With one week left in the season, it's time for a retrospective.

What will we remember the 2024 season for?

What were the big themes?

Who were the big players?

I've got Paul Sporer on the line to answer that question on the RodeWire fantasy baseball podcast. Welcome, everybody to the Sunday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by

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Eric Hultramen here with my guest, Paul Sporer of Fangraphs.

And Paul, we were just talking right before the show about how we are about to enter the

period of the baseball season where people like you and me get to relax a little bit and just

be fans and not worry nearly as much about every single

day and how to get the most out of every single upcoming matchup, except you may have some worry

in October, may have some stress. Exactly, your tigers. They're making it exciting down the

stretch. How has this stretch run been for you?

It's been amazing to watch this team, you know, basically kind of rise up after the deadline, which I have no problems with them selling. I don't regret it now.

Even with the whole like, oh, well, they traded Flaherty and Ace type guy. Who cares?

You know, the whole butterfly effect, right?

All of this happened after trading him, including getting their now starting shortstop and Trace Sweeney.

I at the time felt that people poo-pooed the returns a little bit for Flaherty.

And I get it to a degree because the market was really hot. But I think our big contextual clue as to why maybe it was a little bit for Flaherty. And I get it to a degree because the market was really

hot. But I think our big contextual clue as to why maybe it was a little bit underwhelming

relative to some of the other stuff that was going on was that the Yankees passed all together

due to the medicals. I have no idea how detailed that is, what exactly that means. But based

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