Hate To Love Anthony Volpe! | Must-Have Waiver Wire Hitters for Your Roster (Ep. 1273)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:09.7 | Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pros MLB. |
| 0:12.2 | This is the Fantasy Baseball podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | This is me, Joey P. |
| 0:14.9 | Joe P. is here. |
| 0:15.6 | With me, of course, is the Welsh. |
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| 0:20.5 | Like this video. You know what to do. AndB, make sure he subscribe, like this video, |
| 0:21.1 | you know what to do. And as we do every single week, we comb the waiver wire for the very best for the hitters and pitchers. And today we're going to talk about the hitters. And I'm going to start with an outfielder from the Washington Nationals. And we've talked a lot about James Wood, but we haven't talked much about Jacob Young in his season he's been having right now. And the last couple weeks, he's been very, very hot. |
| 0:39.1 | Over his last 15 games, he's been very, very hot. |
| 0:39.1 | Over his last 15 games, he's got four homers, seven RBI, he's got a stolen base. |
| 0:43.5 | He's also hit in 316 with a 381 OBP and a 658 slugging. |
| 0:48.8 | Now, Jacob Young does have some strikeouts in there. |
| 0:51.1 | That is certainly something. |
| 0:52.5 | He's got 32 to keep in mind. There's nine walks in the year. But in 54 games, that's tolerable for me. And I know on the year he's in just 237, but this recent little power surge that he's had this season is, I think, really intriguing. And if you're looking for some guys to kind of get you by, whether it's guys like Brent Rooker that aren't hitting right now that |
| 1:11.6 | you on the aisle currently. Jacob Young, I think, is a guy that you could probably |
| 1:17.2 | plug and play for a couple weeks while this hot streak lasts and see how long you can write it |
| 1:20.8 | for. Currently, he is rostering in just 11% of leagues, which means he's available in 90% of |
| 1:26.5 | leagues on CBS, which means he is free 99 |
| 1:29.5 | everywhere else. So Welsh, when you're looking at the hitters, who pops for you this week |
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