis Garcia entered Tuesday's play leading the majors in RBI and second in homers for the month of June. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss Garcia, the Nats and 10 other very interesting June stats.
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00:00 RotoWire MLB Pod 6-30-26
00:15 News:
01:00 Tyler Soderstrom and Jacob Wilson won’t be too athletic in the near future, as both require IL stints…..
03:00 Byron Buxton still out
09:15 Addison Barger has been shut down for a couple weeks and can be dropped…..
10:05 Jazz Chisholm Jr. is in concussion protocol following a collision last night….
10:50 Casey Mize stayed hot with 10 K’s…..
13:30 Jeremy Pena is going on the IL….
15:00 Esmerlyn Valdez homered for the fourth straight game….
18:50 Emilio Pagan will return to his closer’s role today…..
19:30 Aaron Ashby earned his MLB-leading 11th win…..
22:05 Eric Lauer fared well again, but his underlying numbers in LAD stink….
23:45 Vlad Guerrero Jr. (back tightness) scratched
27:35 Brandon Marsh continued his career year by homering twice…..
28:50 Garrett Whitlock picked up a save, which may be meaningful in a few weeks…..
30:30 Yandy Diaz back in
32:30 SeatGeek
33:45 Main topic: Interesting June stats.
35:30 Luis Garcia is 2nd in HR (11) and 1st in RBI (25)
39:00 Two catchers (Hunter Goodman, Dillon Dingler) are tied with Garcia in RBI.
41:05 Pete Crow-Armstrong is the No. 1 fantasy asset during June.
43:40 Kyle Schwarber has hit .300 in June, but with a .427 BABIP.
44:15 Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit .177 with 6 HR and 10 SB in June. What a weird player.
45:40 Gridiron Trivia
46:40 BlueWire
47:00 Jarren Duran has the lowest June wRC+….2!
49:30 Ezequiel Tovar has the 2nd lowest June wRC+ (16) and should be cut everywhere.
50:30 The list of 11 qualified pitchers with a June ERA under 2.00 includes some obvious ones (Logan Webb, Drew Rasmussen, Jacob Misiorowski) in the top 3, as well as some surprising names such as Foster Griffin, Robbie Ray, Walker Buehler and Slade Cecconi.
52:45 Everyone picks on Zac Gallen, who has the worst June ERA. Other players near the bottom include Bryce Elder, Kevin Gausman, Aaron Nola and Gerrit Cole.
57:45 Jacob Latz leads the majors with 10 June saves. Jhoan Duran and Louis Varland are tied for second.
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