Waiver Wire Deep Dive | Must-Have Players For Your Roster (Ep. 1070)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Join Joe Pisapia (@JoePisapia17) and Chris Welsh (@IsItTheWelsh) as they run through the waiver wire and highlight the top names you should be looking to add this weekend!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Chandler Simpson - 0:00:20
Casey Schmitt - 0:02:20
Tyler Freeman - 0:04:25
Christian Moore - 0:06:45
FantasyPros Waiver Wire Assistant - 0:08:08
Eric Lauer - 0:08:39
Frankie Montas - 0:10:31
Didier Fuentes - 0:12:10
Janson Junk - 0:12:30
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. |
| 0:12.4 | It's time to look ahead to the waiver wire for the week. |
| 0:14.4 | With me, Joey P. Joe Pizapia. |
| 0:16.0 | Of course, with me is the Welsh. |
| 0:17.8 | And let's start here with the guy getting the call again from AAA. |
| 0:21.3 | Chandler Simpson did nothing wrong the first time. |
| 0:23.8 | I don't know what the problem the raise have. |
| 0:25.7 | Maybe they're just being cheap, but you know what? |
| 0:27.2 | The raise are in it now, and Chandler Simpson is back, and he has been stealing bases, |
| 0:31.9 | doing everything he possibly can for the raise at AAA, and now he's getting another opportunity. |
| 0:38.3 | He was optioned to Durham in late May after he was posting a 285 batting average. |
| 0:44.3 | No homers, of course, but 19 steals, 17 runs and 35 games. |
| 0:48.5 | And now it's an opportunity for him to rebound again, come back here, and, you know, |
| 0:54.0 | hopefully continue to give us more stolen |
| 0:55.4 | bases because Welsh, when you look at where he's at currently, he is still available in 50% |
| 1:00.1 | of CBS leagues. A lot of teams had no choice but to drop him, but if you're looking for helping |
| 1:04.0 | steals, it's time to be aggressive for Chandler Simpson if he's out there. I think like points |
| 1:09.2 | leagues are you're going to see the devaluation because |
| 1:11.8 | sure, you know, stolen bases don't mean as much. He has no power potential. He doesn't register on |
| 1:16.3 | RBIs. The positive is he doesn't strike out. He even in that time, and that was the weirdest thing |
| 1:21.1 | about the send down is there was real world baseball, you know, like defensive metrics war versus |
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