Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details. Intro/the Red Sox won 15 straight! Steak League FAAB: Victor Mesa $4 Hunter Dobbins $2 Derek Hill $2 Michael Petersen $1 Tim Tawa $1 Tyler Mahle $1 Connor Prielipp $1 Kohl Drake $0 Dylan Beavers $0 CES $0 Other names to consider: Quinn Mathews, Jordan Montgomery,  Two-start pitchers (week of July 27, 2026) Merrill Kelly 1 (Todd 2) Brandon Pfaadt 3 Jack Perkins 0 (Todd 1) Gage Jump 2 (Todd 1) Martin Perez 1 Chris Sale 5 Kyle Bradish 5 (Todd 4) Payton Tolle 3 Jake Bennett 3 David Peterson 1 (Todd 2) Colin Rea 0 Chase Burns 5 Brady Singer 1 (Todd 2) Slade Cecconi 1 (Todd 2) Noah Schultz 0 Anthony Kay 1 (Todd 0) Keider Montero 2 Tatusya Imai 3 Seth Lugo 2 Walbert Urena 2 Justin Wrobleski 4 Tyler Phillips 1 (Todd 0) Sandy Alcantara 4 Brandon Sproat 3 Bailey Ober

Erik Halterman is joined by Ryan Rufe to discuss which closers could see their save chances dry up after the trade deadline. --- 00:00 Headlines 10:50 Buyers whose closer is safe 23:45 Buyers who could upgrade at closer 43:15 Buyers with no clear closer 50:10 Sellers with closers to sell 1:04:55 Sellers without true closers --- Circa Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details.  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

James Anderson answers dozens of listener questions about the updated RotoWire Top 400 Prospect Rankings!   01:40 Tiers 02:30 Who could make ’27 Opening Day rosters? 04:20 Dodgers OF prospects 07:05 Mike Sirota 10:30 Josue De Paula 12:20 Kade Anderson’s ETA 13:05 Colt Emerson 14:30 Franklin Arias 16:25 Tate Southisene 20:05 Alfredo Duno 21:10 Ralphy Velazquez 22:30 Edward Florentino 24:10 Henry Bolte 24:40 Cam Cannarella 26:35 Juneiker Caceres 26:55 Angeibel Gomez 27:40 Jefferson Rojas 29:05 Andrew Fischer 31:25 Angel Genao 32:15 Luis Pena 34:30 Prospects most likely to hit 30 HR 36:15 Hayden Alvarez 36:35 Jackson Flora 37:35 Best draft fits 39:00 Braylon Doughty 40:40 Brady Ebel 41:40 Demetrio Crisantes 43:00 Enddy Azocar/Sebastian Dos Santos 44:25 Anthony Eyanson 45:10 Devin Fitz-Gerald 46:20 Ramon Marquez 48:15 Aiva Arquette 49:30 Dax Kilby/Steele Hall 51:00 Rafe Perich 54:15 Austin Overn 55:20 Brody Hopkins 56:35 Josiah Ragsdale/Ricki Moneys 58:15 DSL Standouts 01:00:40 Injured prospects 01:03:40 Wyatt Sa

Are we worried about Jacob Misiorowski from a fantasy perspective? Could the Rays miss the playoffs? Fred Zinkie shares six bold predictions and Jeff Erickson adds one of his own. --- 00:00 Six Bold Second Half Predictions 00:30 Welcome to Fred Zinkie 01:00 News 01:15 Jacob Misiorowski threw just 4 innings last night….. 09:00 Joe Ryan and Freddy Peralta got rocked….. 14:50 Braxton Ashcraft has hit the skids….. 16:10 Trea Turner and Jazz Chisholm Jr. both turned around disappointing seasons for one night 17:15 Bobby Witt Jr. and Julio Rodriguez left their respective games early….. 20:45 Edwin Diaz should be back this weekend or early next week….. 21:30 Max Meyer and Adley Rutschman both went on the IL….. 24:45 Kyle Teel (ankle) left the game and was later seen on crutches….. 26:25 Tommy White had four hits….. 27:40 Cal Raleigh hit a grand slam….. 30:00 Ronel Blanco struck out eight in his return 31:30 Circa 33:03 BlueWire 33:10 BOLD second half predictions. 33:15 The Rays will miss the postseason. 38:30 Led by

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up the first weekend of the second half discussing the surging Red Sox, the slumping Cal Raleigh, the sneaky good Bryan Reynolds and all the adds and drops in FAAB, plus much, much more! Circa Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details.    Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Erik is joined by Michael Govier to preview the American League trade deadline. Which bubble teams will buy at the deadline and which will become sellers? --- 00:00 Headlines 4:00 Detroit Tigers 15:55 Toronto Blue Jays 20:45 Baltimore Orioles 26:10 Houston Astros 32:55 Boston Red Sox 37:40 Minnesota Twins 41:40 Seattle Mariners 47:40 Texas Rangers 54:40 Cleveland Guardians 59:10 Chicago White Sox --- Circa Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details. Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details. Intro/Back at it to begin the second half! Steak League FAAB: Tommy White $11 Lance McCullers $4 Zach Thornton $3 Jackson Jobe $2 Tyler Locklear $1 Merrill Kelly $1 Ronel Blanco $1 Other names to consider: Edwin Diaz, Mason Montgomery, Carmen Mlodzinski Two-start pitchers (week of July 20, 2026) Mitch Bratt 0 Jeffrey Springs 0 Bryce Elder 1 (Todd 0) Reynaldo Lopez 2 Shane Baz 3 Payton Tolle 4 Jameson Taillon 0 Andrew Abbott 3 Parker Messick 4 (Todd 5) Slade Cecconi 3 Kyle Freeland 0 Erick Fedde 1 (Todd 2) Jack Flaherty 3 (Todd 4) Framber Valdez 4 (Todd 3) Michael Wacha 3 Luinder Avila 0 Jose Soriano 3 Janson Junk 2 (Todd 3) Jacob Misiorowski 5 Joe Ryan 5 Freddy Peralta 4 (Todd 3) Will Warren 2 (Todd 3) Cristopher Sanchez 5 Mitch Keller 1 Randy Vasquez 1 Walker Bu

Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire targets to start the second half of the season. --- 1:26 Chase Burns extension 4:52 Lance McCullers trade 7:44 Mickey Moniak 10:55 Zack Gelof 14:14 Sam Antonacci 17:56 Jake Mangum 21:09 Tommy White 24:30 Griffin Conine 26:22 Circa 27:57 Cade Cavalli 33:00 Christian Scott 33:49 Brandon Sproat 36:15 Peter Lambert 39:05 Dustin May 41:41 Zach Thornton 44:00 Tyler Mahle 48:54 Cam Smith 53:22 Edward Cabrera 56:47 Charlie Condon 1:01:14 Joshua Baez 1:03:29 Kade Anderson 1:07:55 Quinn Mathews 1:10:31 Garrett Whitlock 1:13:29 Luke Weaver 1:16:20 Smart Money 1:17:29 Outro --- Circa Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details. Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.ads

James Anderson is joined by Chris Welsh (@isitthewelsh), Eric Cross (@EricCrossMLB) and Lucas Morel (@theprospectprof) for a First-Year Player Mock Draft featuring just players selected in the 2026 MLB Draft!   01:50 Roch Cholowsky 04:10 Grady Emerson 08:15 Vahn Lackey 11:00 Drew Burress 13:30 Tyler Bell 14:50 Jacob Lombard 16:50 Jackson Flora 19:30 Eric Booth Jr. 20:20 Trevor Condon 21:55 Sawyer Strosnider 20:20 Derek Curiel 26:45 AJ Gracia 28:50 Zion Rose 30:10 Liam Peterson 31:50 Ace Reese 34:15 Cameron Flukey 35:30 Justin Lebron 38:20 Caden Sorrell 40:40 Chris Hacopian 42:00 Jared Grindlinger 43:20 Gio Rojas 44:40 Cole Prosek 46:50 Bo Lowrance 49:00 Landon Thome 50:20 Final Thoughts Circa Cash in this football season in Las Vegas with 3 Circa Sports Contests! $30 Million in guaranteed prizes! Visit CircaSports for details. Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecas

Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week. --- 2:35 Kyle Karros 5:36 Luis Lara 10:41 Gabriel Moreno 13:00 Ryan Jeffers 18:28 Kody Clemens 21:36 A.J. Ewing 23:46 Bailey Ober 27:01 Tyler Wells 31:52 Christian Scott 34:40 Jared Jones 37:19 SeatGeek 38:09 Gridiron Trivia 39:30 Luinder Avila 43:08 Patrick Sandoval 45:21 Jordan Romano 48:11 Janson Junk 51:11 AJ Smith-Shawver 54:40 Romy Gonzalez 57:00 Tyler Tolbert 59:44 Victor Bericoto 1:01:42 Tristan Peters 1:05:08 Ryan Waldschmidt 1:07:54 Smart Money 1:09:46 Outro --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch.  Your seats are waiting. Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about

SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Download Gridiron Trivia today! 0:00 Intro/Taking stock of the first half Steak League FAAB: Tyler Wells $12 Bailey Ober $5 Jorge Polanco $4 Patrick Sandoval $4 Brandon Pfaadt $3 Joshua Kuroda-Grauer $3 Heriberto Hernandez $1 JP Sears $1 Seth Lugo $0 Robert Gasser $0 Jacob Webb $0 Edwin Diaz $0 Other names to consider: Tyler Tolbert, Jackson Jobe Taking stock of the first half: Top earners: Jacob Misiorowski $46.67 James Wood $39.66 Jordan Walker $36.84 Pete Crow-Armstrong $36.65 Yordan Alvarez $35.20 Cam Schlittler $33.33 CJ Abrams $32.81 Ben Rice $31.01 Otto Lopez $29.80 Mason Miller $29.05 Bobby Witt $28.47 Nick Kurtz $28.01 Top players drafted with NEGATIVE value earned: Garrett Crochet Cal Raleigh Edwin Diaz Francisco Lindor H

Erik Halterman is joined by Taylor Tarter to discuss which National League bubble teams will buy at the deadline and which will sell. --- 00:00 Headlines 12:25 Nationals 27:25 Cubs 31:45 Phillies 38:55 Marlins 47:50 Cardinals 53:20 Pirates 58:00 Other teams --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Johnny Venezia (@_JohnnyVTV) joins Jeff Erickson to preview the MLB Draft, which begins on Saturday. --- 00:00 MLB Draft Pod with Johnny Venezia 00:15 Welcome to Johnny 01:00 College Ball Emphasis 02:30 First Pick 03:00 Slot Value 05:15 Player Dives 05:25 Vahn Lackey 08:30 Roch Cholowsky 11:00 Drew Burress 14:15 Jackson Flora 17:00 Cam Flukey 19:30 Mason Edwards 20:00 Gridiron Trivia 21:00 Ace Reese 23:50 Daniel Jackson 25:30 Betting the Draft 26:50 Cade Townsend 28:30 Justin Lebron 31:00 Liam Peterson 32:56 BlueWire 33:00 SeatGeek 34:00 Tyler Bell 36:00 Derek Curiel 37:45 Caden Sorrell 40:30 Brody Bumila 41:40 Landing Spots 44:00 Revisiting Past Draftees 44:30 Eli Willits 46:24 Kade Anderson 50:55 Charlie Condon --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. (Hyperlink: https://seatgeek.com/mlb-tickets?aid=16244&pid=integration&rid=1&utm_medium=partnership&utm_source=rotowire&utm_campaign=integrati

Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline joins James Anderson for their annual MLB Draft preview!   00:20 Roch Cholowsky 02:55 Vahn Lackey 07:20 Grady Emerson 15:45 Drew Burress 20:15 Jacob Lombard vs. Eric Booth Jr. 23:15 Tyler Bell vs. Justin Lebron 28:20 SEC is the best conference 32:15 AJ Garcia 34:05 Derek Curiel 37:55 Sawyer Strosnider vs. Ace Reese 41:45 Jackson Flora 44:10 Liam Peterson 45:20 Cameron Flukey 46:20 Hunter Dietz 49:40 Tegan Kuhns 50:25 Cade Townsend 51:25 Peyton Bonds 52:55 Gio Rojas 54:15 Brody Bumila 56:45 Sleeper prep hitters   SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for a

Was Brice Turang the biggest All-Star snub? Using the RotoWire Earned Auction Value too, Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss the biggest snubs. --- 00:00 Fred Pod 7-7-26 00:15 News: 00:30 Konnor Griffin Out 8-to-10 Weeks (finger) 03:40 Ryan Helsley seeking a second opinion 08:20 Bryron Buxton (hip) on IL 09:45 Jacob Wilson (thumb) returning 12:45 Christopher Sanchez got rocked. He goes into the ASB with 3 stinkers in his past 5 starts 16:10 Cole Carrigg had another good game and has a .978 OPS after 25 games….. 18:30 Since June 1, Kevin Gausman is 0-5 with a 6.51 ERA and 1.47 WHIP…. 22:00 Vladdy went hitless again last night. He’s the 35th 1B in the Rotowire EAV calculator. 24:40 The Walker Buehler bubble continued to burst….. 30:00 It was a bad night for closers, as Tanner Scott, Raisel Iglesias and Devin Williams all blew saves 32:00 The Nats offense continues to cook and leads MLB in runs. The big improvement is power, as they are top five in doubles, triples and homers. 34:45 Gridiron Trivia 35:40 SeatG

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a big weekend in fantasy baseball, breaking down the first halves of Jake McCarthy, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Alec Burleson (and many others), all the injury news and notes, a big upcoming week of games and another active week in FAAB, highlighted by the huge bids on Hunter Greene. SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting.   Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jeremy Schneider and Todd Zola share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week. 0:01 Intro 0:59 Chase DeLauter 2:17 Heliot Ramos 5:11 Matt McLain 8:50 Caleb Durbin 12:00 Masyn Winn 14:43 Henry Bolte 18:50 Sean Manaea 21:23 Jake Bennett 24:12 Jack Flaherty 27:28 Brandon Young 30:57 SeatGeek 32:15 Patrick Sandoval 36:12 Hurston Waldrep 40:04 Nick Pivetta 43:28 Dean Kremer 46:03 Robert Gasser 51:27 Gridiron Trivia 52:27 Joshua Kuroda-Grauer   56:29 Anthony Seigler 57:57 Jonah Heim 58:59 Randal Grichuk 1:01:49 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 1:04:04 Outro SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to

SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Download Gridiron Trivia today! 0:00 Intro/Esmerlyn Valdez is on a heater! Steak League FAAB: Yohendrick Pinango $4 Javier Sanoja $4 Mason Barnett $4 Jimmy Herget $2 Jacob Gonzalez $1 Randal Grichuk $1 (dropping Kaelen Culpepper) 11:15 Mason Montgomery $1 Kyle Teel $1 David Peterson $1 Alejandro Osuna $0 Dylan Beavers $0 Garrett Whitlock $0 14:30 Two-start pitchers (week of July 6, 2026): Brandon Pfaadt 2 Zac Gallen 1 (Todd 2) Jeffrey Springs 1 Reynaldo Lopez 3 Bryce Elder 1 (Todd 0) Shane Baz 4 (Todd 3) Peyton Tolle 4 Matthew Boyd 4 (Todd 3) Andrew Abbott 3 Joey Cantillo 3 Kyle Freeland 0 Michael Lorenzen 0 27:40 Noah Schultz 2 Tarik Skubal 5 Michael Burrows 1 Noah Cameron 1 Seth Lugo 2 (Todd 1) Jose Soriano 4 Max Meyer 4 (Todd 5) Jacob Misiorowski 5 Taj Bradley 3 (Todd 4) Freddy Peralta 4 (Todd 3) Kodai Senga 0 Wil

Erik Halterman is joined by Sara Sanchez to discuss how to win with a team that waited on starting pitching — something Sara is having plenty of success with this season. --- 00:00 Intro and headlines 13:30 When and why to wait on pitching 28:15 Potential aces if you wait on pitching 51:15 How many mid-round aces are there? 55:15 In-season management 1:00:10 Would you recommend this build? --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code PODCAST at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of persona

James Anderson and Matt Eddy of Baseball America draft the top 30 catchers to roster in dynasty leagues!   03:55 Catcher Trends 06:40 Drake Baldwin 08:15 Samuel Basallo 09:50 Shea Langeliers 10:35 William Contreras 11:50 Cal Raleigh 15:30 Rainiel Rodriguez 17:40 Dillon Dingler 19:05 Hunter Goodman 20:20 Carter Jensen 21:30 Ivan Herrera 22:55 Adley Rutschman 23:50 Joe Mack 25:15 Kyle Teel 26:30 Liam Hicks 27:30 Will Smith 28:30 Gabriel Moreno 29:40 Francisco Alvarez 30:55 Ethan Salas 32:30 Alejandro Kirk 33:15 Vahn Lackey 35:25 Dalton Rushing 36:35 Alfredo Duno 37:40 Franklin Primera 38:40 Nathan Flewelling 40:05 Austin Wells 40:55 Ryan Jeffers 41:50 Keibert Ruiz 42:55 Endy Rodriguez 43:55 Caden Bodine 44:35 Yainer Diaz 45:40 Final Thoughts   SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting.   Gridiron Trivia Download Gridiron Trivia today!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire