RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Erik Halterman and Todd Zola talk fantasy baseball headlines, pickups and next week's two-start pitchers. --- 00:00 Season Debuts: Robert Gasser, Taj Bradley, Bryan Woo 11:40 Willson Contreras' fractured forearm 18:00 More News 22:00 Steak League pickups 32:15 Two-Start Pitchers Jordan Montgomery 4/4 (Erik/Todd) Reynaldo Lopez 4/3 Corbin Burnes 5/5 Kutter Crawford 4/3 Nick Pivetta 3/3 Shota Imanaga 5/5 Graham Ashcraft 1/2 Hunter Greene 3/2 Tanner Bibee 3/2 Peter Lambert 0/1 Chris Flexen 0/1 Kenta Maeda 1/2 Hunter Brown 2/2 Ronel Blanco 4/4 Brady Singer 4/4 Jose Soriano 2/2 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 5/5 Sixto Sanchez 0/0 Colin Rea 1/1 Chris Paddack 2/2 Sean Manaea 1/1 Carlos Rodon 4/4 JP Sears 1/2 Osvaldo Bido 0/0 Cristopher Sanchez 4/4 Aaron Nola 5/5 Mitch Keller 3/3 George Kirby 5/4 Jordan Hicks 2/1 Matthew Liberatore 0/0 Zach Eflin 4/4 Aaron Civale 2/3 Michael Lorenzen 1/2 Jose Berrios 2/3 Trevor Williams 1/1 --- 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

The Pirates announced that pitcher Paul Skenes is going to make his Major League debut on Saturday. Travis Sawchik, the Senior Baseball Writer for The Score and author of Big Data Baseball and The MVP Machine joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Skenes and the Pirates, the limitations of MRI's, and his experience in the NFBC so far. --- 00:00 - Welcome Travis Sawchik 00:30 - Paul Skenes getting the call 02:45 - Did the Pirates develop Skenes properly? 08:45 - How are the Pirates structuring their rebuild? 16:30 - Big Data Baseball 21:00 - Henry Davis 23:45 - Ke’Bryan Hayes 25:30 - Oneil Cruz 30:40 - Christian Encarnacion-Strand 31:30 - Limitations of MRI’s 39:15 - Reds slumping 40:30 - Wild prospect trades 41:45 - Travis’s experience in the NFBC Main Event 45:00 - The Difficulties of drafting live 54:00 - Managing FAAB --- Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy 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. 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

What is RoboScout Caleb Durbin Jack Leiter Emmanuel Rodriguez Mason Adams Yilber Diaz Carter Jensen Andry Lara Zebby Matthews Jaden Hamm Brett Wichrowski Rockies pitching prospects Lazaro Montes Jaison Chourio Jeral Perez Jonah Tong George Klassen Quinn Mathews Matt Wilkinson Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy 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. 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

Last week featured heavy bidding on Christian Scott, and justifiably so, but Fred Zinkie suggests that this week will be nearly as big, highlighted by Kyle Manzardo. He and Jeff Erickson will discuss that, Shohei Ohtani somehow outpacing his high expectations and more! --- 00:00 - Dodgers Notes: 01:00 - Ohtani homered. You were there. I saw some people talking on Twitter about why we seem to draft him too low every year. It’s a good point…… 07:20 - Walker Buehler’s return was underwhelming but not terrible…. 10:45 - Alex Vesia gets a save. Does that matter?….. 14:25 - Reviewing debut of Kyle Manzardo 20:45 - Mason Black debuts 22:00 - I listened to you and Scott. It was definitely a big FAAB weekend. But we already know that next weekend will be big too. 24:30 - I can share some of my bids if you want. 26:45 - Christopher Sanchez / Spencer Turnbull 29:00 - Paul Sewald returns 30:15 - Cody Bellinger returns 32:30 - Justin Steele looked good in his return….. 34:00 - Simeon Woods-Richardson looks great but has had easy matchups….. 37:30 - Jack Leiter starting again this week 39:30 - Jonny DeLuca 41:30 - Wyatt Langford to IL. 45:30 - Parker Meadows is going to the Minors, which should help Wenceel Perez… 48:00 - A.J. Puk is coming back as a reliever. I wonder if he could become their closer 51:00 - Who else besides the Marlins get “Godfather Offers”? White Sox - Garrett Crochet 53:45 - Godfather Offer: Paste-eating Rockies - Ryan McMahon or nothing 59:30 - Godfather Offer: Los Angeles Angels - Taylor Ward, Reid Detmers --- Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy 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. 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 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 @RotoWire 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! 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

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 Headlines 17:15 Vinnie Pasquantino 24:00 Brice Turang, Brenton Doyle 28:15 Tyler Stephenson, Willy Adames 32:15 Alec Bohm, Christian Walker, Salvador Perez 39:15 More top hitters showing improvements 41:15 Sleeper hitters showing improvements 53:45 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. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: 00:00 Priority FAAB Pitchers: 20:53 Priority FAAB Hitters: 35:09 Budget Pitchers: 51:41 Budget 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

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 Mets Pickups 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 Clevinger 2 (Todd 0) Jack Flaherty 4 (Todd 3) Justin Verlander 5 (Todd 4) 39:30 Cole Ragans 5 Seth Lugo 4 Tyler Anderson 3 Patrick Sandoval 1 (Todd 2) Walker Buehler 4 Braxton Garrett 0 Bryse Wilson 1 Colin Rea 1 Simeon Woods Richardson 0 (Todd 1) 49:00 Bailey Ober 4 Luis Gil 3 Alex Wood 0 58:40 Mitch Keller 3 (Todd 4) Yu Darvish 3 Luis Castillo 5 Mason Black 0 Kyle Harrison 1 (Todd 0) Miles Mikolas 1 Sem Robberse 0 Tyler Alexander 1 1:03 Andrew Heaney 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Basemen 01:00 - Goldy 04:00 - Matt Olson 06:30 - Vladdy Jr. 10:45 - Freddie Freeman* (sort of - a bit of a power drought) 13:00 - Ryan’s work for Spotlight 14:00 - Spencer Torkelson 16:00 - Jordan Walker 18:45 - Yandy Diaz 21:00 - Andrew Vaughn 23:30 - Jose Abreu 26:00 - II. Cardinals Talk 27:00 - 14-17, -30 run differential, 109 R scored 29:30 - Sorting out the OF now and going forward 33:30 - Rotation 36:00 - Manager / Front Office 38:35 - III. Check in on Tout, your other leagues 42:30 - IV. Fantasy Survivor --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy 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! 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

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 Copy 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! 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

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 1.1 06:30 - Elly De La Cruz 1.5 09:00 - Fred takes Corbin Burnes 1.8 11:00 - Jeff takes Gunnar Henderson 1.11 13:00 - First-round recap 16:30 - Yordan Alvarez 2.16 17:30 - Tarik Skubal 2.19, 3rd pitcher taken 19:00 - Cooling off on early pitchers 22:30 - Corbin Carroll 2.25 30:15 - Adolis Garcia 2.26 33:00 - Two more aces for Fred (Freddy Peralta, Aaron Nola) 34:20 - When to take closers? 36:20 - Mike Trout 3.32 39:00 - Slumping Blue Jays hitters 41:45 - Early positive outliers - Shota Imanaga, Marcell Ozuna, Ronel Blanco 48:15 - Fred’s Full Team 53:15 - Jeff’s Full Team --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy 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! 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 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 @RotoWire 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! 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

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 Headlines 13:00 Ronald Acuna 21:45 Other First-Rounders: Julio Rodriguez, Corbin Carroll, Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge 42:45 Standout April hitters: Elly De La Cruz, CJ Abrams, Mike Trout 57:45 Standout April pitchers: Jared Jones, Ranger Suarez, Shota Imanaga --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy 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! 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 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

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

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 talk 00:30 - Zack Wheeler 01:30 - Bullpen 05:15 - Ranger Suarez 09:30 - Spencer Turnbull / Taijuan Walker 15:45 - Aaron Nola 18:20 - Nick Castellanos 24:45 - Alec Bohm's hot start 27:00 - Slow starts for Stott, Realmuto 29:30 - Anyone under the radar at the majors or minors we should look out for? 30:35 - Johan Rojas 33:00 - II. Career & Fandom 33:15 - Take Me In To the Ballgame 35:00 - Finding time w/ auditions/callbacks 37:30 - Acting in an emerging AI universe 45:00 - Congrats on your award - HERD 48:00 - Favorite Projects 51:00 - MLBN Off Base --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy 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! 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

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 Copy 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! 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

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 Winn 19:15 - The Rockies stink 26:30 - Ranger Suarez 32:15 - Bryce Elder 36:00 - 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 Copy 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! 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 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 @RotoWire Vivid Seats Promotional Copy 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! 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) 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 Headlines 19:30 Sleepers off to bad starts: Wyatt Langford, AJ Puk, Maikel Garcia, Victor Scott, Hunter Brown, Gavin Stone, Henry Davis 43:00 Sleepers off to hot starts: Jared Jones, Shota Imanaga, Bryce Miller, Kutter Crawford, Nelson Velasquez, Jackson Merrill 1:01:15 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. 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 your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices