RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more!Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now!Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!0:00 Intro/Waiting to hear about Juan Soto’s statusPickups Yimi Garcia - $20 Griffin Canning - $5 Blake Perkins - $5 Justyn-Henry Malloy - $4 11:00 Robbie Ray - $4 14:20 Max Meyer - $3 Jack Suwinski - $2 Rob Refsnyder - $1 Clayton Kershaw Joey Estes 18:30 Others to consider if available in your league: Matt Waldron, Matt Vierling, Mark Vientos Two-Start Pitchers (Week of June 10, 2024) Jordan Montgomery 3 (Todd 4) Spencer Schwellenbach 0 Corbin Burnes 5 Albert Suarez 3 (Todd 2) Kutter Crawford 2 Hunter Greene 4 Dakota Hudson 0 Jake Woodford 0 31:00 Erick Fedde 3 33:00 Jack Flaherty 3 Spencer Arrighetti 2 Seth Lugo 3 Brady Singer 2 Jose Soriano 1 (Todd 2) Jesus Luzardo 3 (Todd 4) Colin Rea 2 (Todd 1) Pablo Lopez 4 Chris Paddack 2 Tylor Megill 2 (Todd 3) Carlos Rodon 4 Marcus Stroman 3 Joey Estes 2 JP Sears 2 Zack Wheeler 5 49:45 Paul Skenes 5 Dylan Cease 5 Logan Gilbert 5 Bryan Woo 4 Kyle Harrison 1 (Todd 2) Ryan Pepiot 3 (Todd 2) Zach Eflin 3 (Todd 2) Nathan Eovaldi 4 Jose Berrios 4 Patrick Corbin 0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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. 

Kevin McGonigle Tre’ Morgan Sal Stewart Starlyn Caba Jeral Perez C.J. Kayfus Dameury Pena Marcelo Mayer Dylan Crews Colson Montgomery Spencer Jones Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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 Fred Zinkie look at data from 2024 and identify bankable trends. Where are our category leaders coming from? Did we draft starting pitching too soon?---00:00 - Fred Pod 6-400:30 - Overall data from 2024 (as of the start of play this week)01:30 - 4 of the top-20 pitchers in ERA were drafted in the top-10007:00 - 12 of the 19 pitches with 75 SO were drafted in the top-10009:00 - 6 top the top-15 pitchers in WHIP were drafted in the top-10011:30 - There are so many starters who have are sitting on waivers in most leagues and have an ERA around 3.50 and a WHIP around 1.15 (Ryan Weathers, Jake Irvin, Trevor Williams, Kyle Gibson etc.). Bailey Falter was available on Sunday in most of my 15-team leagues. He has a WHIP under 1.00! 13:30 - Are big bids on pitchers like Christian Scott ill-considered?16:45 - Trevor Williams on IL21:00 - 10 of the top-13 hitters in homers were drafted in the top-100; 5 of the 11 hitters who are batting .300 were drafted in the top-100; 10 of the 12 hitters with 40 runs scored were drafted in the top-100; 9 of the 15 players with 40 RBIs were drafted in the top-10028:00 - Were we drafting pitchers too early in this “everyone can pitch” landscape?31:45 - One more observation, of the 22 qualified pitchers with an ERA under 3.00, 15 have fewer strikeouts than innings. In this season of low BABIP and low HR/FB rate, is getting whiffs less important in run prevention?39:00 - Should owners in trading leagues try to correct this by dealing effective pitchers for effective hitters? 47:00 - Finally, am I correct in believing that the pitcher injury crises was overblown (once again) in April?55:00 - Monday notes: Kyle Tucker is day-to-day but should be fine…..Blake Snell is on the IL again…..Noelvi Marte will soon start his rehab assignment…..Brandon Marsh to the IL…..Robert Gasser is dealing with an elbow injury…..Connor Norby debuted…..Tyler Anderson continues to defy the odds….Matt Waldron pitched well again…..The Reds scored 13 at Coors…..Nolan Gorman has hit 8 HR in 14 games…..Mark Vientos had another great game…..MacKenzie Gore burned owners in his two-start week…..Kevin Gausman continues to stink…..Austin Hays hit his first two homers of the season….---Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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 break down a number of late Sunday roster moves, including Henry Davis up and Spencer Torkelson down and also discuss all the major adds and drops from FAAB. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWirePrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!SorareBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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 (@erik_halterman) is joined by Robert Orr (@NotTheBobbyOrr) to discuss Robert's new swing-decision metric SEAGER, MLB's new bat-speed data and the first-place Phillies.---00:00 Headlines11:15 What is SEAGER?17:40 Good SEAGER, good results25:40 Bad SEAGER, bad results32:45 Good SEAGER, bad results38:30 Bad SEAGER, bad results45:30 Great SEAGER, mediocre results53:15 New bat-tracking stats1:02:00 How good are the Phillies?---Robert's SEAGER leaderboard: https://therealestmuto.shinyapps.io/Damage/ Robert's article on swing speed: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/90540/in-defense-of-isaac-paredes/Alex Chamberlain's article on swing speed: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/daddy-hacks-or-the-lone-peril-of-swinging-too-hard/---Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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 (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest news and share their top pickups of the week.---00:00 Headlines19:09 Reed Garrett22:23 Yimi Garcia24:17 Tylor Megill26:21 Ben Brown30:22 Ryan Weathers32:53 Adam Duvall35:54 Matt Vierling38:40 Mark Vientos41:20 Keibert Ruiz43:23 DJ LeMahieu46:33 Budget Pitchers59:06 Budget Hitters---Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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. 

Clay Link and Todd Zola are back talking all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more!Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now!Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy!0:00 Intro/The No. 1 overall pick goes downPickups 6:10 Adam Duvall $7 8:30 David Peterson $5 Albert Suarez $4 14:50 Spencer Schwellenbach $3 Spencer Arrighetti $2 Edmundo Sosa $2 17:30 Jeremiah Estrada $2 Others to consider if available in your league: David Fry, Ben Brown, Masyn Winn, Nick Gonzales 25:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of June 3, 2024) LONDON SERIES Ryne Nelson 0 Slade Cecconi 0 Max Fried 5 Grayson Rodriguez 5 Corbin Burnes 5 Kutter Crawford 3 30:30 Andrew Abbott 3 (Todd 2) Frankie Montas 1 Triston McKenzie 3 Ryan Feltner 0 Ty Blach 0 Jake Woodford 0 Tarik Skubal 5 Justin Verlander 4 Seth Lugo 4 Tyler Anderson 2 Bailey Ober 3 Luis Gil 4 Joey Estes 0 (Todd 2) Jared Jones 4 (Todd 3) Matt Waldron 2 (Todd 3) Yu Darvish 4 George Kirby 4 (Todd 5) Keaton Winn 0 Kyle Gibson 2 (Todd 1) Kevin Gausman 5 Bowden Francis 0 MacKenzie Gore 4 Trevor Williams 3 (Todd 2) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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. 

Joe Orrico from the "90 Feet From Home" podcast and FantasyPros.com joins Jeff Erickson to discuss 12 overachieving hitters two months into the season. Are we buying Marcell Ozuna as a top-15 hitter? What sort of long-term value do you have for Jeremy Peña?---00:00 - 12 Surprising Hitters for today:01:45 - Marcell Ozuna07:00 - Jurickson Profar12:00 - Maikel Garcia14:00 - Alec Bohm16:45 - Jordan Westburg23:15 - Luis Rengifo25:00 - Taylor Ward27:15 - Brice Turang29:45 - Brent Rooker32:00 - Jeremy Peña35:45 - David Fry39:45 - Matt Vierling43:00 - Q&A---Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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. 

Where are the tiers? Brady House vs. Dylan Crews Parker Meadows Graduated prospects Kyle Teel Dalton Rushing Miguel Bleis Termarr Johnson Chase DeLauter Ronny Mauricio Yilber Diaz Filippo Di Turi Adael Amador Jordan Beck Yanquiel Fernandez Pedro Leon Jace Avina Felnin Celesten Ralphy Velazquez Xavier Isaac Angel Genao C.J. Kayfus Juan Brito Brennen Davis Christian Scott Blade Tidwell Brandon Sproat Nolan McLean Jonah Tong Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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 has a well-earned reputation as a master trader in fantasy baseball leagues. He shares some of his favorite tips on how to "sell high," and who might be some of the players that you should be peddling, including Elly De La Cruz.---00:00 - Fred Zinkie Pod 5-2801:00 - Jays/Mets angst11:00 - Fred’s Trading Tips11:30 - Sending offers out!13:00 - Offer options19:00 - Selling High Easier / Elly De La Cruz21:00 - Dodgers Slumping24:00 - Some May facts24:45 - 1. The Royals have been the second-best offense by OPS. Is this sustainable? Should we avoid using SPs against them?31:30 - 2. The A’s, Angels and Giants have all been top-8 in OPS. The Dodgers are behind all of them. And even though Blue Jays fans want to trade all the hitters, they are above average in May OPS.39:00 - 3. Short baseball games in Chicago right now, as the Cubs and White Sox are the bottom-2 teams in May OPS.46:00 - 4. Only one team has been bottom-5 in OPS and ERA in May. I bet you wouldn’t guess that it’s Arizona.53:00 - 5. The Mariners have a bottom-5 ERA. How is that possible with their starters?---Sorare Promotional CopyBuild a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards.Play now! PrizePicksDownload PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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.