Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm your host James Anderson, and I'm joined tonight by my friend Phil Dousseau, who won the main event overall back in 2021, along with the auction championship in 2021, and a very successful high-stakes fantasy baseball player always love having

fill on during the offseason to kind of pick his brain about all things or

strategy maybe ask him a question or two about a player and I just want to let

everyone know that the top 50 rookies for 2026 fantasy baseball leagues

will be up on the site tomorrow.

I've got an article that I'm almost done with.

So be on the lookout for that Wednesday, January 28th.

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uh but phil uh thanks for hopping on the show man how you doing i'm good i'm good uh it's funny

every year you message me ask you when i want to come on uh and i say january because by that time

off prep but this year it's been different i I've been done way more drafted in past years.

I've been drafting for the past, it feels like two or three months at least.

So fully in draft mode right now, almost over it at this point, it seems,

compared to the past years where I was just getting started January.

Right.

That was my first question.

I feel like your process, at least from our conversations, I feel like this is sort of

you're kind of finally getting a good feel of how you're valuing everybody.

But I've noticed just from the NFBC lobby, I see a lot of contests where it's just Phil Dousseau in there,

waiting for 14 other lucky people to hop in.

So it seems like you're doing more early drafts than in past years.

And so, like, what's the reasoning behind that?

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