Welcome to the Rotoire Prospect podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson.

And we've got another fun Highlander Keeper episode to kind of scratch that dynasty

itch in between MLB draft episodes here.

Jesse Roach from baseball prospectus is back with me.

And Jesse, this week we're going to be talking about the underdog keeper selections

that were made in the Highlander Dynasty Invitational.

You can check out the episode from about a month ago that was on the fan favorite selections.

But for people who didn't hear that episode or maybe just want to kind of refresher,

do you want to kind of go through what the underdog keeper all entails, like where these

players had to have been selected from and how long they can be kept? Sure. It's good to be on again. Always a fan of the pod and

being on the pod. It's great. And I know all the listeners are big fans as well. But the underdog

designation in this league is a player who's been drafted in the 13th round or later in the

startup draft. That's going to change in future years, but that's besides the point.

That's what the designation is.

And when you assign the designation to a player, you protect them from being poached in the

three offseason drafts that other teams are allowed to, are permitted to poach players

are unprotected from your

roster. So this basically, you know, is a player you're committing to for three years. And there's also

a lot of, there's a lot, there's some difficulty in terms of trading these players. There are trade

restrictions. You only can trade an underdog for another underdog in the same year.

So, and then if you do make a trade, there are other penalties. So these are players you're

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