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

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

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