RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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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Chris Welsh (@isitthewelsh) joins Jeff Erickson to discuss September call-ups like Lazaro Montes, Ethan Salas and Leo Bernall, and they also discuss the state of the Diamondbacks.

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00:00 09-09-26 MLB Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Chris Welsh

00:35 What is Chris working on?

04:30 Thanks to James Anderson

05:30 Diamondbacks Talk - Carroll, Playoffs, Burnes, Bullpen

15:30 Brock Bowers Injury

16:20 Circa

17:30 September Call-Ups

17:40 Lazaro Montes

26:00 Ethan Salas

29:30 Leo Bernal

32:00 Cooper Hjerpe

33:45 Walker Jenkins

35:35 BlueWire

36:20 Jonah Tong

38:30 Michael Arroyo 

39:10 John Peck

40:10 Adael Amador

41:10 Ty Johnson

41:40 Ricky Tiedemann

42:30 Denzel Clarke

43:25 Carlos Jorge and Hector Rodriguez

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