RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

4.8 (71)
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Jeff Erickson, Clay Link, James Anderson, Scott Jenstad, Todd Zola, Fred Zinkie, Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer cover fantasy baseball year round, including draft prep, strategy and much more!

21 HRS AGO

FAAB Targets (Week of May 11)

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer share their top waiver wire pickups of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 14:45 Robby Snelling 18:03 Ben Brown 22:18 Bryce Miller 26:54 Gregory Soto 30:02 Tony Santillan 33:33 Bryce Eldridge 36:52 Ryan Waldschmidt 38:49 Spencer Jones 42:38 Carlos Cortes 47:29 Joe Mack 49:45 Griffin Canning 51:11 Walbert Urena 53:51 Brock Stewart 55:30 Ryan Zeferjahn 57:42 Cole Sulser 1:00:30 Zack Gelof 1:02:49 Ezequiel Duran 1:04:19 JJ Bleday 1:07:13 Masataka Yoshida 1:10:31 Jesus Rodriguez 1:13:42 Smart Money 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.

1h 16m
1D AGO

Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 11, 2026)

0:00 Intro/the Cincinnati Reds have now lost seven straight games… Steak League FAAB: 9:40 Rico Garcia $16 Griffin Canning $12 12:30 Spencer Jones $12 Griffin Jax $5 Gus Varland $5 Roki Sasaki $4 Ryan Zeferjahn $3 Jake McCarthy $3 Leody Taveras $2 17:40 Kade Anderson $1 Other names to consider: Joe Mack, Graham Ashcraft, Ben Brown 25:15 Two-start pitchers: Michael Soroka 2 (Todd 3) Jeffrey Springs 3 JR Ritchie 2 Trevor Rogers 2 Sonny Gray 3 Colin Rea 2 Brady Singer 1 (Todd 2) Joey Cantillo 3 Michael Lorenzen 0 Erick Fedde 0 35:00 Jack Flaherty 3 Tatsuya Imai 1 (Todd 2) Cole Ragans 4 Caden Dana 0 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 5 40:30 Eury Perez 3 Brandon Sproat 1 (Todd 2) Bailey Ober 1 Freddy Peralta 5 Ryan Weathers 3 (Todd 4) Zack Wheeler 5 Paul Skenes 5 Michael King 4 (Todd 5) George Kirby 4 53:00 Logan Webb 3 Adrian Houser 0 Andre Pallante 0 Shane McClanahan 4 Nathan Eovaldi 5 Kevin Gausman 5 Miles Mikolas 0 57:40 Recap 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.

1h 1m
2D AGO

Checking In on This Year's Top Sleepers with Chris Towers

Erik Halterman is joined by Chris Towers of CBS Sports to check in on how this year's top sleepers and most-hyped players are doing after six weeks of play. --- 00:00 Pitcher injury news 7:20 Robby Snelling set for call-up 12:55 More headlines 18:30 Nolan McLean, Cam Schlittler, Jacob Misiorowski 22:10 Emmett Sheehan 26:25 Chase Burns 28:40 Bubba Chandler 33:25 Samuel Basallo 35:40 Carter Jensen 39:00 Konnor Griffin 43:00 Sal Stewart 47:25 Jac Caglianone 50:35 Kazuma Okamoto 54:45 JJ Wetherholt and Kevin McGonigle 58:40 Ryan Weathers 1:01:45 Braxton Ashcraft 1:02:55 Mike Burrows 1:05:10 Kyle Harrison and Brandon Sproat 1:08:30 Justin Crawford 1:11:30 Chase DeLauter 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.

1h 16m
4D AGO

New Top 10 Prospects w/ Aram Leighton

With over a dozen high-profile prospect graduations, James Anderson and Aram Leighton discuss what the new top 10 prospects will look like when prospect rankings get updated later this month! 01:30 Jesus Made vs. Leo De Vries 15:10 Colt Emerson, Walker Jenkins 19:20 Rainiel Rodriguez, Edward Florentino, Josue De Paula 27:50 Mike Sirota, Eduardo Quintero 31:40 Luis Pena vs. Eli Willits 37:10 Caleb Bonemer 43:10 Seth Hernandez, Kade Anderson 47:15 Up-Arrow Prospects 53:45 Bryce Rainer Sling Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

57 min
4D AGO

Should You Cut These Eight Pitchers

Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie discuss tough hold-vs-cut-vs-trade decisions with early struggling pitchers. --- 00:00 RW Pod 5-5-26 00:15 News: 00:30 Tarik Skubal is out for a few months. That’s two of the Big-3 starters on the IL….. 10:00 Joe Ryan doesn’t need to go on the IL. 11:00 Roman Anthony left with a wrist injury….. 14:20 Jhoan Duran and Raisel Iglesias return today. Closer normalcy!…… 15:40 Emilio Pagan blows the save 17:40 Caleb Killian save 25:30 Jackson Chourio is back and got four hits….. 29:17 BlueWire 29:22 Main topic: Pitchers to consider dropping 29:45 For every pick up there’s a drop 32:00 Three different tiers for each of them. 32:15 “I wouldn’t cut the player in XX size of league.” 32:30 2. “I would cut the player if there was someone I liked on waivers and this player was the necessary cut.” 32:45 3. “I would actively look to get them off my roster, for basically anyone.” 35:00 Pitchers 35:10 Jack Flaherty 39:30 Luis Castillo 44:30 Trevor Megill 46:30 Aaron Nola 48:00 Ryan Walker 49:00 Zac Gallen 51:10 Andrew Abbott 52:45 Ryne Nelson, Merrill Kelly, Eduardo Rodriguez, Mike Soroka 56:00 Jack Leiter 57:20 Roki Sasaki 58:15 Andrew Painter 1:01:45 Chad Patrick 1:02:10 Noah Cameron 1:02:30 Rhett Lowder 1:03:20 Brady Singer 1:06:30 Brandon Sproat 1:07:10 Dustin May 1:08:30 Chris Bassitt 1:09:00 RotoWire Smart Money 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.

1h 12m
6D AGO

FAAB Recap & Injury Roundup

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad talk some strong first months from Matt Olson, Mike Trout and a whole bunch of catchers, break down a slew of weekend injuries and discuss all the adds and drops in FAAB, including active bidding for Christian Scott and Travis Bazzana. 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.

1h 12m
MAY 2

FAAB Targets (Week of May 3)

Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Halusker to discuss their top waiver wire adds of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 13:00 Jared Jones 16:40 Janson Junk 19:00 Jack Perkins 23:00 Logan Henderson 25:15 Jacob Latz 28:45 Luis Severino 31:15 Travis Bazzana 35:15 Daniel Schneemann 38:00 Cole Young 40:00 Nathan Church 42:50 Jake Bennett 46:35 Christian Scott 49:40 Rico Garcia 53:20 Tyler Phillips 55:10 Kyle Finnegan 58:50 Other Relievers 1:02:45 Kody Clemens 1:04:20 Nathaniel Lowe 1:08:15 Austin Hays 1:10:10 Tyler Black 1:13:30 Ezequiel Duran 1:16:30 Smart Money --- Sling Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

1h 21m
MAY 1

Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 4, 2026)

Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! 0:00 Intro/the Atlanta Braves might have an Austin Riley problem Steak League FAAB: 6:55 Travis Bazzana $25 Jacob Latz $21 Matthew Liberatore $13 11:10 Jack Perkins $11 Tyler Phillips $9 Elmer Rodriguez $8 Victor Vodnik $8 14:40 Jared Jones $6 Christian Scott $4 Kyle Finnegan $3 19:00 Other names to consider: Carlos Cortes, Lucas Giolito, Kade Anderson, Ben Joyce 21:40 Two-start pitchers: Eduardo Rodriguez 3 Luis Severino 1 (Todd 2) JR Ritchie 2 Shane Baz 3 Chris Bassitt 1 (Todd 2) Brayan Bello 0 Edward Cabrera 3 (Todd 4) Jameson Taillon 2 Andrew Abbott 2 Tanner Bibee 3 Gavin Williams 4 (Todd 5) Tomoyuki Sugano 1 Davis Martin 3 Tarik Skubal 5 Michael Wacha 3 Noah Cameron 2 Jose Soriano 4 (Todd 5) 48:00 Janson Junk 2 Sandy Alcantara 4 Brandon Sproat 1 (Todd 0) Taj Bradley 4 David Peterson 0 Cam Schlittler 5 Elmer Rodriguez 1 54:30 Jesus Luzardo 4 (Todd 5) Cristopher Sanchez 5 Bubba Chandler 3 (Todd 2) Walker Buehler 0 Logan Gilbert 5 Kyle Leahy 0 Andre Pallante 0 Nick Martinez 2 (Todd 3) Drew Rasmussen 4 Jacob deGrom 5 Cade Cavalli 3 1:02:00 Recap 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.

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Clay Link

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Fred Zinkie

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James Anderson

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Jeff Erickson

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Scott Jenstad

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Tim Heaney

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Todd Zola

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Chris Towers

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Aram Leighton

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James Anderson

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71 Ratings

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2025-05-30

the cutting veg

I’m so sorry for your loss James. Sounds like your FIL was a very special person
Love For the Prospect Pod

2021-10-02

Nicknamed Matt K

Listen to all Rotowire baseball shows fairly regularly, but I never miss a Wednesday Prospect Pod with James & Clay. Super-helpful for my keeper/dynasty teams and just a lot of fun to listen to. James is one of (if not) the hardest working men in fantasy sports and I need to spend specific love to Clay who has an awesome voice for it and a great, subtle sense of humour. I truly enjoy the pairing, Clay is the king of non sequitors that often have be busting out laughing and James is just full of that knowledge. This pod made me a Rotowire subscriber. Congrats on another great season. Looking forward to hearing what James has in store over the summer and hoping the dynamic duo will return in the spring! Cheers guys
Very Niche

2025-03-23

Steamer9456

This really only caters to a small group of fantasy baseball players. All they discuss is old school roto with huge rosters like the NFBC that have weekly waivers and lineups. The hosts know their stuff but should stick to writing as most of them just aren’t entertaining enough to hold my attention in a podcast. Seems every single show is too long and drawn out and they spend way too long on one player. I wrote years ago that the audio is terrible and it still is. How hard is it to buy a proper mic and headphones? I tried to listen to a few episodes for draft prep but I’ll be sticking with CBS and Fantasy Pros.
EXCELLENT podcast!!

2021-02-16

BPOTN

Loved Feb 14th episode, you guys discussed exactly all the players i’m scratching my head with from last year’s weird season. Keep up your good work on this very good podcast!

Jeff Erickson, Clay Link, James Anderson, Scott Jenstad, Todd Zola, Fred Zinkie, Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer cover fantasy baseball year round, including draft prep, strategy and much more!