RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie continue to review this year's deep rookie class, this time focusing on the NL. Do we target Bryce Eldridge after his recent hot hitting, or target him expecting more of the same?

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00:00 Fred Pod 6-16-26

00:15 News:

00:30 Daniel Palencia goes on IL

06:00 Francisco Lindor may start a rehab assignment next week……

07:30 Trea Turner stinks and has a bruised wrist……

08:00 Corey Seager is on the concussion list and could be a drop in some leagues…..

11:00 Colt Keith entered last night with 1 homer and departed with 4……

15:30 Drake Baldwin is back….

16:50 Spencer Strider has been shut down for 4 weeks, making him a drop….

19:45 Shane Bieber stash?

21:00 Cal Raleigh is coming back….

22:00 Cooper Pratt is coming up….

25:00 Nick Kurtz is awesome and everyone who said he stinks during draft season should be fired….

27:45 Cole Carrigg already has 3 homers…..

30:45 Dustin May put an exclamation point on his resurgence.

32:30 SeatGeek

33:30 BlueWire

33:35 Main topic: NL Rookies.

34:00 Bryce Eldridge

40:00 JJ Wetherholt

42:20 Nolan McLean

47:00 Carson Benge; AJ Ewing

52:00 TJ Rumfield

57:55 Ryan Waldschmidt

58:15 Foster Griffin

59:30 Bubba Chandler; Konnor Griffin

1:03:50 Logan Henderson

1:04:30 Moises Ballesteros

1:05:45 Owen Caissie

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a busy weekend in baseball talking about the struggles of Trea Turner and Austin Riley, the recent hot streaks of Bryce Eldridge and Byron Buxton, the injuries over the weekend and all the adds and drops in FAAB. They also discuss how real the White Sox are and the recent bad run by Nolan McLean, before getting into the heavy bidding on rookies Braden Montgomery and Cole Carrigg, and much, much more!

 

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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0:35 Intro

2:01 Braden Montgomery

5:45 Cole Carrigg

9:56 Dalton Rushing

12:20 Esmerlyn Valdez

17:32 Nick Gonzales

20:04 Royce Lewis

23:22 Tatsuya Imai

27:06 Shane Drohan

30:57 Michael McGreevy

32:56 Grant Taylor

37:14 SeatGeek

39:34 Brandon Young

44:00 Andre Pallante

46:30 Jake Bennett

50:13 Eric Lauer

59:49 Jordan Lawlar

1:02:54 Ryan Ward

1:05:07 Denzer Guzman

1:09:10 Jared Young

1:13:38 LuJames Groover

1:16:01 Smart Money

1:17:22 Outro

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0:00 Clay is off, Todd welcomes Tristan Cockcroft to the show

Discussion concerning how to evaluate players without "waiting for proof".

Examples of players showing changes: Randy Vasquez, JJ Bleday

9:56 Two Start Pitchers

Pitcher TZ/THC

Ryne Nelson 3/3

Jack Perkins 2/2

Aaron Civale 1/1

Grant Holmes 2/2

Brandon Young 2/1

Payton Tolle 4/4

Shota Imanaga 4/4

Chase Burns 5/5

Slade Cecconi 2/2

Michael Lorenzen 0/0

Davis Martin 4/3

Seth Lugo 3/3

Walbert Urena 2/2

Reid Detmers 4/4

Ryan Gusto 1/1

Tyler Phillips 1/1

Robert Gasser 2/3

Mike Paredes 1/1

Kodai Senga 1/1

Gerrit Cole 5/4

Zack Wheeler 5/5

Jared Jones 1/1

Lucas Giolito 1/2

Adrian Houser 2/2

Nick Martinez 3/3

MacKenzie Gore 4/4

Dylan Cease 5/5

Andrew Alvarez 2/3

 

 

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Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Halsuker to look at some players who could help you climb the standings in specific categories.

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00:00 Headlines

12:30 Runs

24:45 Home Runs

32:45 RBI

36:45 Steals

45:45 Average

53:45 Strikeouts

57:35 Wins

1:03:20 Saves

1:08:50 ERA

1:12:10 WHIP

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