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**RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast**

Jeff Erickson, Clay Link, James Anderson, Scott Jenstad, Todd Zola, Fred Zinkie, Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider cover fantasy baseball year round, including draft prep, strategy and much more!

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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of July 21, 2025) Jul 18, 2025

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Intro/Second half is officially underway!

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

Colson Montgomery $3
Dominic Canzone $2
Nick Loftin $2
Lane Thomas $1
Colin Rea $0
Dillon Dingler $0
Logan T. Allen $0
Blake Treinen $0
Spencer Horwitz $0

Two-start pitchers (week of July 21, 2025)

Zac Gallen 4
Jacob Lopez 2 (Todd 3)
Jack Perkins 1
Davis Daniel 0
Tomoyuki Sugano 2
Zach Eflin 1
Richard Fitts 1 (Todd 0)
Cade Horton 2
Brady Singer 2 (Todd 3)
Tanner Bibee 4 (Todd 3)
Joey Cantillo 2
Austin Gomber 0
Casey Mize 4
Hunter Brown 5
Colton Gordon 0 (Todd 1)
Tyler Anderson 1
Kyle Hendricks 0
Eury Perez 4 (Todd 3)
Kodai Senga 5
Carlos Rodon 4
Zach Wheeler 5
Mitch Keller 3
Randy Vazquez 1
Stephen Kolek 1
Bryan Woo 5
George Kirby 5
Landen Roupp 2 (Todd 1)
Matthew Liberatore 1 (Todd 2)
Erick Fedde 2 (Todd 1)
Shane Baz 4 (Todd 3)
Jacob DeGrom 5
Kevin Gausman 4
Max Scherzer 3
Jake Irvin 1

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Risky Picks Report Card with Torres Jul 17, 2025

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Erik Halterman is joined by Torres (@TorresTakes) of the Fantasy Baseball Beat to give some midseason grades on this year's riskiest fantasy picks.

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00:00 Headlines

13:55 Jacob deGrom

22:20 Risky hitters who are working out

47:00 Risky pitchers who are working out

55:05 Risks who have not worked out

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Dynasty First-Year Player Draft! Jul 16, 2025

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James Anderson, Chris Clegg, Eric Cross and Chris Welsh conduct a 24-pick mock dynasty first-year player draft featuring just 2025 MLB draftees!

00:50 Who to take No. 1 overall

04:25 How good is Ethan Holliday?

09:15 JoJo Parker top 3?

14:00 Perfect landing spot for Kade Anderson

16:35 Aiva Arquette’s high floor

18:20 Seth Hernandez has the highest ceiling

22:40 Chasing Steele Hall’s upside

23:50 Gavin Fien Love

25:35 Jamie Arnold best value in the draft

28:25 A loaded college pitching class

30:40 Ethan Conrad’s upside

33:10 Liam Doyle’s slide ends

35:00 Kayson Cunningham’s hit tool

37:40 Ike Irish, best college hitter in the class?

40:20 Kyson Witherspoon’s upside

42:00 Buy low on Brendan Summerhill?

44:00 Gage Wood’s crazy upside

46:35 Andrew Fischer

48:00 Marek Houston

50:40 Buy low on Chase LaViolette?

55:30 Big power for Xavier Neyens

57:40 Chasing upside with Quentin Young

01:00:10 Charles Davalan better in fantasy

01:01:20 Mason Neville

01:04:00 Final thoughts on the class

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Instant MLB Draft Reactions Jul 14, 2025

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Johnny Venezia joins Jeff Erickson on the RotoWire MLB Podcast and shares his immediate reactions to the MLB draft.

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00:00 MLB Instant Draft Reactions

00:20 Welcome to Johnny Venezia

01:00 Early Surprises

04:15 Jace Laviolette

05:45 Eli Willits

08:00 Tyler Bremmer

09:45 Kade Anderson

12:15 Ethan Holliday

13:30 NFFC

14:15 Liam Doyle

16:00 Seth Hernandez

16:50 Aiva Arquette

17:35 JoJo Parker

18:30 Steele Hall

19:40 Billy Carlson

20:30 Jamie Arnold

22:40 Gavin Fien

23:45 Gavin Kilen

24:30 Daniel Pierce

25:25 Kyson Witherspoon

26:15 Home Run Forecast

27:30 Marek Houston

29:30 Ethan Conrad

30:15 Kayson Cunningham

32:30 Ike Irish

34:00 Andrew Fischer

35:00 Xavier Neyens / Kruz Schoolcraft

36:10 BlueWire

36:20 Tate Southisene

37:25 Sean Gamble

38:30 Jordan Yost

39:20 Gage Wood

40:20 Jace LaViolette

42:45 Noteworthy Fallers

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FAAB Targets (Week of July 14, 2025) Jul 12, 2025

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer discuss their top waiver-wire recommendations for the week.

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00:00 Headlines
17:11 Brandon Woodruff
21:14 Cam Schlittler
24:15 Charlie Morton
26:45 Joe Boyle
30:38 Kevin Ginkel
37:02 Brice Matthews
40:06 Colt Keith
44:24 Willi Castro
46:18 Romy Gonzalez
48:35 Austin Hays
49:56 Deep-League Pitchers
1:02:05 Deep-League Hitters

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Top MLB First-Half Fantasy Earners Jul 11, 2025

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Intro/Heading into the final weekend before the break

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

Trent Grisham $6
Cameron Schlittler $6
Kevin Ginkel $5
Shane McClanahan $4
Joey Cantillo $3
Brayan Rocchio $3
Miguel Andujar $2
Masataka Yoshida $1
Jordan Hicks $1
Michael Lorenzen $0
Kirby Yates $0

Brice Matthews, HOU top prospect, called up to Houston

Top 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 Alonso

Down 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

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Bold Predictions Check-in with Jason Collette Jul 11, 2025

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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.

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00:00 Headlines

15:10 Bold Predictions Overview

17:30 Andres Munoz

21:00 Emmanuel Clase

26:50 Andy Pages

29:55 Ivan Herrera

34:00 Matthew Boyd

38:20 Clay Holmes

40:15 Michael King

42:15 Noah Cameron

44:15 Pete Crow-Armstrong

53:00 Bogaerts/Campbell/Lux

58:30 Pfaadt/Festa

1:02:00 Drew Rasmussen

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MLB Draft Preview w/ Jim Callis Jul 09, 2025

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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 upside

05:20 Odds to go No. 1 overall

10:35 Odds to go No. 2 overall

15:10 Ranking the top college starters

21:25 Who’s the best college hitter?

22:20 Aiva Arquette’s floor

24:50 Prep shortstops to target in fantasy

34:10 Fade Jace LaViolette?

38:05 Sleeper college hitters

45:35 Sleeper prep hitters

52:20 How special is Seth Hernandez?

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30 Second Half Helpers Jul 08, 2025

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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.

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00:00 Fred Pod 7-8

00:30 Welcome

01:30 30 Players That Will Be Better in the Second Half

02:00 ARI: Kevin GInkel

03:45 ATH: Shea Langeliers

04:45 ATL: Austin Riley

05:30 BAL: Tyler O’Neill

08:00 BOS: Roman Anthony

09:00 Home Run Forecast

09:50 CHC: Ian Happ

11:15 CIN: Hunter Greene

15:00 CLE: Slade Cecconi

18:25 COL: Brenton Doyle

19:45 CWS: Grant Taylor

23:00 DET: Reese Olson

24:30 HOU: Brandon Walter

26:45 KC: Jonathan India

29:45 NFFC

30:30 LAA: Reid Detmers

31:30 LAD: Tyler Glasnow/Blake Snell

33:00 MIA: Agustin Ramirez

36:20 MIL: Nestor Cortes

40:00 MIN: Royce Lewis

41:25 NYM: Sean Manaea

42:10 NYY: Devin Williams

44:00 PHI: Max Kepler

45:00 PIT: Bryan Reynolds

46:05 BlueWire

46:20 SD: Yu Darvish

48:30 SEA: George Kirby

49:30 SF: Randy Rodriguez

51:30 STL: Ivan Herrera

53:00 TB: Chandler Simpson

54:40 TEX: Corey Seager

56:30 TOR: Anthony Santander

57:45 WSH: Luis Garcia Jr.

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FAAB Review / Is It Time to Drop Struggling Stars? Jul 07, 2025

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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.

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