Grading the Biggest Moves of the Fantasy Offseason

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jeff Erickson and guest host Vlad Sedler discuss the big changes from the offseason, including Juan Soto to the Mets, the Kyle Tucker trade, Roki Sasaki signing with the Dodgers and more! --- 00:00 Grading the Biggest Moves of the Fantasy Offseason 00:30 Welcome to Vlad Sedler 01:30 Moves 01:42 Juan Soto signs with the Mets 05:50 Kyle Tucker traded to the Cubs 09:15 Garrett Crochet traded to the Red Sox 13:40 Fantrax 14:40 Corbin Burnes signs with the Diamondbacks 19:00 Devin Williams traded to the Yankees 21:45 Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates sign with the Dodgers; (also Teoscar re-signs with the Dodgers) 30:30 Willy Adames and Justin Verlander sign with the Giants 32:45 Anthony Santander and Max Scherzer sign with the Blue Jays (also Andres Gimenez) 36:25 Christian Walker signs with the Astros 37:30 Josh Naylor traded to the Diamondbacks 41:00 EDGE Boost 41:50 Cody Bellinger traded to the Yankees (plus Max Fried and Goldy signing with the Yanks) 45:20 Jake Burger traded to the Rangers (Lowe, Pederson, Langford) 48:45 Carlos Estevez to the Royals, Ryan Pressly to the Cubs, Jeff Hoffman to the Jays 51:00 Yusei Kikuchi to the Angels 52:00 Jonathan India / Brady Singer swap 55:45 Jurickson Profar to the Braves 58:20 Moves (Mostly) Yet To Happen 58:25 BlueWire 58:30 Jack Flaherty signs with the Tigers 1:01:35 Pete Alonso 1:03:30 Dylan Cease trade? 1:06:00 Nolan Arenado trade? 1:07:00 Alex Bregman 1:07:40 Other Noteworthy Changes 1:07:50 A’s to the Sacramento 1:09:35 Rays playing in Steinbrenner Field 1:12:10 O’s moving fences back in for LF --- EDGE Boost EDGE Boost is the financial platform for smart bettors and DFS players. What are the benefits of a dedicated EDGE Boost betting account? Earn up to 0.5% on every deposit Free to use, no minimum balances FDIC-insured accounts Unlimited withdraws back to card Lightning fast deposits and withdraws Sign up with promo code ROTOPOD today! Fantrax Sign up for Fantrax FREE today and you’ll be entered to win an Official MLB signed jersey from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Simply visit this link to sign up today. Hyperlink: https://www.fantrax.com/rotowire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:04.5	It is the new faces and new places episode.
0:08.1	And I've got Vlad Settler from FTTian Fantasy joining us right now.
0:12.1	Coming up all on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:15.0	Music Hey, y'all, welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:32.0	I'm Jeff Erickson here with Vlad Settler, aka Roto Gut, not Roto Gut, but roto gut on twitter and blue sky you can check them out
0:39.7	there uh it is brought to you by fan tracks and edge boost glad thank you so much for joining us
0:46.4	today thank you for having me jeff an absolute pleasure uh there's nothing more i like to do
0:52.2	at this time of year than to talk fantasy baseball and
0:55.8	to do it with you doing it for so many years. I'm very, very appreciative of being here right now.
1:03.8	And the thing is, folks, keep your thoughts out for our buddy, Scott Jensstad. His house was not burned
1:10.7	down in the Eaton fire,
1:11.6	but affected. He's still not in his house. He'll be back with us eventually, but Vlad graciously
1:17.6	agreed to join to kind of help us kick off. Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball Week. James Anderson
1:23.1	has been carrying the load for us all offseason. Eric Haltrowman has as well. We thank both those guys to catch up on those episodes if you haven't already. There's an awesome one with Phil Dese, so as a matter of fact, you guys should check out. But all of James' stuff is great. But we're going five days a week, six days a week even. I got Vlad tonight. We're going to do new faces, new places. Vlad, let's chop it up. Let's get right into it here. You know, it starts off, of course, with Juan Soto, the Juan Soto sweepstakes. Big, big news, the fact that he chose the Mets over other suitors, including the Yankees. Yeah, it's, uh, it's something. I mean, it's not too far of a trip for him i don't even know what his
2:02.1	uh home plans are maybe he's staying where he's living but uh yeah yeah moving back to the national
2:08.1	league uh is going to be there at the top of the lineup with uh with francisco lindore uh mark
2:14.5	vantos there backing him up hopefully a little bit of a breakout season for him.
2:18.5	I guess you could say he broke out last year.
2:20.1	But, I mean, it's pretty much, it's the same old thing with Juan Soto.
2:24.7	You're getting a legitimate first rounder.
2:27.4	You're getting somebody who, you know, maybe not hit the 40-plus home runs like he did last season.
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