Rotation Battles + Late Starting Pitchers w/ Dustin McComas
RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Baseball podcast brought to you by FanTracks. I'm your host James Anderson and it's that time of |
| 0:05.7 | year. I've got all of our biggest drafts coming up this weekend. I think for many of us, |
| 0:12.8 | high stakes drafts. I'll be in Vegas doing a main event by myself on Saturday. I got a main event |
| 0:19.8 | with Todd Whitestone and an auction with |
| 0:21.8 | Todd I'll be doing out in Vegas. Dustin McComis, my guest this week has some big events coming up. |
| 0:28.9 | So we're going to just talk about some of the stuff that we're looking at this time of year, |
| 0:33.4 | specifically rotation battles and sort of pitchers that, you know, used to be going kind of in the |
| 0:39.9 | end game. Maybe now are kind of going in the mid-rounds. We're going to talk about whether |
| 0:43.5 | we're chasing them up to their new ADPs. And then we're also going to talk about some pitchers |
| 0:48.0 | who are emerging this spring and becoming end-game options for us in our high-stakes snake drafts. But first, Dustin Dustin, how you doing, man? Thanks for hopping on with me. James, always a pleasure, man. Great to see you. And I'll see you out in Vegas shortly. And I feel like I've got like Vegasitis or senioritis, man. I'm ready to get out there and go and have a good time. So I'm really looking forward to doing some drafts out there and seeing everybody. And yeah, this is a big piece of my puzzle. Every year before I head out to Vegas is really diving in on these rotation battles. And I feel like if you're going to play in any of these high stakes leagues or just any fantasy leagues in general, you need to know who are the pitchers that have the helium right now that are kind of |
| 1:28.1 | moving up boards. And I think we'll talk about several of those guys today. Absolutely. Now, before we get |
| 1:34.6 | to these rotation situations, I do want to just talk about sort of the some of the bigger names out there, |
| 1:44.1 | all three prospects, and all three will be in my |
| 1:48.5 | top three of the updated top 400 prospect rankings, which will hit the site Friday morning. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm going to put those up on road order.com first thing, Friday morning when I wake up in Vegas. |
| 2:02.6 | Obviously, Connor Griffin is the number one overall prospect. Kevin McGonigal is the number two |
| 2:07.4 | prospect. Leo DeVries of the athletics, I think joins Kevin McGonogal for me in a tier behind |
| 2:16.1 | Connor Griffin as the clear number three prospect at this |
| 2:20.2 | point and someone who I think is, you know, potentially going to get drafted in some main events |
| 2:26.7 | this weekend based on how he's played this spring. So let's start with Griffin and McGonagall. |
| 2:33.9 | Are you operating under the assumption that they're both going to be on opening day |
| 2:39.0 | rosters? |
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