RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Erik Halterman is joined by Frank Stampfl to discuss some big-picture questions about the 2027 fantasy baseball draft pool.

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00:00 Intro

3:30 Awards

5:50 Headlines

16:00 Our First Drafts

21:40 The First Round

26:10 Top-tier Starting Pitchers

33:50 Closers

42:45 Catchers

50:20 Speed

58:30 Second and Third Base

1:04:35 Risers and Fallers

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Erik Halterman and Clay Link discuss some of the toughest starting pitchers to rank for 2027 fantasy baseball drafts.

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00:00 Intro/NFBC ADP is here

8:15 How do you create your rankings?

10:55 Candidates for SP1

16:20 Paul Skenes

20:30 Drew Rasmussen

23:20 Parker Messick

28:25 Jesus Luzardo/Dylan Cease

31:20 Garrett Crochet

34:20 Gerrit Cole

37:00 Reid Detmers

40:10 Walbert Urena

45:50 Eury Perez

49:40 Logan Henderson

53:45 Hunter Brown

56:05 Jared Jones

59:30 Kade Anderson

1:04:30 Jose Soriano

1:06:30 Ben Brown

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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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