Hey everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by Sling.

Welcome to our new advertiser, Sling. Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky. We are here to

discuss all things fantasy baseball, of uh early observation we're going to talk

about some of the starting pitchers everybody's now almost everybody has had one turn through the

rotation by the time we've started this podcast almost everybody by the time we've finished this

podcast almost everybody will have made their first turn in the rotation today is fifth starter day

for some teams first starter for others and just some jumbled a mix of that all the way around. Fred, how are your fantasy teams doing so far? I think so far so good. I think the most important thing for anyone's fantasy team actually early in the season is just that your best players are healthy. So, you know, like slow start, whatever. we're, it's so early in the season. So don't have any Jackson Turyo, for example, which has been, you know, advantageous so far. But yeah, the teams actually are playing pretty well. Yeah, I think the two things in the first, say, like two weeks or so of the season, no big injuries. You're going to have an injury. You you know i have cody ponds who we'll talk about at some point here in a few minutes in a league or two but no big injuries and then i would say the other one is that you just don't bury your ratios in the first that's an annoying one if he's just have you know a couple a few ean seymors And uh you know one ean seymour sure a few e and

seymors and all of a sudden you're last and your ratios and i i've i've had that happen i

had that happen in labor i think the last couple years once it's just really hard and annoying

to climb out of can i interest you in an ean seymour and a matt sponson in the same roster

that was fun uh the interesting thing would be if you dropped both of those players today, would anyone pick them up? Well, I did drop Sphonson, so you can have at it, by the way. I don't think anyone would pick up either one of them right now in that league. I just, Seymour would get picked up if he gets back in the rotation.

Svanson would get picked up, obviously, if you got to save.

But right now, I think, you know what, I noticed, we'll go off on our first tangent here,

excuse me, there's a huge roster crunch in fantasy right now. There are so many unsettled closer situations that most of us are trying to hang on to one or two

Sponson types, like one or two and a guy from the athletics, a guy from the nationals, right, a guy from the Cardinals.

Like most of us are trying to hang on to one or two of these players and then you throw in an injury and then next thing, you know, you know what I mean? Your bench gets really small. I assume you don't have our slots too if we're talking NFBC style. But this is definitely a time of the year where there are more players that you want to pick up than than players that you're willing to drop. That's how I was limited on Sunday. I listened to your podcast with Scott. I can't remember where she specifically talked about that much, but that's where I was really limited on Sunday is there in a lot of leagues there were like five guys I wanted to pick up, but only one or two that I was willing to drop. And that does it later in the year, it's not quite like that I find. You know, one of the things I'm actually trying to do this year is be a little bit more proactive and airing on the side of dropping and not preventing myself from picking guys up. Because, you know, I think you got to take your shots here early on. You get, especially with closers. I know it's so many teams that don't have two closers, so many where i don't have two closers you know so and it's pitching almost universally where i'm making all my pickups

right now is pitching there there's an occasional batter or two where i like oh he's playing more than

i thought but in most of my leagues i focused on getting everyday players in those slots to begin with

so unless i have injuries there i'm not really trying to pick up too many hitters. Almost all my pickups this week were all, we're pitchers. But I am, I'm the notion there that, okay, I'm going to make mistakes anyhow. Why not keep churning and trying to find is that these are my bottom roster spots anyhow. I didn't spend a lot of Matt Swanson. I didn't spend a lot on Ian Seymour.

Well,

a little bit of Seymour in one league in A.L. Tout wars. I held on to him in Tout. And Seymour actually started the ninth inning last night, too, against the Brewers on Monday night. They just did the lefty-righty thing, though. So Kevin Kelly got the one-out save. thanks a lot there but I you know that that's the sort of thing though that you're

dealing with and I don't think and I didn't have seem more active in that league either. So but it's fine because I wanted to take a shot on Carmen Vigenski. I wanted to take a shot on, uh, you know, on, you know, Kobe, uh, on on on, on Sands or a shot on, uh, hand chalk. You know, these are the pictures I wanted to take shots on. So I was more willing to kind of say, okay, well, if it's a drop, if it's a mistake to drop Sonson, I can always try to pick them back up anyhow. You don't like to do it, the boot and reboot, but sometimes you have to. It's better than not getting anything, I think, and then holding that guy that you don't want anyhow. Like Spencer Arrogati, no problem. Gone. He got sent down. No problem. But a guy like Sponson, even then I'm kind of like, yeah, I can always get him back again. Yeah, I found, yeah, part of my dilemma was actually just trying to decide how many hitters,

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