FF 7 - Tout Wars Recap w/ D.J. Short

03/13/24 • 86 min

Sara and Shelly are joined by the Senior Manager of Fantasy Content at Rotoworld, D.J. Short to discuss the Tout Wars 15-Team Mixed League draft Shelly and D.J. participated in last week.

Link to the draft board.

Discussions:

Are you a standard draft type of player or do you prefer a salary cap draft/auction league instead?

Two players in this draft used two of their first three picks on pitchers stacking Corbin Burnes and Logan Webb in one instance and Gerrit Cole and Tarik Skubal in another. Late injury news aside, we discuss pocket aces as a strategy this draft season.

Would you rather start big power or a mix of power and speed? We discuss D.J.'s Aaron Judge/Pete Alonso start

How early are you taking closers this season? We discuss Devin Williams, Adbert Alzolay, José Alvarado and more.

How early are we drafting Kyle Schwarber in an OBP league?

Catcher strategy in 15-teamers, how early do you want two guys?

Love it or Leave it?

Jackson Merrill makes the Padres roster and is heading to Korea for the early season opener.

We are all over pitching injuries this week.

Joey Votto returns to Canada on a minor league deal with the Blue Jays and this is just good for baseball.

Guest: D.J. Short

Hosts: Sara Sanchez | Shelly Verougstraete

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Sara and Shelly are joined by the Senior Manager of Fantasy Content at Rotoworld, D.J. Short to discuss the Tout Wars 15-Team Mixed League draft Shelly and D.J. participated in last week.

Link to the draft board.

Discussions:

Are you a standard draft type of player or do you prefer a salary cap draft/auction league instead?

Would you rather start big power or a mix of power and speed? We discuss D.J.'s Aaron Judge/Pete Alonso start

How early are you taking closers this season? We discuss Devin Williams, Adbert Alzolay, José Alvarado and more.

How early are we drafting Kyle Schwarber in an OBP league?

Catcher strategy in 15-teamers, how early do you want two guys?

Love it or Leave it?

Jackson Merrill makes the Padres roster and is heading to Korea for the early season opener.

We are all over pitching injuries this week.

Joey Votto returns to Canada on a minor league deal with the Blue Jays and this is just good for baseball.

Guest: D.J. Short

Hosts: Sara Sanchez | Shelly Verougstraete

Join: PL+ | PL Pro

Proud member of the Pitcher List Podcast Network

Previous Episode

FF 6 - Sleeper and the Bust debates w/ Justin Mason and Paul Sporer

Shelly is off for her Tout Wars draft but Sara is joined by Justin Mason and Paul Sporer to make the cases for some of our favorite players this draft season.

Discussions:

Ronald Acuña Jr. had his surgically repaired knee evaluated for an irritated meniscus, is he still the 1.1?

Battle of the Reds 1B options, do you want Spencer Steer or Jeimer Candelario 100 picks later?

Are we drafting Corey Seager where he goes despite the injury risk?

Why are we into (or out on) Christopher Morel?

Was the Ke'Bryan Hayes breakout real and is there another level?

Is Yu Darvish a good value in 2024?

As you fuel up for your drafts are pancakes or waffles the undisputed king of breakfast/brunch?

Love it or Leave it?

Jason Benetti joins the Tigers as their play-by-play guy and that might be the move of the offseason

Matt Chapman signs in San Francisco

Tarik Skubal absolutely dazzles against the Red Sox

Guests: Justin Mason & Paul Sporer

Hosts: Sara Sanchez | Shelly Verougstraete

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Next Episode

FF 8 - ADP w/ Erik Halterman

Sara and Shelly are joined by Rotowire's Erik Halterman for an ADP deep dive as the MLB regular season kicks off in Korea.

Discussions:

Where do you want to draft? We hash out KDS and the benefits of drafting from the ends or the middle.

Pitching injuries abound and both starters and closers are being pushed up. We discuss whether you should follow the crowd or invest in bats while early pitching goes.

Our cases for round two aces looks at Zack Wheeler, Corbin Burnes, and more.

When pitching gets up, bats move down we debate Nico Hoerner v. Matt McLain in the fifth.

O'Neil Cruz is rising, find out why Sara is still in and Erik is out.

The Devin Williams injury news creates save opportunities for someone in Milwaukee, are those saves going to Joel Payamps, Abner Uribe or would you be better off drafting someone else entirely?

Love it or Leave it?

Erik shouts out Nick Pollack on his well-deserved Lawr Michaels Award at Tout Wars, and there's no debate about this, everyone agrees Nick rules.

Shelly is very into the new MLB Spring Breakout and all of the prospect love from MLB this spring.

Sara loves that Sammy Sosa returned to Chicago for some Cubs adjacent interviews, which is (hopefully) a first step to Sammy being back in the fold on the North Side.

Guest: Erik Halterman

Hosts: Sara Sanchez | Shelly Verougstraete

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