10 Ways to Use Fantasy Baseball Projections to Win!
RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by FanTracks. |
| 0:11.7 | Jeff Erickson here, and I'm joined today by Ariel Cohen, the proprietor of the world |
| 0:17.4 | famous ATC projections, fantastic fantasy baseball player, multiple time Tau Wars head-to-head champion. And he joins us right now. Ariel, thank you so much for joining us. Love having you on the show. Love doing, just talking ball with you. Yeah, likewise. Great to talk to you again, Jeff. And I hope you all enjoy the Super Bowl. Super Bowl 60. I can't believe that. Yeah, I know. I know. It's, hello, it's still older than me. Every year it's still older than me. But yeah, it is pretty crazy. Just barely. Let's talk a lot about fancy baseball. We're going to jump in our theme of today is how to use projections to win your fancy baseball league. Obviously, you're my guy when it comes to, you know, talking projections. |
| 0:57.6 | You run ATC. |
| 0:59.8 | You, you know, dived into the process of knowing how projections work, how to use them and all that. |
| 1:06.8 | So looking forward to doing that today. |
| 1:08.6 | Before we do that, got some big news. |
| 1:10.9 | Framber Valdez was the last major free agent signing with the Detroit Tigers. |
| 1:15.1 | Three years, over $100 million, over $35 million per year. |
| 1:18.9 | Your reaction? |
| 1:20.7 | Well, he was definitely the top draw of the market and he got paid. |
| 1:24.6 | I like the location that he's in. |
| 1:26.7 | I think Detroit is a great spot and he's got a fantastic one-two punch the tigers have. I like the location that he's in. I think Detroit is a great spot. |
| 1:28.2 | And he's got a fantastic one-two punch the Tigers have, I should say, with Framber and Terry Schuvel. |
| 1:34.8 | No, for fantasy value, if you had drafted previously like I did and gotten some shares of Framber, I think the shares only go up. |
| 1:43.3 | His price goes up and he's well worth it. |
| 1:45.4 | He is a workhorse. |
| 1:47.1 | He has one of the top innings, maybe number one or two over the last four years, |
| 1:53.6 | 170 innings plus in each of the last four years, a couple of 200-inning ones, |
| 1:58.8 | strikes out a ton, great control. control I mean this is a fantastic fantasy |
| 2:03.4 | pitcher that always goes under the radar to be honest yeah because he's not a huge strikeout |
| 2:08.0 | guy right and so a lot of times all of our dialogue is pointed towards the the overall |
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