We are halfway through the 2025 MLB season, but we've still got premium prospects getting called up and a whole lot more players who could help your fantasy team.

We'll give you our favorites here on the Rota Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast,

Eric Hulterman and Ryan Boyer here together again

going over our top waiver wire pickups of the week. And Ryan, we are at the halfway point of the

season. We're probably more than halfway through most people's fab budgets, I would imagine.

How do you tend to manage your fab over the course of the season?

Do you think you'd like to be, what, about three quarters of the way through by now?

Because, of course, the guys you add in early April, you get them for five and a half months,

whereas the guys you're adding now, just about three months.

What sort of remaining fab budget would make you feel like you've managed it

right up to this point? Yeah, I'm generally a spend a ton of fab early on kind of fantasy player,

usually, even if it can bore on reckless spending at times, just because of the

fact that you mentioned, it's just you can make so much more of a difference if you have that

player for six months, five months, than two months, and you just don't know what's going to be

available. You don't know what's going to be available.

You don't know exactly what you're necessarily what your strengths and weaknesses are very early on in the season, but it's just too, it's too tempting to have a potential difference maker for five, six months to not, not blow a lot of your FAB budget early on. But yeah, I mean, this stage of the season, late June, I think you're probably right that

I feel like you've probably done it wrong if you have more than like a quarter of your

fab budget left.

If you're doing well and you have more than like a quarter of your bad budget left. If you're doing well and you have more than that left, then kudos, things have worked out well for you. But I think generally,

you probably want to have about 75%ish spit by now. Yeah, in the TGFBI League, where you and I are together, I see you're down to

187 out of a $1,000 budget. I'm at 287, so I guess I'm doing it wrong by your metric. I have a

little bit more than three quarters. I'd say a quarter to a third left is generally where I'd

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