Johnny Venezia joins Jeff Erickson on the RotoWire MLB Podcast and shares his immediate reactions to the MLB draft.

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00:00 MLB Instant Draft Reactions

00:20 Welcome to Johnny Venezia

01:00 Early Surprises

04:15 Jace Laviolette

05:45 Eli Willits

08:00 Tyler Bremmer

09:45 Kade Anderson

12:15 Ethan Holliday

13:30 NFFC

14:15 Liam Doyle

16:00 Seth Hernandez

16:50 Aiva Arquette

17:35 JoJo Parker

18:30 Steele Hall

19:40 Billy Carlson

20:30 Jamie Arnold

22:40 Gavin Fien

23:45 Gavin Kilen

24:30 Daniel Pierce

25:25 Kyson Witherspoon

26:15 Home Run Forecast

27:30 Marek Houston

29:30 Ethan Conrad

30:15 Kayson Cunningham

32:30 Ike Irish

34:00 Andrew Fischer

35:00 Xavier Neyens / Kruz Schoolcraft

36:10 BlueWire

36:20 Tate Southisene

37:25 Sean Gamble

38:30 Jordan Yost

39:20 Gage Wood

40:20 Jace LaViolette

42:45 Noteworthy Fallers

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer discuss their top waiver-wire recommendations for the week.

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00:00 Headlines
17:11 Brandon Woodruff
21:14 Cam Schlittler
24:15 Charlie Morton
26:45 Joe Boyle
30:38 Kevin Ginkel
37:02 Brice Matthews
40:06 Colt Keith
44:24 Willi Castro
46:18 Romy Gonzalez
48:35 Austin Hays
49:56 Deep-League Pitchers
1:02:05 Deep-League Hitters

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Intro/Heading into the final weekend before the break

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

• Trent Grisham $6
• Cameron Schlittler $6
• Kevin Ginkel $5
• Shane McClanahan $4
• Joey Cantillo $3
• Brayan Rocchio $3
• Miguel Andujar $2
• Masataka Yoshida $1
• Jordan Hicks $1
• Michael Lorenzen $0
• Kirby Yates $0

Brice Matthews, HOU top prospect, called up to Houston

Top fantasy earners so far in 2025:

• RotoWire Earned Auction Values page: https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/auction-values-earned.php
• $55.06 Aaron Judge
• $46.22 Pete Crow-Armstrong
• $42.98 Shohei Ohtani
• $42.39 Cal Raleigh
• $39.31 Elly De La Cruz
• $36.24 James Wood
• $35.10 Kyle Tucker
• $35.06 Kyle Schwarber
• $34.59 Tarik Skubal
• $32.43 Bobby Witt
• $31.65 Zack Wheeler
• $31.59 Jose Ramirez
• $30.19 Byron Buxton
• $29.67 Eugenio Suarez
• $29.37 Seiya Suzuki
• $28.64 Pete Alonso

Down the list

• $18.43 Maikel Garcia
• $18.17 Spencer Torkelson
• $15.42 Vladimir Guerrero
• $12.45 Freddie Freeman
• $11.88 Mookie Betts
• $10.91 Wyatt Langford
• $8.35 Jose Caballero
• $2.85 Bryan Reynolds

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