The MLB draft starts on Sunday.

Who better to talk about it with than Johnny Vanisio?

You catch him on Breaking Bet, catch them on Rotowire, follow them on Twitter at underscore Johnny VTV.

I'll come up next on the Rot Roto Wire fantasy baseball podcast. Jeff Erickson here. I'm here with Johnny Vanesia, and he does some work for us at R us at Rotowire does a lot of his own work.

He does breaking bet as well.

Johnny, the draft is coming up.

We're watching Paul Skeens.

He's working on something special right now against the Brewers.

This is why we watch college baseball, why we care about this, seeing these guys join the program here.

Great to be joined you, Jeff. Yeah, absolutely. You know, Dylan Cruz said if you great to be joined you jeff yeah absolutely you know dylan

cruz said if you want to be a great player and get to the MLB then you got to go to college what i

say is if you want to be a great MLB handicapper or fantasy expert you got to watch the college game

and you know we've just seen so much talent in the last few years come from the college side and we got guys going right now paul skein's doing something pretty incredible at the moment and you know he's just he's just one of the few guys that are really at this college level that are unbelievable yeah absolutely uh absolutely and last year an incredible class, no doubt about it there. I think that's one of the things is like you see that special class come in. You get so pumped. I'm in a score sheet league where we draft guys at our supplemental draft in June. Can't wait to get a taste of that. I wrote to our staff keeper league. I've got another one called the XFL where we can draft college players when they're still in college. Hell, I could draft them in high school and junior high if I wanted to. Or players in Japan. It's good to know these guys, get them before they become expensive. Yeah, I mean, you know, that's the thing. It's like buying Microsoft in the 80s. I want to know these guys that are going to be great before everybody else knows about them.

And, you know, even somebody like, we're talking about him, even somebody like him.

You know, nobody really in the mainstream knew about him until the second half of April last year.

So, you know, this is a guy that was generally unknown to anybody not following college baseball,

you know, in 2022 or even the beginning of 23 before his LSA days really took hold.

And, you know, he was flying under the radar just a little bit to the mainstream community

because, you know, college baseball is not that well known.

But then, you know, once he's got out, then people start locking in. But, you know, this is just something that is,

it's a must if you want to be, you know, at the top of the space in fantasy or betting when it comes

to baseball. Yeah, literally flying with the Air Force there too. So, you know, that's part of it

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