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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

What Were We Thinking?

RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman and Todd Zola review the biggest rankings debates of draft season and try to avoid making the same mistakes next year. --- DH: Should we avoid Shohei Ohtani? C: JT Realmuto or William Contreras? 1B: Pete Alonso or Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? 2B: Bryson Stott or Ketel Marte 3B: Spencer Steer or Nolan Arenado? SS: Elly De La Cruz or Francisco Lindor? OF: Jazz Chisholm, Nolan Jones, Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger, or skip the whole group? OF: Jackson Chourio or Jordan Walker? SP: Tarik Skubal, Kevin Gausman, Zac Gallen, or Yoshinobu Yamamoto? SP: Blake Snell, Zach Eflin, or Cole Ragans? RP: Edwin Diaz, Josh Hader, or Emmanuel Clase? --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the start of the football season, so I thought we'd have a little bit of fun and go back to the start of the baseball season and try to remember what were we thinking back then.

0:10.5

Do we get the key debates right in draft season?

0:14.3

Do we get it all wrong?

0:16.0

Well, it's going to be a mix of both.

0:17.4

We'll have some answers here on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:20.9

Thank you. mix of both. We'll have some answers here on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:42.2

Welcome, everybody, to the Sunday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by Draft Kings Pick Six.

0:47.3

Eric Hulterman here, and my guest today is, well, somebody I know quite well.

0:52.7

Todd Zola, excited to host a episode of the podcast with you, Todd.

1:01.5

The fact that both of us are willing to host a Saturday or sorry, a Sunday afternoon show on week one of the football season.

1:06.8

Does that imply that both of our fantasy football teams are all already in the dumps?

1:09.1

I don't know if it implies that. I think it implies that we'd rather talk a little baseball than watch football, at least with the sound on.

1:16.0

You kind of caught me at the right week, Eric.

1:18.1

This is the first week I would have been able to say yes.

1:21.1

One of my jobs is rest of season projections.

1:24.9

And I stopped doing them after Labor Day because it's an exercise in futility.

1:30.9

Right. Not much different than the weekly projections at this point. It's an interesting part of

1:37.2

the baseball season, to be sure. There is not as much to be said about the remainder of this year.

1:42.2

Of course, we still have plenty of podcasts who will be talking about those things. You can listen to yesterday's Waiver podcast with my guest,

1:49.6

Mike Kulard, if you're looking for some advice for just this next week. But I thought we might

1:54.9

go all the way back to March and take a look at some of the big questions we were thinking

2:00.2

about back then, like, for example, should you pick J.T. Rio Muto or William Contreras?

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