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We're talking 2026 draft fades, all coming up next in the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball

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If you can please rate and review the podcast, also helps us out a lot as well there. Jeff, I guess I should say it's Jeff Erickson here. I'm Scott Jensen. As always on Saturday nights. Jeff, how's everything with you? Doing well. Busy, busy, busy weekend, but good weekend. Last time before I start my travels, Tell Wars next weekend. Got, you know, obviously the main event in two weekends.

I've got... weekend, but good weekend. Last time before I start my travels, Tout Wars next weekend, got,

uh, you know, obviously the main event in two weekends. I've got our staff keeper league, got my home leagues. It, it's, you're going to see a flurry of draft boards. They've already been going, but it's even going to accelerate. It is. It's, uh, it's fully here. I need to, I need to finalize some stuff and get a little bit of a little more draft prep going, but I'm starting to get there a little bit.

So it's a to be fun. Yeah, we get Vegas and what like 10, 11 days, something like that. Yeah, I know. I know. Hotel is booked. Excite for that. Nice. Yeah, very excited. I'm going to be playing. If we, we fill this last auction championship, I'm going to be playing in my first NFBC auction championship. Oh, beautiful. Yeah. So, yeah, very excited about that, too. Are you, does that be Friday in Vegas? The Friday, 4 p.m. Vegas time, yes. Beautiful. That's awesome. Cool. Well, we're going to talk about, we're doing 2026 fades today. That's one of my favorite topics. It's one of my favorite podcasts to do. But just a few other things to get to before on the front half of the show here. I want to talk to you real quick about kind of the closer market in 2020. I don't know. Have you seen the, have you seen the draft word from the first main event event i not yet no uh i heard i heard about

spencer strider going early that's about the only thing i've seen so far well i'm glad you haven't yet

because i want to ask you a question uh quiz first three rounds first 45 picks 15 team draft we're

talking here how many closers went in the top 45 five or six eight okay Eight. Okay. Here we go. I was, I was surprised

too. Yeah, it was, uh, so the usual five. It's the, the Miller Diaz, Kate Smith,

uh, Munoz and Yohan Duran, uh, eroldus Chapman 311, David Bednar, 312, Devin Williams,

314. I can see it.

Yeah, I've landed on Chapman a couple times in the early fourth.

So I'm not that far off.

And it doesn't surprise me when we get a little main event in inflation, especially because the back end of the closer pool remains awful.

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