High Stakes Heat - Fantasy Baseball RotoSaurus.com

Back to quell all of your doubts! Fantasy baseball talk for your Sunday morning...

*Driveline founder and former Magic: The Gathering opponent of our boy Tony, Kyle Boddy joins the Red Sox front office.

*Angels and Astros bolster their bullpens...Hader's going to close, is it StephenSZN?

*Plenty of player spotlights inspired by DMs, pods, Consortium chat, and X interactions: Tyler Glasnow, Tanner Bibee, Cristopher Sanchez, Yu Darvish, Gunnar Henderson, Giancarlo Stanton, Nico Hoerner, Darell Hernaiz

*Etymology of Baseball



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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball. Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues! Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback. Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out ⁠⁠RotoSaurus.com/merch⁠⁠ to support the pod!

Follow Dave (⁠⁠@RunDMcD⁠⁠) and Jake (⁠⁠@TheDustmite⁠⁠) on Xwitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (⁠⁠www.coroflot.com/krysiart⁠⁠)

Show Tune - The 126ers - ⁠⁠Black Moons


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We heard you missed us; we're back! Don't act like you didn't...

*First, the boys talk lessons learned in 2023 and what that means they are changing in the new draft season, covering:


Closer strategies
Being boring
Don't set the mins
Less dumpster-diving on catchers
Jake's WHIP problems
Dave is OK with injury risks?!?!
Still gotta have speed

*It's the "He Went to Driveline" crew; does it mean anything?


Sean Manaea
JP Crawford
Joe Ryan
Ty France
Paul Goldschmidt
Henry Davis
Shane Bieber
Cole Ragans
Zack Thompson
and many more

*Why are the Mariners pushing splitters on seemingly all of their starters?

*Dave's foolhardy wagers in the weekly Fish Call

*The Debut of Jake's Etymology of Baseball

*The GLARF Dynasty and this year's EARTH Leagues charity



Thanks for coming back to us! Let's get it in 2024!!



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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball. Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues! Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback. Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out ⁠RotoSaurus.com/merch⁠ to support the pod!

Follow Dave (⁠@RunDMcD⁠) and Jake (⁠@TheDustmite⁠) on Xwitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (⁠www.coroflot.com/krysiart⁠)

Show Tune - The 126ers - ⁠Black Moons


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We welcome the @deadpullhitter Rob DiPietro for a long-awaited appearance on High Stakes Heat!  Rob goes deep about where he got his love of fantasy, how he's grown into a high stakes sniper, and a lot of his overarching draft prep process.  We also learn a lot about Rob as a person with some deep topics of interest at the end.  Strap in!

*Rob's origins with his family and Strat-O-Matic

*Basketball before baseball??

*What led to the Draft Champions overall title in 2020

*Following that success up with a massive 2021

*Tag team partners with Jenny Butler

*Where should we draft saves?

*EARTH leagues conversation

*Does Rob subscribe to the Player Eliminator practice?

*How does Rob use and aggregate projection systems?

*SGP and how to use it

*Rob as "The Sponge," soaking up all the info he can

*Lessons learned from 2021

*Rob's biggest weakness and edge as a fantasy player

*Build your own "supergroup" for success

AND FOR FUN

*Music of the 90s, and how we are affected by it to this day

*Rob's colloquialisms

*Victory Garden with the DeadPullHitter

*IS ROB DR. DAVE??

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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball.  Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues!  Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback.  Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out RotoSaurus.com/merch to support the pod!

Follow Dave (@RunDMcD) and Jake (@TheDustmite) on Twitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (www.coroflot.com/krysiart)

Show Tune - The 126ers - Black Moons


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Dave and Jake recently finished their Battle of the Podcasts league draft, presented by Zack Waxman and hosted by the NFBC.  This pod is a full review of the league, looking at each team in depth (including their own) and offering strengths, weaknesses, perceived strategy, best/worst picks, and their selections to compete for the title.  The draft order and represented pods for this 50 round NFBC draft & hold format league is:

*1 Justin Mason, Friends with Fantasy Benefits

*2 John Laghezza, Corked Stats

*3 Matt Williams, Turn Two

*4 Jake and Dave

*5 Chris M, @baseballpods

*6 Zack Waxman, Draft Champions Network

*7 Eric Cross/Chris Clegg, Fantrax Toolshed

*8 Rob DePietro, Pull Hitter (Season 2 champ)

*9 Matthew Davis, FTN Fantasy Baseball

*10 Drew Morris, Common Sense Fantasy Baseball (Season 1 champ)

*11 Michael Simione, SP Streamer

*12 Bubba Entrekin, Benched with Bubba

*13 Toby Guevin, BatFlipCrazy

*14 Jorge Montanez/Mike Kurland, Bases Loaded

*15 Michael Govier, Hey It's Enrico Pallazzo!



*We discuss Jake's recent exercise of separating the top 150 ADP players (over the last three weeks) into three different categories: players he'd draft at or before ADP, players he'd consider in certain situations with a discount, and players he is crossing off his list.  He tweeted about it here on Saturday.  There were surprising results, even though we've been crossing players off our draftlists for well over a decade.

*We also go over our TGFBI leagues, 4 and 5

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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball.  Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues!  Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback.  Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out RotoSaurus.com/merch to support the pod!

Follow Dave (@RunDMcD) and Jake (@TheDustmite) on Twitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (www.coroflot.com/krysiart)

Show Tune - The 126ers - Black Moons


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The Vegas crew of Dave, Tony, and Jake are very excited to bring on the do-it-all of the National Fantasy Championship contests, Darik Buchar @dbuchar).  We had a ton of fun and laughs talking shop with Darik about all things NFBC (@TheNFBC)and everything their live events can be!

*A viking among cheeseheads; a kicker AND a catcher

*Darik's history as an NFBC player, and how he moved to the other side of the game

*A couple of hot takes

*Who is the best high stakes player?  Who will win the Main Event in 2022?

*Tons about the live events in Vegas/NYC/Chicago, and why you'll never want to draft any other way

*NFBC is the gold standard of contests

*Storytime: a broken hair dryer, Dave oversleeps a main event, the half-eaten cookie, "draft" beers, and the infamous Bellinger autodraft

*Darik's early beef with Mark Srebro (Gekko)

*His unique perspective on how our seasonal game is changing

*Don't just copy someone else; find what works for you on your own!

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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball.  Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues!  Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback.  Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out RotoSaurus.com/merch to support the pod!

Follow Dave (@RunDMcD) and Jake (@TheDustmite) on Twitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (www.coroflot.com/krysiart)

Show Tune - The 126ers - Black Moons


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Jason Duponte @papelbeast joins the guys to give the perspective of a long-time NFBC player with tons of experience at the highest of stakes!  Quite a bit of extremely useful strategy in this one!

*Jumping right into the deep end for $5000

*Cue the Duckboats, better than going to Disney World

*Stories of the Red Sox beating Cleveland in the 2007 ALCS, much to our delight

*More on why the Guardians' ownership can suck it

*Mike the Mouth NYC Ultimate leagues: like a home league, only more expensive

*The challenges of playing at the $15000 price point in the NFBC Platinum

*Why auctions are the best thing in fantasy baseball

*Shifting focuses and contest selection

*Who is the best player in the high stakes world?

*Jason's biggest strength and weakness

*More on how the seasonal fantasy baseball game is changing...adapt or die!

*Are we in or out on players going within the ADP Top 50

  -Fernando Tatis, Jr

  -Ronald Acuna, Jr

  -Mookie Betts

  -Mike Trout

  -Nick Pivetta > Jacob deGrom??

  -Shane Bieber

  -Cedric Mullins

  -Whit Merrifield

  -Robbie Ray

  -Tyler O'Neill

  -Chris Sale

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Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes players in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, and they share with listeners their strategies and experiences of competing in the highest levels of fantasy baseball.  Listen to the guys who have done it before to learn how to win your leagues!  Please take a few moments to rate and review the podcast on your platform of choice; we really want your feedback.  Thank you so much to those of you all-stars who have done so already!

Check out RotoSaurus.com/merch to support the pod!

Follow Dave (@RunDMcD) and Jake (@TheDustmite) on Twitter; be sure to send them your barbs and accolades.

Logo Designs - the great Matt Krysiak (www.coroflot.com/krysiart)

Show Tune - The 126ers - Black Moons


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