Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad preview Week 1 of the MLB Season, talk all the news and notes from the weekend and then break down their NFBC Main Event Drafts from Las Vegas on Saturday.  In addition, they also discuss the first week of FAAB and the demotion of Dylan Crews before getting into all the picks, misses and snipes from a busy weekend of drafts in Vegas.

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Erik Halterman is joined by Rick Graham of PitcherList as they try to figure out how many true, trustworthy closers there will be in 2026.

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00:00 Intro

02:00 Outfielders on/off Opening Day rosters

06:00 Opening Day rotation news

13:45 NL Tout Wars review

30:00 Safe, trustworthy closers

33:00 Safe for now

47:00 Unconfirmed but probable closers

52:00 Currently injured closers

54:30 Committees and unclear situations

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Intro/Back from New York City, getting you set for the final weekend before Opening Day

Tout Wars

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Erik Halterman is joined by Sara Sanchez to discuss a large number of spring news updates as well as the top performers from the World Baseball Classic, which Sara just returned from covering.

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00:00 Intro

02:40 Positive Pitcher Updates

13:00 Hitter Injury News

29:45 Negative Pitcher News

37:00 WBC Standouts: Venezuela

49:20 USA

57:00 Dominican Republic

1:04:00 Italy

1:09:20 Other Countries

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James Anderson and Dustin McComas give an update on the Konnor Griffin and Kevin McGonigle situations and discuss Leo De Vries' impressive spring before going team by team and evaluating rotation battles and whether to pay the increased price tags on our favorite starting pitcher sleepers!

01:35 Konnor Griffin/Kevin McGonigle

07:55 Leo De Vries

11:30 Rotation Battles

12:05 Diamondbacks rotation

14:50 Didier Fuentes’ upside

19:40 Red Sox rotation

24:25 Cubs rotation

27:10 Reds rotation

31:30 Tatsuya Imai’s upside

36:00 Stash George Klassen?

38:05 Dodgers rotation

41:50 Robby Snelling Watch

46:00 Brewers rotation

51:00 Buying Mick Abel?

54:50 Mets rotation

58:40 Riding Ryan Weathers

01:01:40 Phillies rotation

01:04:35 Pirates rotation

01:07:50 Padres rotation

01:11:05 Buying Emerson Hancock?

01:13:25 Giants rotation

01:14:50 Cardinals rotation

01:17:55 Rays rotation

01:20:45 Rangers rotation

01:22:15 Pay for Cade Cavalli?

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Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson share their top reactions from the Tout Wars Experts Leagues, including two record-setting buys of Aaron Judge in successive drafts.

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00:00 RotoWire MLB Podcast 3-17-26

00:15 Welcome to Fred Zinkie

00:30 RotoWire Smart Money - https://t.co/qcmg4BiQus

01:45 News

02:00 Gerrit Cole will start tomorrow.

03:10 MacKenzie Gore has a 6:6 K:BB ratio in ST. Globe Life Field better work its magic.

06:30 NFBC Main Event draft slot

10:00 Thoughts on the Closer Market

16:00 Why can’t the Reds just say that Chase Burns is going to make the team?

22:00 Fantrax

23:00 ToutWars Results

24:00 Aaron Judge

32:30 Kyle Bradish seems like your best purchase, when compared to the other SP prices.

34:15 Fred likes the Kirby Yates pick. He is starting to look like their closer.

37:00 You haven’t mentioned Samuel Basallo as a target….was that just a value purchase?

39:20 Dominic Canzone

40:00 How to do Stars and Scrubs Right

43:20 Are you becoming the Chase DeLauter guy? There isn’t much buzz on him, even though he seems certain to make the team.

45:01 BlueWire

45:10 I’d also like to comment on the Mixed Auction, since it is relevant to many of our listeners. We saw a $63 Judge and four players go for $50 or more. The high NFBC auction average is $48. Did these drafters get carried away?

46:30 The second and third tier of closers were so cheap. For $20, you could get two closers from the Jansen, Santana, Hader, Walker tier, and a couple speculative closers, like O’Brien or Beeter. Is that better than $22-25 for a top-tier closer?

49:30 Brewers relievers

52:00 Also in the Mixed, McGonigle went for $21, while Griffin went for $11 and Wetherholt went for $4. That doesn’t make much sense to me, or anyone who looks at ADP.

55:00 Tout Wars Champions League.

55:30 Most popular format (H2H Categories, daily transactions) on many sites. But a format that we rarely discuss. How should we attack the smaller lineups (10H, 7 P).

57:00 Is punting a category an option?

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad break down the news from across the weekend in baseball, discuss their reaction to the first wave of NFBC Main Event draft results and share some of their favorite draft targets for 2026. They go position by position to get into a number of names they like at their current draft price, including Roman Anthony, Michael Busch and Nick Lodolo, among many, many more.

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James Anderson and Chris Clegg discuss sniping each other in the Tout Wars Draft and Hold League and which prospects they're targeting for 2026!

Draft Board

03:40 Hunter Brown as SP1

06:35 Corey Seager’s OBP bump

10:15 Sheehan/Uribe snipes

14:00 Lawrence Butler’s upside

18:05 Playing the middle at catcher

25:00 Sal Stewart’s upside

28:05 Mike Burrows snipe

30:45 Reid Detmers’ breakout potential

32:30 Colt Emerson’s 2026 potential

35:20 Don’t forget about Brennen Davis

38:20 Quinn Mathews’ velocity is back

40:50 Sam Antonacci and Jack Wenninger

46:25 James’ team

50:30 Colton Cowser’s underrated

52:30 Skills > Role relievers

57:20 Ryan Waldschmidt’s loud spring

01:01:45 Don’t sleep on Shane Drohan

01:06:00 Spring Breakout prospects to watch

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Could Junior Caminero lead baseball in RBI? Is Jake Burger being undervalued? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson tackle those players and more.

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00:00 3-10-26 Podcast

01:00 Pick 13 Fred

02:45 News

03:00 Hunter Greene out until July.

07:00 Corbin Carroll could play in a game this week. Put him back into the first round?

08:30 Logan Henderson is battling elbow soreness. Who is their SP5 if Quinn Priester also ends up on the IL?

11:00 Fantrax

12:00 Kyle Tucker aside

13:00 Main Event ADP Talk

27:00 BlueWire

27:15 Steamer 600 revelations

27:30 Value - As we both know, Steamer 600 projections can offer a new perspective on players, since it removes playing time. Here are some interesting numbers to discuss.

28:30 The industry is turning on Nick Kurtz to some degree. Steamer has him third in homers, seventh in runs and fifth in RBI. It also has a respectable .258 average.

29:30 Munetaki Murakami is 12th in homers, 14th in RBI. Has an ADP around 200.

34:30 Junior Caminero is first in RBI and fifth in home runs. Solid .271 average.

36:30 Jo Adell is seventh in homers and 11th in RBI.

37:10 Jake Burger is 21st in homers and 22nd in RBI.

38:30 Nasim Nunez is listed as the starting 2B in WSH. His March ADP is 383. He’s seventh in steals.

42:15 The list of players with at least 20 HR and 30 SB includes a bunch of Rd. 1 or 2 players, along with Oneil Cruz and Luis Robert.

44:45 Notable Spring Training performers (good or bad)

45:00 Matt McLain

47:00 TJ Rumfield and Charlie Condon

50:00 Bubba Chandler

54:20 Grayson Rodriguez

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Scott Jenstad and Jeff Erickson discuss the top-heavy closer market and then dive into the players in the top 150 that they are fading in 2026 drafts.. They go position by position and identity players being drafted in the top 10 rounds that they are not drafting at their current ADP.

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