Waiver Wire Deep Dive | Must-Have Players For Your Roster (Ep. 1079)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 19 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
Chase DeLauter - 0:00:15
Kyle Teel - 0:02:30
Colby Thomas - 0:04:45
Yanquiel Fernandez - 0:06:17
FantasyPros Waiver Assistant - 0:08:42
Trevor Rogers - 0:09:11
Adrian Houser - 0:11:00
Kumar Rocker - 0:12:29
Grant Taylor - 0:14:18
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| 0:42.8 | Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pro's MLB. |
| 0:46.3 | It's time to look ahead to the Waverwire for this week in Major League Baseball. |
| 0:52.3 | And Welsh and I are going to begin with Chase DeLauder of the Cleveland Guardians. |
| 0:56.1 | Now, DeLauder continues to just rake at AAA since his return from injury. He's now 27 games into the season at AAA, four homers, 16 RBI, the slash |
| 1:02.9 | Welsh 303, 412, 505 with a 917 OPS. Clearly, things have gotten off to a really good start |
| 1:10.1 | for him. And clearly, the Guardian's |
| 1:11.9 | offense could use some more help. So Welsh, I want to add to Lauder this week. He is still available |
| 1:16.5 | in 70% of leagues currently on CBS. Your thoughts on what you've seen so far from Chase to Lutter |
| 1:21.9 | once upon a time, a very highly thought of prospect. Injuries have slowed that train a little |
| 1:27.3 | bit, but it looks like all of a sudden we're back on track with Chase. I've got a post-all-star game. It's going to come out like right before All-Star, but it's like the post-all-star prospects to stash article that's going to be on Fantasy Pro's. We kind of do a segment every week, but this is an article. |
| 1:48.3 | Chase to Lodder is 100% in the top five of guys to pick up right now. |
| 1:51.6 | Because health, health is always his issue. |
| 1:53.0 | He's guys always hurt. |
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