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Mid-Week Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups: Christian Encarnacion-Strand, CJ Abrams, Chas McCormick, More

Chas McCormick - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB News

Mid-week fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 18 (2023). Free agent hitters and pitchers to add include Christian Encarnacion-Strand, CJ Abrams, Chas McCormick, Aroldis Chapman, and Matt Manning.

Welcome RotoBallers to our mid-week fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings list for Week 18 - July 17 through July 23 to help you stay on top of the waiver wire, especially in leagues that allow daily moves. The Reds called up top prospect Christian Encarnacion-Strand on Monday. He went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run in Tuesday's 11-10 loss to the Giants. Baltimore Orioles' top pitching prospect Grayson Rodriguez was recalled on Monday. The 23-year-old allowed four runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out four over five innings. Pittsburgh recently called up starting pitcher Quinn Priester and catcher Endy Rodriguez, both of who made their MLB debuts earlier in the week. Seattle calls up outfielder Cade Marlowe from Triple-A Tacoma Thursday. Top prospects such as Landon Knack, Ceddanne Rafaela, Colt Keith, Matt Mervis, Ronny Mauricio, and Connor Norby patiently await the call to the big leagues.

Some notable recent performances include Houston Astros outfielder Chas McCormick, who has homered four times over his last four games. The 28-year-old is hitting .550 (11-for-20) with four homers, eight RBI, and nine runs across his last 26 plate appearances. Since the calendar flipped to July 1, Washington Nationals infielder CJ Abrams is slashing .364/.417/.545 with a home run, three RBI, 13 runs, and nine stolen bases over 14 games. In his last two starts, Detroit Tigers right-hander Matt Manning owns a 0.73 ERA, 0.57 WHIP, and an 8:3 K: BB across 12 1/3 innings.

This week's waiver wire rankings feature players such as Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Grayson Rodrguez, CJ Abrams, Aroldis Chapman, Tyler Soderstrom, Chas McCormick, Zack Gelof, Adbert Alzolay, Lars Nootbaar, James Outman, Nick Pivetta, Kerry Carpenter, Cade Marlowe, Matt Manning, rank among others. We're here, as always, to help you stay on top of the latest waiver wire options, especially in leagues that allow for daily moves. Prospects continue to be called up that are making impacts, so you'll need to be informed. Be sure to stay on top of our weekly waiver wire rankings and turn on MLB news alerts to stay ahead of the curve. Once you're done here, check out our fantasy baseball prospects articles for the latest names to stash and pick up.

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Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Pickups List

For anyone who isn't familiar, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we release all sorts of fantasy baseball waiver wire articles. As part of that, Nick Mariano releases our waiver wire rankings list on Sundays to help you prioritize which players to target as free agent adds off waivers.

In addition to that, we are also putting out a second waiver wire rankings list mid-week. Since many fantasy baseball leagues have daily waiver wire moves or multiple waiver wire runs per week for adding players, this mid-week rankings list should help you keep track of players emerging in the middle of the week before we reach Sunday.

Below you will see our list of waiver wire pickups in our prioritized order. There should be waiver wire recommendations here for all sorts of league sizes, along with the position(s) for the player and the rostered percentages.

Rank Player Name Pos. % Ros. Baller Move
1 Christian Encarnacion-Strand 1B 62 Add in All Leagues
2 Anthony Volpe SS 57 Add in All Leagues
3 Francisco Alvarez C 61 Add in All Leagues
4 Grayson Rodriguez SP 50 Add in All Leagues
5 Seiya Suzuki OF 50 Add in All Leagues
6 CJ Abrams 2B, SS 45 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
7 Aroldis Chapman RP 63 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
8 Luke Raley 1B, OF 62 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
9 Tarik Skubal SP 51 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
10 Edouard Julien 2B 21 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
11 Mickey Moniak OF 43 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
12 Cade Marlowe OF 0 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
13 Maikel Garcia 3B, SS 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
14 Jose Siri OF 12 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
15 Will Benson OF 11 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
16 Chas McCormick OF 45 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
17 Colton Cowser OF 17 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
18 Oswald Peraza 3B, SS 7 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
19 Bryan Woo SP 45 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
20 Adbert Alzolay RP 48 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
21 Joey Votto 1B 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
22 Lars Nootbaar OF 47 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
23 Ezequiel Tovar SS 41 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
24 Triston Casas 1B 23 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
25 Jordan Westburg 2B, SS 34 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
26 Wilmer Flores 1B, 2B, 3B 17 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
27 Kenta Maeda SP 47 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
28 Gavin Williams SP 33 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
29 Matt Manning SP 21 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
30 Yainer Diaz C 24 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
31 Corey Julks OF 15 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
32 Jeimer Candelario 3B 39 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
33 Bo Naylor C 6 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
34 Dane Myers OF 6 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
35 Jake Burger 3B 24 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
36 Zack Gelof 2B 9 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
37 J.P. France SP 40 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
38 Alex Kirilloff 1B, OF 11 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
39 Mike Ford 1B 6 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
40 Tyler Soderstrom C, 1B 25 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
41 Dean Kremer SP 45 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
42 Kevin Ginkel RP 7 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
43 Spencer Torkelson 1B 29 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
44 James Outman OF 35 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
45 Keibert Ruiz C 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
46 Cristopher Sanchez SP, RP 16 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
47 Seth Lugo SP 33 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
48 Zach Neto SS 7 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
49 Tanner Scott RP 20 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
50 Griffin Canning SP 24 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
51 Michael Conforto OF 38 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
52 Logan Allen SP 25 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
53 Andrew Benintendi OF 37 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
54 Erik Swanson RP 24 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
55 Jose Quintana SP 14 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
56 Endy Rodriguez C 6 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
57 Brent Rooker OF 20 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
58 Nick Gonzales 2B, SS 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
59 JP Sears SP 26 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
60 Zach McKinstry 2B, 3B, SS, OF 9 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
61 Hyun Jin Ryu SP 14 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
62 Patrick Bailey C 18 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
63 Nick Pivetta SP, RP 16 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
64 Joel Payamps RP 34 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
65 Kyle Hendricks SP 41 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
66 Alex Call OF 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
67 Quinn Priester SP 7 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
68 Trevor May RP 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
69 Paul DeJong SS 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
70 Ji-Man Choi 1B 0 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
71 Tony Kemp 2B, OF 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
72 David Peralta OF 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
73 Brusdar Graterol RP 16 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
74 Daniel Bard RP 33 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
75 Johan Rojas OF 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
76 Travis Jankowski OF 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
77 Shintaro Fujinami SP, RP 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
78 Trent Grisham OF 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
79 Blake Sabol C, OF 7 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
80 Max Kepler OF 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues



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