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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

FAAB Targets (Week of May 18)

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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver-wire pickups of the week.

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0:00.0

It is now mid-May, and that means if you're down in the bottom half of the standings,

0:06.2

you do need to do some work on your fantasy baseball team to get it back to where you want to be.

0:10.9

But it also means there's plenty of time left for you to make those changes.

0:15.5

We've got a handful of potential upgrades for you here today on the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

0:28.3

Hello and welcome everybody to the Saturday edition of the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball

0:32.7

podcast. Eric Hulterman here with Ryan Boyer. And Ryan, it's another week full of interesting call-ups.

0:40.1

I think this is probably the most fun and most consequential stretch of the season in terms of fab pickups.

0:46.9

These are guys who've really made an impact in the miners already.

0:49.8

We actually have some real things to say about them.

0:52.3

And if you do manage to pick up any of these guys,

0:55.0

you'll get them for about three quarters of the year. This is the fun part, isn't it?

0:59.4

Yeah, we're at the time of the season when the kind of the cutoff is for top prospects coming up,

1:07.8

where a lot of teams take a look at their young guys keys to pick the the right ones

1:13.7

that are going to be fancy assets for as you mentioned about three quarters of the of the season

1:21.3

and hopefully we're going to have some of those today hopefully we've hooked you up with some of

1:25.3

those over these last couple weeks.

1:33.6

Yeah, if you've got any budget space left, we've got a couple more good ones that will get to in just a minute.

1:45.0

But as always, want to start with some of the headlines, which, as usual, includes some pitcher injuries, including a guy who's had more than his fair share of injuries.

1:53.0

That is Blake Snell, who only just made his season debut after missing the first six weeks or so of the season.

1:55.5

That was with shoulder issue.

1:58.3

Now, he's back on the IL with loose bodies in his left elbow,

2:03.8

not the only Dodger to be dealing with loose bodies. Of course, this is what sent Edwin Diaz to the

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