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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Checking In on This Year's Top Sleepers with Chris Towers

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

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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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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