we expect stolen bases to be up in baseball with the new rules but where are we going to find

them i'm going to talk with shelley verges straight from rotel world and nbcc sports edge we'll

talk about where to find those stolen bases here on the rotel wire fancy baseball podcast Welcome everybody, the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by the good folks at Underdog and FanTracks.

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Jeff Erickson here with Shelley Verkstrait from Roto World. Shelly, welcome to the podcast. How are you? I'm doing fine. How are you doing today? I'm good. I'm talking baseball. I'm watching baseball. Watching golf, college basketball. It's crazy. It's so many awesome things going on right now. Yeah, yeah. It really is. I mean, my, my phone has just been blowing up with

all of like the world baseball classic news blurbs and everything. It's, it's just a really fun time

right now. Two huge upsets last night. The Korea losing to Australia, I could not believe that.

Oh, 100%. Yeah. I mean, I was watching as I was supposed to be working today.

And yeah, I was like really surprised that, you know, Australia was able to pull it out.

Yeah, exactly. And then Italy beat Cuba pretty big as well. Big for that. Big for Mike Piazza and his managerial debut in the WBC.

They had a fun prospect, Sal Frey, like have a couple of big contributions there. Brewer's prospect, a big stolen base and extra innings. So I like seeing him because I think we'll probably see some of him this year. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Okay, the news item of the day. Unfortunately, we have to start off with that is Carlos Rodon. forearm tightness. It's going to miss at least a month or 90. You're going to have a throw for seven to ten days? This is awful news. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it really was. I mean, he came off like a career year with the Giants and signed like a big time contract with the Yankees. And I was like really

happy for him because he dealt with injuries his entire time when he was with the White Sox. And then

today like the big whammy, like I mean, actually like a lot of Yankees. It was just like a whole

list of, you know, injured players. But yeah, this is this is this is huge. I'm probably going to be staying away from him for any of the upcoming drafts. Yeah, I wonder how much his ADP collapses. I mean, he was got almost a riser sometimes that we were seeing him sometimes going the top 25 or so. I think that was kind of his peak. But, you know, late second, early third and a 15 teamer.

Where do you go in Tell Wars? Do you remember?

I don't, but I can do a little quick search here. He went 51st overall. Okay, so that's pretty early still. and you know there's that's in that ace here is i've found that a lot of aces have been pushed down a little bit and, you know, you know, sometimes not even in the first round on a 15 team. I know that was the case in mixed labor. I wonder as we get deeper in the draft season, and if you start to see some of these guys climb up a little bit, but I've been kind of hesitant to go early with aces. Yeah. Yeah, actually, I've been trying to do the opposite because I keep hearing, you know,

everyone's like, oh, you can wait, you can wait, you can wait.

I'm just like, well, if y'all don't wait, I'll just, I'll just come in and try to get

all the Aces.

Luckily, so far, I have not had a unfortunate look of drafting rodon.

But as we know, you know, all two skirts.

So I probably have a few injured player in my team right now.

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