Weekend Waiver Wire! Colt Emerson, Roki Sasaki & Merrill Kelly! (5/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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The Mariners promoted Colt Emerson! What should we expect? AJ Ewing has looked great so far. It was a massive week for Angel Martinez. Add Merrill Kelly or Roki Sasaki?
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| 0:00.0 | WaiverWired names from the weekend. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome into FBT Express on Monday, May 18th. I am Frank Sample joined by Chris Towers, and let's take a look at some waiver wire ads from this weekend. |
| 0:14.6 | And the big name we got was Colt Emerson, called up by the Seattle Mariners. |
| 0:20.0 | Top prospect in the system. |
| 0:21.7 | 38 games at AAA this season hit 255, 7 homers, 10 steals, and 816 OPS, 50% rostered. |
| 0:29.1 | So he's out there in a decent amount of leagues. |
| 0:31.5 | Chris, would you consider Colt Emerson a must-add player? |
| 0:35.9 | Yeah, it is tough because he's shortstop eligible right now. |
| 0:41.9 | Points Leagues, it's going to be very hard for anyone to break into the top 12 at that position, |
| 0:45.9 | even some of those other rookies, JJ Weatherholt, Kevin McGonigle, Kevin Conner-Griffin, |
| 0:50.9 | I'm not sure any of them are top 12 yet. |
| 0:53.6 | Cole Emerson is 20 years old. He is a top 15, top 20 type prospect. So not quite Connor Griffin or McGonigal, but maybe similar to JJ Weatherholt. And the thing that helps is he's going to be third base eligible very soon. Probably by the end of this week, he made his MLB debut Sunday playing |
| 1:10.8 | third base. He's likely to play third base moving forward for the Mariners while Brandon Donovan's on the |
| 1:14.6 | IL. You see the 27% strikeout rate. You see the 255 batting average and it's a little alarming |
| 1:22.2 | for a guy this young. But then you look under the hood and he doesn't swing and miss on pitches inside |
| 1:30.6 | the strike zone all that often. |
| 1:32.0 | It's like 86% rate, which is above average. |
| 1:35.2 | He's a very aggressive hitter. |
| 1:37.2 | He doesn't have like plus power yet. |
| 1:39.2 | It's more like average. |
| 1:41.0 | So he's still definitely a work in progress. |
| 1:43.3 | But I think you have to view a guy like |
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