Fantasy Baseball Today - 8 TOP PROSPECTS Who Could Be Up Very Soon! (08/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 13, 2026

Frank Stampfl and Scott White break down eight top prospects who could be up as soon as this weekend. Seaver King is knocking on the Nationals' door. The Cardinals have two big names in Joshua Baez and Quinn Mathews. The top hitter who could be up this weekend is Walker Jenkins while the top pitcher is Kade Anderson.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters

Big name prospects who could get called up as soon as this weekend. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Welcome into NBT Express on Thursday, August 13th. I am Frank Stample joined by Scott White, and I have eight big-name prospects who could get called up as soon as this weekend. Scott, why this weekend of all weekends? It's a big weekend, Frank. This weekend marks the point when there are only 45 days remaining,

in the regular season. And that is an important milestone because if a player is on the roster for less than 45 days and doesn't exceed certain at bat or innings thresholds, which would be hard to do in the amount of time left, he retains his rookie eligibility for next year.

And that is important because if a player is on the roster for his full rookie season, it opens the door to potential draft pick rewards for his team. So since that became a rule with the latest CBA in 2022, we've seen teams follow this sort of promotion timeline where we get this rush of big prospects late in the season

just to kind of get their feet wet before what's anticipated to be their rookie season so that then hopefully they perform well enough to win rookie of the year, or even if they place in the top three for MVP or Si Young in their pre-arbitration years, they can score their team a draft pick for that. But the only prospects who are eligible for this have to be on a couple of

the major top 100 lists at the start of next year. Really complicated, I know, but the point is just the highest in prospects are the ones most in play here, because if they're not going to be on a bunch of top 100 list, then they're not going to qualify anyway.

And obviously they have to be good enough to place high enough than awards voting down the line. So you're going to hear about particularly big prospects in this edition. All right. Let's count down the top eight in reverse order. So number eight on this list is Sever King, a shortstop prospect with the Washington Nationals. Yeah, he was a first round pick a couple years ago.

It's had a breakout C. season this year, a guy who, you know, good power, good speed, good bat skills in general, chases too much. And so that is something you got to watch out for with Seaver King. But the nationals don't really have a long-term plan at second base right now. Nassim Nunez is a good defender, doesn't provide much offensively. And Luis Garcia is out of the picture now, obviously. So Zever King,

appears to have mastered to have Master AAA. I could see him getting the call here, getting his feet wet as their future second basement. Number seven, we have James Tibbs in Outfield Prospect with, you guessed it, the Dodgers. And I'll note that these are ordered by likelihood

of being called up, so we're kind of starting with what I think of the less likely ones. I point that out in James Tibbs case because, well, where the Dodgers is going to play him. That's been the story all year. You know, he was at his high. hottest in March and April seemed like maybe it was just

going to be a quick move to the majors. But it didn't happen because there was never a clear opening for James Tibbs. The possibility, apart from injury, of course, would be if they're beginning too sour on Teosker

Hernandez. As things currently stand, the Dodgers aren't in a position to get a buy in the first round of the playoffs. So they're they might be looking for a little bit of a boost here. To Oscar Hernandez, seems like he may be falling off

in his mids 30s. Maybe they give James Tibbs a shot finally. The Rockies recently promoted Zach Veen. Could they do the same with number six? That is Charlie Condon, who is a first base prospect in the Rockies organization,

although he has slowed down quite a bit. Yeah, and that's part of the reason why I think Zach Veen beat him to the majors. The other reason being Veen was already on the 40-man roster, Charlie Condon isn't. But it's been a huge season for Condon, And even going back to spring training, he made a pretty strong case to make the Rockies roster then. It's just TJ Rumfield also made a strong case, and Rumfield's had a great rookie season.

Condon spent about half the time in the outfield this year, so that's probably the clearer path for him. But it's not an especially clear path. I think Rockies might have trouble finding at Bats for Vien as it is. Condons aren't his promotion, but it'll be tough to get him at Bats, and that's why it may not end up happening. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Five more big name prospects who could get called up as soon as this weekend. Number five on the list is one that we have talked about all season. That is Joshua Baez outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Yeah, he has been one of the most prolific power hitters in the miners, spent the full season at AAA, over 30 homers there, 20 steals as well. problem is he's striking out 30% of the time. And that raises some doubts about whether he'll get the call. Chaim Bloom, who of course leads the Cardinals front office, has expressed some dyspepsia over that high strikeout rate and may prefer that bias continue to work on that. I'll point out the Cardinals were the organization that prevented J.J. Weatherholt from getting called up at this time last year.

It seemed like he had earned a spot and didn't happen. They waited until the next year. Obviously, it's gone well. They may do the same with bias. What about his teammate? Number four on this list, Quinn Matthews, also of the Cardinals, a starting pitcher. We saw him, he got one start against the Blue Jays.

He actually looked pretty good. He went down. His latest start at AAA was terrible. Yeah, it was, and it was pretty typical for Quinn Matthews to have a start where he walks six guys, like happened in that one. That's been the knock on him last year especially struggled with control, but has at times this year too.

Overall, though, since about the start of June, Quinn Matthews has been really dominant at AAA. He's somebody who led the minor leagues and strikeouts in the past, and I think that was 2024. And he looked good enough in his debut that the Cardinals have said, we're going to see him soon. Obviously, since he's been up for a day already, he has to wait until 44 days remain in the season.

but, you know, that's still this weekend. Quinn Matthews, by the way, did make another start at AAA here on Wednesday night. It was four innings, one run, five strikeouts to three walks. And he only threw like 68 pitches. So, I don't know, perhaps they're limiting him a little bit so he can throw a little bit more in the majors down the stretch. Number three on this list is Franklin Arias with the Red Sox. He is a shortstop prospect, meteoric rise this season, recently promoted to AAA, where he has not. slowed down.

Yeah, and it may be surprising to see him third on this list when I said I ordered them by the likeliest to be called up. He's 20 years old. Nobody would have expected this even a month ago, I think. But he's had a huge season as a huge breakthrough season for power, already showed terrific hitting instincts in the lower miners and moved up to AAA. Seems to have made quick work of it. And it made some appearances at second base. right now the Red Sox have an opening at his natural shortstop position, but I bring up second base because the expectation is Trevor Story's going to be back at some point. And it seems like the Red Sox may be preparing the way for Arias even if Story is back.

Number two, we have Walker Jenkins outfield prospect with the Minnesota Twins, who cross your fingers, has finally managed to stay healthy. And he's looked great. He has looked great. Looks even better by the data than the top line numbers. Top line numbers are still good. Batting average around 300, OPS just shy of 900, some power, some speed. But eggs of velocities are terrific, plate discipline, not just in terms of how much he walks,

but zone contact rate, chase rate, it's all excellent. And we knew that for Walker Jenkins from the beginning. It's a very highly regarded prospect from what he wants. was drafted fifth overall in 2023, has had a lot of injuries between then and now, and yet at AAA as a 21-year-old and making it look easy. So I think with the twins fighting for a playoff spot, they were buyers at the deadline,

they don't want to miss this opportunity. I think Jenkins is somebody they're going to call up, hopefully to make a difference for them. Number one on this list, no surprise. It is Cade Anderson of the, Mariners feels like this could have happened months ago, but obviously they had that log jam. Hopefully, it's coming soon.

Hopefully, yeah. They still don't have a clear opening in the rotation. Still five strong there, but they went for a stretch of several weeks with the six-man rotation before trading Luis Castillo. They're another team that is quickly losing ground in the playoff race. If they have any hope of staying in it, they need some kind of infusion

of talent and Kate Anderson is the most obvious one. He's dominated to double A. Been untouchable there, frankly, all year. And you say, well, it's double A, but that Mariners have a history of promoting their top pitching prospects directly from AA. George Kirby, Brian Wu, Bryce Miller, all being examples. And if you want to check out all the names that Scott wrote about, because there are more, you could find that on the website, cbsports.com slash fantasy slash baseball. I will quickly mention the relative long shots. We have Emmanuel Rodriguez and outfielder with the twins. Sebastian Walcott, shortstop with the Rangers.

Jose de Paula and outfielder with the Dodgers. Jesus Made, a shortstop, the top prospect of ball of baseball with the Brewers. Any quick thoughts or mentions of these four? Walcott needs to play the field. He just came back from a concussion. Originally came back from UCL repair. Look great. Then had a concussion.

Just came back from that. Hasn't appeared in the field yet. Obviously, that'll need to happen before. the Rangers call them up, but it does seem like there's enough time. And the longest of long shots, we have Leo DeVries, shortstop with the athletics, Ethan Salas, a catcher with the Padres, and Lazaro Montes, an outfielder with the Mariners. Again, make sure to check out the article on the site or on the fantasy app. And for more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-lane podcast Fantasy

Baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today Express, and we will be back again. this weekend. Bye-bye. Podcasts.