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The best baseball podcast you'll ever listen to. Ever.
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Jon Stulberg and Brandon Berg go over the pressing fantasy baseball news each and every week. They'll fill you in with the injury report, waiver wire studs and tell you if the breakout player on your team is here to stay or not.
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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! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/high-stakes-heat/support
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Tons of Trade Deadline Possibilities
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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 c…
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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 t…
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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, Consortiu…
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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 …
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The DeadPullHitter Rob DiPietro Goes Deep
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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 origi…
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The Player Eliminator & Battle of the Pods SZN3
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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 or…
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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 …
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Cue the Hatemail, with NFBC Monster Jason Duponte
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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 ALC…
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2020 NFBC Main Event Champ Jim Tomony
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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 Ba…
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Early ADP Looks for Draft Champions
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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 fi…
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Manfred Can't Lock You Out of This
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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 Just…
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Crossing Streams with Michael Simione
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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 …
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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 r…
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Overall, You Still Have a Shot at Winning Money
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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 …
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Draft Strat Blowout! Auctions, 12&15 Snakes
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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 beyo…
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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…
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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 re…
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Tag Teams, Tourneys, and Tweetstorms
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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 t…
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Objectively, Projections Are Flawed
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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…
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A Veritable Smorgasbord of Baseball Goodness
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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…
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ROBOT POD!! Phil Dussault Takes Over HSH!
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--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 *C…
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A Non-tender Look at Bestball and Avoiding Landmines
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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 Sta…
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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 ge…
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2020 Season Retrospective, Part 2
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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 Ha…
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2020 Season Retrospective, Part 1
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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 …
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Dave and Jake work to carry you to the finish line in today's episode, both helping you to set that final weekend offensive lineup in NFBC and looking ahead to a number of topics that will dominate our thoughts heading into 2021. Best of luck to all our listeners as they close out their championships! *Injuries and players returning that could affe…
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The boys are again joined by their close friend and another member of The Consortium, Tony DiVincenzo (@Spectre14), and together they tackle what everyone should be looking at heading into the final week of baseball. There's a ton of great strategy points in here, and they also have an opportunity at the end to give some advice on targets for your …
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Closer Conversation with the FAABulous Scott Jenstad
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Dave and Jake are excited to welcome another incredible NFBC stalwart to the pod in RotoWire's Scott Jenstad (@ScottJenstad)! The gentlemen hit on tons of ever-in-flux closer situations, some injury and promotion news, plenty of in-season management strategy topics, and a number of great listener questions. Scott is an exemplary guest, and it was a…
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Fraternizing with the FAAB Whisperer, Vlad Sedler
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Episode 9 of the pod features the incredibly successful high stakes redraft and DFS player Vlad Sedler (@RotoGut) of Guru Elite fame! This is an absolutely jam-packed show, full of insights into who Vlad is and what makes him a winner, plenty of player analysis and news, and short season adjustments. More specifically, we will cover: *Vlad's beginn…
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FAAB and Main Event Strategies with Justin Mason
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The boys return with special guest Justin Mason (@JustinMasonFWFB), the busiest analyst in fantasy baseball and an all-around great guy. He is nothing but candid with us about his process, experience, and life in general; plenty to take out of this episode! Among the topics covered: *Justin and his career *FWFB, TGFBI, and the Mason Face *Cleveland…
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto (Phil Dussault)
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Dave and Jake are joined by the Robot himself, Phil Dussault (@PhilDussault27)! Phil has only played in the NFBC for four seasons, but he brings a wealth of successful experience and heavy analysis to the pod. Together they cover a plethora of topics: -The wackiest NFBC Sunday FAAB we've ever seen -Tons and tons of closing situations in flux -A ret…
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Main Events & the Dumpster Fire That Is 2020
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The boys are back after their long drafting hiatus, and they brought in their long-time friend and Dave's Main Event partner, Tony DiVincenzo (@Spectre14)! The three review their strategies for drafting their four total $1200 NFBC Sprint Main Event leagues, as they highlight their primary points of focus in building their teams facing the Covid nig…
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ADP, Pitcher Scheduling, and Mrs. Keuchel
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The summer rolls on, and your intrepid NFBCers fill you in on the news, some of which can be found at the Covid Watch. The Main Event drafts started on Sunday, but there's not enough ADP data yet for solid analysis; however, there is more than enough July Online Championship data to get a good feel for where we are. Dave and Jake also take a look a…
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Dave and Jake return to bring you some summer updates and direct you to RotoSaurus's Covid Watch. The boys touch on setting your KDS (Kentucky Derby Style) order for your drafts, some rarer resources to be targeting, and many of their DOs and DON'Ts for drafting in roto leagues. They may even debut a new segment! They then close by evaluating how t…
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Dave and Jake wrangle all of the news from the beginning of the 'Summer Training' period (You like that, Jon Heyman?) for you: Covid diagnoses, opt-outs, new births, managerial comments...all to help you organize everything as you prep for more drafts. Dave warns you again about drafting Josh Hader as your first closer, when you should be drafting …
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In round 2 of High Stakes Heat, the boys touch on the news of the day, with players opting out and even *gasp* a trade! Dave breaks down spring training stats for starters that could be indicators of future performance, and then he highlights specific performances of pitchers from Spring 2020 whose 'summer training' we should be keeping an eye on. …
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Welcome to the highly-anticipated RotoSaurus High Stakes Heat podcast! The boys banter about their childhoods, origins in fantasy baseball, NFBC experience, and... oh yea! Baseball is coming! They give a flyover of things to expect in a 60-game, travel-reduced season. We'll keep pumping out the episodes; thanks so much for listening! Dave McDonald …
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Jon Stulberg and Brandon Berg get you ready to win your fantasy league with High Heat presented by FFLockerRoom.com. This week, the guys will go over the current closer situation, talk about some guys that impressed in their first start and some of the minor league guys that could make an impact at some point this year.…
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Jon Stulberg and Brandon Berg go over the guys they dig as sleepers and the guys they think are risky plays when it comes to drafting this year. They'll also go over some metrics to have in mind when finding cheap SP at the end of drafts, your strategy for drafting closers and what to expect from Matt Harvey this year.…
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Jon Stulberg and Brandon Berg go over the FF Locker Room fantasy baseball ranking system, then they talk about a ton of guys as far as their value this year. We'll hit on guys we're much higher on than everybody else, lower than and plain intriguing players.
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Nick & Hayden's 2014 MLB Preview: 6. Detroit Tigers
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Nick and Hayden discuss their number six team, the Detroit Tigers.
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