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Week 8 Waiver Wire Rankings - Fantasy Baseball Pickups Include Eury Perez, Harrison Bader, Alex Kirilloff, Triston Casas and more

Alex Kirilloff - Fantasy Baseball Rankings, Draft Sleepers, MLB Injury News

Fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 8 of the 2023 MLB season. These are free agent options to add off waivers, and our rankings will help you prioritize.

Welcome back RotoBallers to our fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 8 - May 15th through May 21st. About 20% of the MLB regular season is completed, and some of the top prospects are starting to get all called up and delivering for fantasy managers right off the bat. The Miami Marlins called up their top pitching prospect Eury Perez, who struck out seven over 4 1/3 innings in his MLB debut, while Seattle Mariners rookie right-hander Bryce Miller owns a 0.42 ERA over his first three big league starts. Since being recalled from Triple-A St. Paul, Minnesota Twins, first baseman/outfielder Alex Kirilloff is hitting .438 with two home runs and three RBI over seven games.

Fantasy managers might have some injured stars return soon, such as Texas Rangers Corey Seager (hamstring), who is set to return in Week 8. Notable injury notes include Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Drew Rasmussen (forearm) landing on the 60-day injured list, while Chicago Cubs infielder Nico Hoerner (hamstring) was placed on the 10-day IL. 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 Eury Perez, Harrison Bader, Jake Fraley, Ezequiel Tovar, Nick Pratto, Alex Kirilloff, Triston Casas, Louie Varland, JJ Bleday, Luis L. Ortiz, and James Paxton rank, among others. We have also expanded our waiver wire list from the top 40 to 60 players for the week. Read more to see where these players rank in the waiver wire rankings for Week 8.

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Week 8 Waiver Wire Roundup for Fantasy Baseball

Just like any other week, we have put together a full assortment of fantasy baseball waiver wire articles. You can see that full roundup below to help prepare you for Sunday night's waiver wire runs for leagues with weekly transactions.

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 closers and saves waiver wire report by David Marcillo and the deep fantasy hitter pickups article by Pranav Uppalapati, 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 pickups for hitters.

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.

 

Who To Pickup for Fantasy Baseball Week 8?

Are you looking for a more direct and structured list of prioritized players to add off the waiver wire? This article is the 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!

Rank Player Name Position % Owned Baller Move
1 Eury Perez SP 60 Add in All Leagues
2 Harrison Bader OF 62 Add in All Leagues
3 Matt McLain SS 2 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
4 Tanner Bibee SP 41 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
5 Alex Kirilloff 1B, OF 10 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
6 Jake Fraley OF 14 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
7 Christopher Morel 2B, 3B, SS, OF 60 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
8 Jorge Soler OF 25 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
9 Matt Mervis 1B 31 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
10 Dylan Floro RP 18 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
11 Josh Naylor 1B, OF 30 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
12 Logan Allen SP 41 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
13 Miguel Vargas 1B, 2B 46 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
14 Ezequiel Tovar SS 31 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
15 Nick Senzel 3B, OF 24 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
16 Ezequiel Duran 2B, 3B, SS 57 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
17 Triston Casas 1B 22 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
18 Nick Pratto 1B, OF 18 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
19 J.P. France SP 35 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
20 Connor Joe 1B, OF 22 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
21 Jose Siri OF 5 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
22 Spencer Steer 1B, 3B 9 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
23 James Paxton SP 12 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
24 Louie Varland SP 18 Add in 12+ Team Leagues
25 Spencer Torkelson 1B 11 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
26 Michael Massey 2B 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
27 Luis Garcia 2B/SS 15 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
28 Connor Wong C 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
29 Jordan Diaz 2B 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
30 Pierce Johnson RP 35 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
31 Casey Schmitt 3B 35 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
32 LaMonte Wade Jr. 1B, OF 25 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
33 Leody Taveras OF 5 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
34 Dominic Fletcher OF 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
35 JJ Bleday OF 7 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
36 Maikel Garcia SS 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
37 Enmanuel Valdez 2B 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
38 Austin Gomber SP 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
39 Francisco Alvarez C 17 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
40 Mark Leiter Jr. RP 30 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
41 Randal Grichuk OF 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
42 Zach Jackson RP 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
43 Jurickson Profar OF 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
44 Brice Turang 2B, SS 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
45 Brayan Bello SP 9 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
46 Luis Ortiz SP 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
47 Yasmani Grandal C 18 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
48 Matthew Liberatore SP 10 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
49 Brandon Belt 1B 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
50 Joey Wiemer OF 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
51 Dane Dunning SP 25 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
52 Hunter Harvey RP 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
53 Ian Hamilton RP 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
54 Paul DeJong SS 3 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
55 Kyle Bradish SP 8 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
56 Brandon Bielak RP 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
57 Jared Shuster SP 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
58 Gavin Sheets 1B, OF 1 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
59 Chase Silseth SP 2 Add in 15+ Team Leagues
60 Kevin Kiermaier OF 4 Add in 15+ Team Leagues



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