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The article provides expert consensus rankings and targeted pickups for fantasy football waiver wire for Week 9, highlighting players like Tyrone Tracy Jr., Kyle Monangai, Kayshon Boutte, and Troy Franklin, with analysis on their recent performances and upcoming matchups to help managers prioritize their bids.
The article provides week 5 fantasy football waiver wire advice, highlighting players to target, stash, or drop based on their recent performance, upcoming matchups, and roster percentages, with a focus on running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks, tight ends, defenses, and kickers.
The Week 3 fantasy football waiver wire is weak overall, especially at running back and wide receiver, but there are some promising quarterback options like Daniel Jones and Geno Smith, and valuable tight ends such as Juwan Johnson. Key pickups include Tyler Allgeier, Kenneth Gainwell, and Jeremy McNichols at running back, and Wan’Dale Robinson and Troy Franklin at wide receiver. The article also highlights defenses like the Seahawks and Buccaneers, and suggests dropping injured players like Austin Ekeler and Kaleb Johnson. Overall, managers should focus on strategic pickups and be cautious with injuries and underperformers.
Toyota is recalling 280,000 pickups and SUVs in the U.S. due to a transmission issue that could cause the vehicles to keep moving even when in neutral, posing a crash risk. The affected models include certain Toyota Tundras, Lexus LX 600 vehicles, and some Toyota Sequoias manufactured between 2022 and 2024. Toyota will update the transmission software for impacted customers for free and owners will be notified to bring their cars to a dealer by late April. This comes after previous recalls related to airbag and fire risks.
Amazon has expanded its Fresh grocery delivery and pickup service to all customers, making it available to everyone. This move allows customers to conveniently order groceries online and have them delivered or pick them up at a nearby location.
As the MLB trade deadline approaches, fantasy baseball managers should be on the lookout for players who could see an increase in value due to deadline deals. Some potential pickups include Giovanny Gallegos (RP, St. Louis Cardinals) and Adam Ottavino (RP, New York Mets) who could receive save opportunities, Ranger Suárez (SP, Philadelphia Phillies) and Cristopher Sánchez (SP, Philadelphia Phillies) who have favorable matchups this week, and hitters like Brandon Belt (1B, Toronto Blue Jays), Carlos Santana (1B, Milwaukee Brewers), Nolan Jones (1B/OF, Colorado Rockies), Chris Taylor (2B/3B/SS/OF, Los Angeles Dodgers), Trent Grisham (OF, San Diego Padres), and Sal Frelick (OF, Milwaukee Brewers) who could provide short-term production.
General Motors will invest CA$280 million ($208 million in U.S. dollars) to upgrade its Oshawa Assembly plant in Canada to build next generation full-size gasoline-powered pickups. The plant was almost shut down in 2018, but Unifor, the union in Canada that represents autoworkers, fought to keep it open. The recent investment is crucial to job stability for Unifor members ahead of contract talks starting in August.
General Motors reported a sales gain of 17.6% for Q1 2023, with a record number of EV deliveries, although most were for the existing Chevrolet Bolt and Bolt EUV. The gains came from strong demand for full-size and midsize pickups, including a big gain in commercial fleet sales. GM ended the quarter with dealers having 412,285 new vehicles in stock, about the same number as in the fourth quarter. GM is on track to build 50,000 EVs in North America through June and double that in the second half.
With the fantasy basketball championship week underway, this article suggests some waiver wire pickups to help secure a title. Teams like the Indiana Pacers, Memphis Grizzlies, Portland Trail Blazers, and New Orleans Pelicans are discussed, with specific players like T.J. McConnell, Luke Kennard, Drew Eubanks, and Josh Richardson being recommended. The article also notes the impact of resting players and the importance of low-end production on days with only a couple of games.
The Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire offers a chance to make some exchanges before Opening Day. Some intriguing pickups with high availability in CBS Sports leagues include Blake Sabol, Trey Mancini, Michael Massey, Elehuris Montero, Brice Turang, Garrett Mitchell, Oscar Colas, Jake Fraley, Darick Hall, Hayden Wesneski, Graham Ashcraft, Josiah Gray, Mitch Keller, and Kyle Bradish. Michael Fulmer and Scott McGough are also potential relief pitcher pickups.