Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad recap another batch of big name injuries across the league, talk AL West and AL East and break down a big weekend in FAAB, led by Mets pitcher Christian Scott. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWireDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%. Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 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 Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of BaseballHQ (@RyanBHQ) to discuss the players improving in multiple ways at once this season.---00:00 Headlines17:15 Vinnie Pasquantino24:00 Brice Turang, Brenton Doyle28:15 Tyler Stephenson, Willy Adames32:15 Alec Bohm, Christian Walker, Salvador Perez39:15 More top hitters showing improvements41:15 Sleeper hitters showing improvements53:45 Pitchers showing improvements---This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest headlines, including the Luis Arraez trade, and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week.---Headlines: 00:00Priority FAAB Pitchers: 20:53Priority FAAB Hitters: 35:09Budget Pitchers: 51:41Budget Hitters: 1:00:25---This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more!This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!0:00 Intro/Christian Scott is on his way to join the MetsPickups Joey Loperfido Tyler Black 9:00 Garrett Cooper Kyle Gibson 10:30 Wenceel Perez $3 Jose Miranda $1 14:00 Jacob Young 22:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 6, 2024) Zac Gallen 5 Justin Steele 3 Frankie Montas 2 Corbin Carroll Triston McKenzie 3 33:30 Logan Allen 3 Dakota Hudson 0 Mike Soroka 0 Mike

Paul Goldschmidt is off to an awful start to the season - what's our level of panic? Ryan Hallam (@fightingchance) joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Goldy and a handful of other struggling first basemen, the Cardinals, and even Fantasy Survivor!---00:00 - I. Slumping First Basemen01:00 - Goldy04:00 - Matt Olson06:30 - Vladdy Jr.10:45 - Freddie Freeman* (sort of - a bit of a power drought)13:00 - Ryan’s work for Spotlight14:00 - Spencer Torkelson16:00 - Jordan Walker18:45 - Yandy Diaz21:00 - Andrew Vaughn23:30 - Jose Abreu26:00 - II. Cardinals Talk27:00 - 14-17, -30 run differential, 109 R scored29:30 - Sorting out the OF now and going forward33:30 - Rotation36:00 - Manager / Front Office38:35 - III. Check in on Tout, your other leagues42:30 - IV. Fantasy Survivor---Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plu

Lazaro Montes Roderick Arias Sebastian Walcott Brett Wichrowski Jeral Perez Ethan Salas Nelson Rada Colt Emerson Jaison Chourio Ralphy Velazquez Nazzan Zanetello Yophery Rodriguez Alfredo Duno Leodalis De Vries Felnin Celesten Joendry Vargas Rayner Arias Paulino Santana Walker Martin Welbyn Francisca Robert Calaz Jeter Martinez Yoelin Cespedes Starlyn Caba Jose Perdomo Enmanuel Bonilla Brailer Guerrero Dawel Joseph Fernando Cruz Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!

If you could re-draft today, where would Corbin Carroll go? How about Ranger Suárez? Would Ronald Acuña Jr. still go first? We resolved to find these questions out in the Yahoo! Friends & Family draft on Monday night. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review the results and the shifting player values.---Full draft results: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/84482/draftresults---00:00 - Recapping the Yahoo! F&F Draft. 04:25 - Mookie Betts 1.106:30 - Elly De La Cruz 1.509:00 - Fred takes Corbin Burnes 1.811:00 - Jeff takes Gunnar Henderson 1.1113:00 - First-round recap16:30 - Yordan Alvarez 2.1617:30 - Tarik Skubal 2.19, 3rd pitcher taken19:00 - Cooling off on early pitchers22:30 - Corbin Carroll 2.2530:15 - Adolis Garcia 2.2633:00 - Two more aces for Fred (Freddy Peralta, Aaron Nola)34:20 - When to take closers?36:20 - Mike Trout 3.3239:00 - Slumping Blue Jays hitters41:45 - Early positive outliers - Shota Imanaga, Marcell Ozuna, Ronel Blanco48:15 - Fred’s Full Team53:15 - Jeff’s Full Team---Vivid

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss a busy weekend baseball, cover all the adds / drops in FAAB and discuss some surprising early stars in fantasy baseball. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWireDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Sim

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Chris Towers of CBS Sports (@CTowersCBS) discuss which first-rounders were drafted too high and which April standouts should have gone much earlier.---00:00 Headlines13:00 Ronald Acuna21:45 Other First-Rounders: Julio Rodriguez, Corbin Carroll, Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge42:45 Standout April hitters: Elly De La Cruz, CJ Abrams, Mike Trout57:45 Standout April pitchers: Jared Jones, Ranger Suarez, Shota Imanaga---Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) hit on the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 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.

Todd Zola welcomes ESPN's Tristan H. Cockcroft as co-host to discuss early season management, streaming pitchers in points leagues and rank next week's two-start pitchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 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.

Actress and Podcast Host Ellen Adair joins Jeff Erickson to talk Phillies, including whether there's reason for panic on Nick Castellanos and Aaron Nola, and why Ranger Suarez is pitching so well right now. Plus we talk about the intersection of her fandom and her career.---00:00 - I. Phillies talk00:30 - Zack Wheeler01:30 - Bullpen05:15 - Ranger Suarez09:30 - Spencer Turnbull / Taijuan Walker15:45 - Aaron Nola18:20 - Nick Castellanos24:45 - Alec Bohm's hot start27:00 - Slow starts for Stott, Realmuto29:30 - Anyone under the radar at the majors or minors we should look out for?30:35 - Johan Rojas33:00 - II. Career & Fandom33:15 - Take Me In To the Ballgame35:00 - Finding time w/ auditions/callbacks37:30 - Acting in an emerging AI universe45:00 - Congrats on your award - HERD48:00 - Favorite Projects51:00 - MLBN Off Base---Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and ever

IL Stashes Biggest FAAB buys/regrets Elly De La Cruz Mike Trout Wyatt Langford Hunter Brown Bo Naylor Parker Meadows Matt Wallner Liover Peguero Jonathan India Thairo Estrada Alejandro Kirk Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by

Heston Kjerstad just got the call - how interested are we in grabbing him? Keaton Winn wins again! Albert Suarez has had two great starts in a row. Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie discuss those players and more!---00:00 - Heston Kjerstad is up! How interested are we?12:15 - Monday results:12:30 - Did WE find something useful in Albert Suarez?16:25 - Keaton Winn19:15 - The Rockies stink26:30 - Ranger Suarez32:15 - Bryce Elder36:00 - We undervalued Yusei Kikuchi…..41:00 - Is Chris Paddack good or are the White Sox THAT bad?43:00 - Are the Cards starting to break out of their collective slump?46:00 - Why is Corbin Carroll so bad?…..52:15 - Triston Casas out “a while”55:30 - Would you rather be off to a good start in hitting or pitching? Or does it matter?---Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vi

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss all the FAAB action from the weekend and also dive into some big names on offense who have struggled to start the 2024 season, including Paul Goldschmidt, Randy Arozarena and Gleyber Torres. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWireVivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium t

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Kev Mahserejian (@RotoSurgeon) of RotoBaller to check in on the most widely-hyped sleepers of draft season to see who's started off hot and who's started off cold.---00:00 Headlines19:30 Sleepers off to bad starts: Wyatt Langford, AJ Puk, Maikel Garcia, Victor Scott, Hunter Brown, Gavin Stone, Henry Davis43:00 Sleepers off to hot starts: Jared Jones, Shota Imanaga, Bryce Miller, Kutter Crawford, Nelson Velasquez, Jackson Merrill1:01:15 Bust off to a great start: Elly De La Cruz---This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial.

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations.---Headlines: 00:00Priority FAAB Hitters: 20:02Priority FAAB Pitchers: 40:53Budget Pitchers: 48:22Budget Hitters: 1:01:14---This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before.Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk struggling players, pickups and more before grading all of next week's two-start pitching options.This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today!Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before.Download On Demand DFS Today! 0:00 Intro/Players young and old are struggling/Jack LeiterPickups Jack Leiter wasn’t picked up in the RotoWire Steak League 6:50 Kirby Yates -

After 18 games, Francisco Lindor is hitting .151 with one homer and no stolen bases. What's our level of panic, especially when comparing him to other shortstops in the same range like Gunnar Henderson and CJ Abrams? CJ Kaltenbach (aka The Seige) joins Jeff Erickson.---00:00 - CJ Abrams04:30 - Ronald Acuña06:30 - Ozzie Albies07:00 - Francisco Lindor09:00 - Anthony Volpe10:00 - Jackson Merrill11:15 - Elly De La Cruz12:30 - Jack Leiter's debut19:00 - General FAAB approach?22:00 - O’s talk, Gunnar Henderson (and other options we had at the turn)24:15 - Rafael Devers28:30 - Red Sox issues: Bello, Houck32:20 - Jared Jones36:00 - Drafting from 1.141:30 - INJ Notes: Darvish, Bryant, Albies, Verlander44:00 - Mike Trout46:00 - Q&A---Vivid Seats Promotional CopyThis MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you ea

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