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New Year's Resolutions With Michael Govier

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman and guest Michael Govier share their fantasy baseball-related New Year's resolutions. --- 00:00 Intro 3:00 Gleyber Torres to Tigers 8:10 Corbin Burnes to D-Backs 13:15 Charlie Morton to Orioles 14:05 Hye-Seong Kim to Dodgers 19:00 Less league variety 22:40 Don’t wait too long on closers 25:40 Don’t sign this year’s Snell  29:50 Don’t chase the dragon 31:35: Drop players faster 34:15 More best ball 37:50 Enjoy more, worry less 39:30 Focus on WHIP 43:10 Let go of ties to players Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's a topic nobody has ever thought of doing this time of year.

0:05.2

New Year's resolutions, fantasy baseball style.

0:08.4

What are we doing this year?

0:09.4

What are we stopping doing this year?

0:11.0

What are we doing differently this year?

0:12.9

I've got Michael Govier on the line to discuss just that on the Road to Wire Fantasy

0:17.5

Baseball podcast.

0:32.3

Thank you. Road to Wire Fantasy Baseball Podcast. Hello and welcome, everybody, to the first 2025 episode of the rhodo wire fantasy baseball podcast eric

0:41.2

hulks been here excited to be back on the mic it should be me and james giving you a couple episodes a week

0:48.4

for the next few weeks before the full crew gets going and i've got a very special guest today, Michael Govier of the Palazzo podcast.

0:58.0

And Mike, I know we had to delay this by one day due to illness. So I assume your year is going

1:03.1

absolutely terribly so far. You've been sick for at least a full quarter of the year.

1:08.5

Yeah. Well, you know, I feel so much better now that when you're down in the dumps and then you flip it over and you feel refreshed, man, you appreciate it that much more. So I'm excited. I'm happy to be here. I'm ready to talk baseball. It's 2025. We have never done a show together, so I'm happy to be on board with you too, Eric. Let's party. Yeah, looking forward to it. We've got a fun one today, as mentioned in the intro. We've got Fantasy Baseball New Year's Resolutions. I'm sure nobody is thinking about that at the start of January. It's a real cutting edge stuff here, but we've got a good mix of stuff that we think we're going to try to do differently this year. And, you know, it's New Year's resolutions. Maybe we'll come back at the end of the show, Michael, and figure out how many of these we think we're actually going to follow through on. But are you optimistic? You think we're going to go 10 for 10? Every year, I think about what I can do better, what I did wrong, and really the last two years have really gone, they've not gone poorly.

2:04.3

It's really all context-based, and we'll discuss more of that as we get into it.

2:08.0

But I'm open to ideas, and there's any listeners out there, any viewers who want to jump in and have any ideas.

2:14.1

I'd love to hear from you as well.

2:15.5

So give me all the information I could possibly handle so that I can be paralyzed by it and make any ideas. I'd love to hear from you as well. So give me all the information I could possibly

2:18.2

handle so that I can be paralyzed by it and make no decisions at all. That sounds like an

2:23.7

excellent way to start the year. That's what we do in January, give you all the info. And then,

2:28.9

hey, you got February and March to sort it out and then figure out that it's all wrong come

2:33.4

April. We'll be getting to

2:35.0

those resolutions in a few minutes and as Mike said, feel free to drop yours in the chat and say

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