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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Catching Up in Saves

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Fred Zinke earlier this week proposed to me,

0:04.7

is it possible to load up on starting pitchers early,

0:09.2

wait on closers until the trade deadline comes and take advantage

0:13.3

of all the closer situations that open up

0:15.4

and then stack heavy relievers to catch up ground in closing?

0:18.9

We're going to talk about that coming up on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:35.4

Hey, everybody.

0:36.2

Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. We are brought to you by the Draft King's Pick Six app. Just use code RW Picks to get a free, get 50 free pick six credits as far as you, along with your deposit. Let's talk, Fred, about some baseball here.

0:55.6

Obviously, we are going to be talking about closers today.

0:58.9

And you propose the question.

1:00.4

I'll let you frame it and then we can talk about it.

1:03.4

Yeah.

1:03.7

So we were kind of messaging back and forth Sunday night as we were working on our bids.

1:10.5

And I mentioned that I feel like what's happened

1:14.0

this year happens every year, to varying degrees, but happens every year where there are a slew

1:20.1

of new closer options in August and in September, but especially in August. And everybody or a lot of

1:27.3

people are out of fab. so those options end up being

1:30.4

really cheap so if one save option becomes available in like May he's $400 and or $400, but I'm finding right now

1:40.3

lately you can get potential save sources for 10, 20, 30, maybe 50, which means you

1:48.7

could get three of them for 100 or something like that.

1:52.1

So if you just have a little bit of fab left, you can do a lot with your potential save

1:56.6

situation, which then I kind of branched off.

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