You can't win your draft in the first few rounds, but you can lose it.

Is that true?

We're going to figure out how the best way to start your fantasy baseball draft is with Jenny Butler in a few minutes here on RodeWire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Hello and welcome, everybody, to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast,

Eric Alterman here with my guest, Jenny Butler of FTN Fantasy. We'll

be talking about the very start of your fantasy draft, the first three rounds, the things to be

thinking about during that part of the draft to set you up for the rest of the draft and the rest

of the season. That's what we got on the menu for today.

Jenny, how's your offseason been going? Are you ready for this big topic we got here?

I think I'm ready as I'm ever going to be. I haven't done as much drafting this off season as I

usually do. I decided to take my time a little bit and sort of wait and get fully, fully ready before I start going.

So this has been a really good exercise for me to start thinking about that stuff.

Yeah, we're going to be talking about some general points.

You know, should you be avoiding all risks in the early rounds?

Do you need to get an ace?

Should you be open to pocket aces?

Should you avoid closers, that sort of thing. We'll be talking about some

specific builds that look interesting to us to start our teams. But before we get to that, as always,

we want to talk about some of the headlines. It's been a bit of a slower news week, I would say,

although we're about to get some exciting news. It seems like. Roki Sasaki, the gem of

the international free agent market, even though he's a well-established professional over in

Japan, is down to, it seems, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. According to

rumors, it seems like the San Diego

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