RotoWire Prospect Podcast

James Anderson answers all your questions about the updated Top 400 Prospect Rankings, including questions about Edward Florentino, Sebastian Walcott, Jett Williams and more!

01:35 Top Prospects for 2026

08:35 Prospect Tiers

12:10 Jesus Made’s speed

12:55 Buy low on Sebastian Walcott

14:45 Jett Williams’ position

15:40 Josue De Paula still at High-A

17:00 Mike Sirota’s injury

17:55 Ralphy Velazquez vs. Josue Briceno

19:10 Carter Jensen destroys baseballs

21:30 Giving Cam Collier a mulligan

22:45 Edward Florentino SZN

27:55 Trust the Pirates?

29:05 Tony Blanco’s 80-grade power

32:00 Elian Pena’s breakout

33:40 Dauri Fernandez’s ceiling

35:05 Kendry Chourio to the moon!

37:10 Top 5 a year from now

39:40 Potential risers into the top 10

40:35 Chales Davalan, FYPD target

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James Anderson and Dominic Rello (@BullpenGuru) preview Wednesday night's first high-stakes draft of 2026! Dom is picking fourth and James is picking 15th. They preview their potential picks and talk about the challenging hunt for saves, shallow positions, big risers, prospects to consider and much more!

02:15 Players at the top of the draft

03:50 Take Acuna in the top five?

06:30 Late first-round targets

12:10 Players losing/gaining positional eligibility

18:45 Which closers would we draft?

25:45 Which catchers would we draft?

28:45 Nick Kurtz vs. Pete Alonso

30:30 Depressed pitching assets

34:30 Second base sucks

36:50 Middle-infield prospects

40:15 Buy low on Mookie Betts?

42:45 Top 7 Shortstops

43:25 Young OFs to buy

45:30 Never Oneil Cruz

47:10 Fade Byron Buxton?

48:55 Buy low on Jackson Merrill?

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James Anderson and Ryan Topp rank the Brewers top 10 prospects for fantasy (and real life) and then touch on the Brewers' World Series odds, the projected 2026 lineup, rotation and more!

2:35 Jesus Made

7:30 Luis Pena

12:00 Cooper Pratt

21:10 Logan Henderson

24:45 Andrew Fischer

28:25 Jeferson Quero

30:50 Braylon Payne

33:35 Robert Gasser

36:40 Brock Wilken

40:30 Marco Dinges

42:50 Luke Adams

46:05 Bishop Letson

49:30 Brady Ebel

52:15 Honorable Mentions

57:55 World Series Odds

1:04:35 Projected 2026 rotation/lineup

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James Anderson and Mike Mager look back on the best picks from their 2025 Too Early Draft and look at which high-upside pitchers may be worth the risk going into 2026!

00:00 Intro

02:00 Best Pick of Round 1

02:55 Best Pick of Round 2

03:30 Best Pick of Round 3

04:55 Best Pick of Round 4

06:00 Best Pick of Round 5

08:45 Best Pick of Round 6

10:00 Best Pick of Round 7

10:45 Best Pick of Round 8

11:20 Best Pick of Round 9

12:00 Best Pick of Round 10

13:30 Best Pick of Round 11

15:45 Avoid Recency Bias

17:40 Landmines In The First 5 Rounds

23:50 Hitters Who Will Lose Position Eligibility

28:10 Back To Basics

33:20 Where To Find Upside

41:45 Buying Brandon Woodruff

45:00 Chris Sale vs. Jacob deGrom

48:40 Buying Eury Perez

52:10 Is Hunter Greene Too Risky?

56:20 Jacob Misiorowski vs. Chase Burns

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James Anderson is joined by Bob Osgood and Jake Devereaux to talk about the direction of the Red Sox, what they should do at the trade deadline and how their stacked rotation job battle will unfold next spring!

00:00 Intro

01:15 The direction of the Red Sox

03:55 Good move to trade Rafael Devers?

06:15 Trade Deadline Preview

10:10 Garrett Crochet, the ace

12:45 How Brayan Bello got on track

16:25 Will Lucas Giolito be back?

21:10 Hunter Dobbins

22:25 Don’t forget about Patrick Sandoval

25:15 Crossroads for Tanner Houck

27:00 Kyle Harrison’s potential

29:00 Kutter Crawford

30:00 Payton Tolle to the moon!

37:20 Connelly Early’s upside

40:00 David Sandlin up in 2025?

46:15 Kyson Witherspoon/Luis Perales

48:35 Who will be Boston’s closer?

52:20 Worried ab0out Kristian Campbell?

55:20 Triston Casas’ injuries mounting

59:30 Marcelo Mayer’s 2026 stat line

01:00:45 Roman Anthony’s 2026 stat line

01:03:30 Ceddanne Rafaela’s upside

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James Anderson answers dozens of questions from listeners about the updated RotoWire Top 400 Prospect Rankings!

00:00 Intro

01:45 Fantasy ranks vs. Real-life ranks

02:20 Where are the tiers?

04:05 So many shortstops

05:40 Should JJ Wetherholt be higher?

09:10 Is Leo De Vries overrated?

11:25 Lazaro Montes’ upside

13:35 Sal Stewart’s future stat line

16:00 Eduardo Quintero stuck at Single-A

17:05 Edward Florentino SZN

20:15 Andrew Painter/Bubba Chandler

22:25 Josue De Paula/Zyhir Hope

25:20 Prospects most likely to hit 40 HR

27:00 Jonah Tong’s upside

27:25 Buy Jack Perkins & Tanner McDougal

29:40 Ryan Waldschmidt

30:45 Catchers with the most upside

34:35 Has Alejandro Rosario had TJS?

37:10 Hector Rodriguez vs. Sal Stewart

39:00 Marconi German hype

40:35 Handelfry Encarncion’s upside

42:05 Why is Tyson Lewis still in complex ball?

44:15 Who to drop for prospect pickups

46:10 Controversial omissions

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James Anderson, Chris Clegg, Eric Cross and Chris Welsh conduct a 24-pick mock dynasty first-year player draft featuring just 2025 MLB draftees!

00:50 Who to take No. 1 overall

04:25 How good is Ethan Holliday?

09:15 JoJo Parker top 3?

14:00 Perfect landing spot for Kade Anderson

16:35 Aiva Arquette’s high floor

18:20 Seth Hernandez has the highest ceiling

22:40 Chasing Steele Hall’s upside

23:50 Gavin Fien Love

25:35 Jamie Arnold best value in the draft

28:25 A loaded college pitching class

30:40 Ethan Conrad’s upside

33:10 Liam Doyle’s slide ends

35:00 Kayson Cunningham’s hit tool

37:40 Ike Irish, best college hitter in the class?

40:20 Kyson Witherspoon’s upside

42:00 Buy low on Brendan Summerhill?

44:00 Gage Wood’s crazy upside

46:35 Andrew Fischer

48:00 Marek Houston

50:40 Buy low on Chase LaViolette?

55:30 Big power for Xavier Neyens

57:40 Chasing upside with Quentin Young

01:00:10 Charles Davalan better in fantasy

01:01:20 Mason Neville

01:04:00 Final thoughts on the class

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Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline joins James Anderson for their annual MLB Draft preview! Who will go No. 1 overall? What's the strength of this class? Which prospects have the highest upside? They tackle all that and more while getting you up to speed for Sunday night's MLB Draft.

00:30 Is Ethan Holliday in his own tier?

03:25 Kade Anderson’s upside

05:20 Odds to go No. 1 overall

10:35 Odds to go No. 2 overall

15:10 Ranking the top college starters

21:25 Who’s the best college hitter?

22:20 Aiva Arquette’s floor

24:50 Prep shortstops to target in fantasy

34:10 Fade Jace LaViolette?

38:05 Sleeper college hitters

45:35 Sleeper prep hitters

52:20 How special is Seth Hernandez?

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James Anderson, Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag talk about some prospects they've recently added in dynasty leagues like Jared Thomas, Carter Jensen, Max Anderson and Ethan Dorchies before discussing some recent prospect drops like Thomas Harrington and Ben Hess!

00:00 Intro 

01:25 Jared Thomas 

04:25 Carter Jensen 

08:30 Max Anderson 

10:40 Braden Nett 

14:25 Sam Antonacci 

19:00 Ethan Dorchies 

21:10 Yohendrick Pinango 

25:40 Tanner McDougal 

30:35 Jose Urbina 

32:00 Honorable Mention Pickups 

43:50 Thomas Harrington 

46:50 James Triantos 

49:20 Ben Hess 

50:25 Yoeilin Cespedes 

51:15 Levi Sterling 

54:05 Juan Valera 

55:25 Honorable Mention Drops

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James Anderson and Marc Winokur look back at Average Auction Values from the final week of auction season to look at the biggest hits and misses by position. Then they look at which injured list players are holds, maybe holds and drops in 15-team leagues!

00:00 Intro

03:10 League-winning Catcher buys

10:15 Figuring out First Base

15:30 Massive drop off after Ketel Marte at 2B

20:05 The position with the biggest hits

25:20 Shortstop is LOADED

33:35 Don’t pay for the top OFs

41:00 Kyle Schwarber a bargain again

44:30 So many landmines at SP

52:45 Don’t pay for saves?

59:30 IL guys to HOLD/DROP

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