Roster management in fantasy baseball is a relentless grind. And the managers who treat it that way — week in, week out, with no shortcuts — are the ones who cash in at year’s end. Everyone else is floating along, hoping their players stay healthy. Around here, hope is not a strategy. Injuries will happen, and the gap between the managers paying attention and the ones sleepwalking widens every single week. The waiver wire rewards due diligence. Now, let’s find your adds for this week.NOTE: Please prioritize positional lists over the featured player write-ups. I’m trying to avoid covering the same players more than once, and I don’t want any extra focus to be misconstrued as personal preference. Away we go!Top waiver wire hitter optionsCatcher: Brandon Valenzuela, TORImagine the public’s preseason response had I claimed that 2026 would be the “Year of the Catcher,” despite an overall downward trend in offense. Well, we’re smack in the middle of June, and catchers still occupy half of the top 12 spots on FanGraphs’ Player Rater. For the rest of us not lucky enough to roster the best of the best, there’s still hope. Definitely an aggressive add in 15-team, 2-C leagues, I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of Valenzuela. The 25-year-old is soaking up the vast majority of plate appearances behind the dish for the Blue Jays and making the most of it. Already at seven homers, Valenzuela has worked his way into the No. 6 spot in the lineup, taking walks while boasting a double-digit barrel rate.Also, as I was penning this week’s column, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent Will Smith to the IL, and his replacement, Dalton Rushing, should be treated as a priority add in every format — I’d even consider him as a UT bat depending on the circumstance.First base: Jared Young, NYMRaise your hand if it took you entirely too long to move on from Mark Vientos (hand slowly goes up). Now up to their fourth starting first baseman of the season, the Mets finally have me feeling really good about that spot in the Mets' order. Now two years removed from a one-year hiatus in the KBO, Young could be a late-blooming breakout if this combination of skills holds into the summer. Very few hitters pair a +88% zone-contact rate with a +15% barrel rate. Mix in an elite chase rate with a pull-heavy approach, and I'm sold on the potential payoff, even if it means a strong-side platoon role. Would you believe he's rostered in just 1% of all fantasy leagues?Second base: Kody Clemens, MINBecause I take part in deep draft-and-hold formats during the winter, I was already very familiar with Clemens' game — he wound up on most of my teams based purely on positional eligibility (1B, 2B, OF). Well, injuries and poor play turned that eligibility into an essential everyday role, as Clemens rotates between five different positions on the diamond. Already on the wrong side of 30, most gamers have already moved on from Clemens as a viable fantasy asset. I get it. The counter? Perhaps that's an overreaction, and a 13% rostership rate doesn't reflect the 12th-best second baseman over the past 30 days. Clemens isn't just getting at-bats versus southpaws, he's hit his way into the top-third of the lineup, where the subsequent counting stats become palatable — he's one of only two dozen hitters in MLB with at least nine home runs and six stolen bases.Shortstop: Ezequiel Tovar, COLTovar is just 24 years old. Surprising, right? If the industry's level of fantasy fatigue was any indication, I'd have guessed the Colorado shortstop was already pushing 30. Regardless, Tovar disappointed last season after a really strong 2024 campaign, but an oblique injury prevented him from achieving the same level of 5x5 production. He's back, healthy and playing every day with a solid power/speed floor — which will always possess fantasy value when half your games take place in Coors Field. Shortstop has been especially hard to fill off the wire this year, so anytime there's a chance for a free agent to stick, I'm all in.Third base: Coby Mayo, BALAll winter we wondered how plate appearances would get divvied up among the plethora of talent in the Orioles lineup. Then, of course, their players just started dropping like flies (or birds... whatever). Yes, Jackson Holliday returned to action, but Jordan Westburg and Dylan Beavers haven't — plus, now both Samuel Basallo and Adley Rutschman have missed the past three games. So, for the time being, there are plate appearances up for grabs at a weak position in a good lineup. Mayo received a mental rest on May 10, and he must've gotten some quality sleep that day because he's been fantastic since (.246 BA, .875 OPS, 55.6% Hard Hit, 17.8% Barrel, 37.8% Air-Pull, 6 HR). We know he'll strike out, but if he can keep his chase rate around where it's been — a very palatable ~30% — his recent power surge can play out.Outfield: Braden Montgomery, CWSLet the good times roll! MLB's most exciting reclamation story gets another shot of youthful exuberance, as the White Sox promoted top prospect Braden Montgomery. The No. 12 pick in the 2024 MLB Draft out of Texas A&M has hit at every level, never hanging a wRC+ lower than 133 on the ledger at any stop. Given that he began the year in Double A, I didn't expect to see Montgomery with the big club until 2027.Apparently it's "all gas, no brakes" for the Pale Hose after last year's 102-loss campaign. Good for them. Despite being just 23-years old, Montgomery offers fantasy managers a shot at light five-category production coming off a very strong MiLB career 600-PA pace — .284 BA/ 90 Runs/ 84 RBI/17 HR/ 15 SB. It's hard to know exactly what to expect in a first go-around, but I'd say hitting a walk-off homer against a bona fide closer like Raisel Iglesias in your MLB debut tells me the lights won't be too bright for him.Hitter stash candidatesTop waiver wire pitcher optionsStarting Pitcher: Shane Drohan, MILSometimes movie quotes are just perfect for describing a situation so bad that if we don't laugh, we'll cry. And the one that immediately comes to mind when I think about the current state of starting pitching on the waiver wire? "Desperation is a stinky cologne." Man, it is simply brutal out there. In leagues where I need innings and need them now, I'm heading straight to Milwaukee's Drohan. An undersung piece in the offseason Caleb Durbin/Kyle Harrison deal with Boston, the lefty Drohan is now penciled into a Brewers rotation dealing with injuries to Brandon Woodruff, Logan Henderson and Quinn Priester.