who's winning the labor fantasy leagues expert leagues who is doing well for the

o's and for the gnats and we get the news of the day that and a whole lot more how

should we use otani in expert leagues we'll talk about that and all those on the fancy

baseball podcast with steve gardner coming up next Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Rottelwire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Jeff Erickson here with USA Today, Steve Gardner.

Steve is also the head honcho for the League of Alternative Baseball Reality Expert Leagues, Labor, as we like to call him. And he's just an all-around fine guy. Good golfer, good taste in music. Steve, what's going on? How are you doing? I'm doing great, Jeff. And thanks for invite me on a podcast day like like you know haven't been talking about baseball

for a while on these sorts of things so it's going to get back in the swing of things and and chat with

you too well and I love I cherish the baseball podcast because you know we're at the point in the season

now where serious XM we're doing more football than baseball talk.

So I still get my baseball fix here this way, which I love.

So happy to do it.

You're beating the heck out of us in mixed labor, the February draft.

What's the secret to your success this year?

Well, I think a lot of luck has been involved in it. But just, you know,

drafting well, there's some guys that I liked. I mean, the fact that Pete Alonzo has been very good,

J.T. Real Moodo has been very good. You know, it's one of those, I don't know, my leagues are up and down, and I think one of the things that I've, in looking at all of my leagues, I went heavier on offense than I did on pitching.

And the teams that aren't doing well are the ones where that pitching just has not come through for me.

So this was a league where everything sort of seemed to come together on offense,

and I've been able to fudge the pitching as best I can.

Yeah, it's funny you say that because I'm starting to go through like kind of an exam of my

teams.

It's not a mid-mortem, not a post-mortem.

Right.

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