Baseball is back.

We had opening night last night, opening day today, something else with a name that I'm not sure of tomorrow,

where everybody else finally gets off the ground for the start of the 2026 MLB season.

We've got a whole slew of new rookies to get to know.

And I've got Matt Morris here on the line to tell me all about them

here on the Rotowire fantasy baseball podcast.

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to an opening day edition of the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball

podcast.

Eric Alterman here, excited to be joined today, just as I was on last year's opening day by Matt Morris of the Dynasty Dinger's podcast, and we've got the same task in front of us

that we went through one year ago today.

We're going to take a look at every rookie who has made an opening day roster

trying to figure out which ones need to be added everywhere right now, which ones you should

maybe throw on a watch list and see how they're doing, and which ones you should forget about

as soon as this show ends. Looking forward to all that in a few minutes, Matt. But first,

did you catch any of the game last night in between the

various James Winston and Bert Kreischer interviews? I did. And Eric, happy to be here for a second

year. Hopefully we have the same success we had last year. But I love the James Winston interview.

I feel like as we kind of spoke off air, the Major League Baseball productions are intentionally trying to be more entertaining.

But trying and being is very different.

I think having personalities that bring out the life of the game and the life of the players is important.

So I loved James, but overall the production felt a little

like Apple. And the game felt a little bit like a traditional opening game where you can tell

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