We have reached the final weekend of August, but there are still a good handful of interesting players entering the player pool in your fantasy baseball league.

We've got our favorite call-ups for the week here for you on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

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

podcast brought to you by chalkboard.

Eric Haltrowman and Ryan Boyer here for the final fab pickup pod of August.

Only what, three, four more after this?

Really coming down to the wire.

I know you don't have any fab dollars left, Ryan,

but we've got a decent number of interesting guys still this week for everybody else.

Yeah, still some uh like with that

august 15th cutoff players are interesting some interesting players are magically ready for the

big leagues now so we're getting some some good call-ups especially from the on the pitching side

and i left a couple of those interesting young people some good call-ups, especially on the pitching side.

And I left a couple of those interesting young pitchers for you this week.

Yeah, we will have some interesting young pitchers, particularly in the priority ad section might be a little bit tougher to find compelling hitters in deeper leagues this week, even in shallower leagues.

But we'll get to that in a minute.

As always, we like to start with the headlines, which includes a potentially worrying one for Nick Kurtz,

who left Friday's game against Texas with right oblique soreness.

Now, soreness isn't one of the bad words necessarily.

Obliq, though, not a word you really want to see associated with a hitter,

especially this time of year, if this turns out to be an oblique strain and not just oblique

soreness.

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