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Mid-Week Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include Royce Lewis, Zach McKinstry, Michael Kopech, Jake McCarthy

Jake McCarthy - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, Waiver Wire Pickups

Mid-week fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 11 (2023). Free agent hitters and pitchers to add include Matt McLain, Zach McKinstry, Royce Lewis, Spencer Steer, and Michael Kopech.

RotoBallers welcome back to our mid-week fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 11 - June 5th through June 11th - to help you stay on top of the waiver wire, especially in leagues that allow daily moves. May is in the books, and more top prospects are being called up to the big leagues. Minnesota Twins shortstop Royce Lewis, Los Angeles Angels right-hander Ben Joyce, and Atlanta Braves pitcher A.J. Smith-Shawver were promoted to the majors. Since being called up on May 29th, Lewis is hitting .333 (3-for-9) with a home run, four RBI, and two runs across two games.

Fantasy managers might have some injured stars return soon, such as New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton (hamstring) and third baseman Josh Donaldson (hamstring), who will return to action Friday. Minnesota Twins second baseman Jorge Polanco (hamstring) will come off the injured list on Thursday. Boston Red Sox outfielder Adam Duvall (wrist) can return from the injured list on June 9th. Chicago White Sox reliever Liam Hendriks (illness) struck out cancer and made his season debut on Monday. The ball is flying out of the yard as offenses are heating up. We are here to help sort it all out with our latest waiver wire rankings article.

This week's waiver wire rankings feature players such as Spencer Steer, Matt McLain, Jose Siri, Jake McCarthy, Michael Kopech, Mitch Haniger, Bryan De La Cruz, Mark Leiter Jr., Royce Lewis, Seth Brown, Zach McKinstry, Kyle Hendricks, Miguel Castro, Edward Cabrera, and Francisco Alvarez rank early, among others. Read more to see where these players rank in the early waiver wire rankings for Week 11.

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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 Position % Ros. Baller Move
1 Jordan Walker 3B 54 Add in All Leagues
2 Matt McLain SS 53 Add in All Leagues
3 Michael Kopech SP 63 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
4 Bobby Miller SP 61 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
5 Jake McCarthy OF 49 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
6 Spencer Steer 1B, 3B 60 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
7 Jose Siri OF 18 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
8 Tanner Bibee SP 55 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
9 Marcell Ozuna OF 43 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
10 Josh Naylor 1B, OF 43 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
11 Jake Burger 3B 31 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
12 Reid Detmers SP 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
13 Jorge Polanco 2B 51 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
14 Taj Bradley SP 57 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
15 Elly De La Cruz 3B, SS 39 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
16 Francisco Alvarez C 55 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
17 Willi Castro 2B, 3B, SS, OF 34 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
18 Taylor Ward OF 52 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
19 Mitch Haniger OF 43 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
20 Giovanny Gallegos RP 60 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
21 Royce Lewis SS 56 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
22 Miguel Castro RP 46 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
23 Bryan De La Cruz OF 43 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
24 Logan Allen SP 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
25 Triston Casas 1B 20 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
26 Brandon Marsh OF 27 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
27 Jarren Duran OF 29 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
28 Alex Kirilloff 1B, OF 20 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
29 Matthew Liberatore SP 21 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
30 Jurickson Profar OF 11 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
31 Adbert Alzolay RP 7 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
32 Zach McKinstry 2B, 3B, SS, OF 55 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
33 Matt Mervis 1B 10 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
34 J.D. Davis 1B, 3B 45 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
35 Jack Suwinski OF 19 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
36 Dylan Floro RP 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
37 James Paxton SP 33 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
38 Luke Raley 1B, OF 19 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
39 Michael King RP 36 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
40 Seth Brown 1B, OF 21 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
41 Mark Leiter Jr. RP 28 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
42 Casey Schmitt 3B, SS 33 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
43 Mickey Moniak OF 17 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
44 Kevin Kiermaier OF 8 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
45 Luis Urias 2B, 3B, SS 18 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
46 Gio Urshela 1B, 3B, SS 29 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
47 Ramon Laureano OF 22 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
48 Garrett Whitlock SP 27 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
49 Luis Garcia (2B) 2B/SS 14 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
50 Ben Lively SP, RP 24 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
51 Adam Frazier 2B, OF 28 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
52 Spencer Torkelson 1B 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
53 Lane Thomas OF 65 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
54 Ryan Noda 1B, OF 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
55 Akil Baddoo OF 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
56 Jeimer Candelario 3B 11 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
57 Owen Miller 1B, 2B, 3B 43 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
58 Zach Neto SS 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
59 Kyle Bradish SP 16 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
60 Kendall Graveman RP 23 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
61 Rougned Odor 2B, OF 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
62 Keibert Ruiz C 38 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
63 Ha-Seong Kim 2B, 3B, SS 16 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
64 Enmanuel Valdez 2B 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
65 Matt Vierling 3B, OF 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
66 Randal Grichuk OF 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
67 Michael Lorenzen SP 21 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
68 Alex Faedo SP 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
69 AJ Smith-Shawver SP 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
70 Christian Bethancourt C, 1B 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
71 Brayan Bello SP 30 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
72 Brandon Bielak SP, RP 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
73 Jaime Barria SP, RP 9 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
74 Gavin Williams SP 9 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
75 Drew Waters OF 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
76 Nolan Jones OF 6 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
77 Nick Fortes C 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
78 Chris Martin RP 6 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
79 Kyle Harrison SP 6 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
80 Patrick Bailey C 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
81 Romy Gonzalez 2B, OF 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues



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