RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Where did we find our best and worst pitching values in 2026? Was the Garrett Crochet disaster enough to dissuade us from taking an early ace? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss. 

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00:00 Fred Pod 8-11

00:20 Jays 4-Outs Play

04:00 Fred’s Blue Jays Fan Reaction to the Deadline

07:45 News

08:00 Cam Smith Improving

11:40 Zac Veen Getting the Call

15:00 Trey Yesavage Meniscus Surgery

17:40 Devin Williams to the IL. Drop him? Kodai Senga closer?

22:00 Nathan Eovaldi to the IL. Drop him?

23:00 Jacob Lopez is becoming a thing again

26:30 Monday Starts - Andrew Painter

29:30 Adley Rutschman will make his Red Sox debut today.

32:00 Kyle Stowers to the IL

33:00 Circa

33:59 BlueWire

34:05 Pitching Pockets

35:45 Defined Tiers - Main Event ADP

37:00 Were the Aces Worth It?

39:30 Next 10

44:30 SP 21-30 - Second Most Profitable Tier

48:30 SP 31-40 - So Many Nice Values

50:50 SP 41-50 - By Far the Worst Value

55:00 General SP Strategy

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad cover the entire weekend in fantasy baseball, including the struggles of Mookie Betts, Jazz Chisholm and Gunnar Henderson, the success of Dylan Cease and Brandon Lowe and all the details of an extremely busy FAAB period highlighted by active bidding on George Lombard, Jr, Kaelen Culpepper and Jackson Jobe. 

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Erik Halterman and Marty Tallman share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

09:00 Dylan Crews

11:25 George Lombard Jr.

15:00 Bryce Eldridge

16:55 Kaelen Culpepper

20:15 Tyler Stephenson

26:20 Clay Holmes

28:10 Martin Perez

30:10 Jackson Jobe

35:00 Bailey Ober

40:10 Luke Weaver

44:30 Deep-league pitchers

58:40 Deep-league hitters

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Intro/Kalen Culpepper called up to Minnesota

Steak League FAAB:

George Lombard $12

Carmen Mlodzinski $10

Spencer Jones $7

Angel Genao $6

Jacob Lopez $5

Mitch Bratt $5

Cristian Javier $4

Sammy Natera $3

Hector Rodriguez $3

Andrew Painter $2

Yennier Cano $1

Other names to consider: Kaelen Culpepper, Moises Ballesteros, George Klassen



Two-start pitchers (week of Aug. 10, 2026)

Jacob Lopez 2

Bryce Elder 3 (Todd 2)

Trevor Rogers 3

Sonny Gray 5

Ranger Suarez 3

Nick Lodolo 3 (Todd 2)

Tanner Bibee 3

Gabriel Hughes 1 (Todd 2)

Sean Burke 4

Drew Anderson 1

Hayden Wesneski 2 (Todd 3)

Noah Cameron 2 (Todd 3)

Reid Detmers 3

Tarik Skubal 5

Eury Perez 5

Logan Henderson 3

Dean Kremer 1

Christian Scott 3

Ryan Weathers 4 (Todd 5)

Andrew Painter 2 (Todd 1)

Paul Skenes 5

Casey Mize 3 (Todd 4)

Bryan Woo 5

Blade Tidwell 0 (Todd 1)

Hunter Dobbins 2

Freddy Peralta 4 (Todd 3)

MacKenzie Gore 2

Cody Bradford 1

Jameson Taillon 0

Dylan Cease 5

Jake Irvin 0



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Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to discuss the biggest winners of the trade deadline and figure out where to spend your money in AL- and NL-only leagues.

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00:00 Headlines

12:45 Only-league Trade Deadline FAAB Strategy 

16:45 NL to AL trades

38:50 AL to NL trades

47:00 Intra-league trades

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