RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Erik Halterman is joined by Derek VanRiper of The Athletic to discuss this year's most improved pitchers on three different statistical levels: ERA, K-BB% and Pitching+.
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00:00 Headlines
12:50 Most Improved by ERA
36:00 Most Improved by K-BB%
54:40: Most Improved by Pitching+

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Martin Sekulski from Four-Seam Fantasy and PitcherList joins Jeff Erickson to share his top dynasty league as we approach the offseason.
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00:00 9-16-26 Podcast
00:15 Welcome to Martin Sekulski
01:00 September Tips
02:00 Know Your League Settings/ Timelines
04:00 Still Adding To Your Roster
04:15 Emmanuel Rodriguez
07:00 Evaluate Your Roster
07:15 Aaron Judge
10:15 Realistic Assessment of Team
14:00 Who are your keepers?
16:10 What do they cost?
19:30 Planning for your next draft/auction based on competitive window
21:30 Who is clogging up your roster?
24:15 Extra Prospects At One Position
25:40 Steering Into Injury Issues
27:30 Hunter Greene
28:35 BlueWire
28:40 Dissect your Minor League System/Prospects
33:40 Martin’s Prospect Rankings Prospect
35:20 FYPD's
36:10 Roch Cholowsky vs. Grady Emerson
37:15 Trading for FYPD picks
38:45 Art of the Trade
39:00 Updating the Trade Block
44:30 Closing Thoughts

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Last week, Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson tried to learn from their mistakes in 2026. This week they reflect in what they got right, including Jacob Misiorowski, Dillon Dingler and Payton Tolle.
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00:00 What Went Right 9-15-26
00:20 ToutWars Update
05:00 LABR Update
10:00 News:
10:05 Emmet Sheehan was added Sunday night in fantasy leagues and optioned Monday.
10:30 Roki Sasaki won't return this week. Josue De Paula is batting leadoff tonight.
14:30 PCA with another huge game
18:50 Troy Melton is falling apart
20:30 The Blue Jays continued to find ways to lose as Louis Varland blew a save
24:20 Quinn Mathews, Thomas Saggese and Leo Bernal all had good nights
29:01 BlueWire
29:25 Five things Fred got right this year.
30:00 Getting some SP studs (Misiorowski, Burns, Gray) in the Round 8-9 range.
35:35 Predicting that Louis Varland would become the Blue Jays closer.
38:55 Investing heavily in rookies, JJ Weatherholt, Kevin McGonigle and Carson Benge.
41:30 Continuing to invest in Luis Garcia Jr., who finally had a breakout season.
44:45 Signing up for another season of Michael Wacha
46:30 Jeff’s Right Things
46:35 Identifying Targets and Where to Get Them
49:00 Buying into underlying stats and acting accordingly
52:45 Forgetting Balance (LABR & Amici)
56:20 Payton Tolle & Parker Messick
59:00 Aggressive FAAB

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Scott Jenstad and special guest, Dustin McComas, wrap up another busy weekend in fantasy baseball, discussing Cam Schlittler, George Kirby and Jose Altuve among others, previewing next week and breaking down a busy week of FAAB especially on the hitter side, including active bidding on Shea Langeliers and Josue De Paula.

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top free agent pickups of the week.
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00:00 Intro
1:30 Josue De Paula
5:25 Anthony Volpe
8:45 TJ Rumfield
11:50 Javier Sanoja
13:45 Ty France
17:40 Jared Jones
19:15 Griffin Jax
22:00 Connor Prielipp
24:10 Grant Holmes
26:55 Quinn Mathews
29:20 Anthony Molina
32:00 Jack Perkins
35:05 Jonah Tong
39:35 Drew Anderson
41:55 Ryan Johnson
46:40 Hagen Smith
50:20 Victor Mesa Jr.
53:15 Adael Amador
56:05 Jorge Mateo
58:20 Christian Koss
1:00:55 Leo Bernal

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