Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast. My name is Chris Crawford.

Thanks so much for joining us today, which is Sunday, March 12th, and this episode is brought to you by Underdog Fantasy and Fantracks.

I am joined today by my good buddy, by Rotowire teammate Ryan Boyerer ryan thank you so much for joining us happy to be

with you buddy let's talk some whip yes let us talk some whip indeed but first let's go over a few

headlines and i wanted to start with first i'm not sure how much you and jr got to talk about it

yesterday unfortunately it was a pretty busy day so it didn't get to check out your podcast sure how much you and Juer got to talk about it yesterday. Unfortunately, it was a pretty busy day, so I didn't get to check out your podcast, which makes me... How dare you? I know, I'm a horrible human being. But the World Baseball Classic is going on. I am eating this up with a spoon. It's something I've eaten up with a spoon since it first started. I have just really enjoyed it. Ryan, do you like it? But most importantly, I got to ask

this question. I got to go on the CHGO podcast with Herb Lawrence and Vinnie Duper and Sean

Lawrence and had a really fun time and I appreciate those guys having me on. Sean Anderson,

excuse me. But does the Wc change the way you draft at all

so my biggest takeaway from the wbc is i really hope that the

84.3 mile power hour fastball the game day had for adamant last night it was

oh my gosh actually a cutter maybe

maybe even a change up yeah I'm afraid it was not but no so I kind of look at as far as how I

evaluate it for fantasy I kind of just look at it the same as spring training.

The only thing that might change the way I would view a player,

like less velocity, more velocity, something like that,

which unfortunately, not that Adam Wainwright's a high-end fantasy option anyway, but hopefully you can get some of that Velo back.

But I think it's you kind of got to look at it to the same lens as you do spring training games.

Maybe there's, is there a slightly heightened injury concern because they're ramping up a little sooner than normal?

Maybe, but I don't know that you can really weigh that too heavily.

But just as far as the games themselves, haven't gotten to watch a ton, but what I haven't watched,

I've certainly seen the highlights on Twitter and etc.

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