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Week 15 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include Matt Carpenter, Esteury Ruiz, Leody Taveras, Max Meyer

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Fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 15 of the MLB season. These are free agent options to add off waivers, and our rankings will help you prioritize.

Welcome fellow RotoBallers, as we enter Week 15 of the fantasy baseball season and the All-Star break. Last week's list featured players like Josh Rojas, Nolan Jones, Brayan Bello, Brett Martin and Aaron Hicks off the waiver wire, and we're back at it for more. Just like any other week, we have put together a full assortment of fantasy baseball waiver wire articles. We are with you every single week, and are going to do our best to help guide you through the entire MLB season and bring home that fantasy trophy.

For those who are not familiar, our team's fantasy baseball waiver wire articles get published on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays each week. First up is our two-start pitcher streamers article by lead editor Pierre Camus, and the top hitter streamers and starts article by Justin Dunbar, released late each week to give you a head start on the week ahead. For you premium subscribers, you get our overall waiver wire article, compliments of Nick Mariano. These will give you a solid overview of the waiver wire options.

RotoBaller's resident points league guru Nick Gaut brings you his weekly points league pitcher pickups and points league hitter pickups. KC Bubba then brings your his deeper waiver wire pickups for all positions, with a slant for NFBC leagues. In addition to these articles, we also dig deeper for each position with individual waiver wire articles: starting pitcher pickups, outfield pickups, 2B and SS pickups, 1B and 3B pickups, and players to consider dropping. Last but not least, Anthony Aniano gives you two videos a week for his waiver wire hitters video and waiver wire pitchers video.

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Who To Pickup for Fantasy Baseball Week 15?

Are you looking for a more direct and structured list of prioritized players to add off the waiver wire? This article is final piece of the weekly waiver wire pickups series, and its goal is to show you our weekly ranking for the relevant waiver wire pickup options including how to prioritize them for your league (depending on the league size). So below you will find the overall rankings list, and below that each individual position in priority order. Hopefully this helps you win your waiver wire this week! Let's get to it.

Rank Player Name Position % Ros. Baller Move
1 Matt Carpenter 1B, 2B 45 Add in All Leagues
2 Esteury Ruiz 2B 44 Add in 10+ Team Leagues
3 Leody Taveras OF 36 Add in 10+ Team Leagues
4 Vinnie Pasquantino 1B 22 Add in 10+ Team Leagues
5 Max Meyer SP 42 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
6 Seranthony Dominguez RP 44 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
7 Alex Kirilloff 1B, OF 37 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
8 Brett Martin RP 38 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
9 Nolan Jones 3B, OF 35 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
10 Jose Miranda 1B, 3B 20 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
11 Alexis Diaz RP 14 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
12 Kyle Finnegan RP 15 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
13 Keegan Thompson SP, RP 44 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
14 Brandon Belt 1B 28 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
15 Jorge Mateo 2B, SS, OF 25 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
16 Luis Rengifo 2B, 3B, SS, OF 4 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
17 Alec Bohm 3B 27 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
18 Kyle Lewis OF 20 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
19 Andrew McCutchen OF 32 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
20 Eddie Rosario OF 20 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
21 DL Hall SP 4 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
22 Jarred Kelenic OF 24 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
23 Jesus Luzardo SP 39 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
24 Dylan Floro RP 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
25 Josh Naylor 1B, OF 36 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
26 Jason Adam RP 26 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
27 Jake Odorizzi SP 37 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
28 Andres Munoz RP 14 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
29 Kutter Crawford SP, RP 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
30 Domingo German SP 11 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
31 Adam Frazier 2B, OF 17 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
32 Mike Soroka SP 19 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
33 Yerry De Los Santos RP 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
34 Braxton Garrett SP 6 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
35 Reid Detmers SP 13 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
36 Dustin May SP 36 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
37 Rob Refsnyder OF 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
38 Joe Mantiply RP 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
39 Josh Smith 3B, SS 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
40 Joey Bart C 7 Add in 15+ Team Leagues



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