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Erik Halterman is joined by Jenny Butler to discuss a handful of risky early-round picks, some of which have paid off and some of which have been busts.

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00:00 Headlines

12:35 Young, unproven hitters

26:35 Injury risks

44:05 First-round starting pitchers

48:55 Early closers

53:35 Age risk

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James Anderson and Alex Jensen discuss the top breakouts from the Arizona Complex League, Florida Complex League and Dominican Summer League to help you target the NEXT top prospects in your dynasty leagues!

01:20 Sebastian Dos Santos

03:55 Luis Arana

05:25 Kaleb Wing/Dean Livingston

07:00 Luis Hernandez/Josuar Gonzalez/Steele Hall

12:05 Alexander Frias

14:10 Cristian Arguelles

15:30 Juan Martinez

17:00 Josh Owens

19:40 Aidan West

21:00 Johnny Slawinski

22:05 Corey Cousin

23:45 Jhomnardo Reyes

26:00 Johan De Los Santos

27:55 Franklin P...

Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie continue to review this year's deep rookie class, this time focusing on the NL. Do we target Bryce Eldridge after his recent hot hitting, or target him expecting more of the same?

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00:00 Fred Pod 6-16-26

00:15 News:

00:30 Daniel Palencia goes on IL

06:00 Francisco Lindor may start a rehab assignment next week……

07:30 Trea Turner stinks and has a bruised wrist……

08:00 Corey Seager is on the concussion list and could be a drop in some leagues…..

11:00 Colt Keith entered last night...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a busy weekend in baseball talking about the struggles of Trea Turner and Austin Riley, the recent hot streaks of Bryce Eldridge and Byron Buxton, the injuries over the weekend and all the adds and drops in FAAB. They also discuss how real the White Sox are and the recent bad run by Nolan McLean, before getting into the heavy bidding on rookies Braden Montgomery and Cole Carrigg, and much, much more!

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top fantasy baseball pickups of the week.

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0:35 Intro

2:01 Braden Montgomery
5:45 Cole Carrigg
9:56 Dalton Rushing
12:20 Esmerlyn Valdez
17:32 Nick Gonzales
20:04 Royce Lewis
23:22 Tatsuya Imai
27:06 Shane Drohan
30:57 Michael McGreevy
32:56 Grant Taylor

37:14 SeatGeek

39:34 Brandon Young
44:00 Andre Pallante
46:30 Jake Bennett
50:13 Eric Lauer

59:49 Jordan Lawlar
1:02:54 Ryan Ward
1:05:07 Denzer Guzman
1:09:10 Jared Young
1:13:38 LuJames Groover

1:16:01 Smart Money
1:17:22 Outro

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0:00 Clay is off, Todd welcomes Tristan Cockcroft to the show

Discussion concerning how to evaluate players without "waiting for proof".

Examples of players showing changes: Randy Vasquez, JJ Bleday

9:56 Two Start Pitchers

Pitcher TZ/THC

Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Halsuker to look at some players who could help you climb the standings in specific categories.

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00:00 Headlines

12:30 Runs

24:45 Home Runs

32:45 RBI

36:45 Steals

45:45 Average

53:45 Strikeouts

57:35 Wins

1:03:20 Saves

1:08:50 ERA

1:12:10 WHIP

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James Anderson and Lucas Biery discuss this year's top post-hype breakouts, including Jordan Walker and Miguel Vargas, before highlighting some players who could follow their post-hype breakout path in the coming months!

04:35 Preseason planning

06:00 Buying saves

13:30 Reserve MVPs

14:50 Cut Colt Keith?

19:15 Post-Hype Breakouts

22:15 CJ Abrams

25:40 Miguel Vargas

28:50 Jordan Walker

31:10 Xavier Edwards

33:45 Curtis Mead

38:40 Zack Gelof

41:35 JJ Bleday

45:30 Finding future breakouts

50:50 Masyn Winn

52:35 Cole Young

56:10 Grayson R...

Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson check in on this year's rookies - who is surging, who is fading? Everybody loves Sal Stewart, but can he keep it going? Should you sell-high now?

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00:00 MLB Pod 6-9-26

00:15 News:

00:30 The Jays are getting Dylan Cease back today, Max Scherzer back tomorrow and Alejandro Kirk back on Friday…..

03:00 Ryan Helsley is facing hitters

06:30 The Brewers-Athletics game was wild….

12:30 Brandon Lowe back in the lineup

13:30 Roman Anthony isn’t ready to swing a bat….

16:30 Kirby Ya...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss a busy weekend in baseball, hit on all the injury news and notes and break down all the adds and drops in FAAB. They take a look at the breakout seasons of Kyle Harrison, Ben Brown and Miguel Vargas before getting into another weekend of FAAB, highlighted by big bids on Lars Nootbaar, Alex Lange and Jasson Dominguez.

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0:28 Intro

2:48 Jackson Holliday
4:42 Noelvi Marte
8:27 Jung Hoo Lee
10:40 Edwin Arroyo
14:20 Troy Johnston
17:31 Bryce Eldridge
22:17 Noah Cameron
24:49 Dustin May
28:18 Reid Detmers
31:27 Christian Scott

33:40 SeatGeek

36:11 Sean Manaea
38:44 Andrew Alvarez
42:29 Martin Perez
44:46 Alex Lange
48:05 Tyler Phillips

56:15 Jacob Gonzalez
59:32 Ty France
1:01:46 Wade Meckler
1:04:54 Jimmy Crooks
1:07:17 Jorge Mateo

1:09:03 Smart Money
1:10:49 Outro

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0:00 Intro/Aaron Judge will be re-evaluated in 4-to-6 weeks

Two-start pitchers:

Erik Halterman is joined by Jake Crumpler to discuss a handful of confusing starting pitchers.

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00:00 Headlines

13:45 Kyle Bradish

16:20 Bubba Chandler

19:40 Foster Griffin

23:10 Cade Cavalli

26:35 Taj Bradley

29:05 Nolan McLean

32:00 Landen Roupp

36:35 Spencer Arrighetti

39:30 Justin Wrobleski

42:20 Walbert Urena

46:15 Connelly Early

47:55 Randy Vasquez

50:10 J.T. Ginn

53:00 Dustin May

55:30 Aaron Nola

58:10 Jesus Luzardo

1:01:15 Reid Detmers

1:03:40 Emmet Sheehan

1:06:10 Logan Webb

James Anderson and Rhys White talk about a handful of their favorite minor leaguers to buy low on as well as a few to sell high!

01:50 Liam Doyle

03:30 Jarlin Susana

07:15 Caden Bodine

10:30 Cooper Ingle

13:55 Cooper Pratt

15:25 Steele Hall

17:30 Lazaro Montes

19:35 Charles Davalan

20:35 Ronny Cruz

22:15 Creed Willems

25:10 Brody Hopkins

26:35 Reinold Navarro

28:50 Tyler Bremner

30:35 Felnin Celesten

33:10 Caleb Bonemer

34:30 Tony Blanco Jr.

36:55 Daniel Eagen

39:25 J...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had just three extra-base hits for the entire month of May. Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie will break down eight other interesting stats for the month of May that fantasy managers need to know!

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00:00 MLB Podcast 6-2-26

00:15 Welcome to Fred Zinkie

01:00 Aaron Judge scratched with a shoulder issue

03:00 Start Joey Cantillo? Or Gage Jump?

06:20 Josh Hader activated from 60-day IL

08:30 Elly De La Cruz out 2-4 weeks, Edwin Arroyo up

14:45 Tigers finally broke out

16:30 RotoWire Earned...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up a fun weekend in baseball and break down all the adds and drops across another active Sunday in FAAB. They discuss how to handle the struggling Sandy Alcantara and Jac Caglianone, celebrate Fernando Tatis, Jr finally homering, recap all the weekend injuries and highlight the popular adds in free agency, including Jared Jones, Gage Jump, Troy Melton and many more.

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Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week.

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0:23 Intro

3:38 Curtis Mead

6:10 Sam Antonacci

7:34 Spencer Horwitz

9:30 Alex Call

11:23 Keibert Ruiz

13:22 Jared Jones

15:10 Walbert Urena

17:03 Gage Jump

20:04 Troy Melton

21:51 Kyle Finnegan/Will Vest

31:05 David Sandlin

33:12 Stephen Kolek

36:26 Coleman Crow

38:37 Daniel Lynch IV

42:05 Zack Littell

46:48 Tommy Troy

48:54 Taylor Trammell

50:49 Joc Pederson

53:17 Javier Sanoja<...

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0:00 Intro/Happy Jared Jones Day to those who celebrate

24:50 Two-start pitchers:

Erik Halterman is joined by Joe Orrico to look at some breakout and bust hitters who may have shown signs of heading in that direction late last season.

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00:00 Headlines

12:20 Ben Rice

18:00 Corbin Carroll

21:15 Ryan Jeffers

24:00 Miguel Vargas

26:55 Michael Harris

30:15 Christian Walker

32:45 Ernie Clement

36:20 Ozzie Albies

40:50 Ketel Marte

45:55 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

52:05 Jose Ramirez

55:50 Spencer Torkelson

58:00 Gunnar Henderson

1:01:30 Maikel Garcia

1:04:10 Manny Machado

1:07:45 Cal Raleigh<...

James Anderson answers dozens of listener questions about his updated top 400 prospect rankings!

01:20 Tiers

02:20 Rankings Shakeup

04:20 Best power-hitting prospect

06:10 ETA for top prospects

07:45 Ceiling comps

08:40 Seth Hernandez, Kade Anderson

10:50 Henry Bolte

12:50 Mike Sirota

14:45 Aidan Miller

15:50 Franklin Arias

18:30 Luis Hernandez

19:50 Devin Fitz-Gerald

22:10 Caleb Bonemer

23:40 Esmerlyn Valdez

24:55 Braden Montgomery

25:55 Jett Williams

26:45 Ryan Sloan, Thomas White

29:20 Tate Southisene

31:10 Alexander Frias

33:25 K...

Every MLB season brings surprises. This year you want to avoid having your starters going up against the Nats, & yet you do want them up against the Mets and Red Sox! Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss teams we want our pitchers to target.

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00:00 MLB Podcast 5-26-26

00:15 News

01:30 Tanner Bibee has a 1000.00 ERA when in my lineup and a 0.0001 ERA when on my bench LOL. He gave up 5 homers last night to a Nats offense that isn’t slowing down…..

03:00 Jesse Scholtens disaster

05:45 Dylan Cease to I...

Jeff Erickson and guest host Derek VanRiper from The Athletic's Rates & Barrels podcast get you set for Memorial Day Week's slate, and reviews the top free agents of the week, including Colt Emerson.

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00:00 MLB Podcast 5-24-26

00:20 Welcome to Derek VanRiper - Rates & Barrels, The Athletic!

01:50 NEWS

02:00 Toronto Blue Jays - Vlad Guerrero - elbow; Dylan Cease - hamstring.

06:20 Tigers Collapsing - Kenley Jansen blown save in first game of the DH. Tigers are 21-33 and before the 2nd game of the DH, lost 8 in a...

Erik Halterman and Jeremy Schneider share their top waiver wire pickups of the week.

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Intro: 0:00
Miguel Andujar: 2:53
Colt Emerson: 4:46
Gavin Sheets: 7:55
Esmerlyn Valdez: 10:00
Andrew Vaughn: 12:55
Anthony Volpe: 15:23
Zebby Matthews: 18:30
Connor Prielipp: 21:24
Grant Taylor: 23:32
Cade Cavalli: 26:24
Kumar Rocker: 29:30
Spencer Miles: 31:45
Juan Mejia: 35:19
Zach Thornton: 38:06
Jesse Scholtens: 45:49
Tony Santillan: 48:17
Bryan Abreu: 49:24
Dylan Crews: 50:41
Michael Conforto: 53:58
Richie Palacios: 56:17
Hunter Feduccia: 58:40
Daniel Susac: 1:00:50
Smart Money: 1:03:02
Outro: 1:04:44

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0:00 Intro/the Detroit Tigers have lost 14 of 16…

16:10 Two-start pitchers:

Erik Halterman is joined by Paul Sporer to discuss just how far we should move some of the most (and least) impressive pitchers so far on our rest-of-season rankings.

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00:00 Headlines

12:40 Young aces: Schlittler, Misiorowski, Burns, McLean

25:50 Out of nowhere: Martin, Elder, Wrobleski, Arrighetti, McGreevy

34:00 Breakouts: Soriano, Harrison, Messick

39:35 Random great vets: Martinez, Wacha

41:30 Injury bouncebacks: McClanahan, Wheeler, Bradish

52:35 Disappointments: Rogers, Perez

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James Anderson and Chris Blessing discuss some of the top breakout prospects in the minors while also discussing some prospects who are losing value in dynasty leagues!

02:40 Eric Hartman

11:55 John Gil

20:10 Isaiah Drake

23:25 Conor Essenburg

26:15 Gage Wood

34:35 Anthony Eyanson

41:40 Henry Godbout

46:55 Xavier Isaac

54:40 Mitch Voit

56:25 Cam Collier

58:30 Hunter Parks

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One quarter of the way into the season, James Wood and the Washington Nationals lead the majors in runs scored. Should we be benching all of our starters against them? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss which offenses to avoid. 
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00:00 MLB Pod 5-19-26

00:20 News:

00:30 The IL was a popular spot yesterday. Corey Seager,

07:00 Jose Altuve

09:30 Ewing vs. Waldschmidt vs. Emerson

12:12 Kris Bubic all went on it.

13:00 Ronald Acuna Jr., Jeremy Pena and Jackson Holliday came off it…..

15:00 Drake Baldwin (oblique) to...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss everything going on in fantasy baseball this weekend, including the struggles of Vlad Guerrero and Fernando Tatis, all the injuries and another very active Sunday of bidding in FAAB. They also break down the slumping Steven Kwan and Jarren Duran, preview the week ahead and detail just how much people were spending on rookies AJ Ewing and Henry Bolte, and much, much more.

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver-wire pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines
12:45 A.J. Ewing
15:55 Henry Bolte
20:05 Carson Benge
22:25 Spencer Steer
25:15 Mike Burrows
26:50 Grayson Rodriguez
29:25 J.T. Ginn
31:00 Jack Leiter
33:40 Caleb Kilian
36:10 Jack Wenninger
39:00 Troy Melton
40:25 Braxton Garrett
44:05 Zebby Matthews
46:00 Trevor McDonald
48:35 Garrett Cleavinger
52:10 Smart Money
53:45 Ha-Seong Kim
56:30 Austin Martin
58:30 Gage Workman
1:00:40 Vaughn Grissom
1:02:35 Andruw Monasterio

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0:00 Intro/the No. 1 fantasy baseball player to date in 2026? Oneil Cruz

22:35 Two-start pitchers:

Erik Halterman is joined by Marty Tallman to discuss some of this year's most disappointing teams. Are they filled with buy-low targets, or are they filled with players who just aren't as good as we thought they were?

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00:00 Headlines

12:25 Tigers

26:30 Mets

36:45 Phillies

45:00 Mariners

50:15 Blue Jays

57:20 Red Sox

1:01:25 Astros

1:05:50 Orioles

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James Anderson and Jordan Rosenblum discuss tactics for making trades in dynasty leagues and also talk about top players to sell high on and top injured players to stash in dynasty baseball leagues!

09:00 Dynasty strategy

15:05 Proposing a dynasty trade

20:15 Evaluating past trades

33:45 Munetaka Murakami, Mickey Moniak

38:50 Jacob Misiorowski

42:35 Cam Schlittler

44:30 Chase Burns

47:40 Mike Trout, Yordan Alvarez

52:15 Dynasty prospect stashes

57:00 Injury stashes

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Luis Robert has been both terrible and injured to begin the season for the Mets, and now they are calling up a top prospect in A.J. Ewing to fill in for him. Should be dropping Robert in all of our leagues? Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss a list of problem hitters and what to do about them.

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00:00 Hitters to Cut Podcast

00:15 Welcome to Fred Zinkie

00:30 News

02:40 Mookie Betts is back…..

03:50 Christian Yelich activated

05:45 Jacob Wilson out long-term?

09:00 Addison Barger returned to...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad cover the weekend in baseball, discussing, among other things, CJ Abrams, Davis Martin, the Rays, injuries and a big weekend of FAAB highlighted by Spencer Jones, Ryan Waldschmidt and Bryce Eldridge.

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer share their top waiver wire pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines
14:45 Robby Snelling
18:03 Ben Brown
22:18 Bryce Miller
26:54 Gregory Soto
30:02 Tony Santillan
33:33 Bryce Eldridge
36:52 Ryan Waldschmidt
38:49 Spencer Jones
42:38 Carlos Cortes
47:29 Joe Mack
49:45 Griffin Canning
51:11 Walbert Urena
53:51 Brock Stewart
55:30 Ryan Zeferjahn
57:42 Cole Sulser
1:00:30 Zack Gelof
1:02:49 Ezequiel Duran
1:04:19 JJ Bleday
1:07:13 Masataka Yoshida
1:10:31 Jesus Rodriguez
1:13:42 Smart Money

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0:00 Intro/the Cincinnati Reds have now lost seven straight games…

25:15 Two-start pitchers:

Erik Halterman is joined by Chris Towers of CBS Sports to check in on how this year's top sleepers and most-hyped players are doing after six weeks of play.

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00:00 Pitcher injury news

7:20 Robby Snelling set for call-up

12:55 More headlines

18:30 Nolan McLean, Cam Schlittler, Jacob Misiorowski

22:10 Emmett Sheehan

26:25 Chase Burns

28:40 Bubba Chandler

33:25 Samuel Basallo

35:40 Carter Jensen

39:00 Konnor Griffin

43:00 Sal Stewart

47:25 Jac Caglianone

50:35 Kazuma Okamoto

54:45 JJ Wetherholt and Kevin McGonigle<...

With over a dozen high-profile prospect graduations, James Anderson and Aram Leighton discuss what the new top 10 prospects will look like when prospect rankings get updated later this month!

01:30 Jesus Made vs. Leo De Vries

15:10 Colt Emerson, Walker Jenkins

19:20 Rainiel Rodriguez, Edward Florentino, Josue De Paula

27:50 Mike Sirota, Eduardo Quintero

31:40 Luis Pena vs. Eli Willits

37:10 Caleb Bonemer

43:10 Seth Hernandez, Kade Anderson

47:15 Up-Arrow Prospects

53:45 Bryce Rainer

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Jeff Erickson and Fred Zinkie discuss tough hold-vs-cut-vs-trade decisions with early struggling pitchers.

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00:00 RW Pod 5-5-26

00:15 News:

00:30 Tarik Skubal is out for a few months. That’s two of the Big-3 starters on the IL…..

10:00 Joe Ryan doesn’t need to go on the IL.

11:00 Roman Anthony left with a wrist injury…..

14:20 Jhoan Duran and Raisel Iglesias return today. Closer normalcy!……

15:40 Emilio Pagan blows the save

17:40 Caleb Killian save

25:30 Jackson Chourio is back and got four hits…..

29:17 Bl...

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad talk some strong first months from Matt Olson, Mike Trout and a whole bunch of catchers, break down a slew of weekend injuries and discuss all the adds and drops in FAAB, including active bidding for Christian Scott and Travis Bazzana.

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