Checking In on This Year's Top Sleepers with Chris Towers
RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.6 • 784 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are six weeks into the season. |
| 0:04.0 | It's time to take a look back at some of the most widely hyped players from draft season. |
| 0:09.4 | Are they off to good starts or not? |
| 0:11.1 | Should we buy? |
| 0:11.7 | Should we sell? |
| 0:12.7 | I've got Chris Towers of CBS Sports online to help me answer that question here on the RodeWire Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello and welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast. Eric Halterman here. |
| 0:32.2 | Excited to be joined today by Chris Towers of CBS Sports. |
| 0:36.2 | And Chris will be talking about a bunch of hyped players today. |
| 0:39.8 | Are your teams full of hyped players, or did you get beaten out by everybody else chasing |
| 0:45.1 | all these exciting sleepers up the board? |
| 0:47.3 | You know, it's funny. |
| 0:48.5 | I look at like Yuri Perez as a guy who every time I wrote about breakouts, every time I wrote about targets this year, |
| 0:56.6 | Yuri Perez was definitely on that list. I don't think I have Yuri Perez on any of my teams. |
| 1:01.8 | And this seems to happen a lot where there are players I like and then there are players who everyone else likes even more. |
| 1:09.6 | And you get, especially like the last two weeks before draft season, |
| 1:13.2 | you just get this like one-upsmanship where everybody's like, |
| 1:16.9 | I've got and I've got to get that guy and so I'm going to push him up even further. |
| 1:20.8 | And sometimes it works. |
| 1:22.9 | I was making fun of people for that period in January where Ben Rice was like a top 40 pick in |
| 1:28.2 | NFC drafts turns out that might have been underselling Ben Rice and then sometimes |
| 1:34.6 | Yuri Perez it doesn't work out so well so I I tend to not draft as many of the super |
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