High Stakes Heat - Fantasy Baseball

The boys are back after less than a week to discuss many trade deadline possibilities and how they can effect different players in our fantasy game! *Callups: Norby, McDermott, Festa, Nacho *What happened to THAIRO? Fitzgerald is supplanting him *Injury discussion on Yelich, Tucker, Trout, Buxton ***Dave takes you through every team and what they could do at the trade deadline. How do possible mov...

WAKE UP! It's time for the second half!!! *The Consortium is having a strong year thus far in the Main Event *Check-ins on Dave's and Jake's Vegas leagues *Strengths and weaknesses, where we can improve our standing in the leagues *What we did right and wrong in draft season, having seen 3.5 months of baseball *Why do teams and players keep lying to us? *Hunter Greene remains from the...

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, Tan...

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 Drive...

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-M...

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 r...

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 th...

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 Guar...

The boys flip the calendar to 2022 by bringing in one of the best players in the NFBC right now, and he has the hardware to prove it!  2020 Main Event overall champion Jim Tomony joins the show to explain just what goes into being a consistent winner at the highest level of fantasy baseball. *Jim's start in fantasy, and how he married the Fantasy Baseball Queen of Ann Arbor *What spurred his...

Dave and Jake dive into ADP for the last three weeks of NFBC Draft Champions leagues, giving you some players they think you should move up or down your draft boards.     *Going too early: Kopech, Semien, Witt Jr., Franco, Gallegos, Chisholm, C Seager     *Going too late: Torres, Bogaerts, Lindor, Story, Snell, Kimbrel, Rogers Jake is taking part in his firs...

The commissioner has locked out the players because he "had to," but that won't stop us from commenting on the absolute flurry of activity in MLB leading up to this dreadful day.  Jake and Dave discuss the fantasy implication of tons of moves, and also laugh heartily at the teams that deserve it (we're looking at you, Guardians). *Astros resign Justin Verlander, 2y/$50mil *Cubs sign Marcus St...

The illustrious SPStreamer Michael Simione ( @SPStreamer ) lends his talents to High Stakes Heat tonight as he walks the boys through his growth both as a player and as an analysis brand.  *The FPAZ experience: people, panels, and poker *A look at the FPAZ draft from mid-October with many fantasy analyst participants *Michael's journey to high stakes *Learning from 2021 and moving forward to...

Today on High Stakes Heat, we take a detailed look at Jake's 2021 fantasy season, with all its ups and more frequent downs.  Strap in and get ready to learn from his trials and tribulations... *Dave recounts his GLARF league and EARTH overall championships *A quick look at Dave's season; check out the FWFB pod #718-719 for more details *A detailed rundown of Jake's 2021 teams *Major trends an...

Dave, Jake, and Tony @Spectre14 all together IN THE SAME STUDIO!  What better way could there be to jump start High Stakes Heat again!?   *An update on our high dollar and industry league teams *Players that each of us has gotten right and wrong, as we currently stand *Some players that look due for a good or improved second half *A speculative saves list of ten relievers from Dave *A lo...

We are one week from another beautiful (full) baseball season, and Jake and Tony @Spectre14 are here to give you an evergreen draft strategy pod for the ages!  This episode is essentially devoid of specific player analysis, and it is meant for you to use as a comprehensive strategy primer for any of your drafts this last week of March, and even beyond to other seasons.   *Why drafting li...

Big Sexy John L @MLBMovingAvg is back for Round 2 with Dave and Jake, and the heat does not stop until the outro plays!   *The @baseballpods Podcast Bracket "controversy" *John breaks down the NFBC Tag Team draft and doesn't hold back...Check the DRAFT BOARD *Checking in on our TGFBI drafts after one week (John #19, Dave #3, Jake #2) *The Great Lakes Area Roto Fantasy (GLARF) League update, D...

Big John Stud @MLBMovingAvg joins the boys and there's no stopping this train!  We went for a whopping 225 minutes, so we slashed this episode in two; look for the second part to drop Tuesday. *Injuries to Calhoun, Bogaerts, Woodruff, Kelenic *John's feeling on the Yankees rotation *Aaron Civale has new mechanics *How do we feel about Bellinger's recovery? *Kimbrel and Colome got blasted *Fla...

Check this behemoth!  Shout out to the Dingers pod for our epic first round battle in the Baseballpods Tourney! * Justin Mason 's Podapolooza this Saturday/Sunday Feb. 27-28 *When will the Blue Jays migrate back to Buffalo? *COVID cases, news, and signings *How can you determine who closes in a murky backend bullpen situation? *Do people still think that Mondesi hits second?  Referencing...

We heard you missed us; we're back!  There are tons of things to cover in the world of fantasy baseball: *So many transactions! 15+ players/situations to discuss *MLB changing the baseball and actually TELLING us about it?? *Can there be objective truth in fantasy? *How much we should use or "rely on" projections *Battle of the Podcasts draft review (courtesy of @draftchampagne ) Thanks to ev...

Back in the saddle! *The Browns are the greatest team in football *Nickelodeon shows that didn't suck (except for the ones Dave likes) *Lindor and Carrasco to the Big Apple *Hendriks, Schwarber sign *Sticky situation in LA *Closers whom you might feel totally comfortable drafting, but you probably shouldn't *Certain players that we will be watching in spring *Lots of teams ran a ton last year; wil...

--INITIATE SHOW NOTE TRANSMISSION-- The Robot's infamous System has seized control of High Stakes Heat!  Phil Dussault ( @PhilDussault27 ) has written our entire script for us and is forcing us to execute his fantasy baseball wishes.  Tune in for a wide variety of heinous topics that the Robot has prepared for us! *Landing spots for Bauer and Lindor *Can Giolito be elite? *Stolen base th...

Happy December!  Only the best and bravest are diving  into their analysis at this point, and we have you covered as you foray deep into your prep for 2021.  Topics covered include: *Analyzing the non-tenders of note *Urshela elbow surgery, Wander Franco biceps injury *Concerns with Tyler Glasnow *Why all the hate for Dylan Moore? *Dave rantin' on Stanton *Jake approach to the #pull...

It's time to turn the page to 2021!  Well, at least in terms of fantasy baseball anyway...still gotta get through 6 more weeks of this garbage in real life.  Dave and Jake are back and they're ready to move forward with draft prep for the new season.  Let's start getting ready to dominate! *Why the Dolans are horrible *Smyly gets $11mil? *Clevinger gets Tommy John *We're trying to h...

The second half of our season retrospective closely examines the pitching hits and misses from the less than optimal year 2020.  Dave, Tony ( @Spectre14 ), and Jake blaze through a vast number of starters and relievers...would they do it all again the same way?  Listen in to find out! ****************************************** Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful h...

The band gets back together to closely examine the offensive hits and misses from the 2020 season.  Dave, Tony, and Jake recap their fantasy seasons and lay it all out there for you all to absorb and grow your own game.  Part 2 will cover pitching, due sometime next week. ****************************************** Dave McDonald and Jake Halusker are consistently successful high stakes pl...