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Rookie and Closer FAAB / Battle in the AL West

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss the wild battle brewing in the AL West, preview Week 23 and recap all the FAAB action, including some new closers and a number of rookie call-ups. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire If a comprehensive solution is what you need from your supplement routine, then try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase. Go to drinkAG1.com/ROTO. That’s drinkAG1.com/ROTO. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sunday night, Jeff's back.

0:03.2

All is good in the world.

0:04.2

We'll be talking a lot of baseball.

0:05.1

Coming up next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:42.3

Happy Sunday evening, everybody. Welcome to the RodeWire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I am Scott Jensda. Join again, as usual, by Jeff Erickson. If you can please rate and review the podcast. We do greatly appreciate that. Helps people find us. Helps people listen to us all year. And hopefully I got some good information out of that. Please leave a positive and uh review with a bunch of stars that would be fantastic jeff it's been a couple weeks uh we thank brian slack for filling in last week that was a it was a fun podcast always to have

0:46.0

brian on how is everything with you hectic very hectic but really awesome too uh had a kid go off

0:53.5

to college i had a golf trip in there i had a trip

0:56.2

to Vegas to do some radio shows from radio row also you work you work in this world in football and

1:01.5

baseball are like converging at once that must this must be like a just crazy few weeks for you

1:04.9

oh absolutely absolutely i'm still on the i'm not coaching anymore but i'm still on the board at a ySO

1:10.0

and getting everybody the starting line has been, you know, time involved as well. So, uh, yeah, it's been, it's been a whirlwind. Uh, it still is, but it's great. It's great. I have a good life. Kids start school yet or your, your high school kids start school yet? They both start classes tomorrow. One at LMU, one at one at mayfield high school does the does the younger one feel like she's queen of the house now

1:31.8

the old ones out uh she she just enjoying full attention there's no doubt but she misses her sister too

1:37.2

she misses all right that's good at least yeah uh so jeff the uh if we'd spoken a few months ago

1:43.1

we would never have considered the al west to be one of the better divisions of baseball.

1:47.1

Three of the top four teams in the AL, went by run differential in the AL, three of the top six teams in baseball.

1:54.0

You take the Braves and the Dodgers in the NL, you take the Rays in the AL East, and then you've got the three teams in the AL West are all top six

2:01.3

and run differential. The Mariners, the Rangers, the Astros, all separated with one game.

2:05.1

Best division of baseball right now, Jeff, in terms of like watchability and fun, three teams

2:09.3

than one game each other. It's really, really fun. It is. They're not all like each other, though.

2:14.8

They're all kind of like in different phases of strength

2:18.0

and weaknesses right now uh in particular the rangers are faltering badly um you know the rays i mean

2:24.3

they they have a bad news item happened to them every single day it feels like uh and yet here

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