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 ****************************************** Dave McDonald and Jake Halus ..read more

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 ..read more

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 sav ..read more

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 round NFBC draft & hold format league is: *1 Justin Mason, Friends with Fantasy Benefits *2 John Laghezza, Corked Stats *3 Matt Williams, Turn Two *4 Jake and Dave *5 Chris M, @baseballpods *6 Zack ..read more

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 the other side of the game *A couple of hot takes *Who is the best high stakes player?  Who will win the Main Event in 2022? *Tons about the live events in Vegas/NYC/Chicago, and why you'll never want ..read more

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 Guardians' ownership can suck it *Mike the Mouth NYC Ultimate leagues: like a home league, only more expensive *The challenges of playing at the $15000 price point in the NFBC Platinum *Why auctions are t ..read 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 *What spurred his big win in 2020? *Why does he use song titles to name all of his squads? *12 team or 15 team leagues? *Jim's biggest weakness and strength as a player *How is the high stakes realm changing over the l ..read more

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 first NFBC DC, which also happens to be the "Beat Razzball's Grey Albright" league.     *Jake runs through his strategy going in from pick 12, and how it ended up playing out  &nb ..read more

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 Stroman, 3y/$71mil *Dodgers resign Chris Taylor, 4y/$60mil *Max Muncy's injured elbow *Twins resign Byron Buxton, 7y/$100mil *Cards sign Steven Matz, 4y/$44mil *Orioles sign Jordan Lyles, 1y/$7mil *DBac ..read more

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 2022 *The TURF League, members of EARTH *Does a league have to have an entry fee to be a priority for all? *The method of the Stream *Michael's 2021 record for streaming *Early overvalued/undervalued st ..read more