Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Kev Mahserejian talks ball with Jeff Erickson, as they cover the Dodgers, Braves, slumping veterans, the tricky free agent market this year and striking the balance between baseball and football coverage. --- 00:00 - RotoSurgeon Pod 01:00 - 1. Dodgers Talk 02:00 - Perception of struggle vs. reality of being +104 04:00 - Buehler progress 08:30 - Moves at deadline? / Improving bottom of the lineup (Hayward, Pages, trading for Biggio) 15:00 - 2. Braves end losing streak - blip or concern? 20:35 - 3. Fewer Impact FA’s so far - does that match your perception? 27:30 - 4. Slumping veterans: 27:45 - Goldy 30:45 - Arozarena 35:30 - J-Rod 40:30 - Machado 43:00 - 5. Balancing baseball vs. football --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  --- PrizePicks 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

Mason Miller JP Sears Luis Medina Joey Estes Zack Gelof JJ Bleday Brent Rooker Esteury Ruiz Tyler Soderstrom Lawrence Butler Jacob Wilson Max Muncy Darell Hernaiz Brady Basso Colby Thomas Henry Bolte LaMonte Wade Jung Hoo Lee Patrick Bailey Heliot Ramos Kyle Harrison Luis Matos Hayden Birdsong Bryce Eldridge Reggie Crawford Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Fred Zinkie look at the top draft bargains from the bottom 10 rounds in 15-team leagues and look to see if the players are sustainable and if there are some trends that we can learn from. --- 00:00 - FredPod 6-11 00:30 - JT Realmuto out 09:20 - Francisco Alvarez back 13:30 - Edwin Diaz returning Thursday 18:00 - Here are the best picks, by round. Using the Rotowire AAV calculator. I thought that we could work from the bottom to the top, looking at these names from a few angles…..what did we miss?......is this sustainable?.....are there common themes in the names in general? (the specific dollar values are from Sunday, when I had time to create the chart. I’m sure they’ve only moved a dollar since then) 18:45 - Ryan O’Hearn / Cole Irvin (Rd. 30) 21:00 - Luis Garcia (hitter version) / Ronel Blanco (29) 24:30 - Michael Conforto / Brady Singer (28) 27:00 - Brandon Marsh / Jeff Hoffman (27) 30:30 - Johan Rojas / No P (26) 32:45 - Jose Caballero / Hector Neris (25) 36:30 - Masyn Winn / Erick Fedde (24) 41:30 - Bric

Scott Jenstad and special guest, Paul Sporer, break down all the rookies available in FAAB this week and also talk Tarik Skubal, Michael Harris II, Freddy Peralta and how to deal with the underachieving mid-rounders. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire I @Sporer Sorare Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Brendan Tuma (@toomuchtuma) of Underdog Fantasy use Underdog's in-season drafts to determine the potential trade market for this season's biggest breakouts. --- 00:00 Intro 02:45 Call-ups: Hurston Waldrep, Adael Amador, Drew Thorpe 10:40 Other Headlines 16:30 Paul Skenes 21:15 Shota Imanaga 24:40 Ranger Suarez 27:10 Luis Gil 30:20 Jared Jones/Seth Lugo 34:00 Joe Ryan/Jack Flaherty 36:15 Tanner Houck/Garrett Crochet 38:30 Cristopher Sanchez/Reese Olson 42:30 Gunnar Henderson 44:45 Shohei Ohtani 46:25 Elly De La Cruz 49:45 William Contreras 52:00 David Fry 53:40 Jordan Westburg 55:50 Colton Cowser 57:50 Jo Adell 59:40 Jurickson Profar/Taylor Ward 1:01:00 Mike Trout 1:05:00 NL-Only Tout Wars --- Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now! 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

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

Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more! Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now! 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/Waiting to hear about Juan Soto’s status Pickups Yimi Garcia - $20 Griffin Canning - $5 Blake Perkins - $5 Justyn-Henry Malloy - $4 11:00 Robbie Ray - $4 14:20 Max Meyer - $3 Jack Suwinski - $2 Rob Refsnyder - $1 Clayton Kershaw Joey Estes 18:30 Others to consider if available in your league: Matt Waldron, Matt Vierling, Mark Vientos Two-Start Pitchers (Week of June 10, 2024) Jordan Montgomery 3 (Todd 4) Spencer Schwellenbach 0 Corbin Burnes 5 Albert Suarez 3 (Todd 2) Kutter Crawford 2 Hunter Greene 4 Dakota Hudson 0 Jake Woodford 0 31:00 Erick Fedde 3 33:00 Jack Flaherty 3 Spencer Arrighett

Kevin McGonigle Tre’ Morgan Sal Stewart Starlyn Caba Jeral Perez C.J. Kayfus Dameury Pena Marcelo Mayer Dylan Crews Colson Montgomery Spencer Jones Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie look at data from 2024 and identify bankable trends. Where are our category leaders coming from? Did we draft starting pitching too soon? --- 00:00 - Fred Pod 6-4 00:30 - Overall data from 2024 (as of the start of play this week) 01:30 - 4 of the top-20 pitchers in ERA were drafted in the top-100 07:00 - 12 of the 19 pitches with 75 SO were drafted in the top-100 09:00 - 6 top the top-15 pitchers in WHIP were drafted in the top-100 11:30 - There are so many starters who have are sitting on waivers in most leagues and have an ERA around 3.50 and a WHIP around 1.15 (Ryan Weathers, Jake Irvin, Trevor Williams, Kyle Gibson etc.). Bailey Falter was available on Sunday in most of my 15-team leagues. He has a WHIP under 1.00!  13:30 - Are big bids on pitchers like Christian Scott ill-considered? 16:45 - Trevor Williams on IL 21:00 - 10 of the top-13 hitters in homers were drafted in the top-100; 5 of the 11 hitters who are batting .300 were drafted in the top-100; 10 of the 12 hitters w

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad break down a number of late Sunday roster moves, including Henry Davis up and Spencer Torkelson down and also discuss all the major adds and drops from FAAB. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire PrizePicks 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! Sorare Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Robert Orr (@NotTheBobbyOrr) to discuss Robert's new swing-decision metric SEAGER, MLB's new bat-speed data and the first-place Phillies. --- 00:00 Headlines 11:15 What is SEAGER? 17:40 Good SEAGER, good results 25:40 Bad SEAGER, bad results 32:45 Good SEAGER, bad results 38:30 Bad SEAGER, bad results 45:30 Great SEAGER, mediocre results 53:15 New bat-tracking stats 1:02:00 How good are the Phillies? --- Robert's SEAGER leaderboard: https://therealestmuto.shinyapps.io/Damage/ Robert's article on swing speed: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/90540/in-defense-of-isaac-paredes/ Alex Chamberlain's article on swing speed: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/daddy-hacks-or-the-lone-peril-of-swinging-too-hard/ --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest news and share their top pickups of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 19:09 Reed Garrett 22:23 Yimi Garcia 24:17 Tylor Megill 26:21 Ben Brown 30:22 Ryan Weathers 32:53 Adam Duvall 35:54 Matt Vierling 38:40 Mark Vientos 41:20 Keibert Ruiz 43:23 DJ LeMahieu 46:33 Budget Pitchers 59:06 Budget Hitters --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more! Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now! 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/The No. 1 overall pick goes down Pickups 6:10 Adam Duvall $7 8:30 David Peterson $5 Albert Suarez $4 14:50 Spencer Schwellenbach $3 Spencer Arrighetti $2 Edmundo Sosa $2 17:30 Jeremiah Estrada $2 Others to consider if available in your league: David Fry, Ben Brown, Masyn Winn, Nick Gonzales 25:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of June 3, 2024) LONDON SERIES Ryne Nelson 0 Slade Cecconi 0 Max Fried 5 Grayson Rodriguez 5 Corbin Burnes 5 Kutter Crawford 3 30:30 Andrew Abbott 3 (Todd 2) Frankie Montas 1 Triston McKenzie 3 Ryan Feltner 0 Ty Blach 0 Jake Woodford 0 Tarik Skubal 5 Justin Verlander 4 Set

Joe Orrico from the "90 Feet From Home" podcast and FantasyPros.com joins Jeff Erickson to discuss 12 overachieving hitters two months into the season. Are we buying Marcell Ozuna as a top-15 hitter? What sort of long-term value do you have for Jeremy Peña? --- 00:00 - 12 Surprising Hitters for today: 01:45 - Marcell Ozuna 07:00 - Jurickson Profar 12:00 - Maikel Garcia 14:00 - Alec Bohm 16:45 - Jordan Westburg 23:15 - Luis Rengifo 25:00 - Taylor Ward 27:15 - Brice Turang 29:45 - Brent Rooker 32:00 - Jeremy Peña 35:45 - David Fry 39:45 - Matt Vierling 43:00 - Q&A --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Where are the tiers? Brady House vs. Dylan Crews Parker Meadows Graduated prospects Kyle Teel Dalton Rushing Miguel Bleis Termarr Johnson Chase DeLauter Ronny Mauricio Yilber Diaz Filippo Di Turi Adael Amador Jordan Beck Yanquiel Fernandez Pedro Leon Jace Avina Felnin Celesten Ralphy Velazquez Xavier Isaac Angel Genao C.J. Kayfus Juan Brito Brennen Davis Christian Scott Blade Tidwell Brandon Sproat Nolan McLean Jonah Tong Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Fred Zinkie has a well-earned reputation as a master trader in fantasy baseball leagues. He shares some of his favorite tips on how to "sell high," and who might be some of the players that you should be peddling, including Elly De La Cruz. --- 00:00 - Fred Zinkie Pod 5-28 01:00 - Jays/Mets angst 11:00 - Fred’s Trading Tips 11:30 - Sending offers out! 13:00 - Offer options 19:00 - Selling High Easier / Elly De La Cruz 21:00 - Dodgers Slumping 24:00 - Some May facts 24:45 - 1. The Royals have been the second-best offense by OPS. Is this sustainable? Should we avoid using SPs against them? 31:30 - 2. The A’s, Angels and Giants have all been top-8 in OPS. The Dodgers are behind all of them. And even though Blue Jays fans want to trade all the hitters, they are above average in May OPS. 39:00 - 3. Short baseball games in Chicago right now, as the Cubs and White Sox are the bottom-2 teams in May OPS. 46:00 - 4. Only one team has been bottom-5 in OPS and ERA in May. I bet you wouldn’t guess that it’s Arizona. 53:00

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss the brutal news about Ronald Acuna's ACL tear , recap all the adds and drops in FAAB and take a look at the first round of drafts after two months of the season. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire Sorare Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now!  PrizePicks 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

Todd Zola welcomes first-year Touts Joe Orrico and Corbin Young to the show. They discuss their early Tout Wars experiences, how to make roster decisions, trading, and Would You Rather, hitting style. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ryan Boyer and Jorge Martin hit on the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk all things fantasy baseball heading into Memorial Day weekend, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more! Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now! 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/Happy Memorial Day Weekend Pickups Jake Meyers - $6 Jake Bauers - $5 Mark Vientos - $3 Matt Waldron - $2 Ben Brown Jonathan Aranda? Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 27, 2024) Ryne Nelson 0 Charlie Morton 4 Max Fried 5 Cole Irvin 2 Cooper Criswell 2 Brayan Bello 3 Justin Steele 3 (Todd 4) Nick Lodolo 3 Xzavion Curry 0 Austin Gomber 0 Nick Nastrini 0 Casey Mize 2 Framber Valdez 4 Alec Marsh 2 (Todd 3) Cole Ragans 5 Griffin Canning 2 (Todd 1) Gavin Stone 3 Trevor Rogers 1 Freddy Peralta 5 Tobias Myers 0 Joe Ryan 5 Simeon Woods Richardson 1 Tylor Megill 2 Jose Quinta