How many starters should you take in the first five rounds of your draft? How many closers? How much power? How much average? How much speed? How much risk? I've got Adam How on the line to answer all those questions and more here on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

Hello and welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by fan tracks.

Eric Haltman here, joined today by Adam Howe, co-host of the On the Wire podcast at Pitcher List, and more importantly, for the purposes of today's show,

somebody who has drafted in two different leagues with me in the last couple weeks.

Adam is a member of Glarf, which we drafted, what, a week and a half ago, something like that,

and he's also in my TGFBI League, which is currently in about the ninth round.

Actually, he just made his pick in the 10th round there.

Adam, how's it going?

Have you won all your drafts other than those two?

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, right?

Yeah, we talked, everybody always jokes about it.

Like, you always look at, especially on the NFBC platform, platform you see the rankings the grades that you get after the draft and i am glad to say i have yet to get

an a plus ranking um so i'm really that's my target is i'm trying to stay away from the A plus ranking

of the draft gods.

And I have not yet hit that mark.

So we'll see when TGFBI closes up.

We'll see what they think of that.

Yeah, very exciting time of year with a million TGFPI draft boards all over the Twitter feeds these days.

We today will be taking a look at what happened in the first five rounds in our two leagues together. These are two leagues full of people who should know what they're doing as far as we can tell. So presumably everybody went into these drafts with some sort of plan or at least was able to adjust on the fly in an intentional way. And we're going to take a look at these examples and figure out what sort of start to the draft

really makes us feel good for the rest of the 30 rounds.

But as always, we want to start with some recent headlines.

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