Hey everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erickson. He is Fred Zinke.

We're brought to you by chalkboard and the NFFC. Today, we're going to do a little something different.

We're going to go derivative. First of all, we're taking advantage of the good work done by Rob DiPietro,

aka at Deadpole hitter on Twitter.

Every year he does the way too early meatball draft.

It is not a mock draft.

It is an early draft, 11 rounds.

They'll complete the draft in the off season, but 11 rounds now for the 2020,

2020, 2026 fantasy baseball season.

We're just going to pick out a few players that are interesting to us and talk about that position, maybe some draft trends as well.

And I'm looking forward to diving into this one, Fred.

We were going to try to get Rob on, but he's actually got the temerity to go to Metz-Filly's game. How dare he actually. Ballgame right now. Have fun. But thanks for providing great content for us for free. So I do appreciate that. Fred, let's jump right into it here because I think there's a lot of interesting stuff going on.

Oh, this is just like the unlimited conversation, I think, for people like you and me that just

live and breathe fantasy baseball, like to get our first, and I know it's just one draft and I know

it's really early and everything, but to get a set of draft results for next season.

You know, also not only draft results, but draft results from 15 smart fantasy baseball

players, right?

Yeah.

15 people who are very up to date with what's going on this season.

They're like, no one here is, you know, is drafting someone, drafting Zach Wheeler in the

first round. And you're like, wait a someone, drafting Zach Wheeler in the first round.

You're like, wait a minute, he's got a major arm injury. And they're like, oh, I hadn't noticed. Like this, these are people who really are up to date. So, so I think intelligent results. But then it is the first draft. It's always hard to, uh, to go without a map. And, uh, and now we get to kind of analyze and have some fun with what they do what they are sorry what they chose to take

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