Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and I've got my friend Mike Mager joining me today.

And Mike just completed a hell of an accomplishment.

He won the NFBC auction championship overall for the second year in a row

and kind of even more kind of fun and impressive is your partner mark winnaker finishes second

overall this year in the auction championship just a hell of an achievement i mean it's there's not as many people this year in the auction championship. Just a hell of an achievement.

I mean, there's not as many people that play in the auction championship as the main event,

but having competed in both, I can say with confidence the auction championship is a harder

competition and just really impressive stuff, Mike. So congrats and thanks for joining me.

Oh, thanks. My pleasure, James. I appreciate that.

So who were some of your key buys in the auction that led to this title? And maybe I know

you kind of had a strong push over the final few months. I don't know if there were any key fan pickups as well that played a big role.

Yeah, this team was very different than the team I had prior year.

Two years ago, my team got out to a really strong start, and I did really well at the draft. And this year, I did not have a particularly

great draft and it was a bit of a struggle until at least like halfway into the season.

I was looking at my team again last night. Four of my five top buys were really disappointments. I had

Tarek School Bowl for 34, and he was awesome. No complaints there, obviously. But then my next four

biggest buys were Yordan Alvarez, Michael Harris, Blake Snell, and O'Neill Cruz. None of them were particularly

strong for me, but fortunately I did have a lot of lower buys that turned out really well.

I did well at Catcher. I had Cal Raleigh and Will Smith, Yandi Diaz at first. And then from my better byes

were George Springer for five and Mikel Garcia and Trevor Story for three each. And they

definitely helped a lot. And Nathan Yivaldi was another big one for seven.

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