RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Erik Halterman and Todd Zola discuss several of the most difficult hitters to rank for 2027 fantasy baseball drafts.

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00:00 Intro

08:40 How do you make your rankings?

20:00 #1 Overall

27:30 Falling, but how far?

45:35 Rising, but how far?

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Erik Halterman, Jeff Erickson and Jason Collette preview the upcoming World Series between the Rays and Brewers. What are the keys to the series, and which team has the better roster?

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00:00 Intro

3:20 Keys to the series

13:05 Rotation

28:10 Bullpen

33:45 Catcher/Infield

46:55 Outfield/DH

1:01:25 World Series picks

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Erik Halterman is joined by Ryan Rufe to learn how Ryan built the team that finished third overall in the RotoWire Online Championship, winning $20,000.

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00:00 Playoffs talk

05:30 Pre-draft strategy

18:30 Best and worst draft picks

36:15 Waiver moves

51:20 Late-season strategy

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Erik Halterman is joined by Ryan Boyer to discuss the best values at every position in 2026 drafts. Should we have seen their breakouts coming, and should we chase them up the board in 2027?

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00:00 Headlines

13:00 All-Value Team: Rotation

35:30 All-Value Team: Infield

54:10 All-Value Team: Outfield

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Erik Halterman is joined by Jason Collette to review some of Jason's preseason bold predictions. Which went right, which went wrong, and how should we value those players next season?

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00:00 Playoff check-in

8:00 Injury news

15:00 League-wide statistical trends

20:30 Correct predictions: hitters

34:30 Correct predictions: pitchers

47:25 Missed predictions: hitters

1:00:45 Missed predictions: pitchers

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Erik Halterman is joined by Brian Walton, the winner of NL-only Tout Wars, to learn how Brian put together his successful team.

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00:00 Headlines

5:45 Pre-Draft

16:00 Auction Draft

25:45 Waivers

35:15 Trades

42:30 Late-season strategy

46:30 Final takeaways

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider rewind back to March to take a look at the RotoWire staff's sleepers and busts picks.

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4:00 Sleeper Hitters

29:51 Sleeper Pitchers

46:31 Hitter Busts

1:02:09 Pitcher Busts

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Intro/Final weekend craziness

• FAAB:

• River Ryan
• Jeff Hoffman
• Ryan Zeferjahn
• Ben Malgeri
• Mickey Gasper
• Lucas Spence

• Five misses:

• Pete Crow-Armstrong
• Wyatt Langford
• Vladimir Guerrero
• Paul Skenes
• Jake Bauers

• Five hits:

• Cam Schlittler
• Cade Cavalli
• Drew Rasmussen
• Wilyer Abreu
• Logan Webb

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Erik Halterman is joined by the top two players in GLARF, Sara Sanchez and Mark Gannon, to discuss how their successful teams were put together.

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00:00 Headlines

12:15 Overall Draft Strategy

18:35 Early Rounds

30:45 Mid-late Rounds

42:15 Waiver Wire

58:50 Late-season Strategy

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Tout Wars Champions League winner Fred Zinkie lists 10 players who helped win you leagues this year that won't be league-winners in 2027. Plus, he and Jeff Erickson discuss an early peak at next year's top-25!

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00:00 Fred Pod 9-22-26

00:15 ToutWars Champions League winner!

07:30 News:

07:35 Aaron Judge

11:30 Bryce Eldridge

13:40 Jazz Chisholm

15:45 Emmet Sheehan (again!)

20:00 Working Top 25 Conclusions

20:20 Junior Caminero should be picked 2nd overall

23:30 Why not Elly over Bobby Witt Jr.?

28:30 Could Mason Miller be a first round pick in the main event?

35:00 Do we overrate Cristopher Sanchez a bit?

38:00 Why not put Pete Alonso in the top 25?

43:11 BlueWire

43:16 10 League winners who won’t be league winners in 2027

44:15 CJ Abrams

48:00 Ben Rice

49:45 Alec Burleson

53:40 Bryan Baker

54:45 Otto Lopez

57:00 Dylan Cease

1:01:40 Hunter Goodman

1:03:45 Eduardo Rodriguez

1:06:45 Liam Hicks

1:08:15 Riley O’Brien

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad delve into strategies for the final week of the season, discuss a number of players including Mookie Betts, Jackson Chourio and Carter Jensen (and many others) and break down all the final week adds that can help you lock down your league.

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top free agent pickups of the week and look back on the top pickups of the year.

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2:31 Dominic Canzone
5:23 Brett Bateman
8:56 Josh Jung
11:25 Sean Manaea
13:16 Andrew Alvarez
15:43 Jake Bennett

19:23 Erick Fedde
21:42 JR Ritchie
25:03 Ethan Pecko
28:27 Rico Garcia

30:39 Emmanuel Rodriguez
33:04 Dustin Harris
34:53 Pavin Smith
36:50 Donovan Walton

38:43 Reviewing Top Pickups of the Year

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Intro/The final week is upon us!

- Steak League FAAB:

• Shea Langeliers $4
• Jack Perkins $3
• Rico Garcia $3
• Jeffrey Springs $2
• David Sandlin $1
• Anthony Volpe $1
• Dustin Harris $1
• Emmanuel Rodriguez
• Justin Wrobleski
• Bryce Miller
• Dansby Swanson
• Garrett Whitlock
• Justin Foscue
• Andrew Abbott
• Cade Povich
• Blade Tidwell
• Agustin Ramirez
• Gordon Graceffo
• Brady Basso
• Luis Medina
• JR Ritchie

- Two-start pitchers (week of Sept. 21, 2026)

• Michael Soroka 1
• Brady Basso 1
• JR Ritchie 2
• Shane Baz 3
• Jake Bennett 3
• Kevin Gausman 3 (Todd 4)
• Andrew Abbott 2
• Foster Griffin 3 (Todd 2)
• Anthony Kay 1
• Cristian Javier 2 (Todd 1)
• Daniel Lynch 2
• Yusei Kikuchi 2
• Janson Junk 1
• Logan Henderson 4
• Sean Manaea 2 (Todd 3)
• Max Fried 5
• Zack Wheeler 5
• Jared Jones 4 (Todd 5)
• Logan Gilbert 5
• Blade Tidwell 2
• Andre Pallante 1
• MacKenzie Gore 2 (Todd 1)
• Max Scherzer 3

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Erik Halterman is joined by Derek VanRiper of The Athletic to discuss this year's most improved pitchers on three different statistical levels: ERA, K-BB% and Pitching+.

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00:00 Headlines

12:50 Most Improved by ERA

36:00 Most Improved by K-BB%

54:40: Most Improved by Pitching+

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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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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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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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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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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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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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