RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

The concept of "FOMO" (Fear of Missing Out) is real and powerful in fantasy baseball. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss the players they missed out on, including Sal Stewart and Daniel Palencia. 

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00:00 FOMO-cast 2026

00:15 News

00:35 JJ Wetherholt, Kevin McGonigle and Carson Benge made the team. Konnor Griffin didn’t.

07:30 Connelly Early made the team. In the rotation too.

15:00 Ryan Pepiot to the IL.

16:00 RotoWire My Leagues Demo

19:20 Dennis Santana may not get all the save chances.

23:00 Spencer Strider’s poor spring ends with a trip to the IL. Should they sign Lucas Giolito?

29:00 Kyle Stowers will miss 3-4 weeks. And the Marlins were comfortably the lowest scoring team this spring.

32:00 Zack Wheeler will start a rehab assignment on Saturday.

34:20 The Yankees won’t need Luis Gil to start until April 11.

35:20 RotoWire Smart Money Demo

36:40 Fantrax

37:40 FOMO Players!

38:30 Fred: SP: Parker Messick, George Kirby, Kodai Senga

42:30 Jeff SP: Jacob Misiorowski

46:00 Fred: RP: Danny Palencia

48:00 Jeff RP: Edwin Diaz

48:30 Fred: C: Samuel Basallo

49:30 Jeff C: Drake Baldwin

50:00 Fred: 1B: Sal Stewart

53:00 Jeff 1B: Vinnie Pasquantino

55:00 Fred & Jeff: 2B: None, what a garbage position

55:30 Fred: 3B: None, what a garbage position

55:45 Jeff 3B: J-Ram & Jordan Lawlar

58:30 Fred: SS: Elly De La Cruz, Jacob Wilson, Colston Montgomery

1:01:50 Jeff SS: Bo Bichette

1:04:03 BlueWire

1:04:05 Fred: OF: Chase DeLauter, Wilyer Abreu

1:07:00 Jeff OF: Wyatt Langford, Wilyer Abreu too!

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad preview Week 1 of the MLB Season, talk all the news and notes from the weekend and then break down their NFBC Main Event Drafts from Las Vegas on Saturday.  In addition, they also discuss the first week of FAAB and the demotion of Dylan Crews before getting into all the picks, misses and snipes from a busy weekend of drafts in Vegas.

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Erik Halterman is joined by Rick Graham of PitcherList as they try to figure out how many true, trustworthy closers there will be in 2026.

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00:00 Intro

02:00 Outfielders on/off Opening Day rosters

06:00 Opening Day rotation news

13:45 NL Tout Wars review

30:00 Safe, trustworthy closers

33:00 Safe for now

47:00 Unconfirmed but probable closers

52:00 Currently injured closers

54:30 Committees and unclear situations

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Intro/Back from New York City, getting you set for the final weekend before Opening Day

Latest news

Zebby Matthews optioned, Mick Abel seemingly wins rotation spot.

Samuel Basallo homers twice Thursday.

Clay experiencing severe FOMO.



Dylan Crews optioned to Triple-A Rochester.

Cody Ponce allows one hit over 5.2 scoreless innings, striking out five against the Yankees on Thursday.

Logan Henderson optioned by MIL.

Is Kevin McGonigle going to be the Tigers' everyday shortstop and leadoff man?

Caleb Durbin named Boston’s starting third baseman… is he being overlooked?

Carson Benge has made the Mets’ roster, looks like a starter.

Didier Fuentes is making noise in camp for Atlanta.

Grayson Rodriguez is dealing with a dead arm.



Tout Wars

Todd’s draft

A record price on Aaron Judge

Full draft board: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FUC4bQIEBWB_Uls78le749zlaFIUcRo8HreKAlcdQUo/edit?gid=1184240362#gid=1184240362



Clay’s draft

FREE draft review article at RotoWire: https://x.com/claywlink/status/2035050310742266006



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Erik Halterman is joined by Sara Sanchez to discuss a large number of spring news updates as well as the top performers from the World Baseball Classic, which Sara just returned from covering.

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00:00 Intro

02:40 Positive Pitcher Updates

13:00 Hitter Injury News

29:45 Negative Pitcher News

37:00 WBC Standouts: Venezuela

49:20 USA

57:00 Dominican Republic

1:04:00 Italy

1:09:20 Other Countries

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