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Mike Gianella and Jon Hegglund of Baseball Prospectus take a deep dive into current fantasy baseball topics.

Flags Fly Forever Fantasy Baseball Bret Sayre

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Mike Gianella and Jon Hegglund of Baseball Prospectus take a deep dive into current fantasy baseball topics.

    Episode 304: Tout Mixed Review + SP Strategy + Using Bid Limits

    Episode 304: Tout Mixed Review + SP Strategy + Using Bid Limits

    Bit of a mixed bag this week:

    We review Mike's Tout Wars Mixed League draft from earlier in the week. (You can see the draft board here: https://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/1ojcq64zltc8i9la/draft-results)

    We talk (again) about your strategy for drafting starting pitchers, and why Mike generally avoids the "blob" of mid-tier starters.

    We also introduce Mike's auction bid limits and discuss how to use them, and how not to use them.

    Finally, we talk about the risk of players who have not yet made their MLB debut, focusing in on three names for this draft season: Jackson Chourio, Wyatt Langford, and Jackson Holliday.

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro and break music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Episode 303: Outfield Positional Preview

    Episode 303: Outfield Positional Preview

    We talk outfielders this week, and given the size of the position, we did more of a strategy overview than deep dives on indivdual players. It's an interesting year at the position--great, five-category options up top but a fairly long tail of useful players deep into the 200s, and beyond.

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro and break music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Episode 302: Reviewing the LABR Mixed Draft

    Episode 302: Reviewing the LABR Mixed Draft

    We step away from our positional previews to discuss the LABR Mixed League draft, which Mike took part in on Tuesday, February 20. We talk about the difference between stand-alone leagues and larger multi-league competitions, strategies for the first four rounds, how to respond to early spring training injury news, building drafts around your starting pitching strategy, what to do when closers get pushed up, and so much more.

    (I would like to apologize to Nick Martinez for my unkind comment around the 39-minute mark. I'm sure you're a fun guy.)

    (And I would also like to apologize for my sound quality. My microphone decided to go on holiday just before recording.)

    The LABR Mixed League draft board can be found here: https://www.rtsports.com/labr-mixed-draft

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro and break music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Episode 301: Shortstop Preview + Draft Strategy

    Episode 301: Shortstop Preview + Draft Strategy

    We continue our march through the positions, spending this episode on the somewhat top-heavy position of shortstop. We go through our ADP tiers, discoursing on the following players:

    Bobby Witt Jr.
    Trea Turner
    Francisco Lindor
    Corey Seager
    Elly De La Cruz
    Gunnar Henderson
    Bo Bichette
    CJ Abrams
    Oneil Cruz
    Xander Bogaerts
    Dansby Swanson
    Anthony Volpe
    Trevor Story (A Very Short Story, or Five Seconds of Regret for Jon)
    Willy Adames
    Ezequiel Tovar
    Vaughn Grissom
    Carlos Correa
    Zach Neto
    Extremely quick hits on Tim Anderson, Javier Báez, and Marco Luciano
    At some point, we Remembered Adalberto Mondesi

    Then we take some time to discuss some overall tips and strategies for your draft (aka ADP can be a dangerous thing).

    Mike's article, "How to Use ADP," can be found here: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/article/79732/fantasy-freestyle-how-to-use-adp/.

    Mike's Tiered Shortstop Rankings are here: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/article/88281/shortstop-tiered-rankings-for-2024/

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro and break music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Episode 300: Third Base Positional Preview

    Episode 300: Third Base Positional Preview

    Our corners, we like them hot. Mike and Jon discuss just about every third baseman under the sun as we motor along with our positional previews. Featuring:

    José Ramírez
    Austin Riley
    Rafael Devers
    Royce Lewis
    Manny Machado
    Alex Bregman
    Nolan Arenado
    Josh Jung (with appropriately bad puns)
    Spencer Steer
    Jake Burger
    Ke'Bryan Hayes
    Noelvi Marte
    Alec Bohm
    Isaac Paredes
    Max Muncy
    Maikel García
    Jeimer Candelario
    Junior Caminero
    Eugenio Suárez
    Matt Chapman
    Colt Keith
    Wilmer Flores
    Tyler Black
    Isiah...Kiner-Falefa, really Mike?

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro and break music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 55 min
    Episode 299: Second Base Positional Preview

    Episode 299: Second Base Positional Preview

    Hey friends, it's keystone time, and also stick around to find out why Mike utters the sentence, "second base is our kids." Before we go full Dadcast, however, we do discuss the following players:

    Mookie Betts
    Ozzie Albies
    Marcus Semien
    José Altuve
    Nico Hoerner (and the Problem of Stolen Bases)
    Matt McLain
    Ha-Seong Kim
    Gleyber Torres
    Group of Spidermen Pointing at Each Other (Stott, Giménez, Gelof, Estrada, Edman)
    Luis Arráez
    Nolan Gorman
    Ryan McMahon
    Jonathan India
    Luis Rengifo
    Jorge Polanco
    Brice Turang
    Jake Cronenworth
    Brendan Rodgers
    Davis Schneider
    Liover Peguero
    Mauricio Dubón
    Our Beloved Drama-Free Children

    Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" or visit our Twitter feed @baseballpro.

    You can find Flags Fly Forever on Twitter @FlagsFlyBP. The hosts of Flags Fly Forever are Mike Gianella(@mikegianella.bsky.social) and Jon Hegglund(@jonhegglund.bsky.social). The producer of Flags Fly Forever is Jon Hegglund.

    Special thanks to Petite League for permission to use their track "Mets" for the intro music. Find their sweet lo-fi indie-pop sounds at petiteleague.com.

    • 1 hr 6 min

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180 Ratings

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Overdue praise

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Episode 211

Look, I’m a big fan of the pod and even gave a 5 star before this comment; can we please leave race and likely politics out of these pods please? I get that our current environment has such topics on the front of our mind and the tip of the tongue but please leave it out of this outlet. We all have our political views; please leave it out of the pod. That said, minus that, love the pod and you guys do great work. Thanks

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