RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter nowGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast!Intro/Heading into the final weekend before the breakPickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:Trent Grisham $6Cameron Schlittler $6Kevin Ginkel $5Shane McClanahan $4Joey Cantillo $3Brayan Rocchio $3Miguel Andujar $2Masataka Yoshida $1Jordan Hicks $1Michael Lorenzen $0Kirby Yates $0Brice Matthews, HOU top prospect, called up to HoustonTop fantasy earners so far in 2025:RotoWire Earned Auction Values page: https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/auction-values-earned.php$55.06 Aaron Judge$46.22 Pete Crow-Armstrong$42.98 Shohei Ohtani$42.39 Cal Raleigh$39.31 Elly De La Cruz$36.24 James Wood$35.10 Kyle Tucker$35.06 Kyle Schwarber$34.59 Tarik Skubal$32.43 Bobby Witt$31.65 Zack Wheeler$31.59 Jose Ramirez$30.19 Byron Buxton$29.67 Eugenio Suarez$29.37 Seiya Suzuki$28.64 Pete AlonsoDown the list$18.43 Maikel Garcia$18.17 Spencer Torkelson$15.42 Vladimir Guerrero$12.45 Freddie Freeman$11.88 Mookie Betts$10.91 Wyatt Langford$8.35 Jose Caballero$2.85 Bryan Reynolds Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to discuss some of the biggest hits and misses so far in Jason's annual Bold Predictions series.---00:00 Headlines15:10 Bold Predictions Overview17:30 Andres Munoz21:00 Emmanuel Clase26:50 Andy Pages29:55 Ivan Herrera34:00 Matthew Boyd38:20 Clay Holmes40:15 Michael King42:15 Noah Cameron44:15 Pete Crow-Armstrong53:00 Bogaerts/Campbell/Lux58:30 Pfaadt/Festa1:02:00 Drew Rasmussen---NFFCPlay against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter nowHome Run ForecastGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline joins James Anderson for their annual MLB Draft preview! Who will go No. 1 overall? What's the strength of this class? Which prospects have the highest upside? They tackle all that and more while getting you up to speed for Sunday night's MLB Draft.00:30 Is Ethan Holliday in his own tier?03:25 Kade Anderson’s upside05:20 Odds to go No. 1 overall10:35 Odds to go No. 2 overall15:10 Ranking the top college starters21:25 Who’s the best college hitter?22:20 Aiva Arquette’s floor24:50 Prep shortstops to target in fantasy34:10 Fade Jace LaViolette?38:05 Sleeper college hitters45:35 Sleeper prep hitters52:20 How special is Seth Hernandez?NFFCPlay against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run ForecastGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss 30 players that should prove to be more valuable over the second half of the season than they were in the first half.---00:00 Fred Pod 7-800:30 Welcome01:30 30 Players That Will Be Better in the Second Half02:00 ARI: Kevin GInkel03:45 ATH: Shea Langeliers04:45 ATL: Austin Riley05:30 BAL: Tyler O’Neill08:00 BOS: Roman Anthony09:00 Home Run Forecast09:50 CHC: Ian Happ11:15 CIN: Hunter Greene15:00 CLE: Slade Cecconi18:25 COL: Brenton Doyle19:45 CWS: Grant Taylor23:00 DET: Reese Olson24:30 HOU: Brandon Walter26:45 KC: Jonathan India29:45 NFFC30:30 LAA: Reid Detmers31:30 LAD: Tyler Glasnow/Blake Snell33:00 MIA: Agustin Ramirez36:20 MIL: Nestor Cortes40:00 MIN: Royce Lewis41:25 NYM: Sean Manaea42:10 NYY: Devin Williams44:00 PHI: Max Kepler45:00 PIT: Bryan Reynolds46:05 BlueWire46:20 SD: Yu Darvish48:30 SEA: George Kirby49:30 SF: Randy Rodriguez51:30 STL: Ivan Herrera53:00 TB: Chandler Simpson54:40 TEX: Corey Seager56:30 TOR: Anthony Santander57:45 WSH: Luis Garcia Jr.---NFFC Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now (hyperlink: http://rotowire.com/highstakes) Home Run Forecast Gain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast! (hyperlink: https://www.homerunforecast.com/) Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss some struggling stars as we get past the halfway point of the season and also break down all the adds and drops in FAAB. They talk about how to handle Marcell Ozuna, Michael Harris II and Mark Vientos moving forward and also dive into the prospects of adding Colson Montgomery, Ha-Seong Kim and Ronny Henriquez and many, many more. NFFCPlay against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run ForecastGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer cover their waiver wire recommendations for the week.--00:00 Headlines10:00 Ben Rice14:00 Zack Gelof17:15 Otto Lopez19:25 Ha-Seong Kim21:50 Noelvi Marte24:20 Eury Perez27:00 Sean Manaea29:00 Emmet Sheehan32:05 Ronny Henriquez34:50 Cam Schlittler38:45 Deep-League Pitchers53:55 Deep-League Hitters--Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K. Enter now Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Play against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter nowGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast!0:00 Intro/Happy 4th of July!Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:Ronny Henriquez $12Nestor Cortes $3Dietrich Enns $3Ryan Mountcastle $2Garrett Whitlock $2Cole Young $1Max Muncy (ATH) $1Derek Hill $0Matt Brash $0Two-Start Pitchers (Week of July 7, 2025)Merrill Kelly 3 (Todd 4)Brandon Pfaadt 2Jeffrey Springs 2Didier Fuentes 0Brandon Young 1Brayan Bello 2 (Todd 3)Shota Imanaga 4 (Todd 3)Brady Singer 3Nick Martinez 3Tanner Bibee 4Joey Cantillo 1 (Todd 0)Sean Burke 2Aaron Civale 1 (Todd 0)Jack Flaherty 3 (Todd 4)Hunter Brown 5Noah Cameron 3Yusei Kikuchi 3Jose Soriano 2 (Todd 3)Janson Junk 3Eury Perez 4 (Todd 3)Simeon Woods Richardson 1Will Warren 2 (Todd 1)Cristopher Sanchez 5Andrew Heaney 2 (Todd 3)Nick Pivetta 4Dylan Cease 4Logan Gilbert 4Landen Roupp 1Andre Pallante 1 (Todd 2)Shane Baz 3Ryan Pepiot 3Jacob deGrom 5Nathan Eovaldi 3Jose Berrios 3MacKenzie Gore 4 (Todd 5) Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

Erik Halterman is joined by Brian Walton of Creative Sports and TheCardinalNation.com to discuss the NL Wild Card contenders, looking for surprising fantasy standouts and spots that need upgrading at the deadline.---00:00 Headlines11:00 How to improve in a deep league19:35 St. Louis Cardinals31:30 New York Mets36:30 Milwaukee Brewers42:20 San Diego Padres47:30 San Francisco Giants52:05 Cincinnati Reds57:05 Arizona Diamondbacks---NFFCPlay against our fantasy football experts in the RotoWire Online Championship for a shot at $250K Enter now Home Run ForecastGain a weather edge before first pitch with Home Run Forecast!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

James Anderson, Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag talk about some prospects they've recently added in dynasty leagues like Jared Thomas, Carter Jensen, Max Anderson and Ethan Dorchies before discussing some recent prospect drops like Thomas Harrington and Ben Hess!00:00 Intro 01:25 Jared Thomas 04:25 Carter Jensen 08:30 Max Anderson 10:40 Braden Nett 14:25 Sam Antonacci 19:00 Ethan Dorchies 21:10 Yohendrick Pinango 25:40 Tanner McDougal 30:35 Jose Urbina 32:00 Honorable Mention Pickups 43:50 Thomas Harrington 46:50 James Triantos 49:20 Ben Hess 50:25 Yoeilin Cespedes 51:15 Levi Sterling 54:05 Juan Valera 55:25 Honorable Mention Drops Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product. 

00:00 Fred Pod 7-100:30 Welcome01:00 Blue Jays - Max Scherzer looked much better in a tough matchup….05:30 News: Chase Burns must be an all-time story of FAAB bids blowing up so quickly…..10:30 Wilyer Abreu had a memorable game…..12:50 Jeremy Pena and Zach Eflin to the IL…. Hunter Goodman to go on the IL….17:10 Trevor Rogers continues to put himself back on the radar….19:40 Marcus Semien had a great night, which wrapped up an excellent June where he had a .932 OPS and cut his strikeout rate….22:30 NFFC23:15 Ryne Nelson had another good start…..27:00 Kerry Carpenter to the IL29:15 Zack Wheeler is so damn reliable…..32:30 Junior Caminero homered again and has lived up to all the hype….36:30 BLUEWIRE36:40 “buy low or let him go”.37:00 We will look at top-50 hitters who have not earned $15 and discuss whether we would trade for them or trade them away.38:05 Mookie Betts, 1343:45 Gunnar Henderson, 1246:30 William Contreras, 1450:00 HOME RUN FORECAST50:35 Jarren Duran, 1453:00 Wyatt Langford, 955:45 Austin Riley, 13 and Michael Harris II, 21:00:00 Freddie Freeman barely made the cut, at exactly $15.1:00:15 And if I lowered the playing time bar to 200 AB, I would have included Jackson Merrill at $-1. Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.