RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Fred Zinkie is in the finals of the Tout Wars Champions League, but even he has made mistakes this year, including drafting early catchers like Cal Raleigh. He and Jeff Erickson discuss their biggest mistakes of the season.
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00:00 Fred Pod 9-8-26
00:45 Tout Wars Champions League
05:30 News:
05:35 Aaron Judge Returns
07:45 Corbin Burnes Returns
09:15 Corbin Carroll Scratched
10:20 Shohei Ohtani Out Tuesday
16:45 Chase Burns pitched so well that you may want to start him anyways
18:45 Emmet Sheehan struck out 10 Reds
19:30 Another monster game from PCA, who is at 41-35
19:55 Henry Bolte had a homer and three steals.
22:00 Coby Mayo homered twice and has a .905 OPS in the second half.
26:00 Dylan Cease dealt with diminished velo in a poor start
28:20 Eury Perez has allowed at least 5 ER in three straight starts
31:00 Jesus Luzardo with another dominant start. Is he a top 10 SP for 2027?
32:00 Kyle Harrison is no longer worth rostering
33:30 Riley O’Brien blew a save. He is 0-4 with 3 BS and a 5.30 ERA in the second half
36:20 Circa
37:19 BlueWire
37:25 Main Topic: Fred’s five biggest screwups of 2026
38:15 Drafting pitchers in Round 1
44:30 Investing heavily in catchers (Cal Raleigh, Shea Langeliers)
49:10 Ignoring the second-half collapse of Framber Valdez
52:30 Overly Relying on Park Factors - Luis Castillo and Ezequiel Tovar
54:45 Ryan Walker
58:25 Jeff’s Biggest Mistakes
58:40 Not Enough “What Could Go Right?” Players
1:01:35 Pushing Up Scarce Players
1:05:10 Too Many Old Hitters
1:07:30 Impatience With Roles
1:13:40 Overlooking Speed …. Again
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Jeff Erickson and Paul Sporer from Fangraphs and the Sleeper and Bust Podcast discuss Konnor Griffin vs. Kevin McGonigle, the AL Playoff Races, and the FAAB Results of the week.
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00:00 9-6-26 MLB Podcast
00:15 Welcome to Paul Sporer
00:45 Fantasy Trade Deadline Deals
02:00 The DH Discount
04:00 Kyle Tucker
06:30 Paul Skenes
10:15 Konnor Griffin vs. Kevin McGonigle (or others)?
15:20 Catch Up on the Races
15:30 Baltimore Loses Six In A Row
16:30 Tigers/Cleveland
21:00 Seattle Mariners - Shovel Dirt Time?
22:00 Zombie Astros
23:00 Rangers - Not In Nor Out
25:20 Braves-Phillies
33:15 Shohei Ohtani
35:15 Circa Read
36:30 Labor Day Schedule
38:00 Light Schedule
38:50 Jacob Lopez Two-Step
40:30 Chase Burns
42:00 Elly De La Cruz
45:30 Kyle Harrison
48:30 BlueWire
48:40 Free Agent Hitters
48:45 Lazaro Montes
50:15 Leo Bernal
51:45 Thomas Saggese
53:30 Konnor Griffin
53:50 Jonah Cox
56:20 Mickey Gasper
58:20 Hector Rodriguez
59:20 Heriberto Hernandez
1:00:35 Adael Amador
1:01:45 Free Agent Starters
1:01:55 Emmet Sheehan
1:04:10 Jonah Tong
1:05:05 Yusei Kikuchi
1:05:30 Grayson Rodriguez
1:08:25 Davis Martin
1:10:10 Reynaldo Lopez
1:11:20 Cal Quantrill
1:12:38 Free Agent Relievers
1:13:00 Juan Morillo
1:14:00 Ryan Zeferjahn
1:15:00 Andrew Kittredge
1:16:00 Tyler Wells
1:18:00 Nick Pivetta Returning
1:19:30 Joe Ryan Returns
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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver-wire pickups of the week.
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2:16 Hector Rodriguez
5:32 Lazaro Montes
8:30 Henry Bolte
11:39 Max Clark
13:23 Ethan Salas
17:29 Grayson Rodriguez
19:57 Walbert Urena
24:17 Andrew Painter
27:01 Hayden Wesneski
30:27 Corbin Burnes
33:10 Circa
36:29 Yusei Kikuchi
39:09 Patrick Sandoval
41:52 Davis Martin
46:21 Justin Wrobleski
48:36 Bryan Hudson
54:22 Matt Shaw
56:54 Thomas Saggese
59:12 Jonah Cox
1:01:54 Yohandy Morales
1:04:08 Wade Meckler
1:08:24 Outro
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Intro/Konnor Griffin is back tonight!
- Steak League FAAB:
Lazaro Montes $6
Bryan Hudson $5
Quinn Mathews $3
Elvis Alvarado $3
Max Scherzer $3
Brady House $2
Juan Morillo $1
Corbin Burnes $1
Yohandy Morales $1
Emmett Sheehan $1
Christian Moore
Connor Prielipp
Anthony Molina
Johnny DeLuca
Matt Wilkinson
- Two-start pitchers (week of Sept. 7, 2026)
Jacob Lopez 3
Grant Holmes 1
Trevor Rogers 3
Patrick Sandoval 3
David Peterson 1
Brandon Williamson 0
Joey Cantillo 1
Gabriel Hughes 0
Davis Martin 2
Troy Melton 3
Hayden Wesneski 3
Noah Cameron 3
Grayson Rodriguez 2
Eury Perez 4 (Todd 3)
Jonah Tong 1
Cam Schlittler 5
Jesus Luzardo 5
Andrew Painter 3 (Todd 4)
Bubba Chandler 2
Landen Roupp 1 (Todd 2)
Michael McGreevy 1
Cody Bradford 0
Dylan Cease 5
Will Dion 1

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With 25 days left in the regular season, Erik Halterman and Mike Couillard look back at the best players of the first 25 days to see how their seasons have worked out.
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00:00 Headlines
16:45 Home Runs
27:40 Stolen Bases
36:10 Runs
46:15 RBI
52:30 Batting Average
59:25 ERA
1:02:35 WHIP
1:05:25 Wins
1:08:55 Strikeouts
1:11:45 Saves
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