Changes Behind the Plate with Mike Couillard
RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast
dj@rotowire.com
4.6 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No position has gone through more upheaval this season than the catcher position. |
| 0:07.4 | Which of the rising young catchers will make interesting targets next year? |
| 0:11.8 | Which of the falling older guys are still interesting bets? |
| 0:15.4 | I've got Mike Coolard of Razball and Rodewire here on the line to discuss everything that goes on behind the plate |
| 0:21.6 | here on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello and welcome, everybody, to the Thursday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball |
| 0:36.3 | podcast brought to you by Chalk Board. |
| 0:38.6 | Eric Ultraman here, joined by Mike Koolard of Rotoire and Razball, host of the Cards and Categories |
| 0:46.1 | podcast. Mike is both a White Sox and a Cardinals fan. We'll have a million catchers from both of those |
| 0:55.0 | organizations to talk about later basically just everything but the Cubs right yeah yeah |
| 1:00.8 | I love all baseball yeah I mean I only live five miles away from Wrigley but I just |
| 1:06.2 | never gotten down to viving with the Cubs so from from Central Illinois. And when I moved up to Chicago from |
| 1:12.5 | Central Illinois, the White Sox were the only choice after a lifetime of making sure that I was |
| 1:19.7 | cheering for the cards and the Cubs. So couldn't flip, right? Well, I'm glad you're still talking |
| 1:25.6 | baseball at this point of the year, despite having those two teams being the two you follow. I guess that's what fantasy baseball is for. But we've got a busy show today. We're going to talk about the changing of the guard at the catcher position. We've got a whole bunch of rising catchers, also some falling catchers to talk about. But as always, want to start with the headlines, which includes |
| 1:46.9 | big news that dropped just about two hours ago. Clayton Kershaw has announced his retirement. |
| 1:53.5 | He will be done after this season. He'll be making, believe, one more start. Maybe it's a two more |
| 1:59.7 | starts, one more home Dodger Stadium start, |
| 2:02.6 | and then who knows what we get out of him in the playoffs. |
| 2:05.9 | But this is the end of the line for Clayton Kershaw. |
| 2:08.9 | No real fantasy implications for this one. |
| 2:11.8 | But we got to talk about it because this might be the last time |
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