Clay Link (@claywlink) and Todd Zola (@ToddZola) talk pickups and Rival Fantasy before grading all of next week's projected two-start pitchers on a 0-5 scale! Bat Flip: The Team-Shuffling Baseball Card Game is a gamer’s love-letter to baseball.  Step into the role of manager. Build your team, shuffle it up, and then deploy it in an action-packed 3-inning game. Every player card is unique with its own special stats and abilities! Bat Flip features fast-paced strategic card play and endless replay-ability! Bat Flip is now available at batflipgame.com Opening/The Reds are fun again/Elly De La Cruz Pickups Andrew Abbott AJ Smith-Shawver (7:00) Jo Adell (9:15) Trevor May (15:30) Julio Teheran Rival Fantasy (26:00) Cristian Javier, Rich Hill Two-Start Pitchers  Tommy Henry 2 (Todd 1) Zach Davies 2 Charlie Morton 4 (Todd 5) Spencer Strider 5 Dean Kremer 2 James Paxton 3 Jameson Taillon 2 (Todd 3) Luke Weaver 0 Tanner Bibee 4 Connor Seabold 0 Chase Anderson 1 (Todd 0) Lance Lynn 2 Reese Olson 0 (Todd 1) Tyler Holten 0 Hunter Brown 4 Zack Greinke 2 (Todd 1) Tyler Anderson 2 (Todd 1) Tony Gonsolin 5 (Todd 4) Pablo Lopez 4 (Todd 5) Luis Severino 4 James Kaprielian 0 Hogan Harris 0 Dylan Covey 0 Zack Wheeler 5 Roansy Contreras 1 (Todd 2) 56:00 Joe Musgrove 4 Logan Gilbert 5 Logan Webb 4 (Todd 5) Alex Cobb 3 (Todd 4) Mathew Liberatore 3 (Todd 2) Zach Eflin 5 Yonny Chirinos 3 Dane Dunning 4 (Todd 3) Jon Gray 4 Chris Bassitt 4 (Todd 5) Jake Irvin 0 Two-Start Pitcher Grades recap 1:02:20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Kurland from Gaining The Edge (https://www.patreon.com/GTEFantasy), The Athletic and Fantasy Pros joins Jeff Erickson to share the five ways he's climbed to third overall in the NFBC Main Event, talk about the latest from the Marlins and the news of the day. --- Bat Flip: The Team-Shuffling Baseball Card Game is a gamer’s love-letter to baseball.  Step into the role of manager. Build your team, shuffle it up, and then deploy it in an action-packed 3-inning game. Every player card is unique with its own special stats and abilities! Bat Flip features fast-paced strategic card play and endless replay-ability! Bat Flip is now available at batflipgame.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ethan Salas Josue De Paula Lazaro Montes Dyan Jorge Austin Charles Mairoshendrick Martinus Roderick Arias Cristhian Vaquero Keiner Delgado Yasser Mercedes Jose Rodriguez Sebastian Walcott Article Bat Flip: The Team-Shuffling Baseball Card Game is a gamer’s love-letter to baseball.  Step into the role of manager. Build your team, shuffle it up, and then deploy it in an action-packed 3-inning game. Every player card is unique with its own special stats and abilities! Bat Flip features fast-paced strategic card play and endless replay-ability! Bat Flip is now available at batflipgame.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alek Manoah gets blown up by Houston on Monday, and sent down to Dunedin on Tuesday. Should we have seen it coming? Elly De La Cruz has gotten the call, and Jacob deGrom needs Tommy John surgery. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson have a lot to discuss! --- Bat Flip: The Team-Shuffling Baseball Card Game is a gamer’s love-letter to baseball.  Step into the role of manager. Build your team, shuffle it up, and then deploy it in an action-packed 3-inning game. Every player card is unique with its own special stats and abilities! Bat Flip features fast-paced strategic card play and endless replay-ability! Bat Flip is now available at batflipgame.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scott Jenstad and guest Brian Slack preview Week 11 in fantasy baseball and recap all the FAAB action, including the big bids on Royce Lewis and whether to drop previous FAAB darling, Matt Mervis.  Follow us on Twitter: @ScottJenstad I @Jeff_Erickson I @RotoWire. Bat Flip: The Team-Shuffling Baseball Card Game is a gamer’s love-letter to baseball. Step into the role of manager. Build your team, shuffle it up, and then deploy it in an action-packed 3-inning game. Every player card is unique with its own special stats and abilities! Bat Flip features fast-paced strategic card play and endless replay-ability! Bat Flip is now available at batflipgame.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Crawford (@crawford_milb) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) look at the latest news of the weekend, including the imminent arrival of Andrew Abbott from the Reds. They also look at the injuries to Jose Altuve and Wander Franco and the strong play of Jake Fraley along with the struggles of Francisco Lindor. In the final half of the show, they look at players you can acquire that could help your fantasy team without blowing your FAAB budget. A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drew Silva (@drewsilv) and Chris Crawford (@crawford_milb) take a look at the early headlines from the weekend including Chris Sale being placed on the injured list. They also take a look at the standard 5x5 pitching categories and players and players they believe can continue to contribute in the category, and some players that are likely to see regression over the summer months. A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link (@claywlink) and Todd Zola (@ToddZola) talk pickups and Rival Fantasy before grading all of next week's projected two-start pitchers on a 0-5 scale! A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Opening/Jordan Walker returns/Elly De La Cruz Pickups Akil Baddoo (7:45) Tommy Henry Ben Joyce (13:00) Hayden Wesneski Rival Fantasy Two-Start Pitchers (29:40) Tommy Henry 2 Bryce Elder 4 Kyle Gibson 3 (Todd 4) James Paxton 3 (Todd 4) 32:20 Kyle Hendricks 1 Hayden Wesneski 1 Hunter Greene 4 36:00 Luke Weaver 0 Shane Bieber 3 Dinelson Lamet 0 Lucas Giolito 3 (Todd 4) Alex Faedo 1 Brandon Bielak 2 (Todd 1) Hunter Brown 4 Mike Mayers 1 (Todd 0) 47:00 Tony Gonsolin 4 Braxton Garrett 3 Julio Teheran 0 (Todd 1) Freddy Peralta 3 Louie Varland 2 (Todd 1) Carlos Carrasco 3 (Todd 1) Nestor Cortes 4 JP Sears 2 Aaron Nola 5 Johan Oviedo 2 (Todd 3) Blake Snell 2 Alex Wood 2 (Todd 1) Adam Wainwright 1 Shane McClanahan 5 Martin Perez 2 Alek Manoah 1 (1:08:30) Kevin Gausman 5 Jake Irvin 0 Two Start Grade Recap 1:10:45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Gianella from Baseball Prospectus joins Jeff Erickson as they review some of the top post-200 pick breakouts like Josh Jung and Mitch Keller, and decide whether they're Diamonds in the Rough, or Cubic Zirconia. --- A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jackson Holliday Elly De La Cruz Royce Lewis Junior Caminero Emmet Sheehan AJ Smith-Shawver Bryan Woo Brandon Pfaadt Xavier Isaac Gabriel Gonzalez Lyon Richardson Luis Matos Aeverson Arteaga Gavin Stone Jackson Merrill Dalton Rushing Connor Norby Miguel Bleis Samuel Zavala Josue De Paula Jonatan Clase Blaze Jordan Dillon Dingler Jud Fabian Samuel Basallo Druw Jones Emmanuel Rodriguez Gunnar Henderson Jared Jones Yanquiel Fernandez Chase Meidroth Nick Yorke Vaughn Grissom Josh Jung Justin Dirden Mason Auer Aaron Schunk Gavin Williams Lawrence Butler Ignacio Alvarez Drew Gilbert Jacob Melton James Wood Kristian Robinson Sebastian Walcott Everson Pereira Christian Encarnacion-Strand Nick Frasso George Valera Landon Knack Colt Keith Justyn-Henry Malloy Top 400 Prospects A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Joyce threw an easy 102 mph in his debut, and Royce Lewis homered for the Twins. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson review the top news of the day, including those smashing debuts. --- A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad recap a fun weekend of baseball, discuss some risers and fallers in May and break down another busy weekend of FAAB bidding. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drew Silva (@drewsilv) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) comb through the biggest storylines from the weekend and then go Three Up, Three Down from Saturday. They also identify several waiver-wire targets for the upcoming week. A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Crawford (@Crawford_MiLB) and Drew Silva (@drewsilv) run through a handful of headlines from Friday's slate and then examine the current fantasy leaders among hitters in each 5x5 standard fantasy scoring category. Who can keep it up, and who is due for summertime regression? A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clay Link (@claywlink) and Todd Zola (@ToddZola) talk RIVAL fantasy and grade all of next week's projected two-start pitchers on a 0-5 scale! A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Opening/Light FAAB week Pickups: Jake McCarthy (4:40) Owen Miller Johan Oviedo Kyle Hendricks Michael Soroka Griffin Canning (13:30) RIVAL: Clay’s Picks: George Kirby OVER 18.89 points, Randy Arozarena OVER 8.97 points Todd’s Picks: Hunter Brown OVER 16.97 points, Mitch Keller OVER 10.57 points Hitters: Acuna over 9.88, Nimmo over 7.93, Soler over 7.19 Two-Start Pitcher Grades (28:30): Ryne Nelson 1 Zac Gallen 5 Bryce Elder 5 (Todd 4) Tyler Wells 3 Brayan Bello 3 Marcus Stroman 3 Ben Lively 1 Logan Allen 2 Kyle Freeland 2 Michael Kopech 3 (42:40) Lucas Giolito 3 (Todd 4) Matthew Boyd 1 (Todd 2) J.P. France 2 (Todd 1) Brandon Bielak 2 Jamie Barria 1 Bobby Miller 3 Sandy Alcantara 4 Adrian Houser 2 Sonny Gray 5 Joe Ryan 5 Kodai Senga 2 Domingo German 2 Paul Blackburn 1 (Todd 0) Ranger Suarez 1 Rich Hill 3 (Todd 2) Ryan Weathers 1 Bryce Miller 4 (1:01:00) Anthony DeSclafani 3 Shane McClanahan 5 Zach Eflin 4 Nathan Eovaldi 4 (Todd 5) Yusei Kikuchi 2 Trevor Williams 0 Two-Start Pitcher Grade 1:06:00 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Govier from FTN and the Pallazo Podcast drops by to talk baseball with Jeff Erickson. Check out the Pallazzo Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/@PallazzoPodcast --- A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hunter Goodman Nathan Martorella Ignacio Alvarez Thayron Liranzo Connor Phillips Chase Hampton Will Warren Leonardo Bernal Orion Kerkering Luis Matos Luisangel Acuna Ronny Mauricio Heston Kjerstad Mark Vientos Jonny DeLuca Justin Dirden A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is on the rise, Bobby Witt Jr. is not. Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson discuss three risers and three fallers along with the news of the day. --- A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad wrap up the weekend of baseball, hitting on the Astros, Padres, Christopher Morel and more, then delve into all the FAAB bidding from Sunday, including spirited bidding on Matt McLain and Matthew Liberatore. Follow us on Twitter: @Jeff_Erickson I @Scott Jenstad I @RotoWire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drew Silva (@drewsilv) and Ryan Boyer (@RyanPBoyer) discuss a range of weekend headlines and break down several promising and not-so-encouraging performances from Saturday's slate. A new MLB season means it’s time for a new kind of daily fantasy baseball. Rival Fantasy is the fantasy platform reinventing the way Daily and Weekly games are played, and they’ve brought new games to the ballpark this year that Fantasy players won’t find anywhere else. Go to play.rivalfantasy.com/signup and use code RotowireMLB at sign-up and deposit a minimum of $25 to get your first entry on Rival protected up to $50! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices