RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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Intro/Welcoming Ariel Cohen back to the podcast

Creator of ATC Projections, which we’re proud to have back at RotoWire.

What are ATC Projections?



Tout Wars H2H Champion (again). Congratulations!

A drafter with incredible discipline. You stick to your dollar values closely in a draft… is that the key to your consistency in the league?

Do you ever go over your number in an auction?

H2H Points

Generally, what are the main things one has to know when transitioning from Roto scoring to H2H Points?

Do you prefer closers or IP volume in the two designated RP slots?

Winning strategies you’re willing to share?

Players

Giancarlo Stanton can’t open a bag of chips

Ryan Weathers touching 99.8 mph

Any sleepers on your Mets?

ATC loves Bryan Woo this year

Should Pete Crow-Armstrong’s second half weigh more heavily?

Cold water on Roman Anthony

Trevor Megill health, trade questions

Signing off

Regular updates to ATC

See you in NYC!

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How can you use moving averages and pulled barrel rates to help you win your fantasy league? Jeff Erickson and John Laghezza explain how.

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00:00 RotoWire MLB Podcast 2-25-26

00:20 Welcome to John Laghezza

Host of Corked Stats; TheAthletic; Substack

3x FSWA Award Winner, including this year!

02:15 News:

02:30 Merrill Kelly ruled out for Opening Day

04:40 Samuel Basallo injured at plate

09:00 Max Scherzer back with the Jays

14:00 Francisco Lindor resuming activities soon

16:30 Fantrax

17:30 Pulled Barrels

17:50 What is the stat, and what’s a good baseline?

23:00 Who are some outliers?

23:30 Isaac Paredes

26:00 Stabilization of the stat

31:00 Jeff McNeil

32:15 Bo Naylor

34:45 Matt Wallner

36:00 BlueWire

36:15 “Anti-Fragile” - what does it mean for baseball?

38:00 Velocity Bands for SP’s to predict injuries

44:00 Moving Averages - What are they, how do they apply in draft season?

48:00 Konnor Griffin

49:30 Underdog Strategies / Observations so far

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Elite high-stakes player John Pausma joins James Anderson to recap their NFBC $500 DC Auction, discussing what went right, what went wrong, how to handle massive closer inflation and much more!

 

2:35 Closer inflation

09:45 Who’s the Brewers closer

15:30 Discounted players

19:00 Multi-eligibility players

21:50 Overpays

25:00 Weak SP builds

32:20 Catchers

38:45 Scripting your build

43:00 When to nominate your targets

46:15 Dollar days

49:55 Brewers talk

53:20 More dollar days

55:15 Prospect talk

 

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Both Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie drafted in the LABR 15-team Mixed League draft Monday night, Jeff from the 11th spot and Fred from the 13th spot. They live-streamed the first 12 rounds - see who they drafted!

Full draft results are here: https://www.rtsports.com/labr-mixed-draft

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up the first weekend of Spring Training and discuss a number of interesting hitters currently being selected outside the Top 200 in drafts. The break down a numbers of Mets infielders including Jorge Polanco, Brett Baty and Marcus Semien and also take deep dives into Ramon Laureano, Mickey Moniak and Alec Bohm and many, many other mid to late round hitters.

 

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