RotoWire Prospect Podcast

James Anderson and Marc Winokur talk fantasy baseball auction strategy and recap Marc's first two high-stakes auctions of 2026!

02:00 How the 2025 winners spent their money

14:20 Marc’s surprise buys
21:25 Overpriced players

25:45 Skubal/Skenes/Crochet

29:15 Spending at 3B

30:40 Buying Rafael Devers

33:30 How to attack 2B

37:50 Willy Adames/Jung Hoo Lee

41:05 How much to spend on outfield

44:50 How much to spend on pitching

51:35 Buy 1 or 2 closers?

58:20 Nomination strategy

01:06:10 Advice for new auction players

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James Anderson and high-stakes fantasy baseball player Phil Dussault discuss some boom or.bust catchers, platoon outfielders, underrated players and much more as we head into the heart of 2026 fantasy baseball draft season!

01:30 More early drafting

04:00 When we know who we’re drafting

07:00 How the Main Event has changed

10:45 Toughest teams to project

15:35 A potential bust at Catcher

22:45 Best risky catcher

30:50 Fernando Tatis HR projection

35:25 Brent Rooker vs. Wyatt Langford

39:45 Chandler Simpson vs. Jose Caballero

45:15 Platoon Outfielders

52:15 Best blocked hitter to buy

59:30 Phil’s favorite really old prospect

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James Anderson answers listener questions about the full-updated RotoWire top 400 prospect rankings! 

02:00 Holy Shortstops!

04:15 Top 10 Prospects By Upside

08:10 State of the Rankings

10:45 What Causes Offseason Movement?

12:05 Rainiel Rodriguez

12:50 Joshua Baez

14:35 Walker Jenkins

16:20 This Year’s Luke Keaschall

17:30 Edward Florentino

18:15 Carter Jensen

23:00 Luis Pena

24:10 Tyler Bremner

26:00 Andrew Painter

28:25 Elmer Rodriguez, Luis De Leon, Trey Gibson

30:20 Alfredo Duno

32:00 Nathan Flewelling

33:00 Which catchers won’t catch?

33:35 Harry Ford

35:40 NPB and KBO

36:20 Elian Pena vs. Jacob Reimer

37:15 Roch Cholowsky

38:25 Felnin Celesten

38:50 Miguel Ullola, Brandon Clarke

39:50 Robert Calaz

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James Anderson, Zac Beck, Kyle Sonntag, Ross Jensen, Jesse Severe and Taylor Corso participate in a mock FYPD! Find out where the top 2025 draftees stack up against the international signees in your dynasty leagues!
 

01:40 Tatsuya Imai

02:15 Kade Anderson

03:00 Kazuma Okamoto

04:00 Munetaka Murakami

05:00 JoJo Parker

06:00 Liam Doyle

06:50 Dax Kilby

08:10 Eli Willits

09:40 Seth Hernandez

10:20 Andrew Fischer

11:20 Kyson Witherspoon

12:40 Aiva Arquette

13:15 Gavin Fien

14:40 Ethan Conrad

15:40 Steele Hall

18:30 Jamie Arnold

19:25 Luis Hernandez

21:10 Ethan Holliday

22:40 Gage Wood

24:35 Tyler Bremner

26:25 Wandy Asigen

28:00 J-15 Talk

29:30 Charles Davalan

30:20 Ethan Frey

32:25 Kruz Schoolcraft

33:20 Jace LaViolette

34:30 Xavier Neyens

35:35 Slater de Brun

36:25 Francisco Renteria

37:55 Johenssy Colome

38:55 Cody Ponce

42:00 The 2026 FYPD Class

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James Anderson and Dustin McComas go through the top 150 starting pitchers by recent ADP and highlight many targets and avoids to get you prepared for you 2026 fantasy baseball drafts!

02:40 Garrett Crochet

04:45 Hunter Brown

05:55 Bryan Woo

07:50 Logan Webb

10:20 Kyle Bradish, Jesus Luzardo, Eury Perez

12:45 Kevin Gausman

15:00 Tyler Glasnow

15:35 Spencer Strider

16:35 Nick Pivetta

20:00 Nick Lodolo

21:30 Bubba Chandler

22:35 Emmet Sheehan

24:10 Brandon Woodruff

25:55 Robbie Ray

28:45 Tatsuya Imai, MacKenzie Gore

35:40 Tanner Bibee

37:40 Cade Horton

38:30 Shane Bieber

42:20 Andrew Abbott

43:40 Noah Cameron

45:50 Roki Sasaki, Shane McClanahan, Bryce Miller

48:00 SP Sleepers

53:10 Bailey Ober, Zebby Matthews, Reese Olson

56:45 More SP Sleepers

01:04:55 Seth Lugo

01:05:55 Jonah Tong

01:07:05 Deep SP Sleepers

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James Anderson and KC Bubba pinpoint some potential inaccuracies on Roster Resource that are leading to some players being overvalued and others being slept on, as playing time is key to winning fantasy baseball leagues!

02:30 Sal Stewart

05:20 Connelly Early

09:25 Lenyn Sosa

14:00 Jack Perkins, J.T. Ginn

18:25 Ian Seymour

21:50 Jacob Melton, Carson Williams

27:15 Spencer Arrighetti

30:20 JJ Wetherholt

34:00 Kyle Leahy, Richard Fitts

38:55 Carter Jensen, Lane Thomas

44:05 Troy Melton

47:05 Parker Messick

48:45 Blade Tidwell, Hayden Birdsong

52:45 Owen Caissie, Moises Ballesteros

55:05 Graham Pauley, Connor Norby

56:30 Harry Ford

59:00 Hyesong Kim

01:00:10 Zac Veen, Tyler Freeman

01:01:30 Elmer Rodriguez, Colt Emerson, Konnor Griffin

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James Anderson and Rob DiPietro identify six players who are being drafted too early, including Rafael Devers and Oneil Cruz, before highlighting more than 10 players who are great late-round values in 50-round draft-and-hold leagues!

04:00 Trevor Megill

09:45 Rafael Devers

12:50 Oneil Cruz

17:25 Noelvi Marte

21:40 Jackson Holliday

25:15 Jonathan Aranda

29:45 Finding late DC gems

31:45 Andruw Monasterio

35:50 Hunter Harvey

39:30 Carmen Mlodzinski

43:25 Michael Conforto

46:10 Graham Pauley

50:30 Sean Newcomb

53:05 Nathan Church

56:10 Zach Dezenzo

58:50 Hagen Smith

01:01:55 Everson Pereira

01:04:15 Oswald Peraza

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James Anderson and Dave McDonald discuss the riskiest players who are getting drafted highly in 2026 fantasy baseball drafts, including Yordan Alvarez, Cole Ragans, Brandon Woodruff, Zack Wheeler and more!

03:25 Evaluating injury risk

11:35 Yordan Alvarez

19:15 Bryan Woo vs. Jacob deGrom

26:00 Cole Ragans

31:00 Josh Hader

33:50 Tyler Glasnow

36:20 Brandon Woodruff

38:10 Pablo Lopez

40:40 Shane Bieber

43:55 Michael King

47:05 Nathan Eovaldi

49:25 Zack Wheeler

52:05 Carlos Rodon

53:45 Kris Bubic

55:25 This Year’s Byron Buxton

59:50 Chase Burns

01:01:25 2024 velocity gainers -> 2025 results

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James Anderson and Rob Silver discuss the 2026 rookie shortstop class, sleeper candidates to hit 30-plus homers, reliever land mines, Rob's 2026 prospect crush plus much more!

01:40 Konnor Griffin

09:20 Rookie Shortstops

13:20 Finding Cheap Power

15:45 Jorge Polanco

17:35 Dominic Canzone

19:45 Royce Lewis

23:05 Max Muncy (LAD)

26:20 Jordan Walker

31:25 Power Sleepers

34:00 Reliever Land Mines

41:50 Chandler Simpson

47:30 Cheap Speed

50:00 Rob’s Prospect For 2026

55:35 Nasim Nunez

58:40 Jeff Hoffman

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James Anderson and Tim McLeod discuss Tatsuya Imai, Munetaka Murakami, Kazuma Okamoto and the rest of the players making the leap from Asia to MLB in 2026!

01:10 Tatsuya Imai

06:25 Munetaka Murakami

10:45 Kazuma Okamoto

15:30 Cody Ponce

18:50 Foster Griffin vs. Anthony Kay

22:35 Jon Duplantier

25:00 Lewin Diaz isn’t coming over

26:50 Jo Hsi Hsu

28:45 Sung-Mun Song

31:35 Open Universe Targets

37:40 Roki Sasaki

42:50 Tim’s Rookie Targets

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