Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss all the adds and drops in FAAB this weekend, a rough Royals weekend, a fun Dodgers / Diamondbacks series, Jose Ramirez and much, much more. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ryan Boyer goes over all the latest headlines and tells you were your FAAB dollars should go this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Larry Schechter joins Jeff Erickson to discuss his new book, "The History of Fantasy Sports." (https://tinyurl.com/b63urwjx) --- 00:00 - The History of Fantasy Sports 03:00 - 18 Months of Research 04:20 - First Tabletop Games in 1800’s 05:20 - Difference between fantasy & Strat-O-Matic / APBA 08:00 - Paring Down to Make the Book 09:30 - FSTA / FSGA 13:00 - Founders of Rotisserie 19:00 - Early Reviews 22:30 - Early different formats 25:00 - Variations of the game 30:00 - Larry’s personal background - CDM 31:45 - Transitioning to LABR/Tout 34:30 - Mixed Leagues 35:40 - Football dwarfs baseball 37:30 - Role of the leagues / players’ associations 39:00 - AL ToutWars this year 42:30 - NFBC Main Events 43:20 - Corbin Carroll  --- Sorare Promotional Copy 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!  --- PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson view some of the surprising results from the first quarter of the season and discuss whether they are sustainable, plus they review the paltry streaming options for the week. --- 00:00 - We are roughly ¼ of the way through the season.  02:15 - Do we buy MIL as a top-5 offense?  15:30 - Alexis Diaz blows it 19:45 - CIN as a bottom-5 offense?  27:30 - Reds Godfather Offer? 31:30 - Will SEA strike out this much all season? 36:00 - Streaming for strikeouts instead of wins 43:00 - Is the OAK offense actually decent? 49:00 - Is the STL offense this bad? 55:00 - Hitters called up really struggled 58:30 - Shaky Streamers --- Sorare Promotional Copy 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!  --- PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss all the adds and drops across fantasy leagues this weekend and also talk Paul Goldschmidt, Teoscar Hernandez and of course, the Paul Skenes debut. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScotJenstad I @RotoWire PrizePicks 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! Sorare 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!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@Erik_Halterman) and guest Dave McDonald (@RunDMcD) discuss the latest headlines and some difficult drop decisions. --- 00:00 Happy Mother's Day/Happy Paul Skenes Day 07:45 More Headlines 22:50 Overall Drops Strategy 39:15 12-team Pitcher Drops 51:15 12-team Hitter Drops 1:02:30 15-team Drops --- Home Run Forecast Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) go over some headlines and hit on their FAAB recommendations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman and Todd Zola talk fantasy baseball headlines, pickups and next week's two-start pitchers. --- 00:00 Season Debuts: Robert Gasser, Taj Bradley, Bryan Woo 11:40 Willson Contreras' fractured forearm 18:00 More News 22:00 Steak League pickups 32:15 Two-Start Pitchers Jordan Montgomery 4/4 (Erik/Todd) Reynaldo Lopez 4/3 Corbin Burnes 5/5 Kutter Crawford 4/3 Nick Pivetta 3/3 Shota Imanaga 5/5 Graham Ashcraft 1/2 Hunter Greene 3/2 Tanner Bibee 3/2 Peter Lambert 0/1 Chris Flexen 0/1 Kenta Maeda 1/2 Hunter Brown 2/2 Ronel Blanco 4/4 Brady Singer 4/4 Jose Soriano 2/2 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 5/5 Sixto Sanchez 0/0 Colin Rea 1/1 Chris Paddack 2/2 Sean Manaea 1/1 Carlos Rodon 4/4 JP Sears 1/2 Osvaldo Bido 0/0 Cristopher Sanchez 4/4 Aaron Nola 5/5 Mitch Keller 3/3 George Kirby 5/4 Jordan Hicks 2/1 Matthew Liberatore 0/0 Zach Eflin 4/4 Aaron Civale 2/3 Michael Lorenzen 1/2 Jose Berrios 2/3 Trevor Williams 1/1 --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pirates announced that pitcher Paul Skenes is going to make his Major League debut on Saturday. Travis Sawchik, the Senior Baseball Writer for The Score and author of Big Data Baseball and The MVP Machine joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Skenes and the Pirates, the limitations of MRI's, and his experience in the NFBC so far. --- 00:00 - Welcome Travis Sawchik 00:30 - Paul Skenes getting the call 02:45 - Did the Pirates develop Skenes properly? 08:45 - How are the Pirates structuring their rebuild? 16:30 - Big Data Baseball 21:00 - Henry Davis 23:45 - Ke’Bryan Hayes 25:30 - Oneil Cruz 30:40 - Christian Encarnacion-Strand 31:30 - Limitations of MRI’s 39:15 - Reds slumping 40:30 - Wild prospect trades 41:45 - Travis’s experience in the NFBC Main Event 45:00 - The Difficulties of drafting live 54:00 - Managing FAAB --- Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Last week featured heavy bidding on Christian Scott, and justifiably so, but Fred Zinkie suggests that this week will be nearly as big, highlighted by Kyle Manzardo. He and Jeff Erickson will discuss that, Shohei Ohtani somehow outpacing his high expectations and more! --- 00:00 - Dodgers Notes:  01:00 - Ohtani homered. You were there. I saw some people talking on Twitter about why we seem to draft him too low every year. It’s a good point…… 07:20 - Walker Buehler’s return was underwhelming but not terrible…. 10:45 - Alex Vesia gets a save. Does that matter?….. 14:25 - Reviewing debut of Kyle Manzardo 20:45 - Mason Black debuts 22:00 - I listened to you and Scott. It was definitely a big FAAB weekend. But we already know that next weekend will be big too.  24:30 - I can share some of my bids if you want. 26:45 - Christopher Sanchez / Spencer Turnbull 29:00 - Paul Sewald returns 30:15 - Cody Bellinger returns 32:30 - Justin Steele looked good in his return….. 34:00 - Simeon Woods-Richardson looks great but has had easy matchups….. 37:30 - Jack Leiter starting again this week 39:30 - Jonny DeLuca 41:30 - Wyatt Langford to IL. 45:30 - Parker Meadows is going to the Minors, which should help Wenceel Perez… 48:00 - A.J. Puk is coming back as a reliever. I wonder if he could become their closer 51:00 - Who else besides the Marlins get “Godfather Offers”? White Sox - Garrett Crochet 53:45 - Godfather Offer: Paste-eating Rockies - Ryan McMahon or nothing 59:30 - Godfather Offer: Los Angeles Angels - Taylor Ward, Reid Detmers --- Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can you optimize the closer turnover around the trade deadline by de-emphasizing saves at the draft table and in early FAAB bidding? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson explore the potential and the details of such a strategy, while identifying bullpen situations currently in flux. --- 00:00 - Fred Pod 8-20 00:40 - New Closer Opportunities Opening Up 02:15 - Have to hold FAAB back 03:20 - Not many early options 05:10 - More single league category, less overall 07:40 - Orioles bullpen 09:45 - Giants bullpen 11:25 - Cubs bullpen 13:50 - Rays bullpen 16:30 - Diamondbacks bullpen 19:00 - Dodgers bullpen 21:30 - Angels bullpen 23:00 - Ignore bad teams? 25:00 - Ignore true committees? 27:00 - Royals bullpen 28:30 - Tigers bullpen 32:00 - Max Muncy back, Dodgers lineup lengthened 36:00 - Brewers running away 37:10 - Grant Holmes 37:30 - Will there be a .600 team this year? 38:15 - Austin Riley out 41:30 - Disappointing Cardinals --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad recap another batch of big name injuries across the league, talk AL West and AL East and break down a big weekend in FAAB, led by Mets pitcher Christian Scott. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire 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! Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of BaseballHQ (@RyanBHQ) to discuss the players improving in multiple ways at once this season. --- 00:00 Headlines 17:15 Vinnie Pasquantino 24:00 Brice Turang, Brenton Doyle 28:15 Tyler Stephenson, Willy Adames 32:15 Alec Bohm, Christian Walker, Salvador Perez 39:15 More top hitters showing improvements 41:15 Sleeper hitters showing improvements 53:45 Pitchers showing improvements --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest headlines, including the Luis Arraez trade, and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week. --- Headlines: 00:00 Priority FAAB Pitchers: 20:53 Priority FAAB Hitters: 35:09 Budget Pitchers: 51:41 Budget Hitters: 1:00:25 --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk all things fantasy baseball, including news, pickups, two-start pitchers and more! This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! 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/Christian Scott is on his way to join the Mets Pickups Joey Loperfido Tyler Black 9:00 Garrett Cooper Kyle Gibson 10:30 Wenceel Perez $3 Jose Miranda $1 14:00 Jacob Young 22:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 6, 2024) Zac Gallen 5 Justin Steele 3 Frankie Montas 2 Corbin Carroll Triston McKenzie 3 33:30 Logan Allen 3 Dakota Hudson 0 Mike Soroka 0 Mike Clevinger 2 (Todd 0) Jack Flaherty 4 (Todd 3) Justin Verlander 5 (Todd 4) 39:30 Cole Ragans 5 Seth Lugo 4 Tyler Anderson 3 Patrick Sandoval 1 (Todd 2) Walker Buehler 4 Braxton Garrett 0 Bryse Wilson 1 Colin Rea 1 Simeon Woods Richardson 0 (Todd 1) 49:00 Bailey Ober 4 Luis Gil 3 Alex Wood 0 58:40 Mitch Keller 3 (Todd 4) Yu Darvish 3 Luis Castillo 5 Mason Black 0 Kyle Harrison 1 (Todd 0) Miles Mikolas 1 Sem Robberse 0 Tyler Alexander 1 1:03 Andrew Heaney 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Goldschmidt is off to an awful start to the season - what's our level of panic? Ryan Hallam (@fightingchance) joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Goldy and a handful of other struggling first basemen, the Cardinals, and even Fantasy Survivor! --- 00:00 - I. Slumping First Basemen 01:00 - Goldy 04:00 - Matt Olson 06:30 - Vladdy Jr. 10:45 - Freddie Freeman* (sort of - a bit of a power drought) 13:00 - Ryan’s work for Spotlight 14:00 - Spencer Torkelson 16:00 - Jordan Walker 18:45 - Yandy Diaz 21:00 - Andrew Vaughn 23:30 - Jose Abreu 26:00 - II. Cardinals Talk 27:00 - 14-17, -30 run differential, 109 R scored 29:30 - Sorting out the OF now and going forward 33:30 - Rotation 36:00 - Manager / Front Office 38:35 - III. Check in on Tout, your other leagues 42:30 - IV. Fantasy Survivor --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If you could re-draft today, where would Corbin Carroll go? How about Ranger Suárez? Would Ronald Acuña Jr. still go first? We resolved to find these questions out in the Yahoo! Friends & Family draft on Monday night. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review the results and the shifting player values. --- Full draft results: https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/84482/draftresults --- 00:00 - Recapping the Yahoo! F&F Draft.  04:25 - Mookie Betts 1.1 06:30 - Elly De La Cruz 1.5 09:00 - Fred takes Corbin Burnes 1.8 11:00 - Jeff takes Gunnar Henderson 1.11 13:00 - First-round recap 16:30 - Yordan Alvarez 2.16 17:30 - Tarik Skubal 2.19, 3rd pitcher taken 19:00 - Cooling off on early pitchers 22:30 - Corbin Carroll 2.25 30:15 - Adolis Garcia 2.26 33:00 - Two more aces for Fred (Freddy Peralta, Aaron Nola) 34:20 - When to take closers? 36:20 - Mike Trout 3.32 39:00 - Slumping Blue Jays hitters 41:45 - Early positive outliers - Shota Imanaga, Marcell Ozuna, Ronel Blanco 48:15 - Fred’s Full Team 53:15 - Jeff’s Full Team --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss a busy weekend baseball, cover all the adds / drops in FAAB and discuss some surprising early stars in fantasy baseball. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire 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! This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and guest Chris Towers of CBS Sports (@CTowersCBS) discuss which first-rounders were drafted too high and which April standouts should have gone much earlier. --- 00:00 Headlines 13:00 Ronald Acuna 21:45 Other First-Rounders: Julio Rodriguez, Corbin Carroll, Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge 42:45 Standout April hitters: Elly De La Cruz, CJ Abrams, Mike Trout 57:45 Standout April pitchers: Jared Jones, Ranger Suarez, Shota Imanaga --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) hit on the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations for the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad break down all the adds and drops in FAAB this weekend, talk Astros, Brewers and The AL Central and discuss who is going to the be the top pick in 2025 drafts, and well as much, much more. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Todd Zola welcomes ESPN's Tristan H. Cockcroft as co-host to discuss early season management, streaming pitchers in points leagues and rank next week's two-start pitchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actress and Podcast Host Ellen Adair joins Jeff Erickson to talk Phillies, including whether there's reason for panic on Nick Castellanos and Aaron Nola, and why Ranger Suarez is pitching so well right now. Plus we talk about the intersection of her fandom and her career. --- 00:00 - I. Phillies talk 00:30 - Zack Wheeler 01:30 - Bullpen 05:15 - Ranger Suarez 09:30 - Spencer Turnbull / Taijuan Walker 15:45 - Aaron Nola 18:20 - Nick Castellanos 24:45 - Alec Bohm's hot start 27:00 - Slow starts for Stott, Realmuto 29:30 - Anyone under the radar at the majors or minors we should look out for? 30:35 - Johan Rojas 33:00 - II. Career & Fandom 33:15 - Take Me In To the Ballgame 35:00 - Finding time w/ auditions/callbacks 37:30 - Acting in an emerging AI universe 45:00 - Congrats on your award - HERD 48:00 - Favorite Projects 51:00 - MLBN Off Base --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

IL Stashes Biggest FAAB buys/regrets Elly De La Cruz Mike Trout Wyatt Langford Hunter Brown Bo Naylor Parker Meadows Matt Wallner Liover Peguero Jonathan India Thairo Estrada Alejandro Kirk Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Heston Kjerstad just got the call - how interested are we in grabbing him? Keaton Winn wins again! Albert Suarez has had two great starts in a row. Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie discuss those players and more! --- 00:00 - Heston Kjerstad is up! How interested are we? 12:15 - Monday results: 12:30 - Did WE find something useful in Albert Suarez? 16:25 - Keaton Winn 19:15 - The Rockies stink 26:30 - Ranger Suarez 32:15 - Bryce Elder 36:00 - We undervalued Yusei Kikuchi….. 41:00 - Is Chris Paddack good or are the White Sox THAT bad? 43:00 - Are the Cards starting to break out of their collective slump? 46:00 - Why is Corbin Carroll so bad?….. 52:15 - Triston Casas out “a while” 55:30 - Would you rather be off to a good start in hitting or pitching? Or does it matter? --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss all the FAAB action from the weekend and also dive into some big names on offense who have struggled to start the 2024 season, including Paul Goldschmidt, Randy Arozarena and Gleyber Torres. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! PrizePicks 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Kev Mahserejian (@RotoSurgeon) of RotoBaller to check in on the most widely-hyped sleepers of draft season to see who's started off hot and who's started off cold. --- 00:00 Headlines 19:30 Sleepers off to bad starts: Wyatt Langford, AJ Puk, Maikel Garcia, Victor Scott, Hunter Brown, Gavin Stone, Henry Davis 43:00 Sleepers off to hot starts: Jared Jones, Shota Imanaga, Bryce Miller, Kutter Crawford, Nelson Velasquez, Jackson Merrill 1:01:15 Bust off to a great start: Elly De La Cruz --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations. --- Headlines: 00:00 Priority FAAB Hitters: 20:02 Priority FAAB Pitchers: 40:53 Budget Pitchers: 48:22 Budget Hitters: 1:01:14 --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk struggling players, pickups and more before grading all of next week's two-start pitching options. This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  0:00 Intro/Players young and old are struggling/Jack Leiter Pickups Jack Leiter wasn’t picked up in the RotoWire Steak League 6:50 Kirby Yates - $39 9:25 Jose Butto - $12 11:00 Andy Pages - $11 Wilyer Abreu - $10 16:30 Jonatan Clase - $7 Jake Irvin - $5 Orion Kerkering - $4 Joey Loperfido - $3 26:30 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 22, 2024) Brandon Pfaadt 3 Reynaldo Lopez 3 (Todd 4) Grayson Rodriguez 5 Tanner Houck 4 (Todd 5) Jordan Wicks 1 (Todd 0) Hunter Greene 3 Andrew Abbott 2 Ben Lively 0 Austin Gomber 0 Chris Flexen 0 Tarik Skubal 5 Brady Singer 3 Michael Wacha 1 (Todd 2) Reid Detmers 4 Ryan Weathers 1 (Todd 0) Joe Ross 0 (Todd 1) Wade Miley 0 (Todd 1) Chris Paddack 1 (Todd 0) Pablo Lopez 5 Jose Quintana 2 46:30 Carlos Rodon 3 Marcus Stroman 3 JP Sears 1 (Todd 2) Paul Blackburn 2 49:00 Taijuan Walker 0 51:15 Jared Jones 5 Bailey Falter 0 Dylan Cease 4 Michael King 4 Logan Gilbert 5 54:00 Keaton Winn 3 Lance Lynn 3 Zack Littell 4 Jon Gray 3 (Todd 4) Yusei Kikuchi 4 Kevin Gausman 5 Patrick Corbin 0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After 18 games, Francisco Lindor is hitting .151 with one homer and no stolen bases. What's our level of panic, especially when comparing him to other shortstops in the same range like Gunnar Henderson and CJ Abrams? CJ Kaltenbach (aka The Seige) joins Jeff Erickson. --- 00:00 - CJ Abrams 04:30 - Ronald Acuña 06:30 - Ozzie Albies 07:00 - Francisco Lindor 09:00 - Anthony Volpe 10:00 - Jackson Merrill 11:15 - Elly De La Cruz 12:30 - Jack Leiter's debut 19:00 - General FAAB approach? 22:00 - O’s talk, Gunnar Henderson (and other options we had at the turn) 24:15 - Rafael Devers 28:30 - Red Sox issues: Bello, Houck 32:20 - Jared Jones 36:00 - Drafting from 1.1 41:30 - INJ Notes: Darvish, Bryant, Albies, Verlander 44:00 - Mike Trout 46:00 - Q&A --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Minor-League Park Factors Pacific Coast League International League Eastern League Southern League Texas League Midwest League Sally League Northwest League Carolina League Florida State League Cal League Rookie leagues Automated Balls and Strikes Jefferson Rojas Tips for taking over an orphan dynasty roster Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) is joined by Sara Sanchez (@BCB_Sara) to discuss which players who took off in the third quarter of the season will be able to sustain it in the fourth. --- Catchers: Shea Langeliers, Cal Raleigh, Gabriel Moreno, Keibert Ruiz Corner Infielders: Alex Bregman, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Jake Burger, Eugenio Suarez, Nolan Schanuel, Josh Bell Middle Infielders: Bobby Witt Jr., Luis Garcia Jr., Ketel Marte, Oneil Cruz, Zach Neto, Gavin Lux, Jeff McNeil, Cedanne Rafaela Outfielders: Byron Buxton, Jake McCarthy, Brent Rooker, Brenton Doyle, Jorge Soler, Jackson Chourio, Teoscar Hernandez, Joc Pederson, MJ Melendez, Andrew Benintendi, Mickey Moniak, Corbin Carroll --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jack Leiter is getting the call for Texas, and the Dodgers are calling up Andy Pages potentially to replace Chris Taylor. We're starting to see patience for slow starts running out. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson will discuss that topic and more. --- 00:30 - Jack Leiter is coming up. Is he the saviour for teams who have had pitching injuries? 06:00 - Dodgers have turned to Andy Pages….. 10:50 - Jonatan Clase called up by Mariners 16:00 - Hitters get hurt too!  16:30 - Ozzie Albies,  21:30 - Christian Yelich,  24:00 - Seiya Suzuki 27:00 - Red Sox Malaise: Rafael Devers leaves game, Garrett Whitlock leaves game, Tyler O’Neill in concussion protocol, Kelley blows save. 35:00 - Andres Muñoz pitching in the 7th 38:00 - Brewers bullpen 40:00 - Jordan Romano with a shaky save 42:00 - Carlos Rodon with a bad outing 44:30 - Marlins SP - Weathers, Cabrera, Meyer, Puk 51:20 - Jared Jones shoves, gets pulled after 59 pitches 55:30 - do we care that Seth Lugo doesn’t strike anyone out? --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss Colton Cowser and all the other popular FAAB bids and chat about all the baseball action this weekend. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman and guest Rick Graham of Pitcher List try to figure just who exactly counts as a closer right now and who's stuck in a committee. --- 00:00 Headlines 15:20 Bullpens with obvious closers: ATL, BAL, BOS, CIN, CLE, HOU, NYM, NYY, SDP, SFG, STL, WSH 22:40 Bullpens whose obvious closer is currently injured: ARI, MIL, MIN, TOR 34:00 Bullpens with some question marks: CHC, CWS, COL, LAA, LAD, MIA, OAK, PIT, SEA, TBR 55:30 Bullpens with big question marks: DET, KCR, PHI, TEX --- This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman (@erik_halterman) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss all the latest headlines and go over their FAAB recommendations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk injuries, pickups, prospects and more before grading all of next week's two-start pitching options! This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today! 0:00 Intro/Jackson Holliday arrives to the big leagues Pickups James McArthur - $37 6:00 Cody Bradford - $22 in Steak League FAAB Gavin Sheets - $21 Jurickson Profar - $11 Yariel Rodriguez - $11 Spencer Arrighetti - $10 Josh H. Smith - $9 15:00 Christian Scott - $7 16:30 Ben Brown - $6 David Hamilton - $5 Bryce Elder - $2 20:40 James Wood 25:00 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 15, 2024) Merrill Kelly 4 (Todd 5 in points) Reynaldo Lopez 3 Cole Irvin 1 (Todd 0) Kutter Crawford 4 (Todd 3) Garrett Whitlock 4 Kyle Hendricks 0 31:45 Tanner Bibee 4 Cal Quantrill 0 Erick Fedde 0 (Todd 1) Reese Olsen 1 Casey Mize 0 Spencer Arrighetti 0 Seth Lugo 4 Patrick Sandoval 0 Jose Soriano 0 AJ Puk 0 39:00 Edward Cabrera 1 Joe Ross 0 (Todd 1) Louie Varland 2 Adrian Houser 0 Ross Stripling 0 (Todd 1) 46:50 Aaron Nola 5 Martin Perez 0 (Todd 1) Joe Musgrove 3 George Kirby 4 Jordan Hicks 4 (Todd 3) Kyle Harrison 1 (Todd 2) Sonny Gray 5 Zach Eflin 4 Aaron Civale 4 Jon Gray 1 (Todd 3) Chris Bassitt 4 Patrick Corbin -1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Luis Castillo and George Kirby at least are healthy, but they are two aces on the struggle bus. Paul Sporer from Fangraphs joins Jeff Erickson to discuss the pitching climate right now and cautions us not to panic. --- 00:30 - Breathe, relax! 03:30 - George Kirby 08:30 - Luis Castillo 12:30 - Tanner Bibee 17:30 - Hunter Brown (ouch *2!) 25:00 - Joe Musgrove 30:00 - Logan Webb 33:15 - Jordan Hicks sidebar 37:30 - Max Fried 40:40 - Holliday's debut and trade value 47:00 - Cody Bradford 49:30 - Spencer Turnbull 52:30 - Jesus Luzardo 1:00:00 - Your new pod with Nick Pollack 1:02:00 - Shohei affidavit --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jackson Holliday Coby Mayo Heston Kjerstad Connor Norby Kyle Stowers Cade Povich Luis Matos Miguel Vargas Jordan Beck Joey Loperfido Max Muncy Dustin Harris Spencer Horwitz Caleb Durbin Zyhir Hope Luis Baez James Triantos Agustin Ramirez Aidan Smith Paul Skenes Christian Scott George Klassen Jack Leiter Quin Priester vs. Bryce Elder Landon Knack vs. Jhonathan Diaz Kyle Hurt Landen Maroudis Chase Dollander Adam Mazur Alek Manoah Luisangel Acuna Kyle Manzardo Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jackson Holliday is getting the call, David Bednar blew another save, and the Royals keep winning! Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson cover it all and more! --- 00:30 - Jackson Holliday promoted! Let’s start a pod with some pod-sitivity!!! 12:30 - Here we go again: Framber Valdez to the IL. A few thoughts on all these pitcher injuries….. 16:00 - Spencer Arrighetti to start for Astros. Is he ready to help fantasy teams?… 20:40 - Fred’s free agent additions 23:30 - Apparently Elly De La Cruz is good after all…. 26:00 - In fantasy football, we see Zero RB. Could we see Zero SP in NFBC leagues next year, where managers draft 5-6 stud hitters and a couple closers before diving in and selecting 8-9 starters in the next 10-12 rounds? I know it’s too early to say that definitively, but we have some mid/late-round starters such as Tanner Houck, Sean Manaea, Shoto Imanaga, Garrett Whitlock etc. who are off to excellent starts.  33:30 - Chris Bassitt threw 115 pitches on April 9, but he will be fine since he throw 80 mph…. 36:30 - Royals start 46:00 - Worried about David Bednar after he gave up 4 runs today? 48:30 - George Kirby with another poor start… 52:00 - Ronald Acuna stole three bases, so he’s probably still good….. 54:00 - Reynaldo López 58:00 - Tyler O’Neill --- Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! On Demand DFS Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad dive into a slew of injuries across baseball that dramatically affect fantasy leagues, discuss how to deal with all of them and break down all the FAAB action from Sunday. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Download the On Demand DFS app now and get started with a 30-day free trial. Dive into a fantasy football experience that's rich in history, strategy, and, most importantly, fun. It's time to create your legacy with the ultimate lineup of legends and live out your fantasy football dreams like never before. Download On Demand DFS Today!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman and guest Marty Tallman of the Triple Play Fantasy Baseball podcast search for overlooked gems on some of this season's early surprise teams, including the Tigers and Pirates. --- 00:00 Headlines 14:30 Detroit Tigers 25:45 Pittsburgh Pirates 33:45 Cleveland Guardians 38:30 Boston Red Sox 43:45 Milwaukee Brewers 51:30 Which surprise team will sustain their start? 53:30 Angels/Royals/Cubs --- Rival Fantasy Promotional Copy It’s officially fantasy baseball season, and it’s time for MLB Best Ball and DFS on Rival Fantasy. Sign up at joinrival.com/rotowire for a $200 deposit match and $25 in free entries. Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer share their top FAAB recommendations of the week, featuring a handful of interesting rookies. --- 00:00 Headlines 17:27 Jhonkensy Noel 20:27 Junior Caminero 24:12 Pete Crow-Armstrong 27:09 Jace Jung 29:44 Jacob Wilson 32:23 Bobby Miller 36:16 Seranthony Dominguez 40:18 Zebby Matthews 43:56 Cody Bradford 45:40 Nick Martinez 48:01 Pick6 53:39 Budget Pitchers 1:02:08 Budget Hitters --- Pick6 Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app and use code RWPICKS. New customers play five bucks, and get fifty in Pick Six credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer discuss the latest injury news and provide their top waiver pickups of the week. --- 00:00 Headlines 20:00 Top targets for shallower leagues 37:45 Deep-league pitchers 53:30 Deep-league hitters --- It’s officially fantasy baseball season, and it’s time for MLB Best Ball and DFS on Rival Fantasy. Sign up at joinrival.com/rotowire for a $200 deposit match and $25 in free entries. This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket. Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%. Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link and Todd Zola talk injuries, pickups and more before grading all of next week's two-start options on a 0-5 scale. It’s officially fantasy baseball season, and it’s time for MLB Best Ball and DFS on Rival Fantasy. Sign up at joinrival.com/rotowire for a $200 deposit match and $25 in free entries. This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. 0:00 Intro/Tough opening week for injuries/Eury Perez done for the season Pickups Jason Foley - $43 Oswaldo Cabrera - $17 Trey Lipscomb - $16 6:00 JJ Bleday - $16 Jared Walsh - $10 10:05 Heston Kjerstad - $4 Alec Marsh - $2 Oliver Dunn - $2 15:15 Justin Foscue - $1 Nick Martini 19:45 Connor Joe Two-Start Pitchers (Week of April 8, 2024) Zac Gallen 5 Charlie Morton 4 Reynaldo Lopez 3 (Todd 4) Cole Irvin 1 (Todd 0) Brayan Bello 3 Javier Assad 3 Graham Ashcraft 2 Frankie Montas 3 Shane Bieber 5 Kyle Freeland -1 Mike Soroka 0 Reese Olson 2 (Todd 3) Framber Valdez 4 38:00 Cristian Javier 3 (Todd 4) Cole Ragans 5 Tyler Anderson 0 James Paxton 1 (Todd 2) 41:45 Jesus Luzardo 4 (Todd 3) Jakob Junis 0 Louie Varland 1 (Todd 3) Chris Paddack 0 (Todd 1) Julio Teheran 0 Adrian Houser 0 Nestor Cortes 3 (Todd 4) Alex Wood 0 Spencer Turnbull 0 (Todd 1) Zack Wheeler 5 Mitch Keller 3 (Todd 5) Yu Darvish 5 (Todd 3) Luis Castillo 5 Blake Snell 5 Zach Eflin 5 Andrew Heaney 1 (Todd 0) Nathan Eovaldi 3 (Todd 5) Jose Berrios 4 Trevor Williams 0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eric Samulski on NBC RotoWorld joins Jeff Erickson to review the AL Tout Wars league and some of the early-season storylines, including Maikel Garcia's newfound power, Shane Bieber's velocity and AJ Puk's rough start to the season. --- 00:00 - Eury Perez 08:00 - A.J. Puk 13:45 - Ohtani's start 17:30 - Dodgers pitchers 20:40 - Maikel Garcia 24:40 - Shane Bieber 28:30 - Tanner Bibee 32:00 - BOS rotation - is Andrew Bailey making that big of a difference? 38:30 - Tout Wars start --- Rival Fantasy Promotional Copy It’s officially fantasy baseball season, and it’s time for MLB Best Ball and DFS on Rival Fantasy. Sign up at joinrival.com/rotowire for a $200 deposit match and $25 in free entries. Vivid Seats Promotional Copy This MLB season, knock it out of the park with Vivid Seats and score great tickets to the biggest games of the year. Every fast ball, every home run, and every eye-popping play of your favorite team, live and in person. Plus, with Vivid Seats Rewards, you earn rewards with every single purchase. Just buy ten tickets, then cash in your credit toward your FREE eleventh ticket.  Sign up for Vivid Seats Rewards today! Home Run Forecast Promotional Copy Home Run Forecast is offering a special for the start of the baseball season. You can receive access to the premium site for the entire season for only $28, a savings of nearly 30%.  Go to https://www.homerunforecast.com/rotowire now to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices