Fantasy Baseball Today - Waiver Wire MUST ADDS & Injury Replacements (07/06 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 6, 2026

Brandon Woodruff went on the IL and Logan Henderson is a must-roster pitcher. How do we rank Sean Burke, Trevor Rogers and Jake Bennett. Ryan Helsley went on the IL and Tyler Wells picked up two saves this weekend. Any interest in these deeper outfielders: Nathan Church, Josh Lowe and Khalil Watson.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters

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Don't think it's going to work out this year for him, unfortunately. but related to this, it sounds like Logan Henderson that will make his next start with the Brewers. He is 75% rostered. It's got whatever he's pitched in the majors, he's looked really good. So I kind of just feel like

Logan Henderson should be a must roster pitcher. Yeah, he's made 10 starts in total between this year and last in the majors. Only one of them's been a miss. The rest have been great. Some of them been short and the Brewers have been reluctant to commit to him, but they seemed like prior to this aisle stint,

and they were finally committing to Logan Henderson, should have some runway with this Woodruff injury. Yeah, I think he's, if he's not the top pitcher to add right now, he's very close. This next one came out of nowhere. Carlos Rodon went on the aisle Friday with left elbow inflammation. Rodon said his UCL is intact, but he's dealing with, quote, heavy inflammation.

And so if you lost Woodruff, you lost Rodon, you lost someone else, you just need pitching help. Scott's updated sleeper pitchers for this. This week includes Joey Cantillo, Landon Rup, Ian Seymour, J.T. Ginn, Griffin, Jacks, Troy Milton, Shane Baws, Michael McGreevy, Shane Drowen, and Connor Prelip. Let's talk about some other waiver-wire pitchers from the weekend. Three names that are surging right now. Sean Burke, awesome start at the Guardian, six innings, one run, 11 strikeouts to zero walks. Last, four starts for him, 180, ERA 108 whip, 11.9K per 9.

Trevor Rogers kept runs off the board. He did struggle with walks, five shutout, five walks, four strikeouts. Last three starts with his velocity up, 18 and a third, one run, 17 strikeouts to seven walks. And Jake Bennett was great once again at the Angels. Seven and two thirds, two runs, six strikeouts to zero walks for him. He has turned in three straight quality starts. Scott, how would you rank this trio? Sean Burke, Trevor Rogers, and Jake Bennett.

I think it's a very clear ranking because I think there's a lot of space. between all three. Sean Burke, number one, Trevor Rogers, number two, Jake Bennett, number three. Burke, you mentioned the 11.9 K-per-9 over his last four-stars dominating in general, but especially missing a lot more bats with a fastball that's been up about one and a half miles per hour during that time. I don't know what changed. He's thrown it way harder, though. It's turned into a big swing and miss pitch on its own, completely transformed Sean Burke.

he's a very high priority off the waiver wire right now, probably even higher than Logan Henderson, quite honestly. Trevor Rogers, we've seen it be good in the past. Just last year, he was very good. And his velocity was up one over the weekend, and it'd been up a little in previous starts. So I'm not saying there have been no underlying changes tied to this turnaround for Trevor Rogers,

but it hasn't been as crystal clear as it's been for Sean Burke. And we've seen over the years it's a very fine line. with Trevor Rogers between good and just terrible. And so, well, I think he does need to be rostered again, the kind of run he's on with the kind of year he had last year. I'm wary. I'm wary of it all blowing up on us again. But he would be second.

Jake Bennett, third. A lot to like about Jake Bennett. He was good. Great, actually, in the miners. This year gives up a lot of weak contact. on the ground. Only 6.9 K-per-9 in the majors this year. So I think that puts a limit on Bennett's upside in a way it doesn't for Burke or Rogers. And that's why he's a clear third. All right. I got four streamer types as well. Peter Lambert, I'll just read off the matchups for

this week. They all pitch well this weekend. But Peter Lambert gets the Rangers this week. He's at Texas. He's also a spark for those in points leagues. Andre Palante gets the Brewers. He might be a two-star pitcher. I think he is, right? got Andre Palante? Yes. So he gets two starts this week. Luis Castillo gets the raise in Tampa Bay. And Jack Flaherty has looked good since coming off the IL.

He gets the Phillies. How would you rank those four streamer types? You know what? Just one star for Palante. I mix up him and Michael McGreevy. McGreevy's the one, make it two starts. So yeah, it's Lambert, Palante, Castillo, and Jack Flaherty. Yeah.

So I think of these four. Luis Castillo is the closest to being a must because as recently as last year, he was more than a streamer type and fantasy. So we may have written him off too early this year. He's looked more like himself in recent turns. I don't have a lot of trust in him. He doesn't touch the previous group.

I don't know. He might be there with Jake Bennett in the previous group. But Luis Castillo, I feel the best about adding. Andre Palante, probably second on the list. I think he's reliable, but not. a lot of upside. I don't have a lot of trust in Peter Lambert, but I have more trust in him than Jack Flaherty. Interestingly, Flaherty probably has the most upside of this group

and has been getting a lot more strikeouts recently throwing harder. So, you know, you see signs that maybe Flaherty's coming around, but it's always fleeting. Those signs are often fleeting with him. And I would say between these four, my trust in Flaherty is the lowest. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be back right after this.

Welcome back, FBT Express. We're here talking Waverwire ads from the weekend. And let's go back to the injuries for a second because the Orioles placed Ryan Helsley on the IL Friday with right elbow discomfort. And we saw Tyler Wells pick up two saves this weekend. Last time, Ryan Halsley went down. It was like mostly kind of Rico Garcia,

but they would mix and match. But considering they just had two saves right away, they both went to Tyler Wells. He's only 10% rostered, Scott, widely available. I think any leagues where you need saves or if you were the Ryan Heldley manager probably should go out and get Tyler Wells. Yep, he's the big saves ad from the weekend.

Not crystal clear, but as clear as it can be, a guy going on the IEL and then the same pitcher gets the saves on back-to-back days. They linked on Rico Garcia a lot when Helsley first went down early on. they leaned on Rico Garcia. He did it fine, but then things became very muddled after that. So you could only trust this with Tyler Wales so much. But at the same time, you know, this early on, you're getting as much evidence as you can that he's the guy.

All right. On the Waverwire hitter side of things, not too many names that popped up this weekend. Like, obviously, as Merlin Valdez, I think, is the biggest name that has emerged over the past week or so, but we've talked a lot about him. I do have three deeper outfield names here for you. Nathan Church has three home runs in his past six games. He has started nine straight for the Cardinals. Josh Lowe in 10 games since returning to the Angels. He has 10 hits, two homers, six runs, five RBI and two steals. So it does offer a little bit of power and speed.

And Khalil Watson of the Guardians has been running a little bit. He had four steals this weekend. He has six steals and 17 games so far. Mostly 15 teamers, five outfield or league scouts. But do you have any interest in Nathan Church, Josh Lowe, or Kalil Watson? They are deep league options. I think the most enticing is Nathan Church, especially with the Cardinals having the rare eight-game week this week.

Now there are three lefties on the schedule, which you wouldn't expect to work to Church's advantage. But, yeah, I would say he's the most interesting of these three. All right, we are going to wrap there. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-length podcast, Fantasy Baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else podcast. are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today Express, and we will be back again later this week.

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