RotoWire Prospect Podcast

James Anderson and Aram Leighton of Just Baseball discuss the toughest (and easiest) prospects to rank on their recent prospect rankings updates, including Bubba Chandler, Kevin McGonigle, Luis Pena and Jhostynxon Garcia!

00:00 Intro 

00:55 Walker Jenkins/Chase DeLauter/Emmanuel Rodriguez 

04:00 Quinn Mathews 

05:30 Max Clark 

07:15 Josue De Paula 

08:25 Luke Keaschall 

10:40 Bubba Chandler 

15:15 Andrew Painter vs. Chase Burns 

19:10 Kevin...

James Anderson's top 400 prospect rankings are fully updated and he answers dozens of listener questions about the top talents like Sebastian Walcott, Leo De Vries and Jesus Made!

00:00 Intro 

00:50 Sebastian Walcott, Leo De Vries, Jesus Made 

05:05 TIERS 

07:05 Samuel Basallo 

10:50 Ceiling vs. Proximity 

14:55 Luis Pena vs. Jesus Made 

18:10 Luis Pena vs. Josue De Paula 

19:50 Braden Montgomery's ETA 

22:05 Eduardo Quintero's upside 

23:00...

James Anderson and Alex Jensen go through the Arizona and Florida Complex Leagues to find breakout hitters, such as Rainiel Rodriguez and Tyson Lewis, before looking at which Dominican Summer League prospects have star potential, such as Yorger Bautista!

00:00 Intro 

01:20 Tyson Lewis 

07:50 Jose Anderson 

11:35 Paulino Santana, Yolfran Castillo 

14:30 Kale Fountain 

17:10 Alex's Arizona Complex League Guys 

33:30 Rainiel Rodriguez 

38:20 ...

James Anderson and Dylan White discuss the top hitter and pitcher breakouts at Triple-A, Double-A, High-A and Single-A, including discussions about Sebastian Walcott and Leo De Vries plus they react live to Dalton Rushing's call-up!

00:00 Intro 

01:00 Triple-A Hitters Who Will Be Up Soon 

13:15 BREAKING Dalton Rushing News 

15:50 Who is Nathan Wiles? 

18:50 Joe Boyle vs. Ian Seymour 

21:40 95 Percenters 

25:30 Buy or Sell Jac Caglianone? 

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James Anderson and Ross Jensen discuss the top 10 dynasty prospects who have yet to reach the majors, including Roman Anthony, Sebastian Walcott and Leo De Vries!

• Roman Anthony
• Sebastian Walcott
• Leo De Vries
• Jesus Made
• Walker Jenkins
• Jac Caglianone
• Samuel Basallo
• Bubba Chandler
• Luis Pena
• Bryce Eldridge
• Braylon Payne
• Arjun Nimmala
• Honorable Mentions

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James Anderson and Chris Welsh preview the rookie-level complex leagues that are about to get underway in Arizona, Florida and the Dominican Republic!

Players discussed:

Yolfran Castillo

JD Dix

Emil Morlaes

Kale Fountain

Paulino Santana

Jhonny Level

Yairo Padilla

Rainiel Rodriguez

Luke Dickerson

Josuar De Jesus

Yorger Bautista

Elian Pena

+ Many more!

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James Anderson and Zac Beck talk realist breakout, buy-low targets, breakouts we're not buying, FYPD prospects on the rise, relief prospect with the most upside and much more!

01:40 Aroon Escobar 

04:55 Cristian Hernandez 

06:45 Spencer Jones 

09:45 C.J. Kayfus 

11:35 Dylan Crews 

13:25 Brandon Winokur 

15:15 Carson Williams 

17:00 Matt Shaw 

19:20 Brandon Clarke 

22:40 Michael Forret/Ben Hess 

25:10 Nick Kurtz/Ryan Sloan 

29:50 Caleb Bonemer/...

James Anderson welcomes on Taylor Corso and Kyle Sonntag of Prospects Live to talk about the best prospects to add in your shallow, mid and deep-sized dynasty leagues!
 

00:00 Intro 

01:45 Yophery Rodriguez 

05:40 Tommy Troy 

07:05 Dasan Hill 

10:10 Nolan McLean 

13:45 Gabriel Rincones 

16:35 Ernesto Martinez Jr. 

19:55 Jonathan Santucci 

21:35 Brandon Young 

22:50 Austin Overn 

25:30 Henry Bolte 

27:30 Miguel Ullola 

29:10 Khal Stephen 

32:05 Ky...

James Anderson welcomes on Andrew Geller (aka The Gildz) to talk about some early hits and misses and early-season roster management!

00:00 Intro

02:20 Evaluating potential drops

03:50 Potential drops

06:50 Pete Alonso

11:20 Kyren Paris

18:15 Zach Neto

24:00 Early Hits

35:35 Early Misses

44:15 Early FOMO

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James Anderson and Sam Dykstra of MLB Pipeline go through the most notable 2025 minor-league assignments for baseball's top prospects!

00:00 Intro

00:55 Jesus Made/Luis Pena

06:30 Nick Kurtz

10:00 Ethan Salas

15:55 Hagen Smith/Chase Burns/Trey Yesavage

22:15 Arjun Nimmala

24:55 Lazaro Montes/Josue De Paula

28:40 Justin Crawford

33:50 Spencer Jones

37:20 Chase Dollander

40:35 Luke Keaschall

42:40 Luis Gastelum

45:10 Tre’ Morgan

49:05 Loaded Roste...

James Anderson answers dozens of listener questions about his updated Top 400 Prospect Rankings

00:00 Intro

01:20 Grant Taylor

03:15 Angel Genao

04:20 Alan Roden

06:15 Chase Petty

07:45 Emil Morales

10:20 Jett Williams

13:05 Spencer Nivens/Gavin Cross

16:20 Jacob Wilson/Max Muncy

17:20 Agustin Ramirez

19:15 Potential Risers

21:10 Sal Frelick

22:45 Zyhir Hope

23:55 Kristian Campbell

25:30 Zach Fruit

27:40 Roman Anthony/Junior Caminero

28:55 Brady H...

00:00 Intro

01:45 Aroon Escobar

05:30 Arjun Nimmala

09:45 Didier Fuentes

16:45 Juan Valera/David Sandlin

21:50 Bubba Chandler/Thomas Harrington

25:45 Konnor Griffin

28:20 Bryce Rainer

30:55 Jake Bloss

34:45 Roman Anthony

36:30 Cam Smith

41:05 Jac Caglianone

44:00 Tony Blanco Jr.

46:25 George Lombard Jr.

49:20 Will Warren/AJ Smith-Shawver

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00:00 Intro

01:40 Auctioning For Beginners

08:50 Early Main Event prices

31:40 Pitchers Shooting Up

01:01:00 Players We’re Drafting

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Jeff Erickson, James Anderson, Clay Link and more will compete in the RotoWire NFBC Online Championship for a shot at $...

00:00 Intro

01:20 Expectations for Vlad & Bo

08:50 Riskiest Hitter In The First 2 Rounds

20:30 Strider vs. deGrom

30:30 Alcantara/Sasaki Vegas Inflation

37:00 Fade Tanner Scott?

44:00 Fade Michael Toglia?

49:20 Chandler Simpson

59:15 Sleeper Prospects

01:08:50 The Worst Hitters We’ll Draft

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James Anderson is joined by NFBC Hall Of Famer John Pausma to discuss the recent high-stakes auction they each participated in, focusing on what went right, what went wrong, and what adjustments they could have made mid-auction!

00:00 Intro

03:25 Catcher/Closer Inflation 

19:50 Adjusting Mid-Auction

24:25 James’ Strategy

28:20 John’s Hitters

34:00 Regrets From The Auction

37:50 Building A Staff

42:00 Closing Thoughts

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Jeff Zimmerman joins James Anderson to discuss some recent fantasy baseball research featured in Jeff's book, The Process, plus they look at which pitchers could win rotation spots this spring and much more!

00:00 Intro

01:50 Pitcher Injury Grades

21:40 Are Rookies A Good Buy?

26:00 Rookies Trending Up

32:45 Wait On Pitching

38:45 The $750 OC

42:05 Pitchers Competing For Rotation Spots

01:05:30 Unsettled Bullpens

01:12:20 Dalton Rushing

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James Anderson and Nate Handy discuss a dynasty startup auction they each participated in! Nate went big with Aaron Judge and four aces, while James spread the wealth and built around a handful of top-50 hitters.

00:00 Intro

01:15 Prepping for the startup

08:45 Nate’s auction

27:15 James’ auction

36:10 Buying prospects

39:10 Nate vs. Geoff

40:50 Dynasty targets and sleepers

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James Anderson and seasoned NFBC Auction player Marc Winokur go through some recent high-stakes auctions and which players are more in-demand by auction players than by snake draft players!

00:00 Intro

01:20 Early Auctioning

13:10 Closers in Auctions

20:30 Buying Skubal

28:00 Old, boring SP2s

32:50 What A Cheap Offense Looks Like

38:00 Zero-Dollar Players

40:55 Stacking

46:00 Top Hitters Overpriced

50:00 AAV vs. ADP

54:20 Outfielders

01:02:30 ...

James Anderson is joined by RotoWire's reliever expert Ryan Rufe to go through Ryan's brand new reliever rankings and discuss which closers to target and avoid in 2025 fantasy baseball leagues!

00:00 Intro

01:00 Josh Hader

02:25 Devin Williams

03:15 Emmanuel Clase

05:40 Raisel Iglesias

07:40 Edwin Diaz

09:50 Mason Miller

11:40 Ryan Helsley

13:15 Felix Bautista

14:50 Kirby Yates/Tanner Scott

19:40 Ryan Walker

21:30 David Bednar

23:20 Lucas Erceg

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