Fantasy Baseball Today - 03/26: Over/Unders; Players on Our Radar (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 26, 2019

We kick off the show with quick thoughts on the Podcast League draft (1:30). Heath's crazy approach just might work! Then let's do some over/unders (8:55) as we approximate Trea Turner's steals, Francisco Lindor's steals, Judge+Stanton HRs, Madison Bumgarner's ERA and much more ... Best way to set up Week 1 in your Fantasy leagues (19:35), news and notes (24:00) as Eric Lauer and Frankie Montas have rotation spots and we get an update on the MIN bullpen (30:23). Also the Fantasy Regulators (34:00) are back! ... How to manage FAAB (37:15) and Players on Our Radar (41:00) like Randal Grichuk, Brandon Lowe and Wilmer Flores. Which players are we going to be adding if they get off to a good start? Finally, we finish the show by recapping our Podcast League teams (52:00) ... Email us [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Where fantasy! Now here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday.

I am back. Special thanks to Chris Towers for doing an awesome job hosting yesterday. Well done, Chris Towers. No, no. What? Apparently everyone's big mad at me for putting music under the podcast. I'm so sorry, guys. Yeah, what was that on?

I was just trying something new. Yeah, sorry. That was not Chris. That was not Chris. That was video. Remember we're on video now. Please make sure you watch the video. It's great stuff.

Our video crew is actually doing an amazing job. Going to help supplement these podcasts with some, you know, some full screens and stuff like that that will help you as a viewer make some good fantasy decisions. We did our podcast league draft last night and we're excited to talk about it. I got the worst grade in the draft. And you know what? I love my team. So don't you worry about those grades, everybody.

They're just for fun. Scott got the best grade. Me, Heath, and Chris were terrible. What was one big takeaway, Scott, from last night's draft? We're going to talk more about this later. But if you could look at the draft and the way things went, What was one lesson you learned or something you want to give to our listeners? Well, first of all, I want to mention I didn't get the highest grade of anybody, just to be clear.

The highest grade of the four of us. I don't care much about the grades either. That's a humble grade. I don't want the person who got the highest grade to feel cheap. So, anyway. Yeah, my biggest takeaway was that, I don't know about you guys, but I personally wasn't really able to get anyone I wanted because a bunch of podcast listeners listening to all. all our advice and taking it, it turns out. So I ended up with a roster that doesn't look very familiar to me.

In fact, includes three of my bus picks. I like the value I got them for or the need that they fill for me. So I'm not upset about it. But yeah, three of my bus picks are on my team. Starting pitchers went earlier than I think in any of our head-to-head points mocks, closer probably to what ADP shows, you know, somewhere in between those two extremes. But I think earlier than a lot of us were used to. So, I mean, I ended up taking Chris Sale in the first round, so it didn't change my approach too much.

But that's part of what fed the unfamiliarity of the draft. Heath, what was one takeaway that you have from last night's draft? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Heath. I tried something new last night, and I didn't hate it. I took starting pitcher with my first four picks, so I was part of the reason that pitcher went earlier than everyone expected. I ended up with Jacob de Grombe, Garrett Cole, James Paxton, Zach Grinky. And I found plenty of hitting later.

So I'm not probably going to do that regularly, but in a points league draft, I didn't hate it, especially considering none of the value pitchers were anywhere close to available at the point I would have been looking for them. Yeah, actually really, I think I like your team I mean you're so yeah you're loaded at starting pitcher

as you mentioned Cole Granky DeGrom Cole Col Granky Paxton you also have Zach Godley and Luke Weaver Josh Hader on your bench Tyler Glassnow and Julio Orias are your relievers so you have zero reliever You have zero closers

Your one reliever is Josh Hater Who I think is useless in a points league Unless he's the closer Oh not useless at all Like he could regress quite a ways and still be a top 25 closer this year. It depends what his usage is. If he's saved.

He'll be useful. If it's like the last four months, he won't be. I would guess he's going to get more saves. At least at the start of the season. Certainly from the outset. Right. And then your hitters, Wilson Ramos, we're just going to go over this quickly.

We'll save it for the end of the show. But in case you are drafting and you want to take this approach of loading up on starting pitchers, Wilson Ramos, Jose Abraeu, Brian Dozier, Jung Hogg, Paul DeYoung. good outfield though

Don't do that Paul DeYoung I'm doing it to I'm doing it to Gong and D. Young I think Gong could be just absolutely worthless in this format

It's the forebat I think it was my 21st round pick And I have Miguelsono So he'll be Fine soon Brantley Hanager McCutchen and Gallo

Good Good group of four there Brantley Hanigar Mcutchin Gallo And Malik Smith With Scooter Janette And Miguel Sino On IL

Chris what was your takeaway from last night's draft it was really easy to build a really really good offense um basically i i tried i wasn't planning on just punting on starting pitcher but with my first three picks i ended up with jaddy martinez uh paul goldschman jac carlo stanton at that point it's kind of hard to argue with it if you can end up with a top of the lineup like that i went the entire opposite approach from Heath and I I also really like my team but I just I had to focus on

upside starting pitchers and that was one place that I think they didn't exactly go late I did have to reach for some guys but relative to the way the draft was going it's not quite a reach I ended up with Walker Bueller John Gray you say Kukuchi Chris Paddock and Jun Jun Ryu plus Trevor Richards

Caleb Smith and Aaron Sanchez go Marlins I think it's It's certainly not the safest pitching staff of all time. But I think all, you know, at least the guys in my starting lineup, I think I'll have top 25 potential. All right. My takeaway. My team name was, no.

She's supposed to say you say. My team name was you say dot, dot, dot, stay. Scott and Heath did not change their team names. I'm never changing my team. you should Yesmani money Tomas problems No that's not even it

Yamani money Tomas problems You forgot the S And Scott It makes more sense that way Scott's team name Has been white noise For like five years

So I think you guys Need to step it up Yeah Chris what's your team Mine It works It's a reference Chris

I think people see my team Then they know who it is Because it's a reference To a band That they've never heard of The Canadian Indie Rock Supergroup the new bornographers.

There you go. Yeah, I love it. My takeaway was that as the draft season has evolved, I've really kind of changed my tune a little bit on starting pitcher, and it's for two reasons. One, Kershaw and Severino could no longer be considered top 12, in our opinions. And I'm just a little uneasy about some of these guys. Like, I have not drafted any Patrick Corbyn.

I've had the chance in each of my last two drafts. I just not fully comfortable yet, and of course I could be wrong. I also feel that way about Zach Branky, and of course I could be wrong. I was going to say. What's that? I keep interrupting people. Go ahead. No, yeah.

So Corby and Granky for me are just like, do not drafts. I never take Cory Klover. And I know I'm not going to be right about all three of these guys, but I just don't feel comfortable doing it. And it's early enough in the draft where there's a stud hitter there. I'm just going to make a pick that I like. So whereas, you know, I always want one ace, I keep finding myself not getting that ace.

and then I did do the Strasbourg-Tyone strategy, which I had talked about before. So that's just something that I've sort of noticed as I've been drafting. I've sort of changed on starting pitcher. At the top, it doesn't feel to me as deep as it did when we did the position preview last month. And we'll see if I'm right. So there you go. It never ends up as deep as we hope it'll be. That's just kind of the nature of the position.

Yeah. It is weird that Steven Strasberg's ADP just has. hasn't moved at all. Like, two aces have dropped, and he's still 16th overall. That feels a little weird to me. Yeah, Walker Bueller was the other one. He hasn't benefited at all from it. Walker Bueller was the other one I wanted to mention that I'm just so concerned about

his second half being like Severino's last year. I'm just concerned about the innings. I don't know what the beginning of the season is going to be like for Walker Bueller. I drafted him in the fourth round, and I'm worried about how his first half's going to go. Right. I just, I needed the target upside at that point. All right, we're going to do some over-unders, some buyer-sell, some news and notes, talk about players that are on our radars, not necessarily on our teams right now,

but if they get off to a good start, we're quickly going to be looking to pick them up. Let's do some over-unders, guys. Here we go. Trey Turner, over-under 50 steals. His 162 game pace for steals in three seasons has been 73, 76, and 43. Heath, let's start with you, Trey Turner, over under 50 steals. Over. Chris.

Uh, under. Scott. Too many things that can go wrong. He's batting second to start the season two. If it's not over, then everybody's drafting wrong. So we got to go over? Okay. Yeah.

All right. How about Francisco Lindor over under 17 and a half steals? He has stolen 19, 15, and 25 bases in his last three seasons. Scott White, over under 7. 15 and a half, Francisco Linder steals. Yeah, you know what I'm saying under. If it's not under, then I'm drafting wrong. Over under 1.75 steals.

I'll take the over on that. Anybody going over? I think this is a really good number. And I do expect he's going to be ready at the start of the year, or, I mean, in April. And it seems like the recovery's gone really well. he's really still very young. Bodies bounce back better when you're 25 years old. I'm going over.

Chris? Under talk. Under. Okay. Where did he go last night in our podcasting draft Francisco? Way too late. Like 23rd or 24th overall. If I hadn't been going with my pitcher strategy, I would have taken him with the second pick of the second round.

Yeah, it seemed like when the injury originally happened, he was going like 12 to 15 and then now a lot of the Macs. the mocks we've done now that he looks like he's going to beat that time table, he's going in like the 20 reign. And all, like, there was a, there was a trio of Studs Shortstop that suffered from the early pitching run. I think they went consecutively, Lindor, Turner, and Machado. I forget what order exactly.

But they all three went at the end of round two. Yes, it was Machado, then it was Aranola, then Lindor, then Trey Turner. And Trevor's story was the 36th pick of the draft, last pick of round three. All right, next over under. Jose Ramirez, fourth pick in last night's draft. Over under 30 steals. He stole 34 last year. Over under for Jose Ramirez.

This feels like a relatively easy under. Last year was a big outlier since he became like a really good hitter. On the other hand, we do expect him to regress at least a little bit from the power numbers last year, which would give him more stolen base opportunities. But I still go under. Under. Yeah. I think it'll have a lot, but that's, that's, right.

It's just kind of a high over-under. All right, Chris Davis, over-under, 247 batting average, which he has had four straight seasons. Chris Davis, over-under. Push. Over. Over. He's going to have a big area this year, 248.

Ridiculous. He's never done that before he. Scott's going over to. I was actually going to say 249. It just feels like... I think under's more likely. Got have a great year. All right.

I'll be right around there. I like this one. Aaron, Judge, and John Carlos Stanton combined 90 home runs. Last two seasons, they combined for 111 in 2017, and only 65 last year. Judge played 112 games. So Judge and Stanton, 90 homers. I hear an under from Heath. Yeah, that was an easy one.

I'm going over. Big year for the boys in blue. Yeah, I mean, it's certainly. Chris had to become a Yankees fan, too, because of the Derek Cheater thing. It's certainly plausible that it could be over, which makes it worth discussing. But I think, you know, a DL stint for either, and it's probably under. So I'll go under. Okay, the seemingly healthy Matt Chapman, 32 home runs over under.

Reminder, Matt Chapman had a 962 OPS after the All-Star break with 14 homers in 64 games. So I'm giving him 32 home runs as Matt Chapman go over or under. I'm pretty excited about Matt Chapman now that he looks like he's healthy. I can't go that high, so I'll still go under. Yeah, we're hoping he's Josh Donaldson in Oakland, right? Josh Donaldson's career high in Oakland was 29. It's just a really hard place to hit home runs. I'm going under.

It was, I think it was a different environment where Josh Donaldson hit 29 homers, but even so, 32 seems, I mean, that's eight more than last year. I'll take the under. Okay, Madison Bumgarder. Let's get some pitchers. Madison Bumgarner, 350 ERA. He has never had an ERA higher than 337.

Will Bumgarner go over or under 350? Well over. Over. Yep, taking over also. Wow. Yes? Adam, we have breaking news. Oh, uh-oh.

Jacob de Grom just signed a five-year extension. Hey. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you say the amount of money? $137.5 million. You know, I was going to do that. That's why he was. saying wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, I was going to do it over under. I was going to do an over under for the money. Over. All right, congratulations, Zagreb. All right, Luis Castillo, 350 ERA, over under. Over. If it's under, you've got to draft, move them a lot up your draft boards for the last couple of days.

I want to take the under, but it's, it's burden to take the over. I will take the over, but I'll say under Madison, I mean, like, that's not 350 ERA. I feel like if you're a top 30 starting pitcher, you should have an ERA. Most of them are going to have a 350 ERA or better. I don't know that that's true. I think I did this earlier this year. Yeah, I think it was for like top 24 starting pitchers, though.

I think 25 through 30 were all about 350. All right. And you know what? I'll take a little. Yeah, there were several. I'll take a little. There were several even in it that were higher than 350, right? Yes.

Yes, definitely. Yeah. Okay, Clayton Kirshaw, over under 25 starts. Over. Push. I will take the under on that, obviously, starting from behind there. Heath, please push, Chris. Next time he says push.

In the face? Wherever you want. You got to make it in a half. I need to clarify. He pushed you away from the mic. HR's right there. Just push him. In the hallway.

Push them into HR. Clayton Kirshel starts last three seasons, 21, 27, and 26. All right, Chris Archer, over under, four ERA, which he has not been under three straight seasons. Chris Archer. Hammer that under. Easy under. What?

Oh, easy, of course. Screw you, Adam. I mean, just by virtue of being out of the ALE East all season, I think that's pretty safe that before you even getting. to the fact that his fifth is generally much lower. And he's got some phenomenal hair this spring. And I think he's working on a new pitch, too. So I'm pretty interested to see if that helps for Chris Archer.

He needs it. Yeah, he's already really good. I think it's like a two seamer and a change-up that he's trying to add this year because he's basically been for Seamer slider for his whole career, which is a testament to how good his slider is, that he's been so successful with just two pitches. Oh, yeah, so successful. Three straight years with an ERA over four.

That is definitely the sign. You've never had an ERA under four, Adam? That is definitely the side of a successful pitcher, I forgot. And also... I mean, he got five young votes multiple years, right? You keep poo-poohing this guy's career. Great career until the last three years. He needs to go Patrick Corbyn.

He was an all-star one of those years. He's no Julio Tarad. He's no Julio-Toran. Chris Bryant. All right, I'm five. Chris Bryant. 33 home runs is the over-under for Chris Bryant. He hit 26, 39, and 29 homers in his first three seasons.

He had only 13 and 102 games last year. Chris Bryant, I'm sure you guys are going to take the under. 33 homers. Chris will take the over just because you said that. I'll take the under. Oh, I'm the contrarian. Over. Yeah, I think if you said it to like 27,

then I might be tempted to take the over, but 33 is aggressive. I'll take the under. So let me set it to 30 for Chris Brian. Over under. Over. Push. I'll take the under because I know I'm drafting him like it's under.

Okay. Yeah, that's kind of tough. Last one. Anthony Rizzo, over under 30 home runs. He hit 25 home runs last year. The four previous seasons, Rizzo hit 31 or 32. Will they get back to that? Over under 30 homers for Rizzo.

Over. Over. He's going to hit 31.5. Over. Okay. You guys didn't talk enough for me to look up the top 30 starting pitchers. I'm going to promote a few things. We are on Spotify. Spotify is awesome. I have some wonderful playlists on Spotify.

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In the league where I didn't go to fault, I actually kind of divided the 11 days into two more even periods than four and seven. So that's probably the ideal approach, but you have to be in the commissioner product to do that. And so do we adjust the lineups on Monday again, like set up on Thursday and then allow the people to do it again on Monday? Well, that would take some commissioning, because I don't think there's a way to set it up to do that.

So, you know, without having to go on an input, changes as a commissioner yourself. So that just depends how much time you want to put into it, I guess, if you're a commissioner. It's, you know, it's generous to do that, to let them set it midway,

to reset it midway through the 11-day scoring period. I don't think it's normal. Adam's already volunteered to do that for a group from last night. I don't think he knew that he was going to have to do this manually, and you can see his face right now how he feels about that. It's fantastic. It's easy to do it.

Points League, there's an option where you could just have two weeks, add the scores together, right? But then, I don't know, you might have to change the standing. You're right, I think this was a huge mistake. I think one lineup set on Thursday, that's not that hard as the commissioner to go back in and change lineups. It's not that bad. All right, forget it. Set your lineup once on Thursday and be done with it. Let's talk about the IL.

Be a good commissioner, everybody, and let people put Clayton Kershaw. and Luis Severino and Scooter Jeanette and Miguel Seno on the IL before they are officially on the injured list so they can go make add drops and put people on the injured list. And also something that I adjusted to last year at an IL spot. I mean, I think you should have at least three in your league. We had kind of been playing mostly with two IL spots, but now that they have a 10-day IL, it's just there's so many more guys that go on, I think. And this is probably something we should have been doing in the past anyway.

I think three should be the minimum injured list spots in your league. Well, because I was about to ask what happens when they go back to 15 next year. That's only for pitchers, right? I think you're right, Chris. I'm not positive. I think you're right. I don't know. Yeah, I think it's just for pitchers on the 15 next year. Just why not have multiple aisle spots anyway?

Well, we always had two. It stinks the guys have to. You know, now I want three, I'm saying. Three should be the minimum. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I don't disagree. I think it definitely should be more than zero.

Some takeaways from yesterday's podcast, which I enjoy it thoroughly. Tiger, is your cat's name is Tiger, Scott, right? Yes, as we discussed two consecutive podcasts, I believe. His name is Tiger. He's a mainstay. I did not name him. He's amazing. No, he's a mainstay on the podcast.

I'm looking right now. Is he in the background? I don't see him. Yeah. Oh, yeah, he's there. Okay. Hey, Tiger. Yeah, he's there.

He's hanging out. Yeah. And Chris, what's your cat's name? He's finding fame in his old age. My cat's name is Zoe. She's not allowed in the room. Well, there's an on-air line outside. She's not allowed in.

She knows to respect the boundaries. Chris, you did a great job, but you let Heath slide on something. Scott keeps talking about Brandon Lau. Heath keeps talking about Brandon Lowe. You got to step in there and tell him it's Lowe. Sure. He wasn't sure. That implies that I know how to pronounce the individual Laozos on the rain.

It would be easier if they didn't have a first baseman with the exact same name that was pronounced different. Right. Can we get like an umlaught on one of these just to like tell them apart? Oh, geez. I forgot Chris is the absolute worst at pronunciation. So that is my fault. Too many words there. Oh, I just played the regulator's music.

So my bad. but that's coming up later on in the show. Let's do news and notes. Then we'll get to the regulators. Jose Ramirez has a neat contusion. He is looking good for opening day, but it's not 100%, but it won't be long for Ramirez, who went fourth in our draft last night. Who went third?

Max Scherzer. U. Darvish scheduled to pitch the second game of the season, so that is good. Nick Senzel hurt his ankle. X-rays were negative. Do you think this delays the timetable for Nick Senzel, who will not start the season with the big league club, but that's probably just a service time issue. Do we still expect to see Senzel in mid to late April?

They did say they were doing an MRI today, so we might get more information. If he's ready for opening day, then I don't think it probably does, but it seems like there's a significant chance this is going to cost him some time. What about Justin Upton? You just can't stay healthy. Justin Upton and his sprained big toe. He went pretty late at the end of round 14.

Yeah, it was a good bargain. there for Upton yesterday. I was hoping to get him on the way back. But yeah, I think they're having an MRI on that too, so they're not totally sure of the extent of that injury either, which makes it a little difficult. And he's not my favorite in a head-to-head format anyway because of his long-documented streakiness,

but, you know, round 14, I think is... Right. You can't let him fall that far. Upton is a guy that's fallen quite a ways in my way, my rankings just because, I mean, it's not just the big toe. He's been dealing with tendonitis in his knee all spring. He's 31 years old. I'm a little bit concerned.

Yeah, the next outfielder taken was actually the very next pick, Nick Markechicus. Now, ordinarily up then and Marcaicus would be in, you know, in different leagues. But Markech is probably a little sneaky this year in points leagues. And then following outfielder, he's not outfiel as well yet, but Nick Senzel was taken a few picks later. and then, spoiler alert, one of my favorite picks was Adam Eaton. I took him in round 16. He is going to lead off for the Nationals.

We know Michael Taylor's hurt right now. And I think that Adam... He's great this spring. Eaton, man. I agree with you. He needs to move up the rankings. I made a note after you took him because he wasn't even on my radar at that point. Yeah, I need to move Adam Heaton up.

I just hope he doesn't sit for lefties, but I don't think he's going to play every day against lefties. They might still be a little cautious with him. He's got injury history, obviously. He plays all out. So I'm not sure he's an everyday player. But I think leading off for the nationals, he's always been very good in points leagues. He doesn't strike out a lot. Gets a lot of doubles and triples. Adam Eaton, yeah, I don't think we have to be labored anymore. He could definitely be your third outfielder. He's my third outfielder. I feel good about it. Kansas City waived outfielder Brian Goodwin. I only bring this up because Brian Goodwin was on the most added list. Do we have a reaction to this?

He's not an unskilled player. He brings some power and speed, but he doesn't have a job. So go ahead and drop. It's a big red mark against you if you're not good enough to make the Royals right now. He's just not fast enough. Well, they're going to, they replaced him on the roster with Lucas Duda. He's plenty of best. And then they announced Frank Schwendell's going to make the team as well.

That dude's a speedster. Yeah, not three non-speedsters. And I wouldn't be surprised if Frank Schwendell is in the opening day lineup. He crush his left-handed. pitching. They're facing Carlos Rodan on opening day. Okay, we got... It's kind of interesting. Go ahead, Scott. In a deeper league sort of way.

Sorry, we keep talking at the same time. Scott, we're... We're... Everybody's toes today. Team scam. That's what we do. All right, the two pitchers who are going to be in their rotations, Eric Lauer is going to be the opening day starter for San Diego, and Frankie Montas will be in the A's rotation, and he added a splitter. Scott, are you interested in Lauer or Montas? Spoiler alert.

I wrote a column last night, the top 10 sleeper pitchers for week one. There are four Padres in it. Padres have a four game series against the Giants to open the year, and they're all less than 80% owned. Lauer is the least of those four, but he is on the list. So, you know, he's okay strikeout potential, and I think with a good matchup, If you need an extra pitcher in week one, he's somebody worth using.

Scott, when you say week one, you're just talking about four games, right? I'm just talking about four games because that is the default setting and what the majority of our readers will be doing. Okay. Boston first baseman Steve Pierce will begin the year on the IL. Sam Travis could start versus lefties, Mitch Morland against Ritees. Andrew Heaney threw a bullpen session. He will begin the season on the IL, but hopefully won't be gone too long.

Carlos Martinez is going to start. the season on the IL with a rotator cup strain. Did Carlos Martinez get drafted last night? Yes, he did. Round 17. He was an auto pick by my arch nemesis that the guy cursed about auto picking him in the 17th round. So that tells you how far Carlos Martinez has fallen. Okay.

And I don't know if you guys, it was a cool feature on ESPN. They did the five pitches that would make the ultimate pitcher. Did you get to see that by any chance? No. No. Okay. What they choose. So.

Luis Castillo's change up. Eric Cole's fastball. I think it was Jacob de Grom's four seamer. Corey Klobber's like cutter slider thing. I think Blake Snell's curveball. The one that was most interesting was David Price's two seam fastball. His, I think it was either after the All-Star break or let's just say down the stretch, his two-seam fastball was unhittable.

And we haven't really talked about that. So David Price was on a list. with some of the best pitchers in baseball in terms of having a dominant pitch. I thought that was kind of heat up. I don't love that form of analysis. There's just a lot of noise when it comes to like individual pitch level outcomes. And then when you talk about half seasons worth, I know he did move on the mound and that was part of his, I guess, breakout,

but I'm not putting David Price in that range. Well, no. I just thought it was interesting. All right, a few quick bullpen notes. Rocco Baldelli. He is the Twins manager, and he thinks both Blake Parker and Trevor May will get saves this season.

You guys talked about it yesterday. Do you still favor Trevor May? I don't, but I didn't yesterday. If you would listen. Scott. I think Trevor may get some saves, but I still expect Blake Parker to lead the team. Agreed.

Oh, gosh. I did move. I do have May, behind Parker right now, but they're very close to the rankings. I think May is better, and in the long run, I expect talent to, the talent

to rise to the top. And as we saw last night, and this probably should have been one of the things, one of us mentioned about the things we learned, neither of these guys need to be on your radar in a points league, because there are like 74 relief pitchers that could be used in a points league,

and you don't need to be drafting these guys. Yeah, if I could do the podcast league, again. I liked my team. I was happy with it. I would have waited even later for a relief pitcher. It's just so deep in a 10, especially 10, but a 12 team, even in the 14 team points league we're doing, where the Sparps

come into play. I took Felipe Vasquez in round 12, and I was fine reaching, I don't know if it was a reach, but I took Brad Peacock in round 13. So I took my two relievers in those two spots, and I actually like Brad Peacock so much that I took another reliever. Was it

Viscayano? I took a third closer yeah Viscayano in round 20 of a 21 round draft because I wouldn't mind using Peacock

as a starting pitcher if you know because I believe in him when he's eligible which will take at least a month damn it I didn't realize that okay but still

I like to pick we've got AJ Minther's going to begin a rehab assignment on April 4th and Edwin Diaz has allowed three home runs seven runs in like seven innings this spring He has struggled.

I'm guessing nobody cares about Edwin Diaz's struggles this spring. Well, people should stop drafting him a round and a half before every other closer. Yeah, I mean, we've said it a bunch of times, but it's like defense in fantasy football where you always target last year's best team and you take them way ahead of the field and then they usually return back to the field. I don't think Edwin Diaz is going to be bad, but he's not going to be, I think, leaps and bounds better than everyone else at the position. You guys ready to do some regulating?

Yes. Are people going to complain about this music? I seriously doubt it. I'm almost ready to do some fantasy regulating. Email us fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. We're going to take a real quick break, come back, and settle a league dispute. Here we go, everybody. Let's regulate.

All right, this one comes from Morgan from Chicago. Last night was our 10-te-to-head league, not points. The draft started at 9 p.m. I had the first pick, and because I knew I was going to take Mike Trout, I began my cue with Paul Goldschmidt. Oh, I came in a little early there with our hand motion there. It's gross when you guys do it. It's fine when I do it.

Okay, so anyway, he had the first pick in a 10-team league. I knew I was taking Paul Goldsmith with Mike Trout with my first pick. So I put Paul Goldschmidt in my cue. I was in the middle of talking to our league manager and another player about a trade and adjusting certain draft picks because another team and I traded four different picks. Amid all the conversation, I didn't realize the draft started and I was on the clock. When I looked up, it was 9-01, and the draft room had auto-selected Goldschmidt for me. I immediately called our league manager at 9-01 and told him what happened.

He said, too bad. The draft started at 9, and you knew that. You should have put Trout in your queue. He has the third overall pick and was able to draft Mookie bets at three by refusing to restart the draft, pause, and go back, et cetera.

I'm positive he would have restarted the draft if he didn't have the third overall pick and directly stand to benefit from this. What was the right thing to do in the situation? Should my manager do anything about the situation? I am a big leader. He was your commissioner of a league while drafting last night?

The right thing to do was obviously to roll it back and let you pick Mike Trout, But I don't really feel like the commissioner was under any obligation to do that. No. The fact that he did not do that and he benefited really, really sucks for you. And I'm sorry. And he was being a jerk, but he wins.

Yeah, I mean, I'm a big believer in letting people have who they intended to have. And I understand it can be exploited. You know, people just change their mind. They can say, oh, but I meant to pick this guy. I don't think the downside to that is as bad as the downside of somebody just having something that obviously went wrong for them at the very start of their draft and is going to completely ruin their experience for an entire season. Like that's just, I mean, I kind of think as part of your commissioner, you're like the host of the league and you're trying to make sure everybody has a time that makes them want to come back and play again. and this commissioner just gave you a giant middle finger right off the bat. Scott,

I do think there is an onus on commissioners to do what's right for the league ahead of what might be right for their team. For sure. But, you know, he doesn't have to. Yes, he does. It's a jerk move. I know. He's a jerk. Obviously, these guys take a trout number one.

He's not taking Paul Goldschmidt. How hard is it? You back out the bat. I mean, come on, man. You don't know if you're going to get Paul Goldschmidt. at the end of the second. If you want it, you better grab them now. It's too late to do anything now.

Yeah, obviously. This has been regulated. We're good. Thank you for that. Hey, we have to talk about Fab, okay? Free agent acquisition budget and how to spend it. So, so far, like, okay, we have a Fab League. The three of us, or four of us are in.

There are four of us, right? And, um, sorry, Chris, I assume I was forgetting about you. Uh, we have a Fab League and it's $100 budget. and I spent like $3 on Jorge Solaer before the season started. Scott spent $8 on Greg Holland. So what do you guys think about spending Fab right now? What advice would you give to the fabulous people out there? There probably isn't someone good enough to go all in on.

But if it's, you know, if it is someone like Chris Paddock who, if you drafted early and he wasn't taken, you probably want to make a pretty significant investment on it. But if you're just like dropping the, last player on your bench because he didn't make the team or is hurt and you're adding a Jorge Solair. Yeah. You probably, like, it depends on the caliber of player and just treat it accordingly like you would a draft, especially at this point, because you don't want to go all in on a guy that

might not make a big difference for your team. That just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if you've been listening to this podcast, you have a good idea whose stock has risen, if you were an early drafter since that draft, Chris Paddock, Ryan McMahon, I feel like probably Matt Strom. There's a few guys out there, but if it's just a fill-in situation like Chris was saying, yeah, I don't think that's somebody you want to invest your fav on. There are going to be other more exciting players that emerged later in the year.

Heath, did you want to add anything? No. I do. So your league format really matters. This league that I'm talking about where we have FAB is a Roto League. And I know I can be a little aggressive early in the season with my FAB because by the end of the season, half the teams are going to stop playing. And you can get guys much more easily.

Also, it's very important if you have zero-dollar bids. You've got to be very conservative if you don't have zero-dollar bids. If every time you make a transaction you have to spend something, I guess it depends on what your budget is, but you have to keep that in mind. We have zero-dollar bids in this league. But if you're in a head-to-head league, if you're in some like Categories League, and it's going to be very active, people are trying to make the playoffs, or isn't going to be that many owner, there aren't going to be that many owners that just drop out, then you might maybe have to be a little bit more conservative with Fab. Yeah, it's not like football. Yeah, go ahead. I'll add one other note. It makes a big difference if Fab runs weekly as opposed to daily. If it's daily, they're going, like, you never know when the rest of your league is going to pay attention. Most people aren't paying. attention to the waiver wire every single day. So it's easier to sneak players through for a low amount.

But weekly fab leagues, you're always competing with somebody for that hot name off the waiver wire. And so you have to reserve some dollars to be able to use throughout the season. One thing I would add to what Adam said is, yes, you might want to be more conservative in a head-to-head points league, but that's also a much shaller player pool. and so if you end up with fewer fab dollars left at the end of the year or three quarters of the way through the year, you should still be able to get someone who's not going to kill you

for cheap because the player pool is so shallow. So Scott just mentioned, if you've been listening to this show, you know the players that have been rising throughout the spring training process. So let's talk about some players. This is a similar list, I think. Players that are on our radar right now. After this, we're going to do some buy or sell,

and then hopefully have time to talk about our podcast league draft. I have some emails in the show. I hope we get to them. It's also Team Name Tuesday. I made a folder of Team Name Tuesday yesterday, and I deleted the folder, and I can't find the emails now. So if you sent a Team Name Tuesday in the last, like, three days, send it again, and we'll get to it next week.

My apologies. But more importantly, players that are on our radar right now. I'm going to start with you, Heath. I hope we can go through this list sort of quickly. And I have ownership percentage. So like Jorge Soler is the first guy on his list. He's 29% owned. But yeah, give me the players that you're just watching.

If they get off to a good start, you'll start making some roster moves. Yeah, I've got Jorge Soler, Randall Gritchick, Dakota Hudson, Greg Holland, Enrique Hernandez. I do think Gritchick and Soler both have had very good springs. Gritchick has more raw power. I think Soler has a better opportunity to maybe not kill you quite as much in batting average. Both of them need to stay healthy. both of them have 30 home run upside. Holland was been awful in the time that we've seen him.

We talked about it yesterday. He was also very good at the end of the year last year. And there's a chance that he's like a top 15 closer. There's also a chance he loses the job in April. See somebody I'm not drafting in a points league for sure, but I do want to see what he does in his first couple of appearances. And then somebody we've just, I feel like we talked about this guy two and three years ago, but we've not talked about him at all this year.

I mentioned it to Chris yesterday. Enrique Hernandez does sound like he's the starting second baseman for the Dodgers, and he won't play every single day, but I think he's going to play a lot. And he's got an interesting profile. Yeah, he's career 665 OPS against Ritees, but last year it was 780 against Rite. I think that's the question. He's going to hit lefties. Can Enrique Hernandez, who's only 16% owned, if he need a scooter genet replacement,

they talked about it yesterday, he's not a bad option. Would you guys rather have Catele-Marté or Enrique Hernandez? does. Marte. Yeah. Okay. I want to point out something we haven't really discussed with Randall Gritchick. And, you know, if it's a five outfielder league, he's probably already owned.

But he was terrible at the start of last season. I think he was playing through an injury. He ended up missing months because of the knee issue. And then when he came back, he was the best we've ever seen him. He had an OPS near 900 hit 271 with a 311 back. Abbip, so it wasn't like, you know, this outlandish 271. That's good for him, good for somebody with his kind of power potential. I think he's a good name to have on this list, especially in the three outfielder leagues where he's likely still available.

Did we mention he's batting lead off? I think they kind of backed down from that. It sounds like he's going to batten the upper third. Yeah, lately they've been using Brandon Drury, who's the third baseman until Vladimir Guerrero is up. That's gross. Go to Billy McKinney. I think Teosker Hernandez has kind of pushed him aside. I'm not sure, though.

I think he's going to be on the roster, McKinney, so you never know exactly how that's going to work from day to day. But it seems like Drury's the leadoff hitter for now. Okay. I've lost interest in this conversation. Let's go to Scott's players on Scott's radar. A pitcher heavy list here, Scott. So definitely guys, we talked about yesterday,

the Marlins rotation, Trevor Richards, Caleb Smith. They're 37 and 28% owned, respectively. And which do you prefer Trevor, Richards, or Caleb Smith? I prefer Richards, but it's, I think those two, they've both shown us something in the past. And I would guess all of us are interested in adding them. They've just been going in our draft, so maybe the others, you know, Chris probably didn't think to add them.

But the ownership is so low that I felt like I couldn't leave them out. The highest owned of these two is Richards at 37%. Yeah. Freddie Peralta is 67% owned. He's the highest owned player on your list, which also includes Wade Miley, Brandon Lowe, and Adam Frazier. All of these guys very available, except for Freddie Peralta, who is in the Brewer's rotation,

through his four-scene fastball about 75% of the time, but also struck out 96 batters in 78 and a third with a 1.14 whip. All right, I won't linger on him. Wade, Miley, Brandon Lough, Adam, Adam Fraser, these guys are owned in 30% of leagues or fewer. Your quick thoughts, Scott. So Wade Miley is just, I mean, he's a pitcher that the Astros believe in. And at this point, I kind of feel like I have to believe in that guy, too.

The data they have, they've already talked about some adjustments they're considering making for him, standing taller on the mound, which worked wonders for Herman Marquez last year, pitching up in the zone with his fastball more, which worked wonders for Jay Hap last year. It's had a good spring. Yeah, if he gets off to a good start, I'm going to be rushing to pick that up. Brandon Lowe, it's mostly a question of playing time for me. He has good on base ability, big power. You look at his minor league numbers last year.

You can understand why the race signed him to a six-year deal, despite his limited experience. And between three positions, I do think he'll play a lot. I actually drafted him yesterday in a 12-te-to-head points league. So I don't even have to add him off the waiver wire there. Adam Fraser looks like the Pirates leadoff hitter on an everyday basis. He's a left-handed hiter. He's hit lefties better. Certainly did last year.

But they don't really have somebody that they're looking to platoon with him. And he showed some pop last year for the first time, I think could hit 15 plus homers and score a decent number of runs at the top of that lineup. All right, Chris Towers, you are up. Who are some players that are on your radar right now? Good start. We're picking them up. Yeah, start with a couple of middle infielders. I think we mentioned Wilmer Flores a little earlier,

but he has a chance to play every day for Arizona, and he showed a lot of potential. It's kind of similar to Enrique Hernandez with the Dodgers, a similar profile, good power from the right side of the plate, but he never really strikes out. He's a very good contact hitter. I think there could be potential for him to be an above-average hitter with everyday playing time.

Luis Arias, it's just strong contact profile, actually hits the ball very hard, given the fact that he's 5-9 and doesn't weigh very much. The question is he hits the ball on the ground a lot. If he can improve that swing profile and keep the contact that he has shown throughout his career, I think there's potential for a 300 average and double-digit homers and steals. I like Urius's upside. I'm worried, like there's some talk that Bernato Tatea, might be up much much. I don't think that's not going to impact him.

When they signed Ian Kinsler, the understanding was that, and it could change if Arias gets off to a bad start and Kinsler's hot, but the understanding was that it wouldn't change the plans for Aureas or Tatease. If Tatease is up, I think he'll be starting a shortstop, and Aureus will be at second base. And then a couple of pitchers, Derek Holland. He actually pitched really well last year. some i don't understand quite how he got his strikeout rate up to about a bad or per inning but he

pitches in a great park that's going to suppress his e r a i think there's a chance for him to be like he was last year a mid three zara guy with a strikeout per inning and then steve sitchick or karl edwards jrador stroph only pitched an inning in two-thirds in the spring he was dealing with a hamstring injury if he gets off to a rough start i think there's a chance that one of those two guys could step in in the ninth inning. Okay, Chris gave you infielers, Wilmer Flores, and Luis Urias. Derek Holland is only 12% owned Derek Holland, and then Steve Sechek and Carl Edwards Jr. in the Cubs bullpen.

Scott also talked about Adam Frazier just a second ago, and Brandon Lau. So these are some infielders that are really widely available, including Greg Bird, first guy on my list. He's making the team at a spring training. He's had a really good spring. Aaron Hicks continues to be injured, so Bird will have an opportunity. And honestly, their first nine games are against the Orioles and Tigers.

They may not face one good pitcher the entire time. And I think Greg Byrd and Luke Voight could get off to a really good start. It's well documented why I like Greg Bird, so I won't get into that. But at least as an opportunity. No, no, I don't think it is. It's the long track record of success. I think it's well documented that you do like Greg Bird. I'm not sure anyone understands the why.

Okay, then. I had him on my list. I did. We like to give Adam grief for this, but I think there's definitely, there's definitely untapped potential here in terms of power and in terms of on-base ability. I mean, this is the first time he's been healthy in three years. And like Adam said, really good matchups out of the gates. So he could, obviously the context is if you get off to a good start,

if this player gets off to a good start, are you looking to add him? I think Byrd, you know, it's dependent on him getting off to a good start, but I think he absolutely fits the bill there. I've done three drafts, and I've drafted him in all three with my final pick. That's not the same thing, though. You see, you already have him on your teams. Because it's me, because I, like, I'm doing it for, so you can laugh. I'm doing it for the crowd.

It's working. Thank you. He had an 871 OPS in 2015. He had an 891 OPS after he came back from surgery in 2017, and then I don't know what he was so bad last year. He's already hurt, too. That's not good. Jay Bruce, 26% owned.

If I see that Jay Bruce is playing every day, he probably needs to be like 50% owned, in my opinion. Definitely going to look at the Atlanta starting pitchers. Definitely going to look at the San Diego starting pitchers. They're already pretty owned. Brad Peacock is 71% owned. I do think there's a chance. He's a 95% owned kind of pitcher.

Maybe not for the whole year. But I, you know, I guess he's just sort of becoming one of my guys. I'm very excited about Brad Peacock, who is 10 and 2. with a 322 ERA and a 122 whip as a starting pitcher in 2017, and the control has gotten better. So those are my guys. Bird, Bruce, Atlanta, San Diego starting pitchers, and Brad Peacock.

I'm going to say, buy herself for tomorrow. Here is team name Tuesday. Remember to send me the ones that you sent over the last few days because I deleted them. I apologize. This one comes from Aaron. Get low, get low, get low, get low, or get low, low, sorry. To the winker!

to the doll. Okay, there we go. Yeah. And here's one. RPs, like relief pitcher. RPs, we have de Mites. Yeah. Yeah.

RPs, yep. I think you should try to find, like, a one to go in with meats. And if Jalen Beaks is in the Ray's rotation, that'd be a good one. There you go. He did make the opening de roster. There you go. Mookie Boster. He's an R.P.

Mookie Boster. Yeah, like cookie Bonser. That's good. This one you have to look at. It's the letter D, close parentheses, and then all of the above, AHL, so it looks like doll of the above, but like an option on a test, you know?

No, that's a team name. And this is from Stephen, who has Aaron Judge, Harrison Bader, and Steven Strasbourg, Judge Ruth Bader Strasbourg. That's fantastic. Very good. We love politics on the show, obviously. So, podcast league takeaways.

Scott, this league, this 12 team head to head points league is kind of your baby. I think you've won it three or four times in like the 10 years we've done it. We've had listeners win. Three year drought though. Yeah, listeners have won at least the last two if not the last three years. Last three, yep. So we're going to try to change that. All right, what did you think?

Tell us about your team. So like I said at the top, my team is unfamiliar. to me. So I started off with Chris Sale in round one, which was already, I guess I kind of had a hunch that there was going to be a pitcher run in this. So I was glad I took him. Ended up with Christian Yellich in round two. He's normally a first rounder, so I can't complain about that.

But it's the first share I have in Christian Yellich this season. And then it was a bunch of hitters. You know, I didn't have my fifth round Binky, Zach Grinky. He took him early in round four, so that wasn't an option to me. My next three picks, round three, Anthony Rizzo, round four, was Javier Baez, the first of my busts, who I ended up selecting for myself. And then round five was Chris Davis, who I thought was really good value. Not many hitters had more than 500 points last year, but he was one of them.

Hated to fill the utility spot, but round five had to go for that. So I don't, I think this is the only league where I own any of those five players, but I think it's a strong five, strong way to be in the team. No way, repeat the names for me. Yeah, Chris Sale, Christian Yelich, Anthony Rizzo, Javier Baez, and Chris Davis. Okay. There was only Well, I guess there was two infielders But I ended up with a weaker third baseman

And shortstop than I'm used to I was kind of surprised at how quickly the depth thinned out there Oh, totally agree Third Base, yeah Because I think people were taking like two third basemen It's supposed to be such a deep position But it's, I was stuck with Devers Had to be my starting third baseman

So yeah, go ahead Scott Yeah, I have Miguel Andrew Har who was another one of my bus picks on the list. And I took him in round nine, which I felt, you know, I would have preferred him a round or two later, but he was the last third baseman who I felt confident, pretty confident, considering he's on my bus list, I felt pretty confident he could deliver 400 plus points.

Jose Parraza is my shortstop. You know, I got Jeff McNeil and Brandon Lau for my bench, and if either of them breaks out, then obviously I can move Javier bias to shortstop, but the Paraza thing doesn't work out. And he did score a lot of runs last. He had a high number of points last year, but a lot of it was based on, I think, him batting high in the lineup. So not totally comfortable with Parazas as my shortstop.

But I do have options there. My pitching staff apart from sale ended up being Herman Marquez, Chris Archer. So, you know, a couple guys, those guys I like to target because they've shown a potential before, Masahiro Tanaka's fourth. I did get Fultenevich. It's going to be on the DL for now, but he was the third of the bus picks of mine. I think I got him in round to 11 or 12. so yeah i mean i i feel i don't i don't feel like this is a bad team i feel like this is definitely something to work with it's not my favorite team it's not a team i'm used to seeing but i i don't

other than that shortstop spot with hoseaaraza um who again was fine last year but i don't think he's going to be as good this year i don't feel like i have a glaring weakness all right chris we have about four minutes left, so all three, me, you and Heath, have to talk about our teams. So if you could give us the rundown, the lowdown real quick, and how you feel about your squad? The pitching staff is full of upside. I think when they're pitching, Walker Bueller, John Gray, you say Kukuchi, Chris Paddock, Janjiriu, and Kenton Maeda will all be good. There are definite questions about workload with all of those.

And I'm going to have to be active to make sure that when those guys are missing, time that I have replacements ready, but my offenses can definitely make up for it. I've got Pete Alonzo as a utility. My infield's Paul Goldschmidt, Daniel Murphy, Justin Turner, Corey Seeger, J.D. Martinez, Marcelo Zuna, and Giancarlo Stanton in the outfield. I mean, I could have top five guys at every infield position and top 15 guys at every outfield position. It's, yeah, there's a, that offense could be ridiculous. All the exception would be. be Francisco Cervillian catcher. He could be a top five guy.

It's mostly been about playing time for him. He's hit really well the last couple of years. I think I'd have to dispute that. Yeah, I mean, nobody's going to give him, do we expect him to have that kind of playing time? I mean, they have one of the best backup catchers. Yeah, they're going to walk with Elias. Yeah, he did hit well last year. I think it was pretty brief.

He slug 370 two years ago. But honestly, whatever, your catchers suck. A lot of guys are going to have bad catchers. your hitting is incredible. Heath, we talked about your team. It's the exact opposite of Chris's. Just the exact opposite. The only thing I would want to add from what we said earlier is that Paul DeYoung is not

a weakness at shortstop. Paul DeYoung is, like, nobody ever looks at a team that has Glaver Torres, that somebody reached for six rounds too early and says, oh, you've got a weakness at shortstop. Well, he's not my shortstop. He's not my shortstop. He's my second basement. I understand. I have Carlos Correa.

And without Scooter Jeanette, this is another thing I want to say. Without Scooter Jeanette, second base is even more terrible. So I felt like I had to reach for Glaver Torres or else I would have been starting Catelle Marte. No, I just, that wasn't about you. I didn't even know he was on your team. I could have guessed probably because he's Yankee. But I was just talking about the disparity between the ADP of Glaver Torres and Paul DeYoung. The Young has just a regular projection from ATC of 26 home runs, 71.

runs 76 RBI in just 128 games. I think there's a pretty decent chance he gets 30 home runs this year if he stays healthy and the only reason he's had two partial seasons. Yes, he got hurt last year. The year before it was just because he was called up late but he played 156 games so there's no reason to expect

that he's not going to get a full season. Sure. And he's getting third. 36 walks, 123 strikeouts kind of thing that hurts him in this format. Was that the young or Glaver Torres? The young. Okay. It hurts him in this format. I'm just saying, look.

DeYoung or Glaber Torres? So DeYoung's 150 game pace last year was more fantasy points than Glaber Torres. That's fine. Hey, look, we'll be calling Glabre Torres a bust all spring. I just, I had to fill second base, so that was one of my least favorite picks. I'm not criticizing you to pick from Claver Torres. That's fine. That's fine.

Adam, it was a terrible pick, and nobody understands why you made it. All right, so Heath, whose team do you like better? Your hitter, your pitcher-heavy team or Chris's hitter heavy team? I prefer my team. I like Chris's soccer. Of course. I like Chris. You can't win with pitchers like that.

I am stunned. My team, I guess, is somewhat of a balance, but I do not have an ace. Now, Scott took Chris Sale in the first round and Anthony Rizzo in the third round. I took Freddie Freeman in the first round, and then who was my third round pick? I know Strasbourg was my first pitch. That was you? Yeah. That was a surprising pick, Freddie Freeman, in the first round.

Freddie Freeman is so good in points leagues. Like, he's not a first round pick necessarily in Roto. He is so good in points leagues. He walks a ton. So I actually thought it was good. And it's a thinish position. So, like, I would prefer... I would prefer Scott's combo of Sale and Rizzo to my combo of Freeman and Strasbourg.

And we picked back to back. So obviously, I could have had Salon and Rizzo if not. But so that was maybe a mistake. But just give my team real quick. I have to get it up. I forgot my team name. You say, stay. We've got at catcher, Buster Posey.

Freddie Freeman, Glaibre Torres, Rafael Devers. That's my weakness right there, second and third. Carlos Correa at short. Aaron Judge was my round two pick after Freeman. A.J. Pollock and Adam Eaton. Right now, Tyler White, is at utility, but I have Greg Bird and Ryan McMahon as well.

And my pitchers are Strasbourg, Severino, Darvish, James and Tyone, Tyler Skaggs. I have Sunny Gray and Vince Fulasquez on the bench. I have Brad Peacock and Felipe Vasquez and Errodis Viscayano at RP. I like it. I don't love it, but I think this is a competitive team. It's kind of like Chris's approach with a worse offense.

Yeah, I was thinking that your pitching is better than mine, but not leaps and bounds. It might not be, but I do have, I have Strasbourg Severino and Tyro. And I really like those three guys. So if I can just get through April and hopefully Severino's back in early May, I'm going to feel pretty good about this team. Yeah, I was not looking at your injured reserve, so I take that back. Your pitching is a lot better than Chris is assuming that Louis Severino is. Right.

All right, so we, and I think the report's been pretty good on Severino. I have been, I find myself taking it more than I anticipated. Ha, ha, he's a Yankee, I know. All right, Greg Bird for everyone. We'll talk to you tomorrow with Buy or Sell, bold predictions, prediction on the standings, the Sanyang, all that stuff. Wednesday show will be fun. Thursday's opening day.

We can't wait. Thank you listening, everybody. Talk to you on tomorrow show.