it is not even new year's day quite yet but there have already been almost 250 drafts over at nfbc.com

that's enough time for players to rise up the draft board either due to real reasons like signings,

trades and injury news, but also due to nothing but buzzed in this year's early

draft.

Hello and welcome everybody to this New Year's Eve edition of the Road to Wire

Fantasy Baseball podcast. Eric Haltrowman here, joined today by Jake Hallisker. Should we say

erstwhile host of the high-stakes-seat fantasy baseball podcast, occasional host. Thanks for

joining me, Jake, all part of my program to have you talk to me more than you talk to Dave

McDonald over on your other show. At least on air, yeah, it's been that way lately.

If by occasionally, you could say like once every couple years, that's occasionally.

Well, I think I can fit you in more often than that. It's great to have you here today.

Are you excited? Yeah, exactly. Are you excited to turn the page on 2025 from a fantasy baseball perspective,

or was this a good year that you'll be remembering fondly?

I wish I could say the latter.

25 was probably my worst year since, oh, 17.

This is the first year I've lost more than a few hundred bucks in fantasy so last

year was pretty pretty rough for me coming in uh just out of the money in both my Vegas auctions

was was not fun um so yeah i'm eager to turn the page uh anytime you invest thousands of dollars and don't at least bring home what you started with,

it's a year you want to forget.

And I have been.

I started drafting in August already.

Yeah, well, that's why I have you on today.

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