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5 September Dynasty League Tips Sep 16, 2026

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Martin Sekulski from Four-Seam Fantasy and PitcherList joins Jeff Erickson to share his top dynasty league as we approach the offseason.

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00:00 9-16-26 Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Martin Sekulski

01:00 September Tips

02:00 Know Your League Settings/ Timelines

04:00 Still Adding To Your Roster

04:15 Emmanuel Rodriguez

07:00 Evaluate Your Roster

07:15 Aaron Judge

10:15 Realistic Assessment of Team

14:00 Who are your keepers?

16:10 What do they cost?

19:30 Planning for your next draft/auction based on competitive window

21:30 Who is clogging up your roster?

24:15 Extra Prospects At One Position

25:40 Steering Into Injury Issues

27:30 Hunter Greene

28:35 BlueWire

28:40 Dissect your Minor League System/Prospects

33:40 Martin’s Prospect Rankings Prospect

35:20 FYPD's

36:10 Roch Cholowsky vs. Grady Emerson

37:15 Trading for FYPD picks

38:45 Art of the Trade

39:00 Updating the Trade Block

44:30 Closing Thoughts

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Five Things the Experts Got Right in 2026 Sep 16, 2026

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Last week, Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson tried to learn from their mistakes in 2026. This week they reflect in what they got right, including Jacob Misiorowski, Dillon Dingler and Payton Tolle.

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00:00 What Went Right 9-15-26

00:20 ToutWars Update

05:00 LABR Update

10:00 News:

10:05 Emmet Sheehan was added Sunday night in fantasy leagues and optioned Monday.

10:30 Roki Sasaki won't return this week. Josue De Paula is batting leadoff tonight.

14:30 PCA with another huge game

18:50 Troy Melton is falling apart

20:30 The Blue Jays continued to find ways to lose as Louis Varland blew a save

24:20 Quinn Mathews, Thomas Saggese and Leo Bernal all had good nights

29:01 BlueWire

29:25 Five things Fred got right this year.

30:00 Getting some SP studs (Misiorowski, Burns, Gray) in the Round 8-9 range.

35:35 Predicting that Louis Varland would become the Blue Jays closer.

38:55 Investing heavily in rookies, JJ Weatherholt, Kevin McGonigle and Carson Benge.

41:30 Continuing to invest in Luis Garcia Jr., who finally had a breakout season.

44:45 Signing up for another season of Michael Wacha

46:30 Jeff’s Right Things

46:35 Identifying Targets and Where to Get Them

49:00 Buying into underlying stats and acting accordingly

52:45 Forgetting Balance (LABR & Amici)

56:20 Payton Tolle & Parker Messick

59:00 Aggressive FAAB

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Two Weeks To Go! Sep 14, 2026

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Scott Jenstad and special guest, Dustin McComas, wrap up another busy weekend in fantasy baseball, discussing Cam Schlittler, George Kirby and Jose Altuve among others, previewing next week and breaking down a busy week of FAAB especially on the hitter side, including active bidding on Shea Langeliers and Josue De Paula.

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FAAB Targets (Week of Sept. 14, 2026) Sep 11, 2026

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top free agent pickups of the week.

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00:00 Intro

1:30 Josue De Paula

5:25 Anthony Volpe

8:45 TJ Rumfield

11:50 Javier Sanoja

13:45 Ty France

17:40 Jared Jones

19:15 Griffin Jax

22:00 Connor Prielipp

24:10 Grant Holmes

26:55 Quinn Mathews

29:20 Anthony Molina

32:00 Jack Perkins

35:05 Jonah Tong

39:35 Drew Anderson

41:55 Ryan Johnson

46:40 Hagen Smith

50:20 Victor Mesa Jr.

53:15 Adael Amador

56:05 Jorge Mateo

58:20 Christian Koss

1:00:55 Leo Bernal

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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of Sept. 14, 2026) Sep 11, 2026

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Intro/Josue De Paula gets the call

Steak League FAAB:
- Josue De Paula $5
- Christian Koss $4
- Leo Bernal
- Jonah Tong
- Reynaldo Lopez
- Zac Gallen
- John Peck
- Connelly Early
- Sean Manaea
Two-start pitchers (week of Sept. 14, 2026)
- Jack Perkins 0
- Brandon Young 2
- Patrick Sandoval 2
- David Peterson 1
- Nick Lodolo 1 (Todd 0)
- Rhett Lowder 0
- Tanner Bibee 3
- Tomoyuki Sugano 0
- Ryan Feltner 0
- Davis Martin 1
- Erick Fedde 1
- Troy Melton 2
- Drew Anderson 1
- Hunter Brown 4 (Todd 5)
- Michael Wacha 4
- Reid Detmers 4 (Todd 5)
- Ryan Johnson 2
- Roki Sasaki 1
- Sandy Alcantara 5
- Jacob Misiorowski 5
- Connor Prielipp 2 (Todd 1)
- Jonah Tong 2
- Will Warren 3
- Cristopher Sanchez 5
- Jared Jones 4
- Casey Mize 2
- Walker Buehler 1
- Kade Anderson 4
- Landen Roupp 1
- Quinn Mathews 1
- Griffin Jax 3
- Cody Bradford 0

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Next Year's First Round with Lauren Auerbach Sep 10, 2026

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Erik Halterman is joined by Lauren Auerbach to discuss the high amount of turnover at the top of the player pool. Who should be picked earlier next season, this year's top picks or this year's top performers?

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00:00 Headlines

06:30 Pete Crow-Armstrong vs. Shohei Ohtani

13:40 Jacob Misiorowski vs. Aaron Judge

18:15 Ben Rice vs. Bobby Witt Jr.

23:40 Yordan Alvarez vs. Juan Soto

27:35 Cam Schlittler vs. Ronald Acuna Jr.

31:25 Jordan Walker vs. Jose Ramirez

36:20 CJ Abrams vs. Tarik Skubal

41:40 Hunter Goodman vs. Elly De La Cruz

45:15 Junior Caminero vs. Julio Rodriguez

49:35 Sal Stewart vs. Paul Skenes

53:50 Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Garrett Crochet

58:30 Elly De La Cruz vs. Gunnar Henderson

1:01:20 Chris Sale vs. Corbin Carroll

1:04:25 Fernando Tatis Jr. vs. Kyle Tucker

1:07:20 James Wood vs. Fernando Tatis Jr.

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September Callups With The Welsh Sep 09, 2026

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Chris Welsh (@isitthewelsh) joins Jeff Erickson to discuss September call-ups like Lazaro Montes, Ethan Salas and Leo Bernall, and they also discuss the state of the Diamondbacks.

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00:00 09-09-26 MLB Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Chris Welsh

00:35 What is Chris working on?

04:30 Thanks to James Anderson

05:30 Diamondbacks Talk - Carroll, Playoffs, Burnes, Bullpen

15:30 Brock Bowers Injury

16:20 Circa

17:30 September Call-Ups

17:40 Lazaro Montes

26:00 Ethan Salas

29:30 Leo Bernal

32:00 Cooper Hjerpe

33:45 Walker Jenkins

35:35 BlueWire

36:20 Jonah Tong

38:30 Michael Arroyo

39:10 John Peck

40:10 Adael Amador

41:10 Ty Johnson

41:40 Ricky Tiedemann

42:30 Denzel Clarke

43:25 Carlos Jorge and Hector Rodriguez

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Five Fantasy Baseball Mistakes Experts Made in 2026 Sep 09, 2026

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Fred Zinkie is in the finals of the Tout Wars Champions League, but even he has made mistakes this year, including drafting early catchers like Cal Raleigh. He and Jeff Erickson discuss their biggest mistakes of the season.

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00:00 Fred Pod 9-8-26

00:45 Tout Wars Champions League

05:30 News:

05:35 Aaron Judge Returns

07:45 Corbin Burnes Returns

09:15 Corbin Carroll Scratched

10:20 Shohei Ohtani Out Tuesday

16:45 Chase Burns pitched so well that you may want to start him anyways

18:45 Emmet Sheehan struck out 10 Reds

19:30 Another monster game from PCA, who is at 41-35

19:55 Henry Bolte had a homer and three steals.

22:00 Coby Mayo homered twice and has a .905 OPS in the second half.

26:00 Dylan Cease dealt with diminished velo in a poor start

28:20 Eury Perez has allowed at least 5 ER in three straight starts

31:00 Jesus Luzardo with another dominant start. Is he a top 10 SP for 2027?

32:00 Kyle Harrison is no longer worth rostering

33:30 Riley O’Brien blew a save. He is 0-4 with 3 BS and a 5.30 ERA in the second half

36:20 Circa

37:19 BlueWire

37:25 Main Topic: Fred’s five biggest screwups of 2026

38:15 Drafting pitchers in Round 1

44:30 Investing heavily in catchers (Cal Raleigh, Shea Langeliers)

49:10 Ignoring the second-half collapse of Framber Valdez

52:30 Overly Relying on Park Factors - Luis Castillo and Ezequiel Tovar

54:45 Ryan Walker

58:25 Jeff’s Biggest Mistakes

58:40 Not Enough “What Could Go Right?” Players

1:01:35 Pushing Up Scarce Players

1:05:10 Too Many Old Hitters

1:07:30 Impatience With Roles

1:13:40 Overlooking Speed …. Again

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10 Players Experts Are Adding on the Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Sep 07, 2026

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Jeff Erickson and Paul Sporer from Fangraphs and the Sleeper and Bust Podcast discuss Konnor Griffin vs. Kevin McGonigle, the AL Playoff Races, and the FAAB Results of the week.

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00:00 9-6-26 MLB Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Paul Sporer

00:45 Fantasy Trade Deadline Deals

02:00 The DH Discount

04:00 Kyle Tucker

06:30 Paul Skenes

10:15 Konnor Griffin vs. Kevin McGonigle (or others)?

15:20 Catch Up on the Races

15:30 Baltimore Loses Six In A Row

16:30 Tigers/Cleveland

21:00 Seattle Mariners - Shovel Dirt Time?

22:00 Zombie Astros

23:00 Rangers - Not In Nor Out

25:20 Braves-Phillies

33:15 Shohei Ohtani

35:15 Circa Read

36:30 Labor Day Schedule

38:00 Light Schedule

38:50 Jacob Lopez Two-Step

40:30 Chase Burns

42:00 Elly De La Cruz

45:30 Kyle Harrison

48:30 BlueWire

48:40 Free Agent Hitters

48:45 Lazaro Montes

50:15 Leo Bernal

51:45 Thomas Saggese

53:30 Konnor Griffin

53:50 Jonah Cox

56:20 Mickey Gasper

58:20 Hector Rodriguez

59:20 Heriberto Hernandez

1:00:35 Adael Amador

1:01:45 Free Agent Starters

1:01:55 Emmet Sheehan

1:04:10 Jonah Tong

1:05:05 Yusei Kikuchi

1:05:30 Grayson Rodriguez

1:08:25 Davis Martin

1:10:10 Reynaldo Lopez

1:11:20 Cal Quantrill

1:12:38 Free Agent Relievers

1:13:00 Juan Morillo

1:14:00 Ryan Zeferjahn

1:15:00 Andrew Kittredge

1:16:00 Tyler Wells

1:18:00 Nick Pivetta Returning

1:19:30 Joe Ryan Returns

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FAAB Targets (Week of Sept. 7, 2026) Sep 04, 2026

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

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2:16 Hector Rodriguez
5:32 Lazaro Montes
8:30 Henry Bolte
11:39 Max Clark
13:23 Ethan Salas
17:29 Grayson Rodriguez
19:57 Walbert Urena
24:17 Andrew Painter
27:01 Hayden Wesneski
30:27 Corbin Burnes

33:10 Circa

36:29 Yusei Kikuchi
39:09 Patrick Sandoval
41:52 Davis Martin
46:21 Justin Wrobleski
48:36 Bryan Hudson

54:22 Matt Shaw
56:54 Thomas Saggese
59:12 Jonah Cox
1:01:54 Yohandy Morales
1:04:08 Wade Meckler

1:08:24 Outro

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