This Year's Nick Castellanos with Ryan Bloomfield

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4.6 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of BaseballHQ to discuss the candidates to be this year's Nick Castellanos — players whose real-world value trails their fantasy value to the point that they're at risk of losing most or all of their playing time.

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0:00.0	Fantasy value and real world value are usually pretty linked, but not always.
0:08.9	I've got Ryan Bloomfield on the line today to talk about some players whose real world projected value is low enough that their fantasy value might suddenly collapse la Nick Nick Castiano of last year.
0:20.9	Who could be 2026's Nick Castiano's.
0:24.1	We'll try to answer that question right after this on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball
0:27.4	podcast.
0:34.7	Hello and welcome everybody to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by FanTracks.
0:40.9	Eric Halton here with Ryan Bloomfield of Baseball HQ.
0:45.5	Ryan, it is that time of year where the fantasy world is shifting more and more towards baseball.
0:52.7	We're finally back fully on the Road to Wire YouTube channel here.
0:56.7	Hello to everybody who's watching here.
1:00.2	How is your offseason going so far?
1:03.4	Are you in the weeds of any big offseason series over on the Bubba in the Bloom?
1:08.4	Yeah, we pretty much never stop.
1:10.3	So yeah, at Bubba in the Bloom with my good friend and co-host,
1:14.4	Casey Bubba, we go twice a week, Tuesday, Thursday nights, year-round.
1:19.4	But then there's baseball forecaster in October.
1:21.8	We get to hang out, Eric, at First Beach, Arizona in November.
1:24.9	So it's just a constant year-round thing for me. But I will admit,
1:28.7	it is very nice to see everyone starting to come back, come back to the good side, as I like to say.
1:33.9	And glad you guys are streaming these live on YouTube again now. That's good. It's all good.
1:39.0	Yeah, happy to have anybody come along and join us with some live questions during the show. Love to have the
1:45.3	conversation going on. We will be talking today about Nick Castiano. Well, not really. We'll be
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