RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Every MLB season brings surprises. This year you want to avoid having your starters going up against the Nats, & yet you do want them up against the Mets and Red Sox! Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss teams we want our pitchers to target.

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00:00 MLB Podcast 5-26-26

00:15 News

01:30 Tanner Bibee has a 1000.00 ERA when in my lineup and a 0.0001 ERA when on my bench LOL. He gave up 5 homers last night to a Nats offense that isn’t slowing down…..

03:00 Jesse Scholtens disaster

05:45 Dylan Cease to IL……

07:00 Addison Barger still isn’t throwing because no one returns to the IL when they are supposed to……

11:00 Hunter Brown is close to returning…..

12:45 Tatsuyi Imai could be on track, or the Rangers are just terrible at home, but a no-hitter is a no-hitter……..

14:30 Vlad Guerrero Theory

26:30 Logan Webb will return this weekend but Trevor McDonald will get another start…..

32:00 Cole Ragans shut down 2-3 days…..

33:30 Jacob Misiorowski is awesome……

43:00 Gage Jump Getting the Call; Noah Schultz to the IL; Logan Henderson to the IL

46:45 RotoWire Smart Money - Zack Gelof

47:55 BlueWire

48:00 Main topic: The worst offenses so far (best ones to stream against).

48:45 Mets

50:40 Giants

52:15 Red Sox

55:10 Padres

57:00 Royals

59:05 Angels

1:00:15 Rockies

1:02:15 Mariners

1:03:30 Significant Omissions - Tigers, Reds on the Road, Rangers

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Jeff Erickson and guest host Derek VanRiper from The Athletic's Rates & Barrels podcast get you set for Memorial Day Week's slate, and reviews the top free agents of the week, including Colt Emerson.

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00:00 MLB Podcast 5-24-26

00:20 Welcome to Derek VanRiper - Rates & Barrels, The Athletic!

01:50 NEWS

02:00 Toronto Blue Jays - Vlad Guerrero - elbow; Dylan Cease - hamstring.

06:20 Tigers Collapsing - Kenley Jansen blown save in first game of the DH. Tigers are 21-33 and before the 2nd game of the DH, lost 8 in a row, and 9/10.

12:30 Aaron Judge walk-off homer against Rays - snaps 3 game losing streak.

14:00 Parker Messick with sixth win of the year, CLE takes 2/3 from PHI.

16:15 Marlins walk-off GS against Devin Williams to sweep the Mets.

22:00 Corey Seager (back) - Live BP cancelled, won’t be evaluated again for another week.

22:45 Reid Detmers K’s 14 Rangers

23:15 Cubs get swept by the Astros, have lost eight in a row.

26:50 Tatis Legal Verdict (if time)

31:58 BlueWire

32:05 Schedule Notes

32:15 Memorial Day Monday - first games begin at 1:35p ET (TB-BAL, CHC-PIT)

34:00 AL 7 Games: BAL (vs. TB, vs. TOR); CWS (vs. MIN, vs. DET); HOU (@TEX, vs. MIL); MIN (@CWS, @PIT); TEX (vs. HOU, vs. KC); TOR (vs. MIA, @BAL)

36:00 NL 7 Games: CHC (@PIT, @STL); PIT (vs. CHC, vs. MIN);

39:15 FAAB - Hitters

40:00 OF Callups - Wade Meckler, Bryan Torres, Kevin Alcantara, Nick Morabito, Esmerlyn Valdez, Jhostynxon Garcia, Dylan Crews

45:00 Yohendrick Pinango

46:00 IF Callups - Colt Emerson, Pedro Ramirez, Justin Foscue

51:20 Catcher - Hunter Feduccia, Mickey Gasper

53:45 Other OF - Owen Caissie, Jake Meyers, Blake Dunn, Austin Martin, Jake McCarthy

54:45 Other IF - Oswald Peraza, David Hamilton, Curtis Mead, Richie Palacios, Jackson Holliday

56:30 FAAB - Starting Pitchers

56:45 Jonah Tong

59:40 Noah Cameron

1:00:30 Lucas Giolito

1:01:45 Blake Snell

1:02:45 Spencer Miles

1:04:45 FAAB - Closers

1:05:15 Antonio Senzatela

1:08:00 Caleb Killian - still available in one of my 12’s

1:08:45 Kirby Yates

1:10:00 Bryan King

1:12:00 Chad Patrick

1:14:15 Grant Taylor

 

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week.

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Intro: 0:00

Miguel Andujar: 2:53

Colt Emerson: 4:46

Gavin Sheets: 7:55

Esmerlyn Valdez: 10:00

Andrew Vaughn: 12:55

Anthony Volpe: 15:23

Zebby Matthews: 18:30

Connor Prielipp: 21:24

Grant Taylor: 23:32

Cade Cavalli: 26:24

Kumar Rocker: 29:30

Spencer Miles: 31:45

Juan Mejia: 35:19

Zach Thornton: 38:06

Jesse Scholtens: 45:49

Tony Santillan: 48:17

Bryan Abreu: 49:24

Dylan Crews: 50:41

Michael Conforto: 53:58

Richie Palacios: 56:17

Hunter Feduccia: 58:40

Daniel Susac: 1:00:50

Smart Money: 1:03:02

Outro: 1:04:44

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0:00 Intro/the Detroit Tigers have lost 14 of 16…

Steak League FAAB:

5:45 Zebby Matthews $15

Kumar Rocker $11

Esmyerlyn Valdez $6

Grant Taylor $5

Cedric Mullins $4

Robert Gasser $4

Hogan Harris $3

Cole Carrigg $2

Kodai Senga $1

Tony Santillan $0

The Password $0

12:10 Other names to consider: River Ryan, Joshua Baez, Kaelen Culpepper, Jonah Tong, Pedro Ramirez



16:10 Two-start pitchers:

Merrill Kelly 2

Aaron Civale 2 (Todd 1)

Chris Sale 5

Kyle Bradish 4

Shane Baz 2

Ranger Suarez 4 (Todd 3)

Ben Brown 3 (Todd 4)

Edward Cabrera 2

Chase Burns 5

Tanner Bibee 3 (Todd 4)

Kyle Freeland 0

Anthony Kay 2

Sean Burke 2 (Todd 1)

Keider Montero 1

Tatsuya Imai 1

Michael Wacha 3 (Todd 4)

Jack Kochanowicz 0

Janson Junk 0

Jacob Misiorowski 5

Zebby Matthews 3

Joe Ryan 5

Nolan McLean 5

Cam Schlittler 5

47:00 Jesus Luzardo 4 (Todd 5)

Carmen Mlodzinski 2 (Todd 1)

Griffin Canning 2 (Todd 1)

50:45 Bryce Miller 4 (Todd 3)

Landen Roupp 2 (Todd 3)

Michael McGreevy 2

Steven Matz 3

Kumar Rocker 2

Jack Leiter 1 (Todd 2)

57:00 Trey Yesavage 5

Spencer Miles 2

Zack Littell 0

59:25 Recap

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Erik Halterman is joined by Paul Sporer to discuss just how far we should move some of the most (and least) impressive pitchers so far on our rest-of-season rankings.

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00:00 Headlines

12:40 Young aces: Schlittler, Misiorowski, Burns, McLean

25:50 Out of nowhere: Martin, Elder, Wrobleski, Arrighetti, McGreevy

34:00 Breakouts: Soriano, Harrison, Messick

39:35 Random great vets: Martinez, Wacha

41:30 Injury bouncebacks: McClanahan, Wheeler, Bradish

52:35 Disappointments: Rogers, Perez

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