Claim Carlos Cortes NOW! | Must-Have Waiver Wire Hitters for Your Roster (Ep. 1235)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Claim the top bats available on the open market! Join Joe Pisapia and Chris Welsh for their top fantasy baseball waiver wire targets and must-add hitters.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:09.7	Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB.
0:12.0	This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:14.3	It's me, Joey P.
0:15.1	Joe P. Zapia.
0:15.9	And today we're going to look ahead to the hitters.
0:17.7	We want to add this week, and it's funny Welsh.
0:20.4	Sometimes we step into a goldmine, and we don't even realize it. Because a couple weeks ago on this show, we do a fun little thing on Fridays where we talk about guys. We want to stream, guys to short-term help guys. One of those players is a guy that has been so good since then. I want to pick him up.
0:38.6	He's not a streamer anymore.
0:39.7	He's a guy that I'm just playing.
0:41.2	And it's Carlos Cortez of the athletics.
0:44.0	If you look at the baseball Savon page for this guy, it is bright red.
0:48.5	We're talking 99%tile and ex-Waba batting average, 100%tile.
0:57.6	His ex-slug is 99. He 100 percentile uh his ex slug is 99 he has been phenomenal his slash right now welsh 387 457 694 he's got an 11 51 ops the guy has been insane i thought he
1:05.9	would be a stop gap for brent rooker but the guy hasn't stopped hitting now i know what some people
1:10.3	are going to say.
1:11.0	Well, Joe, he's already rostered in my league, and we're used to hearing that.
1:14.0	But Welsh, at this point, when you're looking at the true numbers, he is still just
1:18.3	rostered in 38% of leagues on CBS.
1:20.8	Now, CBS is more serious.
1:22.9	We're talking it's less on Yahoo, where it's less on ESPN, where it's more casual and
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