RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Scott Jenstad and special guest, Paul Sporer of Fangraphs, break down the weekend in baseball, including the fantasy impact for a number of big trades that went down prior to Monday's deadline, the down seasons for Vlad Guerrero and William Contreras, the Gavin Williams breakout and all the moves in a busy week of FAAB, focusing on heavy bidding for Tigers rookie Max Clark and a few new closer options, plus much more!!

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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2:49 Max Clark

6:58 Matt McLain

9:37 Tommy Edman

12:00 Heriberto Hernandez

16:00 Dominic Canzone

19:07 Quinn Mathews

25:02 Kyle Leahy

27:45 Mason Montgomery

30:54 Clayton Beeter

34:00 Steven Cruz

41:00 Circa

42:13 Hayden Wesneski

45:15 AJ Smith-Shawver

50:11 Carson Whisenhunt

53:56 Tomoyuki Sugano

57:00 Brandyn Garcia

1:00:35 Tyler Tolbert

1:03:25 Dane Myers

1:05:21 Pedro Ramirez

1:08:22 Hao-Yu Lee

1:10:40 Andruw Monasterio

 

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Intro/Casey Mize, Freddy Peralta scratched tonight, calm before the trade storm

Steak League FAAB:

Quinn Mathews $6

Mason Montgomery $4

Steven Cruz $4

Hayden Wesneski $3

Javier Baez $3

Brandyn Garcia $2

Luis Rengifo $2

Tyler Tolbert $2

Dane Myers $2

Pedro Ramirez $1

Rhett Lowder $1

JT Realmuto $1

Carson Whisenhunt $1

Other names to consider: Erik Miller, Max Clark, George Lombard



Two-start pitchers (week of Aug. 3, 2026)

Brandon Pfaadt 3

Eduardo Rodriguez 3

J.T. Ginn 3 (Todd 2)

Chris Sale 5

Dean Kremer 1 (Todd 2)

Patrick Sandoval 2 (Todd 3)

Matthew Boyd 4

Javier Assad 1

Brady Singer 2

Slade Cecconi 2

Michael Lorenzen 0

Davis Martin 2

Casey Mize* 3

Peter Lambert 3

Randy Dobnak 1

Reid Detmers* 4

Ryan Gusto 1

Brandon Sproat 2

Logan Henderson 4

Joe Ryan 5

Christian Scott 3 (Todd 2)

Cam Schlittler 5

Aaron Nola 1

Jesus Luzardo 4 (Todd 5)

Bubba Chandler 1 (Todd 2)

Jared Jones 4

Griffin Canning 0 (Todd 1)

J.P. Sears 1

Logan Webb 5

Matthew Liberatore 2 (Todd 1)

Ian Seymour 3

Shane Bieber 0

Trey Yesavage 3

Zack Littell 0

Jake Irvin 0



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Erik Halterman is joined by Britton Allan to discuss some hitters who have gotten much better in the last two months and some hitters who have gotten much worse.

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00:00 Headlines

13:10 Rising Hitters, Good to Great

32:15 Rising Hitters, Bad to Good

48:55 Falling Hitters, Great to Good

1:00:30 Falling Hitters, Good to Bad

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James Anderson, Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag predict who the top 10 prospects for dynasty baseball leagues will be heading into the 2028 season!

 

02:40 Eli Willits

06:05 Grady Emerson

08:15 Seth Hernandez

11:15 Eduardo Quintero

14:15 Juneiker Caceres

19:50 Dax Kilby

21:15 Eric Hartman

20:20 Angeibel Gomez

26:50 Luis Hernandez

29:35 Kendry Chourio

31:00 Luis Pena

33:00 Kevin Alvarez

35:00 Edward Florentino

38:15 JoJo Parker

39:20 Josuar Gonzalez

42:20 Alexander Frias

46:00 Honorable Mentions

 

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