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

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 r

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: Ty

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 t

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 fami

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 po

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 h

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

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 *W

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