Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and I am on a little mini vacation after that trade deadline, which was just crazy.

But my guest today, the great Mike Mager, this is not going to feel like work at all to me because Mike is absolutely one of the best players out there.

And Mike, I've mentioned this on prior episodes.

I really have not been following the NFBC overall standings, but I did just take a brief look and see where you were in some of the

overalls. And you're doing quite well. You're making a valiant attempt at going back to back

in the NFBC auction championship as the overall winner, which you were last year and you're leading that

competition again and you're you got a team up in the top 25, I think, in the main event.

You got a top 50 online championship team.

Probably doing great in some other leagues too.

So I really appreciate to join me, man.

How are you doing?

Hey, I'm doing great.

Thanks for that wonderful intro.

Great to be on with you. Love the pod and

happy to talk baseball. Yeah, me too. And, you know, we are both participants in the too early

meatball draft that Rob DiPi Pietro puts on every year. And I thought first,

since we're going to be doing that again, our one for 2026, the first 11 rounds in exactly

two weeks. And I wanted to look back at the two early draft from 2025 briefly and look at the best pick in each of

those first 11 rounds and sort of see where the kind of common themes are there.

And that will kind of lead us into to the rest of our talk.

And Mike, in the very first round of last year's 2025, too early meatball draft,

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