Catching Up in Saves

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4.6 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Can you optimize the closer turnover around the trade deadline by de-emphasizing saves at the draft table and in early FAAB bidding? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson explore the potential and the details of such a strategy, while identifying bullpen situations currently in flux. --- 00:00 - Fred Pod 8-20 00:40 - New Closer Opportunities Opening Up 02:15 - Have to hold FAAB back 03:20 - Not many early options 05:10 - More single league category, less overall 07:40 - Orioles bullpen 09:45 - Giants bullpen 11:25 - Cubs bullpen 13:50 - Rays bullpen 16:30 - Diamondbacks bullpen 19:00 - Dodgers bullpen 21:30 - Angels bullpen 23:00 - Ignore bad teams? 25:00 - Ignore true committees? 27:00 - Royals bullpen 28:30 - Tigers bullpen 32:00 - Max Muncy back, Dodgers lineup lengthened 36:00 - Brewers running away 37:10 - Grant Holmes 37:30 - Will there be a .600 team this year? 38:15 - Austin Riley out 41:30 - Disappointing Cardinals --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	Fred Zinky earlier this week proposed to me.
0:34.8	Is it possible to load up on starting pitchers early, wait on closers until
0:40.6	the trade deadline comes and take advantage of all the closer situations that open up and then
0:46.1	stack heavy relievers to match up ground in the closing? We're going to talk about that coming
0:50.5	up on the Rottowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
1:05.3	Thank you. coming up on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
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1:21.7	deposit. Let's talk, Fred, about some baseball here. Obviously, we are going to be talking about closers today.
1:28.9	And you propose the question. I'll let you frame it. And then we can talk about it.
1:33.4	Yeah. So we were we were kind of messaging back and forth Sunday night as we were working on our bids.
1:40.5	And I mentioned that I feel like what's happened this year happens every year, to varying degrees,
1:47.5	but happens every year where there are a slew of new closer options in August and in September,
1:53.7	but especially in August.
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