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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Closers on Shaky Ground!

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Clay Link and Todd Zola discuss closers on thin ice, including the Reds' Alexis Diaz, ahead of a huge weekend of fantasy baseball drafts.

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0:00.0

Heading into a big weekend of drafts, there are a number of closers on thin ice.

0:06.7

We'll talk about them all here on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:26.4

Welcome to the Rotow Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:28.1

We were brought to you by FanTracks.

0:34.0

I'm Clay Link of RotoWire here with Todd Zola, FSWA, FSWA, Hall of Famer,

0:37.0

having some camera difficulties today.

0:56.2

But you are with us, right, Todd? I, uh, you tell me, do you hear me? Yeah, I got you. Yeah, it's, it's playing player picture and picture, and I can't, I can't get it to get off a picture and picture. Well, we'll talk. I'll work on it. I got a secondary behind me. We'll figure this out. People know what I look like. They don't really need to see me.

1:02.5

I should just turn my camera off to, just for the benefit of the listeners.

1:04.4

But no, we appreciate you being with us.

1:07.1

Can we overlay a picture like George Clooney or something?

1:09.8

Oh, yeah, we could do that.

1:11.9

Maybe for both of us.

1:15.1

Just get some hunks, some certified hunks on the camera.

1:17.7

But let's get right into it, Todd.

1:21.2

No time to waste here ahead of this huge weekend of drafts.

1:29.7

A number of closer situation is still unsettled and more being added to the list every day. I have about, I don't know,

1:34.5

let's see here, about a third of the teams listed here. We'll touch on all these guys and all the secondary alternatives to closing games. You got to start with my Reds because Alexis Diaz,

1:46.7

you know, he's been the closer for them for a while,

1:51.4

but it seems like with Terry Francona coming in, nothing's assured. He's not just going to say,

1:56.8

oh, you've been the closer recent years. Here you go. Here's the job. I think he's making these guys earn it, and Diaz is having some trouble.

2:05.6

Francona said that Diaz has got a lock in here before Diaz pitching a minor league game Tuesday.

2:07.3

Do you think maybe we could see somebody else pitch the ninth for the Reds in the first

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