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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 28, 2025) Apr 25, 2025

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0:00 Intro/Night of returns

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

3:02 Chandler Simpson $34
Hunter Goodman $14
David Bednar $12
Ryan Gusto $12
Jake Irvin $12
Nolan Gorman $7
J.T. Ginn $6
Agustin Ramirez $5
Jeff McNeil $4
Will Vest $4
Emerson Hancock $2
12:29 Joe Boyle $1

20:25 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 28, 2025)

Eduardo Rodriguez 3
J.P. Sears 2
J.T. Ginn 1
AJ Smith-Shawver 0
Tomoyuki Sugano 2
Garrett Crochet 5
Shota Imanaga 5
Nick Martinez 1
Brady Singer 3
Tanner Bibee 3
30:13 Luis L. Ortiz 2
German Marquez 0
Bryse Wilson 0
Jack Flaherty 4
Reese Olson 3
Cole Ragans 5
Jack Kochanowicz 1
Edward Cabrera 0
Freddy Peralta 5
Bailey Ober 3
Chris Paddack 0
43:38 Griffin Canning 3
David Peterson 2
Will Warren 2 (Todd 1)
Andrew Heaney 2 (Todd 3)
Nick Pivetta 5
Logan Webb 5
Andre Pallante 1
Taj Bradley 3
Patrick Corbin 0
Jacob deGrom 5 (Todd 4)
Bowden Francis 3
Trevor Williams 0

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Patience or Panic with Scott Chu Apr 25, 2025

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Erik Halterman is joined by Scott Chu of Pitcher List to discuss a handful of struggling hitters, trying to figure out which cold starts are genuinely worrying and which have presented buy-low opportunities.

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00:00 Intro
02:15 Injured Closers
05:45 Other Headlines
20:00 Juan Soto
23:45 Gunnar Henderson
27:55 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
32:35 Julio Rodriguez
36:35 Yordan Alvarez
40:45 Trea Turner
43:00 Rafael Devers
46:40 Mid-round Cs
50:35 Mid-round 1Bs
56:15 Mid-round 2Bs
59:40 Mid-round 3Bs
1:02:40 Mid-round SSs
1:06:10 Mid-round OFs

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Prospect Superlatives w/ Zac Beck Apr 23, 2025

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James Anderson and Zac Beck talk realist breakout, buy-low targets, breakouts we're not buying, FYPD prospects on the rise, relief prospect with the most upside and much more!

01:40 Aroon Escobar

04:55 Cristian Hernandez

06:45 Spencer Jones

09:45 C.J. Kayfus

11:35 Dylan Crews

13:25 Brandon Winokur

15:15 Carson Williams

17:00 Matt Shaw

19:20 Brandon Clarke

22:40 Michael Forret/Ben Hess

25:10 Nick Kurtz/Ryan Sloan

29:50 Caleb Bonemer/Bryce Cunningham

32:25 Best Relief Pitching Prospects

38:40 Zyhir Hope

40:20 Ernesto Martinez Jr.

43:10 Otto Kemp

44:30 Ian Seymour

46:45 Noah Cameron/Jack Perkins

48:15 Gabriel Rincones

50:05 Luis Pena

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10 Polarizing Pitchers Apr 22, 2025

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Will the real Zac Gallen please stand up? Is this version of Chris Bassitt for real? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss the news of the day and at least 10 polarizing starting pitchers.

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00:00 Fred Zinkie 4/22 Pod

00:30 Welcome

01:30 Nick Kurtz Getting the Call

14:30 How Much FAAB do you need for five months?

24:15 Chandler Simpson

27:50 Spencer Strider to IL

31:10 Vivid Seats

32:01 BlueWire

32:15 Polarizing Pitchers

33:15 Bowden Francis

38:00 Chris Bassitt

42:30 Zac Gallen

44:10 Corbin Burnes

49:00 Brandon Pfaadt

51:15 Aaron Nola

55:30 Shota Imanaga

58:00 David Festa

1:02:00 Ben Brown

1:05:35 Casey Mize

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Chandler Simpson & Caleb Durbin FAAB Week Apr 21, 2025

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Jeff Erickson and Scott discuss the weekend in baseball and then jump into all the adds and drops in FAAB, including heavy action on Chandler Simpson and Caleb Durbin. They also preview Week 5, talk Cubs and Royals offenses and try and find possible pitching adds in a really scarce week in pitcher FAAB. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire.

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FAAB Targets (Week of April 21, 2025) Apr 19, 2025

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver pickups for a week that was full of prospect callups.

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00:00 Headlines
15:26 Chandler Simpson
21:08 Nick Kurtz
25:29 Caleb Durbin
29:04 Edgar Quero
32:14 Austin Hays
33:47 Pavin Smith
38:19 Hayden Wesneski
39:50 Tyler Mahle
42:04 Luis L. Ortiz
45:04 David Bednar
48:55 Deep-league Pitchers
59:59 Deep-league Hitters

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Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 21, 2025) Apr 18, 2025

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0:00 Intro/23 mph winds blowing out at Wrigley today

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

2:00 Jordan Leasure $11
Randy Vasquez $9
Matt Strahm $9
Adael Amador $9
Matthew Liberatore $8
Luisangel Acuna $8
Alek Thomas $8
Chase Dollander $6
Andrew Abbott $5
Edouard Julien $4
10:47 Jac Caglianone $3
Angel Martinez $2

17:48 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 21, 2025)

Brandon Pfaadt 3 (Todd 4)
Oswaldo Bido 2
Spencer Schwellenbach 4
Dean Kremer 1
Walker Buehler 3
Brayan Bello 2 (Todd 1)
Nick Lodolo 3 (Todd 2)
26:49 Gavin Williams 3
Ryan Feltner 0
Jonathan Cannon 0
Davis Martin 0
30:56 Kris Bubic 3
Jose Soriano 3
Max Meyer 3
Quinn Priester 2
Jose Quintana 2
Tylor Megill 2 (Todd 3)
Clarke Schmidt 3
Aaron Nola 4
Bailey Falter 0
Randy Vasquez 1
Bryce Miller 4
Robbie Ray 4 (Todd 3)
Jordan Hicks 1
Zack Littell 0
Kevin Gausman 4
Mitchell Parker 2

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Breakout Pitchers with Nick Pollack Apr 17, 2025

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Erik Halterman is joined by Nick Pollack, founder of Pitcher List, to figure out which pitchers off to hot starts are genuinely breaking out and which are merely in a groove.

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00:00 Intro
02:45 Spencer Strider
07:25 Bobby Miller
12:00 How Nick analyzes pitchers
Hot starts:
21:00 Cole Ragans
26:00 Hunter Greene
28:50 Joe Ryan
32:30 Logan Webb
36:20 Shane Baz
39:55 MacKenzie Gore
42:55 Chris Bassitt
45:30 Hayden Wesneski
48:30 Jesus Luzardo

Cold starts:
52:40 Jacob deGrom
57:00 Roki Sasaki

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Dynasty Prospect Pickups! Apr 16, 2025

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James Anderson welcomes on Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag of Prospects Live to talk about the best prospects to add in your shallow, mid and deep-sized dynasty leagues!

00:00 Intro

01:45 Yophery Rodriguez

05:40 Tommy Troy

07:05 Dasan Hill

10:10 Nolan McLean

13:45 Gabriel Rincones

16:35 Ernesto Martinez Jr.

19:55 Jonathan Santucci

21:35 Brandon Young

22:50 Austin Overn

25:30 Henry Bolte

27:30 Miguel Ullola

29:10 Khal Stephen

32:05 Kyle Karros

33:40 Anderson Brito

35:15 Ben Hess

35:45 Brandon Clarke

39:10 Bishop Letson

40:05 Matt Allan

43:20 Carlos Lagrange

45:20 Manuel Rodriguez

47:45 Asbel Gonzalez

49:00 Paul Bonzagni

50:00 A.J. Ewing

52:45 Romeo Sanabria

53:45 Yerlin Confidan

54:25 Alfonsin Rosario

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10 Polarizing Hitters Apr 15, 2025

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Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss 10 hitters that are off to interesting early hitter stat lines, including Jazz Chisholm and Jacob Wilson.

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00:00 Fred Pod 4-15

00:30 Welcome

01:45 Jacob Wilson

10:00 Gabriel Arias

12:11 BlueWire

12:15 News and Injuries:

12:30 Marcell Ozuna will miss the Jays series (hip)…..

15:15 Jays notes - Easton Lucas, George Springer seems to have avoided a major injury….Max Scherzer has a setback

18:40 Reds Moves… McLain, Hays, Diaz active Alexis Diaz won’t be the closer right away

22:15 Rooker/Kurtz

25:15 VIVID Seats

26:15 Polarizing Hitters

28:00 Jose Altuve

31:15 Jazz Chisholm Jr.

33:30 Xavier Edwards

34:45 Triston Casas

36:50 Christian Yelich

39:30 Dylan Crews

43:00 Salvador Perez

45:45 Jo Adell

48:45 Christian Walker

52:45 Marcus Semien

54:15 Nolan Arenado

57:30 Michael Toglia

1:01:15 Alec Bohm

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