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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Waiver Wire Deep Dive | Must-Have Players For Your Roster (Ep. 1070)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports

4.91.3K 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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