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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Mastering the Middle Rounds

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The early rounds are for building out a reliable core, and the late rounds are for taking shots on high-upside sleepers. But what happens in between? Erik Halterman and Todd Zola attempt to answer that question in both general and specific terms, looking at overall strategies and particular players to target in rounds 8-12. --- 00:00 Intro 3:45 Headlines 16:35 General Middle-Round Strategy 31:45 Mid-Round Catchers 37:00 Mid-Round First Basemen 41:25 Mid-Round Second Basemen 47:00 Mid-Round Third Basemen 50:25 Mid-Round Shortstops 56:40 Mid-Round Outfielders 1:05:15 Mid-Round Starting Pitchers 1:11:10 Mid-Round Closers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So you've got your plan for the early rounds, and you know in the back half of the draft,

0:07.1

you've got a bunch of sleepers.

0:08.3

You're going to take some shots on.

0:09.5

But what are you supposed to do in between?

0:11.7

I've got Todd Zola on the line to talk about some difficult decisions in the middle rounds here on the RodeWire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:32.2

Thank you. the Rota Wire Fantasy Baseball Podcast. Welcome, everybody, to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Eric Hulksman here. And my guest, are you a guest or a co-host today?

0:40.2

Todd Zola, we are working through some of the regular Rotowire voices in January here

0:46.1

before we get the full schedule going in February once everybody is out of hibernation.

0:51.2

But Todd, I don't think you're hibernating at all.

0:53.6

You were just making a couple picks right before we started this show weren't you yeah I missed that song

0:59.0

dan an I miss that talk uh usually I'm about to start pitching with Clay after hearing that

1:05.0

song looking forward to uh hang with you for an hour or whatever it might be but i guess co-hosts whatever i

1:12.1

the pays the same yeah you were just telling me before the show you were making your what

1:18.1

round one and two picks at a draft champions league you're on the turn was it well who'd you end up

1:22.4

yeah i um i decided to join one i've done a couple 12s i thought it was was time. I did a 15. And I look up, I'm next to John Posma. All of Fame or John Posma. And then after that is Bubba from Bubba in the Bloom. As we were joking about, every draft is loaded between. That's what the NFPC is now yeah pick their team

1:44.9

in January only a certain type of person seems to be drafted yeah yeah yeah we all

1:51.8

time I mean there was a time I think there were ten of us in the industry that played

1:57.1

high stakes now you, every other person,

2:01.2

and that's nothing good or bad.

2:03.8

It's just, I think it's great that some of the industry members

2:06.4

are playing high stakes now,

2:07.7

but, you know, 20 years ago,

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