RotoWire Prospect Podcast

Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline joins James Anderson for their annual MLB Draft preview!   00:20 Roch Cholowsky 02:55 Vahn Lackey 07:20 Grady Emerson 15:45 Drew Burress 20:15 Jacob Lombard vs. Eric Booth Jr. 23:15 Tyler Bell vs. Justin Lebron 28:20 SEC is the best conference 32:15 AJ Garcia 34:05 Derek Curiel 37:55 Sawyer Strosnider vs. Ace Reese 41:45 Jackson Flora 44:10 Liam Peterson 45:20 Cameron Fl...

James Anderson and Matt Eddy of Baseball America draft the top 30 catchers to roster in dynasty leagues!   03:55 Catcher Trends 06:40 Drake Baldwin 08:15 Samuel Basallo 09:50 Shea Langeliers 10:35 William Contreras 11:50 Cal Raleigh 15:30 Rainiel Rodriguez 17:40 Dillon Dingler 19:05 Hunter Goodman 20:20 Carter Jensen 21:30 Ivan Herrera 22:55 Adley Rutschman 23:50 Joe Mack 25:15 Kyle Teel 26:30 Lia...

James Anderson and JT (@Dukeswasmyguy) talk about some of the most underrated fantasy prospects in the minor leagues and also touch on a few overrated prospects!   01:55 Ralphy Velazquez 07:15 Enddy Azocar 11:45 Sell or hold Franklin Arias? 13:05 Dylan Jordan 17:15 Bryan Rincon 20:55 Yeremy Cabrera 25:35 Colton Shaw 28:25 Manuel Genao 31:25 Brad Pacheco 34:30 Jurrangelo Cijntje 38:40 Bryce Rainer...

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 Martin...

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 Xavi...

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 Cel...

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...

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 Get the latest fantasy...

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 Tr...

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 Cale...

James Anderson and Frank Stampfl discuss some fantasy baseball players who they are much higher on and lower on than before the season!   01:25 Sal Stewart vs. Nick Kurtz 06:30 Who’s The No. 1 Catcher? 13:40 Who’s The No. 1 2B? 22:40 Munetaka Murakami 27:55 Kazuma Okamoto 31:05 Miguel Vargas 34:15 Jose Caballero 37:00 Trevor Story/Ezequiel Tovar 40:15 Mike Trout 45:20 Brayan Rocchio 46:35 Ryan O’H...

James Anderson and Lucas Morel discuss Noah Schultz's forecast before analyzing all the top hitter breakouts in the minors!   01:30 Noah Schultz 07:30 Franklin Arias 14:20 Jhonny Level 17:50 Devin Fitz-Gerlad 21:15 Theo Gillen 25:25 Juneiker Caceres 29:30 Nathan Flewelling 34:35 Pedro Ramirez 39:35 Luis Lara 44:50 Blaze Jordan 47:10 Ronny Cruz 52:20 Taitn Gray 56:15 Josiah Hartshorn 59:40 Cam Mald...

James Anderson and Jason Collette take a couple of victory laps before getting into their biggest regrets of draft season!   01:35 Victor Laps 05:15 Sal Stewart 08:40 Massive SP Values 13:35 Chandler Simpson 17:25 Jordan Walker 22:30 Parker Messick 24:20 Jose Soriano 28:25 Key Injuries 31:30 Buy Lows 36:05 Cutting Bait 40:30 Big Disappointments 46:25 The Hunt For Saves 54:35 Stashing Season 57:50...

James Anderson and Sam Dykstra discuss all the most notable minor-league assignments and which players are set up to climb prospect rankings this season!   01:20 Ryan Sloan and Kade Anderson 06:25 Jamie Arnold/Liam Doyle/Tyler Bremner 10:55 Devin Fitz-Gerald 15:05 Jesus Made, Blake Burke 17:55 Prospects skipping complex ball 23:35 Luis Hernandez 26:05 Cardinals catchers 28:55 Leo De Vries, Ralphy...

James Anderson and Peter Schoenke conduct a Stash Draft featuring injured big leaguers and prospects!   03:40 Konnor Griffin 10:40 Bryce Miller 12:25 Colt Emerson 14:50 Robby Snelling 17:55 Lourdes Gurriel 19:10 Edwin Uceta 21:30 Bryce Eldridge 24:20 Hagen Smith 27:55 Shane Bieber 29:35 Noah Schultz 30:35 Tommy Edman 31:40 Payton Tolle 33:00 Jasson Dominguez 37:15 Jonah Tong 38:20 Dylan Crews 39:3...

James Anderson answers listener questions about the fully-updated RotoWire Top 400 Prospect Rankings !   01:05 Tiers 03:00 McGonigle vs Wetherholt 04:50 Roch Cholowsky 05:50 Basallo vs. Rainiel 07:40 Joshua Baez 10:30 Carson Benge 11:10 Ralphy Velazquez 13:05 This Year’s Nolan McLean 15:00 Mike Sirota 16:15 Ranking the young shortstops 18:25 Josuar Gonzalez vs. Jesus Made 19:45 A.J. Ewing 20:45 He...

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...

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...

James Anderson is joined by Geoff Pontes of Baseball America to talk about Konnor Griffin and Kevin McGonigle's chances of making the Opening Day roster, which pitching prospects to target in 2026 fantasy baseball leagues and much more!   00:25 Konnor Griffin 09:50 Kevin McGonigle 19:25 Jordan Lawlar 24:40 Caleb Bonemer 27:25 Braden Montgomery 30:00 Dylan Beavers 31:10 Noah Schultz 34:55 Ethan Con...

Elite high-stakes player John Pausma joins James Anderson to recap their NFBC $500 DC Auction, discussing what went right, what went wrong, how to handle massive closer inflation and much more!   2:35 Closer inflation 09:45 Who’s the Brewers closer 15:30 Discounted players 19:00 Multi-eligibility players 21:50 Overpays 25:00 Weak SP builds 32:20 Catchers 38:45 Scripting your build 43:00 When to no...

Nobody has won more NFBC Main Event leagues than Mark Srebro, and he joins James Anderson to give a couple hot takes before discussing how to build a winning pitching staff in a 15-team high-stakes league!   07:45 Mark’s 1st Bold Take 12:00 Mark’s 2nd Bold Take 18:35 How to win a Main Event league 22:30 Where’s the SP1 cutoff? 27:00 SP2 and SP3 31:10 Groups of SPs in the 100-250 range 33:00 Young...

James Anderson and elite high-stakes player Steve Weimer discuss fantasy baseball roster construction strategies and much more!   03:30 Extreme hitters 10:30 Risky old hitters 15:20 This year’s George Springer 22:40 Projecting catcher playing time 27:15 How to attack 2B and 3B 32:00 This year’s Drew Rasmussen 37:10 Late-round outfielders to target 43:00 Late-round pitchers to target   Fantrax Fant...

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...

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 B...

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 Bremn...