RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie bid aggressively against each other in the Mixed LABR league on both Carmen Mlodzinski and Randy Suarez, plus they have observations about the new ABS system in major league baseball.

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00:00 3-31-26 MLB Podcast

00:15 Avoiding Early Damage

11:30 Cody Ponce ACL Sprain

15:00 Colt Emerson (and Cooper Pratt) new contracts

19:30 Sling

20:30 Monday’s Pitchers

20:45 Starters

21:00 Parker Messick

22:45 Jacob Lopez

23:45 Chris Bassitt

29:45 Kyle Harrison

30:30 Foster Griffin

33:00 Bryce Elder, Lance McCullers

35:30 Justin Verlander

38:15 BlueWire

38:20 Relievers

38:30 Paul Sewald got a save.

46:30 Lucas Erceg

49:45 Tyler Alexander has two saves.

54:30 Is it too early to make trades?

57:30 Let’s take a look at these deals, courtesy of the Yahoo Trade Market.

58:30 Chase DeLauter for Sonny Gray

59:15 JJ Wetherholt has been traded in 1-for-1’s for Freddy Peralta, James Wood, Steven Kwan and Chase Burns.

1:00:00 Carson Benge for Jacob Wilson

1:00:30 Jackson Chourio for Brice Turang

1:01:30 RotoWire Smart Money

1:04:30 Sitting McClanahan

1:06:00 Knowing the LABR Rules

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap-up a busy first weekend of the baseball season and break down all the adds and drops in FAAB. They discuss the big start for a number of highly touted rookies, take a look ahead at Week 2 and then talk an active weekend in FAAB with closers such as Jordan Romano and Cole Sands garnering the most interest in fantasy leagues.

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer offer up their favorite fantasy baseball pickups for the week.

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00:00 Headlines

14:38 Carson Benge

17:13 Justin Crawford

20:39 Jordan Lawlar

23:01 Jake McCarthy

25:41 Nasim Nunez

30:22 Max Meyer

32:26 Matthew Liberatore

35:48 Kyle Harrison

37:46 Paul Sewald

40:21 Jordan Romano

44:50 Ryan Johnson

47:05 Carmen Mlodzinski

49:36 Steven Matz

51:27 Ryne Stanek

54:29 Gregory Soto

57:22 Casey Schmitt

59:37 Joey Loperfido

1:01:43 T.J. Rumfield

1:03:47 Jake Bauers

1:07:12 Edouard Julien

1:09:15 Smart Money

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Intro/First two-start pitcher podcast of the season!

Opening Day takeaways/box score nuggets:

Clay was sure Sal Stewart broke his wrist

Kevin McGonigle goes 4-for-5 with two doubles (btw a four-hit debut is rarer than a perfect game)

Chase DeLauter pops two long balls

JJ Wetherholt homers in debut

Jacob Misiorowski sets Brewers Opening Day record with 11 strikeouts

Paul Skenes fails to make it out of the first inning

Griffin Jax in the sixth inning

Trevor Rogers picks up where he left off last season

Jordan Romano nails down the save for LAA

Ryne Stanek closes things out for STL

Nasim Nunez swipes a bag

Nathan Church goes 3-for-4



Two-start pitchers:

Michael Soroka 0

Brandon Pfaadt 1

Aaron Civale 0

Bryce Elder 0

Jose Suarez 0

Chris Bassitt 3

Ranger Suarez 4

Edward Cabrera 4

Chase Burns 3

Parker Messick 1 (Todd 0)

Tomoyuki Sugano 0

Davis Martin 0

Justin Verlander 2

Kris Bubic 3

Ryan Johnson 0

Roki Sasaki 0

Chris Paddack 0

Kyle Harrison 3

Mick Abel 2 (Todd 1)

Clay Holmes 3

Kodai Senga 3

Ryan Weathers 3

Max Fried 5

Taijuan Walker 0

Braxton Ashcraft 1

German Marquez 1

Luis Castillo 4

Adrian Houser 1 (Todd 2)

Landen Roupp 1

Kyle Leahy 0

Nick Martinez 1 (Todd 2)

Jack Leiter 3 (Todd 2)

Cody Ponce 4

Foster Griffin 0

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Erik Halterman is joined by Matt Morris of the Dynasty Dingers podcast to discuss every rookie on every Opening Day roster. Which ones should be added everywhere they're available, which ones belong on your watch list, and which ones can you safely ignore?

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00:00 Headlines

11:25 AL Central rookies

26:15 AL East rookies

40:55 AL West rookies

52:10 NL Central rookies

1:03:30 NL East rookies

1:12:05 NL West rookies

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