We are now more than two weeks into the 2025 fantasy baseball season, which means that's more than enough time to have conclusive proof on who's good, who's bad.

No, I don't think it is, but we're still going to give you 20 pickup recommendations this week anyway here on the Roadoto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Hello and welcome everybody to the Saturday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by Vivid Seats.

Eric Halterman here with Ryan Boyer for another Waverwire episode.

And Ryan, I think it is still probably the most difficult time of year.

I said this somewhat last week where, you know, all the pickups just based on, well, this guy made the team, this guy made the rotation, this guy's the closer, those

tend to get used up in the first period or two, and we're still too soon to have most of the

stats reach their stabilization points where we can say anything with real confidence. Yet we do still have to pick up

players like, you know, Kyron Paris before everybody else does after they hit three more homers the

next day. So tough time of year. How do you approach things in mid-April? Yeah, with this

limited amount of information available, it's, as you mentioned, very, very difficult evaluation time of the year.

I think you have to dig deep on the expected stats kind of stuff to see if their starts are sustainable.

Your guys that you spend a higher traffic on, way too early to give up on them.

It's April 12th.

You always want to get off to a great start, especially if you're playing like an NFBC league

where there's an overall prize because you really can't afford to fall back too

far in those leagues. It's really difficult to make up ground. But I think for the most part,

you still should be mostly sticking to your pre-draft evaluations in general. They're exceptions.

If a guy's velocities down, a pitcher's velocity is down, things like that.

Injuries, of course, play a big part.

But it's too early to make any sweeping generalizations other than with the torpedo bats,

of course.

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