Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week. --- 0:28 Intro 2:48 Jackson Holliday 4:42 Noelvi Marte 8:27 Jung Hoo Lee 10:40 Edwin Arroyo 14:20 Troy Johnston 17:31 Bryce Eldridge 22:17 Noah Cameron 24:49 Dustin May 28:18 Reid Detmers 31:27 Christian Scott 33:40 SeatGeek 36:11 Sean Manaea 38:44 Andrew Alvarez 42:29 Martin Perez 44:46 Alex Lange 48:05 Tyler Phillips 56:15 Jacob Gonzalez 59:32 Ty France 1:01:46 Wade Meckler 1:04:54 Jimmy Crooks 1:07:17 Jorge Mateo 1:09:03 Smart Money 1:10:49 Outro --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch.  Your seats are waiting. 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.

SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. 0:00 Intro/Aaron Judge will be re-evaluated in 4-to-6 weeks Steak League FAAB: 8:30 Will Vest $6 Yoendrys Gomez $4 Daniel Lynch $4 Nathan Lukes $3 Jacob Gonzalez $3 Sean Manaea $3 Shane Drohan $2 Heriberto Hernandez $0 15:20 Other names to consider: Noelvi Marte, Jonah Cox, Joshua Baez, Alex Lange Two-start pitchers: Zac Gallen 2 Jeffrey Springs 2 (Todd 1) Grant Holmes 3 (Todd 2) Chris Bassitt 1 Trevor Rogers 2 Payton Tolle 4 Shota Imanaga 3 Andrew Abbott 3 33:20 Gavin Williams 4 Tomoyuki Sugano 0 Davis Martin 2 Stephen Kolek 2 (Todd 3) 39:15 Grayson Rodriguez 1 Braxton Garrett 0 Kyle Harrison 5 44:50 Taj Bradley 3 Kodai Senga 1 Gerrit Cole 3 (Todd 4) Cristopher Sanchez 5 Paul Skenes 5 Walker Buehler 2 Logan Gilbert 4 George Kirby 4 Logan Webb 4 Dustin May 2 (Todd 4) Nathan Eovaldi 4 Patrick Corbin 0 Miles Mikolas 0 57:2

Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Crumpler to discuss a handful of confusing starting pitchers. --- 00:00 Headlines 13:45 Kyle Bradish 16:20 Bubba Chandler 19:40 Foster Griffin 23:10 Cade Cavalli 26:35 Taj Bradley 29:05 Nolan McLean 32:00 Landen Roupp 36:35 Spencer Arrighetti 39:30 Justin Wrobleski 42:20 Walbert Urena 46:15 Connelly Early 47:55 Randy Vasquez 50:10 J.T. Ginn 53:00 Dustin May 55:30 Aaron Nola 58:10 Jesus Luzardo 1:01:15 Reid Detmers 1:03:40 Emmet Sheehan 1:06:10 Logan Webb --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. 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 and Rhys White talk about a handful of their favorite minor leaguers to buy low on as well as a few to sell high!   01:50 Liam Doyle 03:30 Jarlin Susana 07:15 Caden Bodine 10:30 Cooper Ingle 13:55 Cooper Pratt 15:25 Steele Hall 17:30 Lazaro Montes 19:35 Charles Davalan 20:35 Ronny Cruz 22:15 Creed Willems 25:10 Brody Hopkins 26:35 Reinold Navarro 28:50 Tyler Bremner 30:35 Felnin Celesten 33:10 Caleb Bonemer 34:30 Tony Blanco Jr. 36:55 Daniel Eagen 39:25 Jurrangelo Cijntje 40:15 Jake Munroe/Parks Harber 41:50 Ryan Wideman   SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. 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.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had just three extra-base hits for the entire month of May. Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie will break down eight other interesting stats for the month of May that fantasy managers need to know! --- 00:00 MLB Podcast 6-2-26 00:15 Welcome to Fred Zinkie 01:00 Aaron Judge scratched with a shoulder issue 03:00 Start Joey Cantillo? Or Gage Jump? 06:20 Josh Hader activated from 60-day IL 08:30 Elly De La Cruz out 2-4 weeks, Edwin Arroyo up 14:45 Tigers finally broke out 16:30 RotoWire Earned Auction Values - Catchers 18:15 Skubal Back Soon 20:00 Colt Emerson Has 3 Homers 21:47 Sean Manaea 24:00 Jose Soriano Regression 26:00 XFL Trade 28:40 Marcus Semien 29:40 Seat Geek 30:40 8 May Stats Managers Need To Know 31:00 Julio Rodriguez 35:00 Jarren Duran 36:45 JJ Bleday 39:40 Casey Schmidt 43:00 BlueWire Network 43:05 Vlad Guerrero Jr. 45:40 Michael Busch 46:45 Reid Detmers 49:00 Cade Smith 50:30 Andrew Abbott - Back From the Dead? 52:10 Michael Soroka 54:00 RotoWire Smart Money --- SeatGeek SeatGeek

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a fun weekend in baseball and break down all the adds and drops across another active Sunday in FAAB. They discuss how to handle the struggling Sandy Alcantara and Jac Caglianone, celebrate Fernando Tatis, Jr finally homering, recap all the weekend injuries and highlight the popular adds in free agency, including Jared Jones, Gage Jump, Troy Melton and many more.   SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch.  Your seats are waiting.  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 Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week. --- 0:23 Intro 3:38 Curtis Mead 6:10 Sam Antonacci 7:34 Spencer Horwitz 9:30 Alex Call 11:23 Keibert Ruiz 13:22 Jared Jones 15:10 Walbert Urena 17:03 Gage Jump 20:04 Troy Melton 21:51 Kyle Finnegan/Will Vest 31:05 David Sandlin 33:12 Stephen Kolek 36:26 Coleman Crow 38:37 Daniel Lynch IV 42:05 Zack Littell 46:48 Tommy Troy 48:54 Taylor Trammell 50:49 Joc Pederson 53:17 Javier Sanoja 59:30 Rikuu Nishida 1:02:08 Smart Money --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch.  Your seats are waiting. 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.

SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch. Your seats are waiting. 0:00 Intro/Happy Jared Jones Day to those who celebrate Steak League FAAB: Curtis Mead $16 Stephen Kolek $9 6:45 Gage Jump $9 Colton Cowser $5 Kirby Yates $4 Anthony Volpe $4 12:45 Jonah Tong $3 Blake Dunn $3 Tommy Troy $3 Coleman Crow $3 Bryan Torres $1 River Ryan $0 21:00 Kaelen Culpepper $0 Chad Patrick $0 Other names to consider: Yoendrys Gomez, Rikuu Nishida, Karson Milbrandt, Joshua Baez 24:50 Two-start pitchers: Eduardo Rodriguez 3 Mike Soroka 2 (Todd 3) Gage Jump 3 (Todd 2) Bryce Elder 3 (Todd 4) Shane Baz 3 (Todd 4) Connelly Early 3 33:20 Jameson Taillon 2 (Todd 1) Chase Burns 5 Joey Cantillo 1 (Todd 2) Kyle Freeland 0 David Sandlin 1 Casey Mize 4 Luinder Avila 0 Noah Cameron 2 Jose Soriano 4 Emmett Sheehan 3 Sandy Alcantara 3 (Todd 2) Kyle Harrison 4 Chad Patrick 2 Joe Ryan 5 David Peterson 1 Cam Sch

Erik Halterman is joined by Joe Orrico to look at some breakout and bust hitters who may have shown signs of heading in that direction late last season. --- 00:00 Headlines 12:20 Ben Rice 18:00 Corbin Carroll 21:15 Ryan Jeffers 24:00 Miguel Vargas 26:55 Michael Harris 30:15 Christian Walker 32:45 Ernie Clement 36:20 Ozzie Albies 40:50 Ketel Marte 45:55 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 52:05 Jose Ramirez 55:50 Spencer Torkelson 58:00 Gunnar Henderson 1:01:30 Maikel Garcia 1:04:10 Manny Machado 1:07:45 Cal Raleigh 1:10:25 Fernando Tatis Jr. --- SeatGeek SeatGeek has seats to every ballpark, every matchup, every rivalry game you've been meaning to catch.  Your seats are waiting. 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 his updated top 400 prospect rankings!   01:20 Tiers 02:20 Rankings Shakeup 04:20 Best power-hitting prospect 06:10 ETA for top prospects 07:45 Ceiling comps 08:40 Seth Hernandez, Kade Anderson 10:50 Henry Bolte 12:50 Mike Sirota 14:45 Aidan Miller 15:50 Franklin Arias 18:30 Luis Hernandez 19:50 Devin Fitz-Gerald 22:10 Caleb Bonemer 23:40 Esmerlyn Valdez 24:55 Braden Montgomery 25:55 Jett Williams 26:45 Ryan Sloan, Thomas White 29:20 Tate Southisene 31:10 Alexander Frias 33:25 Kendry Chourio 35:35 Aiva Arquette 36:50 Austin Overn 38:15 Jonathan Santucci 40:05 Karson Milbrandt, Kaelen Culpepper 41:45 Wei-En Lin 42:40 Tony Blanco Jr. 43:30 Bryce Rainer 44:35 Nolan Perry 46:40 Sean Keys 47:20 Yasser Mercedes 48:15 Nate Snead 49:10 Hayden Alvarez 50:10 Parks Harber, Jonah Cox 51:30 Yairo Padilla 52:00 Quinn Mathews 52:45 Felnin Celesten 54:30 Cam Cannarella 55:10 Jacob Gonzalez 56:45 Kristian Campbell 57:05 Lonnie White 58:15 Jackson Steensma 59:15 Griffin

Every MLB season brings surprises. This year you want to avoid having your starters going up against the Nats, & yet you do want them up against the Mets and Red Sox! Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss teams we want our pitchers to target. --- 00:00 MLB Podcast 5-26-26 00:15 News 01:30 Tanner Bibee has a 1000.00 ERA when in my lineup and a 0.0001 ERA when on my bench LOL. He gave up 5 homers last night to a Nats offense that isn’t slowing down….. 03:00 Jesse Scholtens disaster 05:45 Dylan Cease to IL…… 07:00 Addison Barger still isn’t throwing because no one returns to the IL when they are supposed to…… 11:00 Hunter Brown is close to returning….. 12:45 Tatsuyi Imai could be on track, or the Rangers are just terrible at home, but a no-hitter is a no-hitter…….. 14:30 Vlad Guerrero Theory 26:30 Logan Webb will return this weekend but Trevor McDonald will get another start….. 32:00 Cole Ragans shut down 2-3 days….. 33:30 Jacob Misiorowski is awesome…… 43:00 Gage Jump Getting the Call; Noah Schultz to the I

Jeff Erickson and guest host Derek VanRiper from The Athletic's Rates & Barrels podcast get you set for Memorial Day Week's slate, and reviews the top free agents of the week, including Colt Emerson. --- 00:00 MLB Podcast 5-24-26 00:20 Welcome to Derek VanRiper - Rates & Barrels, The Athletic! 01:50 NEWS 02:00 Toronto Blue Jays - Vlad Guerrero - elbow; Dylan Cease - hamstring. 06:20 Tigers Collapsing - Kenley Jansen blown save in first game of the DH. Tigers are 21-33 and before the 2nd game of the DH, lost 8 in a row, and 9/10. 12:30 Aaron Judge walk-off homer against Rays - snaps 3 game losing streak. 14:00 Parker Messick with sixth win of the year, CLE takes 2/3 from PHI. 16:15 Marlins walk-off GS against Devin Williams to sweep the Mets. 22:00 Corey Seager (back) - Live BP cancelled, won’t be evaluated again for another week. 22:45 Reid Detmers K’s 14 Rangers 23:15 Cubs get swept by the Astros, have lost eight in a row. 26:50 Tatis Legal Verdict (if time) 31:58 BlueWire 32:05 Schedule Notes 32:15

Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week. --- Intro: 0:00 Miguel Andujar: 2:53 Colt Emerson: 4:46 Gavin Sheets: 7:55 Esmerlyn Valdez: 10:00 Andrew Vaughn: 12:55 Anthony Volpe: 15:23 Zebby Matthews: 18:30 Connor Prielipp: 21:24 Grant Taylor: 23:32 Cade Cavalli: 26:24 Kumar Rocker: 29:30 Spencer Miles: 31:45 Juan Mejia: 35:19 Zach Thornton: 38:06 Jesse Scholtens: 45:49 Tony Santillan: 48:17 Bryan Abreu: 49:24 Dylan Crews: 50:41 Michael Conforto: 53:58 Richie Palacios: 56:17 Hunter Feduccia: 58:40 Daniel Susac: 1:00:50 Smart Money: 1:03:02 Outro: 1:04:44 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.

0:00 Intro/the Detroit Tigers have lost 14 of 16… Steak League FAAB: 5:45 Zebby Matthews $15 Kumar Rocker $11 Esmyerlyn Valdez $6 Grant Taylor $5 Cedric Mullins $4 Robert Gasser $4 Hogan Harris $3 Cole Carrigg $2 Kodai Senga $1 Tony Santillan $0 The Password $0 12:10 Other names to consider: River Ryan, Joshua Baez, Kaelen Culpepper, Jonah Tong, Pedro Ramirez 16:10 Two-start pitchers: Merrill Kelly 2 Aaron Civale 2 (Todd 1) Chris Sale 5 Kyle Bradish 4 Shane Baz 2 Ranger Suarez 4 (Todd 3) Ben Brown 3 (Todd 4) Edward Cabrera 2 Chase Burns 5 Tanner Bibee 3 (Todd 4) Kyle Freeland 0 Anthony Kay 2 Sean Burke 2 (Todd 1) Keider Montero 1 Tatsuya Imai 1 Michael Wacha 3 (Todd 4) Jack Kochanowicz 0 Janson Junk 0 Jacob Misiorowski 5 Zebby Matthews 3 Joe Ryan 5 Nolan McLean 5 Cam Schlittler 5 47:00 Jesus Luzardo 4 (Todd 5) Carmen Mlodzinski 2 (Todd 1) Griffin Canning 2 (Todd 1) 50:45 Bryce Miller 4 (Todd 3) Landen Roupp 2 (Todd 3) Michael McGreevy

Erik Halterman is joined by Paul Sporer to discuss just how far we should move some of the most (and least) impressive pitchers so far on our rest-of-season rankings. --- 00:00 Headlines 12:40 Young aces: Schlittler, Misiorowski, Burns, McLean 25:50 Out of nowhere: Martin, Elder, Wrobleski, Arrighetti, McGreevy 34:00 Breakouts: Soriano, Harrison, Messick 39:35 Random great vets: Martinez, Wacha 41:30 Injury bouncebacks: McClanahan, Wheeler, Bradish 52:35 Disappointments: Rogers, Perez 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 and Chris Blessing discuss some of the top breakout prospects in the minors while also discussing some prospects who are losing value in dynasty leagues!   02:40 Eric Hartman 11:55 John Gil 20:10 Isaiah Drake 23:25 Conor Essenburg 26:15 Gage Wood 34:35 Anthony Eyanson 41:40 Henry Godbout 46:55 Xavier Isaac 54:40 Mitch Voit 56:25 Cam Collier 58:30 Hunter Parks 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.

One quarter of the way into the season, James Wood and the Washington Nationals lead the majors in runs scored. Should we be benching all of our starters against them? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss which offenses to avoid.  --- 00:00 MLB Pod 5-19-26 00:20 News: 00:30 The IL was a popular spot yesterday. Corey Seager, 07:00 Jose Altuve 09:30 Ewing vs. Waldschmidt vs. Emerson 12:12 Kris Bubic all went on it. 13:00 Ronald Acuna Jr., Jeremy Pena and Jackson Holliday came off it….. 15:00 Drake Baldwin (oblique) to the IL 18:30 Ryan Jeffers (Hamate Bone) out 6-8 weeks 20:15 Gerrit Cole returns Friday 22:30 Royce Lewis Demoted 22:45 The other notable transaction was Dylan Crews being recalled…. 23:30 MacKenzie Gore left with a sore lat, which likely means an IL stint….. 24:30 Kyle Teel is going to miss 3-6 more weeks….. 27:00 Logan Webb needs a rehab start and won’t return this week….. 28:50 Tyler Glasnow isn’t close and Blake Snell is having a nano scope, as they compete to see who can miss more time…. 30:

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss everything going on in fantasy baseball this weekend, including the struggles of Vlad Guerrero and Fernando Tatis, all the injuries and another very active Sunday of bidding in FAAB. They also break down the slumping Steven Kwan and Jarren Duran, preview the week ahead and detail just how much people were spending on rookies AJ Ewing and Henry Bolte, and much, much more. 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 Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver-wire pickups of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 12:45 A.J. Ewing 15:55 Henry Bolte 20:05 Carson Benge 22:25 Spencer Steer 25:15 Mike Burrows 26:50 Grayson Rodriguez 29:25 J.T. Ginn 31:00 Jack Leiter 33:40 Caleb Kilian 36:10 Jack Wenninger 39:00 Troy Melton 40:25 Braxton Garrett 44:05 Zebby Matthews 46:00 Trevor McDonald 48:35 Garrett Cleavinger 52:10 Smart Money 53:45 Ha-Seong Kim 56:30 Austin Martin 58:30 Gage Workman 1:00:40 Vaughn Grissom 1:02:35 Andruw Monasterio 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.

0:00 Intro/the No. 1 fantasy baseball player to date in 2026? Oneil Cruz Steak League FAAB: 5:36 A.J. Ewing $19 Ben Brown $15 J.T. Ginn $8 Lucas Giolito $5 10:38 Trevor McDonald $5 Bryan King $5 Chris Bassitt $4 Pierce Johnson $3 Leo De Vries $2 Tyler O’Neil $0 Other names to consider: Cole Carrigg, Zebby Matthews, Braxton Garrett 22:35 Two-start pitchers: Zac Gallen 1 (Todd 2) Ryne Nelson 3 J.T. Ginn 2 (Todd 3) Jacob Lopez 0 (Todd 2) JR Ritchie 2 Trevor Rogers 3 Sonny Gray 5 Shota Imanaga 5 Nick Lodolo 3 Slade Cecconi 1 Parker Messick 4 (Todd 5) Jose Quintana 0 Chase Dollander 0 Noah Schultz 2 Framber Valdez 4 Keider Montero 2 (Todd 0) Seth Lugo 3 Walbert Urena 2 (Todd 1) Reid Detmers 2 Max Meyer 2 (Todd 3) Braxton Garrett 1 Simeon Woods Richardson 0 49:06 Christian Scott 3 Nolan McLean 5 Will Warren 3 Andrew Painter 2 (Todd 0) Mitch Keller 2 Michael King 5 Bryan Woo 5 Robbie Ray 4 Matthew Liberatore 3 Shane McClanahan 4 MacKenzie Go