Welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by Underdog Fantasy and Fantrex.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and this week's guest, or today's guest, is Rob Silver,

2016 NFBC main event overall winner, co-host of the Launch Angle podcast.

Rob is my third former main event winner of the offseason to grace me with his presence. So really appreciate that. Rob, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. I was excited to do this, James. We had a lot of fun last year. So hopefully we'll

live up to last year's pod. Yeah, yeah, that was a lot of fun last year.

And I wanted to sort of start with starting pitching kind of near the top in general,

just because I just kind of wanted to see where the conversation might go because one of your

best calls from last year's pod was kind of equating Justin Verlander to Max Scherzer.

And if you follow Drabb's advice on that one, you've got SP1 in the six round or whatever.

So really good, really good stuff.

The guy who I keep focusing on, at least in the past few weeks,

has been Carlos Rodan, just because I think it's interesting to me how the market seems to

still be pretty skeptical on him relative to recent track record and projections. And I look at a lot

of the starting pitchers going in the top 15, and I don't see a case for why Rodon is more

risky than about half of them. And if every projection is saying this guy is a top three starting

pitcher, and he's still got the

ninth ADP and recent DCs among starting pitchers.

I'm just kind of curious on your take as to, you know, why should we be still concerned about

Rodon's durability, especially relative to some of these other guys?

I mean, what's the case for not taking Rodon as a top of the pitcher? You know, James, when you send me the outline and I saw the Rodon

section, I cursed under my breath because I don't lie on podcasts. I would never lie just because

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