RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

James Anderson answers all your questions about the updated RotoWire Top 400 Prospect Rankings!



01:00 Tiers

02:00 Theo Gillen vs. Josue De Paula

03:10 Sebastian Walcott

04:10 Theo Gillen

05:05 Rainiel Rodriguez

07:45 Tarik Skubal trade

09:40 Ralphy Velazquez

10:40 Ethan Salas

12:50 Tate Southisene

13:35 Angeibel Gomez vs. Francisco Renteria

15:10 Caleb Bonemer

16:35 Jarlin Susana

17:50 Eric Hartman

19:20 Justin Gonzales

22:20 Jefferson Rojas vs. Luis Pena

24:30 George Lombard

26:00 Dynasty trading

28:45 Aiva Arquette

30:20 Caden Bodine

31:35 Tony Blanco Jr.

32:50 Potential risers

35:15 Platoon splits

36:45 Weighing Roster percentage

39:35 Chase Harlan

40:25 Brody Hopkins

41:05 Samil Serrano

41:45 Johenssy Colome vs. Francisco Renteria

43:00 Ryan Cesarini

44:35 Josiah Ragsdale

45:00 Wehiwa Aloy

46:00 Tai Peete



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Fred Zinkie advances in the Tout Wars Champions League, Jeff Erickson makes a big trade in LABR only to be one-upped, and the guys review interesting August stats to help you win your league!

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00:00 Fred Pod 9-1-26

00:15 Tout Wars Playoffs

06:00 LABR Trades

13:45 News:

14:00 Colton Cowser Catch

15:45 Andres Munoz blew his 3rd save since August 14

20:00 Aaron Judge could return next week

21:15 Chase Burns has been pushed back to Monday

24:15 Walbert Urena probably doesn’t get enough credit.

26:35 Angels Sale

28:00 Ryan Jeffers and Daylen Lile 2 homers, and Alex Bregman went deep thrice

33:00 Circa

33:50 Roster Expansion

35:00 Ethan Salas is getting called up.

38:00 Lazaro Montes

40:00 Will Smith, Dalton Rushing

41:15 Luis Robert Jr.

43:15 Riley Greene

44:45 Denzel Clarke

46:53 BlueWire

47:00 Main Topic: August Stat Review

47:10 Zack Wheeler

51:05 Jacob Lopez

52:30 Kyle Bradish

54:30 Framber Valdez / Tyler Mahle

58:40 Pete Crow-Armstrong

1:00:20 Steven Kwan

1:02:40 Jac Caglianone

1:06:10 Drew Gilbert

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up another busy weekend in fantasy baseball, talking about the injuries to JJ Wetherholt and Byron Buxton and where breakouts Sal Stewart and Parker Messick will go in 2027 drafts before breaking down all the action in FAAB, including active bidding on Walker Jenkins, plus much, much more!



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

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1:50 Walker Jenkins

5:12 Tristan Peters

7:29 Jake Burger

9:16 Spencer Jones

12:25 Jeff McNeil

15:35 Trevor Story

17:54 Dean Kremer

20:17 Aaron Nola

26:20 Grant Taylor

29:06 Mason Montgomery

32:22 Circa

33:44 Randy Vasquez

37:28 Ryan Gusto

39:25 Elvis Alvarado

44:25 Eric Lauer

46:03 Elmer Rodriguez

48:23 Connor Norby

50:49 Drew Gilbert

53:11 Joey Ortiz

55:25 Mickey Gasper

59:41 Dane Myers

1:01:20 Outro

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Intro/Walker Jenkins arrives to MLB!

Steak League FAAB:

Cristian Javier $4

Ryan Johnson $4

Nick Sogard $4

Ryan Vilade $3

Didier Fuentes $3

Dane Myers $3

Connor Norby $3

Brett Bateman $2

Hector Rodriguez $2

Walker Jenkins $2

Blade Tidwell $1

Drew Gilbert $1

Tyler Stephenson

Mickey Gasper

Chris Bassitt

Luis Castillo

Other names to consider: Elvis Alvarado, Nate Pearson



Two-start pitchers (week of Aug. 31, 2026)

Brandon Pfaadt 3

Gage Jump 3 (Todd 2)

JT Ginn 2

Kyle Bradish 1

Trevor Rogers 2

Peyton Tolle 5 (Todd 4)

Sonny Gray 5

Clay Holmes 4

Matthew Boyd 3

Brady Singer 1

Gavin Williams 4 (Todd 5)

Tanner Gordon 0

Sean Burke 3

Davis Martin 1

Jackson Jobe 2

Troy Melton 4 (Todd 3)

Peter Lambert 3

Michael Burrows 0

Randy Dobnak 2 (Todd 3)

Eric Lauer 2

Tyler Phillips 2

Ryan Gusto 0

Kyle Harrison 4

Taj Bradley 3 (Todd 4)

Aaron Nola 2

Paul Skenes 5

Logan Gilbert 4

Logan Webb 5

Landen Roupp 2 (Todd 3)

Michael McGreevy 0

Ian Seymour 4

Jacob deGrom 4

MacKenzie Gore 3

Spencer Arrighetti 0

Will Dion 0



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