RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

James Anderson, Chris Clegg, Eric Cross and Chris Welsh conduct a 24-pick mock dynasty first-year player draft featuring just 2025 MLB draftees! 00:50 Who to take No. 1 overall 04:25 How good is Ethan Holliday? 09:15 JoJo Parker top 3? 14:00 Perfect landing spot for Kade Anderson 16:35 Aiva Arquette’s high floor 18:20 Seth Hernandez has the highest ceiling 22:40 Chasing Steele Hall’s upside 23:50 Gavin Fien Love 25:35 Jamie Arnold best value in the draft 28:25 A loaded college pitching class 30:40 Ethan Conrad’s upside 33:10 Liam Doyle’s slide ends 35:00 Kayson Cunningham’s hit tool 37:40 Ike Irish, best college hitter in the class? 40:20 Kyson Witherspoon’s upside 42:00 Buy low on Brendan Summerhill? 44:00 Gage Wood’s crazy upside 46:35 Andrew Fischer 48:00 Marek Houston 50:40 Buy low on Chase LaViolette? 55:30 Big power for Xavier Neyens 57:40 Chasing upside with Quentin Young 01:00:10 Charles Davalan better in fantasy 01:01:20 Mason Neville 01:04:00 Final thoughts on the class NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

Johnny Venezia joins Jeff Erickson on the RotoWire MLB Podcast and shares his immediate reactions to the MLB draft. --- 00:00 MLB Instant Draft Reactions 00:20 Welcome to Johnny Venezia 01:00 Early Surprises 04:15 Jace Laviolette 05:45 Eli Willits 08:00 Tyler Bremmer 09:45 Kade Anderson 12:15 Ethan Holliday 13:30 NFFC 14:15 Liam Doyle 16:00 Seth Hernandez 16:50 Aiva Arquette 17:35 JoJo Parker 18:30 Steele Hall 19:40 Billy Carlson 20:30 Jamie Arnold 22:40 Gavin Fien 23:45 Gavin Kilen 24:30 Daniel Pierce 25:25 Kyson Witherspoon 26:15 Home Run Forecast 27:30 Marek Houston 29:30 Ethan Conrad 30:15 Kayson Cunningham 32:30 Ike Irish 34:00 Andrew Fischer 35:00 Xavier Neyens / Kruz Schoolcraft 36:10 BlueWire 36:20 Tate Southisene 37:25 Sean Gamble 38:30 Jordan Yost 39:20 Gage Wood 40:20 Jace LaViolette 42:45 Noteworthy Fallers --- NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now (hyperlink: http://rotowire.com/highstakes) Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! (hyperlink: https://www.homerunforecast.com/) 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.

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer discuss their top waiver-wire recommendations for the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 17:11 Brandon Woodruff 21:14 Cam Schlittler 24:15 Charlie Morton 26:45 Joe Boyle 30:38 Kevin Ginkel 37:02 Brice Matthews 40:06 Colt Keith 44:24 Willi Castro 46:18 Romy Gonzalez 48:35 Austin Hays 49:56 Deep-League Pitchers 1:02:05 Deep-League Hitters --- NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! Intro/Heading into the final weekend before the break Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night: Brice Matthews, HOU top prospect, called up to Houston Top fantasy earners so far in 2025: https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/auction-values-earned.phpDown the list 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.

Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to discuss some of the biggest hits and misses so far in Jason's annual Bold Predictions series. --- 00:00 Headlines 15:10 Bold Predictions Overview 17:30 Andres Munoz 21:00 Emmanuel Clase 26:50 Andy Pages 29:55 Ivan Herrera 34:00 Matthew Boyd 38:20 Clay Holmes 40:15 Michael King 42:15 Noah Cameron 44:15 Pete Crow-Armstrong 53:00 Bogaerts/Campbell/Lux 58:30 Pfaadt/Festa 1:02:00 Drew Rasmussen --- NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline joins James Anderson for their annual MLB Draft preview! Who will go No. 1 overall? What's the strength of this class? Which prospects have the highest upside? They tackle all that and more while getting you up to speed for Sunday night's MLB Draft. 00:30 Is Ethan Holliday in his own tier? 03:25 Kade Anderson’s upside 05:20 Odds to go No. 1 overall 10:35 Odds to go No. 2 overall 15:10 Ranking the top college starters 21:25 Who’s the best college hitter? 22:20 Aiva Arquette’s floor 24:50 Prep shortstops to target in fantasy 34:10 Fade Jace LaViolette? 38:05 Sleeper college hitters 45:35 Sleeper prep hitters 52:20 How special is Seth Hernandez? NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss 30 players that should prove to be more valuable over the second half of the season than they were in the first half. --- 00:00 Fred Pod 7-8 00:30 Welcome 01:30 30 Players That Will Be Better in the Second Half 02:00 ARI: Kevin GInkel 03:45 ATH: Shea Langeliers 04:45 ATL: Austin Riley 05:30 BAL: Tyler O’Neill 08:00 BOS: Roman Anthony 09:00 Home Run Forecast 09:50 CHC: Ian Happ 11:15 CIN: Hunter Greene 15:00 CLE: Slade Cecconi 18:25 COL: Brenton Doyle 19:45 CWS: Grant Taylor 23:00 DET: Reese Olson 24:30 HOU: Brandon Walter 26:45 KC: Jonathan India 29:45 NFFC 30:30 LAA: Reid Detmers 31:30 LAD: Tyler Glasnow/Blake Snell 33:00 MIA: Agustin Ramirez 36:20 MIL: Nestor Cortes 40:00 MIN: Royce Lewis 41:25 NYM: Sean Manaea 42:10 NYY: Devin Williams 44:00 PHI: Max Kepler 45:00 PIT: Bryan Reynolds 46:05 BlueWire 46:20 SD: Yu Darvish 48:30 SEA: George Kirby 49:30 SF: Randy Rodriguez 51:30 STL: Ivan Herrera 53:00 TB: Chandler Simpson 54:40 TEX: Corey Seager 56:30 TOR: Anthony Santander 57:45 WSH: Luis Garcia Jr. --- NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now (hyperlink: http://rotowire.com/highstakes) Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! (hyperlink: https://www.homerunforecast.com/) 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.

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss some struggling stars as we get past the halfway point of the season and also break down all the adds and drops in FAAB. They talk about how to handle Marcell Ozuna, Michael Harris II and Mark Vientos moving forward and also dive into the prospects of adding Colson Montgomery, Ha-Seong Kim and Ronny Henriquez and many, many more. NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer cover their waiver wire recommendations for the week. -- 00:00 Headlines 10:00 Ben Rice 14:00 Zack Gelof 17:15 Otto Lopez 19:25 Ha-Seong Kim 21:50 Noelvi Marte 24:20 Eury Perez 27:00 Sean Manaea 29:00 Emmet Sheehan 32:05 Ronny Henriquez 34:50 Cam Schlittler 38:45 Deep-League Pitchers 53:55 Deep-League Hitters -- Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K. Enter now 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.

Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 0:00 Intro/Happy 4th of July! Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night: Two-Start Pitchers (Week of July 7, 2025) 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.

Erik Halterman is joined by Brian Walton of Creative Sports and TheCardinalNation.com to discuss the NL Wild Card contenders, looking for surprising fantasy standouts and spots that need upgrading at the deadline. --- 00:00 Headlines 11:00 How to improve in a deep league 19:35 St. Louis Cardinals 31:30 New York Mets 36:30 Milwaukee Brewers 42:20 San Diego Padres 47:30 San Francisco Giants 52:05 Cincinnati Reds 57:05 Arizona Diamondbacks --- NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! 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.

James Anderson, Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag talk about some prospects they've recently added in dynasty leagues like Jared Thomas, Carter Jensen, Max Anderson and Ethan Dorchies before discussing some recent prospect drops like Thomas Harrington and Ben Hess! 00:00 Intro 01:25 Jared Thomas 04:25 Carter Jensen 08:30 Max Anderson 10:40 Braden Nett 14:25 Sam Antonacci 19:00 Ethan Dorchies 21:10 Yohendrick Pinango 25:40 Tanner McDougal 30:35 Jose Urbina 32:00 Honorable Mention Pickups 43:50 Thomas Harrington 46:50 James Triantos 49:20 Ben Hess 50:25 Yoeilin Cespedes 51:15 Levi Sterling 54:05 Juan Valera 55:25 Honorable Mention Drops 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.

00:00 Fred Pod 7-1 00:30 Welcome 01:00 Blue Jays - Max Scherzer looked much better in a tough matchup…. 05:30 News: Chase Burns must be an all-time story of FAAB bids blowing up so quickly….. 10:30 Wilyer Abreu had a memorable game….. 12:50 Jeremy Pena and Zach Eflin to the IL…. Hunter Goodman to go on the IL…. 17:10 Trevor Rogers continues to put himself back on the radar…. 19:40 Marcus Semien had a great night, which wrapped up an excellent June where he had a .932 OPS and cut his strikeout rate…. 22:30 NFFC 23:15 Ryne Nelson had another good start….. 27:00 Kerry Carpenter to the IL 29:15 Zack Wheeler is so damn reliable….. 32:30 Junior Caminero homered again and has lived up to all the hype…. 36:30 BLUEWIRE 36:40 “buy low or let him go”. 37:00 We will look at top-50 hitters who have not earned $15 and discuss whether we would trade for them or trade them away. 38:05 Mookie Betts, 13 43:45 Gunnar Henderson, 12 46:30 William Contreras, 14 50:00 HOME RUN FORECAST 50:35 Jarren Duran, 14 53:00 Wyatt Langford, 9 55:45 Austin Riley, 13 and Michael Harris II, 2 1:00:00 Freddie Freeman barely made the cut, at exactly $15. 1:00:15 And if I lowered the playing time bar to 200 AB, I would have included Jackson Merrill at $-1. 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.

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a busy weekend in fantasy baseball, highlighted by the massive FAAB bidding on Reds starter Chase Burns. In addition they discuss Bailey Ober's brutal season, Bryon Buxton's incredible first half and the slew of disappointments from the second round of fantasy drafts. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now 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.

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver wire pickups of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 12:19 Chase Burns 16:58 Edward Cabrera 19:39 Frankie Montas 22:10 Jacob Lopez 24:30 Lance McCullers 29:48 Chandler Simpson 33:53 Mickey Moniak 36:44 Tyler Freeman 40:45 Cam Smith 42:30 Casey Schmitt 45:40 Deep-League Pitchers 57:53 Deep-League Hitters --- Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K. Enter now 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.

0:00 Intro/J.D. Martinez has an offer from the Rangers Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night: 21:57 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of June 27, 2025) 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.

Erik Halterman is joined by Garion Thorne to discuss the AL Wild Card contenders, looking for surprising fantasy standouts and spots that need upgrading at the deadline. --- 00:00 Headlines 13:40 Toronto Blue Jays 29:30 Tampa Bay Rays 40:00 Seattle Mariners 46:05 Cleveland Guardians 50:00 Los Angeles Angels 57:20 Texas Rangers 1:00:55 Boston Red Sox 1:05:30 Twins/Royals/Orioles --- 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. 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.

James Anderson and Marc Winokur look back at Average Auction Values from the final week of auction season to look at the biggest hits and misses by position. Then they look at which injured list players are holds, maybe holds and drops in 15-team leagues! 00:00 Intro 03:10 League-winning Catcher buys 10:15 Figuring out First Base 15:30 Massive drop off after Ketel Marte at 2B 20:05 The position with the biggest hits 25:20 Shortstop is LOADED 33:35 Don’t pay for the top OFs 41:00 Kyle Schwarber a bargain again 44:30 So many landmines at SP 52:45 Don’t pay for saves? 59:30 IL guys to HOLD/DROP 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.

00:00 Fred Pod 6-24 00:30 Welcome 01:00 Could Acuna be the 1.1 in fantasy already? 09:00 Chandler Simpson is back 12:30 Trevor Rogers was amazing 15:30 Bailey Ober, time to cut? 17:30 I give up on Ben Brown 19:30 BlueWire 19:40 Kenley Jansen left the game 23:15 Dylan Lee picked up a save 24:45 Eduardo Rodriguez was dominant last night and may have turned a corner….. 27:00 NFFC 27:50 Post-Memorial Day Slumps 28:00 Background 28:45 Josh Jung 31:00 Corey Seager 33:30 Victor Scott II 35:30 Brenton Doyle 37:30 Kyle Stowers 38:15 Jorge Polanco 40:00 Michael Harris II 45:00 Marcell Ozuna 46:20 Geraldo Perdomo 49:20 Teoscar Hernandez 50:50 Oneil Cruz 55:00 Spencer Torkelson 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.

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a busy weekend of baseball full of homers and discuss all the adds and drops in FAAB. They also discuss the Jo Adell breakout, 2026 draft prices for Pete Crow-Armstrong and James Wood and figure out to handle the slew of injuries from over the weekend for your rosters. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now 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.