wondering where that breakout star would get drafted if you drafted today well why don't we look at the people who actually are drafting today to come up with the answers we'll be looking at some in-season underdog drafts with Brendan Tuma here on the rotewire fantasy baseball podcast Baseball podcast.

Welcome, everybody to the Sunday edition of the Rodewire fantasy baseball podcast brought to you by So Rare and Prize Picks.

Eric Colchman here, and my guest for this week is Brendan Tuma of Underdog Fantasy,

head of MLB info for Underdog Fantasy. Is that correct? You can also find Brendan's written work

at Baseball America. You can find them on Twitter at Too Much Tuma,

where you'll be looking for the guy with the Pablo Sanchez avatar. So Brendan, we've got to start

with a serious question. After Pablo Sanchez goes off the board 1-1 in your backyard baseball

draft, who's going number two? That is a really serious question, and it's something I've put a lot of thought into, luckily. But it would be Pete Wheeler for me. He was, you know, the Ricky Henderson, if you will, of that game with the power and the speed at the top of your order. Yeah, I think that's the right move. It's either Pete Wheeler or Tisha Phillips, probably for me, but I think you could bunch all day, steal all day.

I think Pete Wheeler is probably the answer.

But good.

We'll get less serious from there and move from the cartoon baseball to the fantasy baseball,

the rest of the day.

But thanks for joining me today, Brendan, because our topic is sort of Underdog, sort of for everyone else.

The goal today is to use the in-season drafts at Underdog as a way of evaluating where does

the broader fantasy market actually stand on some of these buzzy names, because hey, we can

look at people who are actually making the

decision in a draft room today just how high do you want paul skeins well guess what we don't have to

speculate there are plenty of in-season drafts going on so hopefully we are going to come up with an

episode here who's useful for you if you're playing some underdog drafts and even if you aren't

hopefully this can serve as a sort of trade market episode uh do you think that's going to work do you think

my goals are achievable here uh absolutely i think one of my uh one of the things that i enjoy

about the in season drafts are it does get you thinking about the the wider player pool and

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