RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Mike Carter and Chris Torres from The Fantasy Baseball Beat join Jeff Erickson, as they discuss what they can learn from writers on the beat, extol the virtues of Luis Matos, and discuss some of the new metrics they're incorporating into their analysis. --- 00:00 - The Fantasy Baseball Beat Podcast 05:30 - Booking Guests 07:30 - Time Limitation 08:45 - Best Tip? Joey Ortiz, Wilyer Abreu 12:30 - Luis Matos 17:20 - Real Life - What Do You Do? 17:30 - Mike - Coaching/Teaching Special Ed 20:45 - Chris - Nurse/Mental Health Counselor 24:30 - Recent Rockies Version 25:00 - Beeks vs. Lawrence 29:00 - Effect of the New Rules 31:30 - Are there more pitcher injuries? 33:30 - Are we changing which pitchers to target due to injuries? 39:00 - Shohei Ohtani 42:30 - Hitters CSW% vs. O-Swing 46:00 - Bat Speed? 49:40 - What’s Next? --- 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

Josh Naylor Anthony Volpe William Contreras Bryson Stott Jung Hoo Lee Leody Taveras More Highlander talk Using bat speed as a tool Corbin Carroll Matt Wallner Nick Gonzales Brent Rooker Nolan Schanuel Esteury Ruiz Ryan Jeffers Jake Cronenworth Jurickson Profar Gleyber Torres Andrew Vaughn Jeimer Candelario Jordan's pre-breakout SP crush A live trade offer! 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

00:00 - What did we miss? Here are the early round picks who have really screwed their teams; we left out players with massive injuries, such as Spencer Strider and Luis Robert. Beside each player, is their NFBC Main Event ADP and their Earned Auction Calculator value at the start of play this week. 03:30 - Julio Rodriguez, 4, 9 09:15 - Corbin Carroll, 7, -1 17:00 - Yordan Alvarez, 14, 12 21:30 - Matt Olson, 18, 2; Austin Riley, 21, 1; Ozzie Albies, 27, 8; Michael Harris, 28, 6 30:00 - Difficult in actually to “buy low” 35:10 - Francisco Lindor, 29, 12 38:30 - Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 32, 7, Bo Bichette, 40, -5 46:00 - Corey Seager, 37, 3 51:00 - Kevin Gausman, 33, -13 56:30 - Edwin Diaz, 34, -6; Josh Hader, 44, 0 --- 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 Scott Jenstad talk about the Yankees recent hot streak, Corbin Carroll, Edwin Diaz, Luis Gil and then break down all the adds and drops from the weekend of FAAB. 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

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Mike Carter (@mdrc0508) discuss the good players going overlooked on the worst teams in baseball. --- 00:00 Headlines 18:30 Chicago White Sox 35:30 Miami Marlins 44:45 Colorado Rockies 49:45 Los Angeles Angels 56:15 Oakland Athletics --- 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 and Ryan Boyer hit on the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking fantasy baseball 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. Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! 0:00 Intro/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Pickups 5:30 Jalen Beeks - $9 Nick Gonzales - $4 Alec Burleson - User comment 10:40 Tylor Megill - $4 Charlie Blackmon - $3 Luke Raley - $3 Carlos Santana - $3 Eddie Rosario - $2 Griffin Jax - $0 13:35 Clay is still waiting on James Wood Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 20, 2024) Slade Cecconi 1 Chris Sale 5 Charlie Morton 3 Kyle Bradish 4 Tanner Houck 3 (Todd 4) Javier Assad 3 Andrew Abbott 2 (Todd 1) 29:15 Ben Lively 1 (Todd 2) Cal Quantrill 0 Erick Fedde 2 Garrett Crochet 3 (Todd 4) Reese Olson 3 (Todd 4) Casey Mize 2 Michael Wacha 1 Reid Detmers 1 (Todd 2) Gavin Stone 3 Ryan Weathers 3 Joe Ross 1 42:00 Pablo Lopez 5 Tylor Megill 3 (Todd 2) Marcus Stroman 2 Clarke Schmidt 3 (Todd 4) Aaron Brooks 0 45:30 Ranger Suarez 4 Martin Perez 0 Michael King 4 (Todd 3) Dylan Cease 5 (Todd 4) Logan Gilbert 5 Bryan Woo 3 Logan Webb 5 Sonny Gray 4 Taj Bradley 3 Jon Gray 3 (Todd 2) Jose Berrios 4 Yusei Kikuchi 4 Mitchell Parker 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Larry Schechter joins Jeff Erickson to discuss his new book, "The History of Fantasy Sports." (https://tinyurl.com/b63urwjx) --- 00:00 - The History of Fantasy Sports 03:00 - 18 Months of Research 04:20 - First Tabletop Games in 1800’s 05:20 - Difference between fantasy & Strat-O-Matic / APBA 08:00 - Paring Down to Make the Book 09:30 - FSTA / FSGA 13:00 - Founders of Rotisserie 19:00 - Early Reviews 22:30 - Early different formats 25:00 - Variations of the game 30:00 - Larry’s personal background - CDM 31:45 - Transitioning to LABR/Tout 34:30 - Mixed Leagues 35:40 - Football dwarfs baseball 37:30 - Role of the leagues / players’ associations 39:00 - AL ToutWars this year 42:30 - NFBC Main Events 43:20 - Corbin Carroll --- 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

James Wood Coby Mayo Walker Jenkins Xavier Isaac Dylan Crews Brady House Colson Montgomery Lazaro Montes Roman Anthony Aidan Miller 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 and Jeff Erickson view some of the surprising results from the first quarter of the season and discuss whether they are sustainable, plus they review the paltry streaming options for the week. --- 00:00 - We are roughly ¼ of the way through the season. 02:15 - Do we buy MIL as a top-5 offense? 15:30 - Alexis Diaz blows it 19:45 - CIN as a bottom-5 offense? 27:30 - Reds Godfather Offer? 31:30 - Will SEA strike out this much all season? 36:00 - Streaming for strikeouts instead of wins 43:00 - Is the OAK offense actually decent? 49:00 - Is the STL offense this bad? 55:00 - Hitters called up really struggled 58:30 - Shaky Streamers --- 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 Scott Jenstad discuss all the adds and drops across fantasy leagues this weekend and also talk Paul Goldschmidt, Teoscar Hernandez and of course, the Paul Skenes debut. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScotJenstad 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) and guest Dave McDonald (@RunDMcD) discuss the latest headlines and some difficult drop decisions. --- 00:00 Happy Mother's Day/Happy Paul Skenes Day 07:45 More Headlines 22:50 Overall Drops Strategy 39:15 12-team Pitcher Drops 51:15 12-team Hitter Drops 1:02:30 15-team Drops --- Home Run Forecast 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

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) go over some headlines and hit on their FAAB recommendations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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