Flags Fly Forever Fantasy Baseball
Mike Gianella and Jon Hegglund of Baseball Prospectus take a deep dive into current fantasy baseball topics.
Episodes
April 12, 2024 • 37 mins
We're getting all T.S. Eliot on you, because for us, and for fantasy basebal content, April is kind of a dead zone. Rather than overreact to fast and slow starts, we discuss some process points in evaluating your early-season roster and negotiating FAAB at this time of year. We do this through the lens of our own underperforming Main Event team (at what point does "underperforming" just become "bad"? hopefully we won't have to answ...
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April 4, 2024 • 64 mins
Hey, it's actual baseball season! After the whirlwind of positional previews and draft discussion, we put a cap on the 2024 draft season by discussing the NFBC Main Event team that Mike and Jon drafted. It was the first time either of us had participated in a Main Event, and we talk about our decision to ante up, our overall strategy, our focused strategy once we knew where we were drafting (7th), and our experience in the draft (f...
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March 21, 2024 • 59 mins
We take the occasion of the recent Tout Wars auction weekend to do a deep dive on auctions--what we prefer, how we prepare, and some strategies and advice for those new to the format. We love auctions!
In this episode we discuss:
In this episode we discuss:
- Why in-person auctions are so fun and rewarding
- How preparation and strategy are different than a draft
- Why you should have a Plan A and a Plan B (and possibly a Plan C)
- The risks and rewards of price enfor...
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March 8, 2024 • 67 mins
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.
F...
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.
F...
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March 1, 2024 • 63 mins
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" o...
Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseball information, visit baseballprospectus.com and click on "Fantasy" o...
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February 23, 2024 • 62 mins
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.
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February 16, 2024 • 70 mins
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
Va...
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
Va...
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February 9, 2024 • 55 mins
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
Co...
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
Co...
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February 2, 2024 • 66 mins
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...
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...
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January 31, 2024 • 61 mins
New year, new producer, but your same old hosts are back. Mike and Jon talk first basemen for the upcoming 2024 season. We go through tiers of NFBC average draft position, and discuss the following players:
Freddie Freeman
Shohei Ohtani (UT)
Bryce Harper
Matt Olson
Pete Alonso
Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.
Cody Bellinger
Paul Goldschmidt
Triston Casas
Spencer Torkelson
Josh Naylor
Yandy Diaz
Vinnie Pasquantino
Rhys Hoskins
Andrew Vaughn
Ryan Mountcastle
J...
Freddie Freeman
Shohei Ohtani (UT)
Bryce Harper
Matt Olson
Pete Alonso
Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.
Cody Bellinger
Paul Goldschmidt
Triston Casas
Spencer Torkelson
Josh Naylor
Yandy Diaz
Vinnie Pasquantino
Rhys Hoskins
Andrew Vaughn
Ryan Mountcastle
J...
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November 3, 2023 • 73 mins
The season is over, long live the season. Or something. Anyway the lads recorded what ended up being their final episode of the regular season during Game 5 of the World Series. Hear them react to a new champion being crowned. Before that, Mike and Samuel went back and forth on what they feel about this year's playoffs as a whole. It's a thoughtful discussion, which hey is nice!
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October 13, 2023 • 91 mins
Oh hi there. How have you been? We've been fine, thanks for asking. If you want to hear about baseball, this is the episode for you. There's a lot of discussion about fantasy off the top, specifically evaluation in hindsight. Real nitty gritty stuff if you're into that. If you're not, fear not! It then diverges into a discussion of the upcoming ALCS...sorta. One member of the team has lost their faith in their club, and wants to pu...
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September 1, 2023 • 64 mins
There's an amount of baseball on this episode that should probably be described as "surprising." In what direction is up to you, the listener, to discover. We start with a game based around the revolving door of mediocrity that is the Los Angeles Angels. We live watch the Alex Cobb almost near no hitter (spoiler alert even though it was 3 days ago?). We also do our best to jinx Jon's TGFBI status,even though there is no such thing ...
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July 21, 2023 • 61 mins
Oh hi, dear listener. It's been a moment, we've all been busy and baseball has baseball'ed in 2023. But we do have a show for you that has a...select amount of baseball discussion. We also talk about food a lot, travelling, and Jon ends the show with a wonderful fatherhood based anecdote. We're having fun, so we hope you have fun as well.
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June 16, 2023 • 51 mins
Oh hi there. You doing alright? Making sure to drink water and take your medicine? Good, good. We're proud of you for that self care. Anyway, so MLB really has the show down again this week because somehow it only seems to be getting worse. Maybe it'll get better soon, who can say? We sure can't, because it all looks awful. As a result, we ended up doing something really odd on this episode. We went through Cameo looking for baseba...
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June 2, 2023 • 48 mins
And we're back, now that we all are back in houses and assorted other things. There's some fantasy talk, but admittedly the recent events have gotten us a bit sour. So we do the best we can. And we don't scream...that much.
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Flags Fly Forever is a Baseball Prospectus podcast. For more fantasy baseb...
Got a content idea for the show? Shoot us an email at flagsflyforever@baseballprospectus.com or a message at our Twitter feed @FlagsFlyBP.
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May 12, 2023 • 61 mins
You'll have to listen to the full episode to understand the title. That's what makes a good title right? Right? Don't answer that actually, just love you. Anyway, I could tell you about all the baseball we talked about on this show. I'd rather tell you though that right after we finished recording, we spent ten minutes discussing our favorite Taylor Swift songs. As men between the ages of 30-55 do. Anyway, enjoy!
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April 21, 2023 • 65 mins
Oh hey, didn't see you there. It has been a minute hasn't it? How have you been, how's your spouse, your kids? The job still treating you right? No? Well that blows, unionize your workplace and take back the means of production. Anyway this week we're back after illness and tech problems derailed us for the past two weeks. Mike upon review does sound like he's broadcasting in the past, but it's fine all his content is from this tim...
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March 30, 2023 • 72 mins
Releasing a day early to celebrate Opening Day, the lads are back with their full prediction slate. Who will win each division? Who takes home the major awards? Mike, Jon, and Samuel tell you in the first half of the episode. The second half is a game show! Samuel took like two years off from baseball, and uh his knowledge is a little sketch on player movement. Mike and Jon brought a list of players in the hopes of stumping Samuel ...
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March 17, 2023 • 66 mins
It's over. It's finally over. The positional series has come to an end, with all intended disrespect towards catchers and relievers. It's starting pitching week, and since you noticed the episode isn't 19 hours long we're following the same pattern as we did with outfielders. We're hitting the high notes, giving you the map to how to handle starters at both the high and not so end. If you listen to this episode back to back with al...
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