Welcome to the Rotowire Prospect podcast brought to you by Sling. I'm your host James Anderson,

and today got a very fun episode. I got president of Rotowire Peter Shanky joining me today.

And for those of you who listen to the Sirius XM Farm Friday show, you may have heard Eric

Halterman and I do this in the past.

It's called a stash draft. And basically what we're going to do is go through injured players

who are available in at least 25% of RodeWire Online Championships, so 12am mixed leagues, big leaguers who are on the IL,

and then prospects who are at AAA, maybe even at AA, and Pete and I are going to go back and forth

drafting these players based on how much we'd want to be stashing them in a redraft league.

So pretty self-explanatory.

Pete, welcome to the show.

Thanks for joining me.

You have the first pick.

Well, yeah, a couple things about that.

First of all, your top 100 rookies list was just invaluable for drafting, right?

So I use that a lot.

And already in the preseason here, or in the early season, excuse me, it's, you know, it's doing pretty well. Sal Stewart is there number three guy on that list. I think he's, what, hitting 750 so far? I mean, I know it's the first week, but it's looking like, you know, as well as a pick and look after, you know, less than a week.

And you had McGonigle number five and Weatherhole number four.

I mean, all these are good.

So a lot of it for me is just like, you know, resetting that list after all the cuts were made and early in the preseason to figure out which of these guys you want to stash

versus obviously major leaguers who are going to come back. And so I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but you said you're basing this on kind of a 12-team, Rotoire online championship. Is that kind of the format that we're looking at? Yeah, yeah, just, yeah, those types of leagues where these types of players might be available. Obviously, you know, the player who we take first here probably isn't available in any of these,

but just to kind of give people sort of a perspective of whether their stash still makes sense at this point.

And so my philosophy, you tell me if you'd be doing it differently,

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