Fantasy Baseball Today - 03/27: Tatis, Most Added, Week One Help (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 27, 2019

Is Fernando Tatis Jr. a must-add player in all formats? How much FAAB should you spend? We spend a good chunk of time on this elite prospect and who you should drop for him before getting into the rest of the big news (10:30) including notes on Nick Senzel, Carlos Correa and Jeremy Jeffress ... Recapping the For the People League draft (16:16). What kind of pitching strategies did we use in this "Wild Wild West" format? We've also got Buy or Sell (24:02) with Corey Kluber, Josh Donaldson, Byron Buxton, Nomar Mazara and more ... A look at players who had terrible plate discipline in Spring Training (33:45). Are we concerned about Lewis Brinson? Travis Shaw? Plus the Most Added list (35:55) and Week One help (45:30) ... Your emails at [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. Now here's Adam, Scott, Heath and Chris. It is opening day, Eve. Oh, what a beautiful day. Welcome to the show, everybody.

It is Wednesday, March 27th, Adam Azer, Heath Cummings, and Chris Towers. Yeah, I kind of felt it this morning, guys. This was the first time I got really excited about baseball. We're just one day away. Our last show, well, I guess tomorrow as well, but our last show before we get to really break down the games, we get to preview some matchups, give some week one advice, that kind of stuff.

How you feeling today? Are you guys as excited as I am? So you're more excited today when there is no baseball than on the two days where there were previously games that counted. Oh, the Japan games? Come on, that doesn't count. Don't say it like that. It was a beautiful moment with Ichiro's final game.

Dee Gordon was crying. You say Kikuchi was crying. I was crying. No, you were not. I didn't cry. Oh, yeah, I did. By the way, do we have breaking news about something that makes Scott White cry? Yes, it sounds like Babe, the movie.

He cannot watch without crying. And he gave a glowing review of the movie. I think I probably, is that the follow-up to Charlotte's, Webb, I don't, I don't think they're in the same cinematic universe. You know what's wild? Babe Pig in the City was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. This is not the one that makes him cry, though. That is the one that makes him cry.

Pig in the City. I would assume it's Babe Pig in the City. It's subtitled Pig in the City. I think it's Babe Colon, Pig in the City. Hey, Fernando Tatis made the opening day roster. That's not. That is important. I think those are different movies.

Yeah, Babe, Babe's pick of the city, I think, is the sequel. Anyway. Okay, then just Babe was nominated for the Oscar. I'm sorry for spreading fake news. Okay, so I have two emails about Fernando Tatis. So he is going to be the Padres shortstop. This is very exciting. Scott said he is number three on Scott's prospect list.

This is a bit of a surprise. Jose Arias is being sent to the miners. Luis. Luis Arias, excuse me, being sent to the minors. Now, Tatis is the youngest position player to start on opening day since Adrian Beltray in 1999. And in the minors, career 280, 358, 487 slash line with 42 homers, 63 steals, and 86 attempts. Pretty good plate discipline. Had an 845 OPS in his career in the minors, but 877 in 2017, 8662 at double A in 2018.

he has not played above AA. So, okay, first question, before I read the email, which is about Fab. Obviously, Tatis is a must add in like a middle infielder league and a deeper league. Is he a must add in just about any format? Yes, yes. Okay. Any format. What are your expectations?

My expectation for him would be something like 2018 Ian Desmond. and I know that might not sound super promising because nobody wants to draft the Indesman, especially on this show. But he was the number 66 player in Roto last season. He was a starting caliber player in head-to-head, 80-plus RBI, 80-plus runs, 20-20 season. I think batting average is probably where he hurts you. But in terms of the counting stats, I think Fernando Tattice is going to be very good. I'm just, I'm a little worried he might be more of a 250 hitter as a run.

I don't like the word expectations when it comes to Tatees, that doesn't really have anything to do with why I want to add him. Right, right. That's kind of like the most likely outcome. Because there is a range of outcomes from him being a top five shortstop and a borderline first round pick next year to him striking out 35% of the time and getting sent down after three weeks. Sure.

Because he has had some strikeout problems in the majors, but the profile is very exciting. I ranked him as my number 13 shortstop, I believe, right in that, Glaver Torres Paul de Young Range. But I do think he has more upside than both of those guys. He's just far more likely to lose playing time at the end of April by then. So the Glabertores Paul de Young

range, you're saying he should be drafted between 55th and 190th. Yes. Yeah, and he'll steal more bases than them. So, you know, if you need speed. So you would drop like Ahmed Rosario for Tatis? Yeah. 100%. Right. But what if it were like a deeper league where you know if you dropped Rosario, you couldn't get him

back? I'd rather have Tatis. is much, much, much more valuable. Yeah, I think that. So I'm viewing Tatez as someone who should be drafted in the same range as Glabor Torres and Paul Diem. I was going to say Eloy Jimenez. I think his profile might be better for fantasy. The thing is, Eloy has the carrying tool, and it's not actually the power.

It's the contact ability. But in terms of power, him and Eloid, Tatees and Eloy actually look very safe. similar. And the thing that I struggle with is the fact that Tatis is so much younger than Eloy makes him a more exciting prospect and maybe gives him a higher ceiling eventually, but Eloy is more ready for the major leagues right now, we believe. Oh, well, my, me saying Tatis might be a better fantasy prospect has nothing to do with that. I do think the age plays a part, but it's the stolen basis. Eloy's not going to give you anything there, but if you're playing in a roto league,

Tatis has 30-30 potential. I probably don't think he'll hit for the batting average that Eloy can, but I think everything else can be similar, except the stolen bases are going to be a lot more valuable. Okay, just two other notes here. I mention it, but he hasn't played above AA, so, you know, got to keep that in mind. And he, look, I'm looking at rasterresource.com,

all they do is guess. They got him batting eighth. Very, you know, easy to see him batting toward the bottom of the order, at least at the start. So that is something that could hurt really in a points league. We saw that with Glaibborettax last year. Glaibra's had a very good year, but he didn't score that many points

because he didn't have that many plate appearances. So something to keep in mind. If he hits well, there's no reason why he can't move up in the order. And there's no reason, again, it's just a projection. They have Ian Kinsler leading off. So, you know, you never know. Here's an email from Jackson in Milwaukee. How much of your fab would you be willing to spend for Tatis?

We have $100. We have $0 bids, and I need a shortstop. bad. I gave a very different answer than Chris gave. I said like $13 to $15 I said. Chris said like $30 on Tatis and that to me is just a difference of how I would spend

Fab. It's a long season you're going to be making so many transactions. Here's my question. You want to save Fab for let's say a really good prospect who gets called up, right? Not really. Is a better prospect coming?

No. I mean, that's what you want to save Fab. your biggest fab move for. I guess I just don't really... I don't really see... I don't see baseball the same way as I see football. We're like, oh, Jamal Williams got hurt or something, spend it all on Aaron Jones. I think baseball fab you have to spend... You're going to make so many transactions that it's rare for me to spend big on one player.

No, I agree. You're never going to spend it on an injury replacement. But with the big... prospects like Juan Soto last season. Right, I don't know that he was a $30 bid. I mean, you should have. Oh, he was well worth $30. He was.

But nobody spent it. Way, way more value. But that's only because we didn't really know how good he was because he hadn't really played. Fernando Tatis is the number three prospect in baseball. Actually, number two in most lists right now. Scott White's number three fantasy prospect, a profile that looks really, really good for fantasy.

Well, let me ask you this. I think this is what you spend $30 on. I think you go to $35. So when I told Jackson in email, I told him like 15 and he said, wow, Chris said 30. I said, I can't really disagree with that. I think it's just a philosophy thing. But let's say someone dropped Glaver Torres. How much would you spend on Glaber Torres?

I don't know that I would even spend $30 on him. So again, it's just a... Well, he doesn't have the same upside. Okay, but you rank the same. Yeah, I don't know if that's true. Come on, he was like the number one prospect in baseball. Yeah, he doesn't have the same stolen base potential, but, yeah, I think you would spend 30. Okay.

I guess so you're probably spending, what, 13 to 15 bucks in an auction on a 10th round pick, right, or an eighth round pick? Yeah, it's a $260 budget, not $100 for a full season. Sure, but your fab budget's also a lot less valuable than your office. All right, so I'm going to sum it up. How much would you spend on a guy like Labor Torres if he were dropped? That's how much you might want to spend on Fernando Tatis. It just depends on how aggressive you want to be.

If somebody spent 30-something bucks on it, I wouldn't do it, but I think it's perfectly reasonable. I have one league with, because I was able to add him in our podcast listeners league, because I had second waiver priority and the first guy didn't choose him. And one of my favorite moments of the Four the People podcast league was when we drafted him last night.

And there was silence from team scam while they Googled. And then, oh. Yeah, Heath and I were texting. And Heath was like, they're definitely going to take Tatis here. And when they didn't, I just texted him all caps. Dumbums! Yes. And in the one league I have with weekly ads where he's available, I've bid 31.

Okay. This is an email from Jared. Would you rather have Fernando Tatis, Pete Alonzo, or Luke Voight? Tatis and Alonzo. Tatis. It's just one. If I have to make one, Tatis. Okay.

More big news. Jose Ramirez should be ready for opening day. I'm on the clock in a league right now, and Noon Aronado just went third, and I have the fourth pick. I should definitely take Jose Ramirez, right? Yeah. Okay, thank you.

Yeah. Makes me feel better. Carlos Correa has neck stiffness. That did not cause me to drop him in my, you know, mental rankings when we were doing our draft last night. we were considering taking him. Are you dropping him? No.

Okay. It has to be a little concerned, though, right? Given that he missed so much time with the back injury last year and the backbone is connected to the neck bone. That's true. They are. Most everything's connected to the back. But the neck especially.

It's right there. It's just next difference. They're basically the same thing. He might not be ready for opening day. It's possible. I hope there's not an I-Elston. here for Carlos Correa. It's next stiffness.

Let's call him day to day for now. Nick Senzel is in a walking boot for the next one to two weeks with an ankle injury. A fairly serious ankle sprain here for Nick Senzel. When do you think we see him? Not until mid-May, at the earliest, I would say, at this point. This is a guy who I may have drafted and would drop portatties. Gotcha. Jeremy Jeffers is going to throw live BP today.

That was the pick that we made. That got the most angry reaction from the rest of the. the league last night. We took Jeremy Jeffers very late. I think the only thing that ruins him is if they signed Craig Kimbril. Otherwise, I expect him to lead the Brewers and saves. Yeah, I was, I had him

in the queue for what, three rounds? There's two things here because we and I don't remember who, oh, at that point in the draft, we had Malick Smith and Jeremy Jeffers and we were picking right in front of you guys and we thought it was more likely you'd take Malix than Jeffers. So we took

Malik Smith and you took Jeffers and we were very mad about it. My only hesitation is it's not like he's healthy. Like he's got a shoulder injury. He's maybe going to throw BP later this week. I don't really expect we're going to see him before mid to late April. So? And it might be we don't see him at all.

Oh, okay. It might be, but it was a 15th round pick and a 16 team draft. Right. I'm just saying that's why he was in our cube for two to three rounds because I am a little bit concerned that I mean, its shoulders just almost as bad as an elbow. Okay, so that was pick 230. 238 of Jeremy Jeffress. And then Nick Senzel was actually the next pick.

More news, Ryan Brazier is on the opening day roster. Now, we are expecting Matt Barnes to get the first crack at it, but I personally, we own Matt Barnes in the 16-team league that we did. I would have wanted Brazier as well. He was drafted later. And I think that's a good speculative pick. So Brazier on the opening day roster. I did not think that was going to happen because he was dealing with an injury. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has done hitting drills.

The White Sox officially promoted Elohimenez. And Justin Upton will begin the season on IL with turf toe. So it has been a rough spring training for Justin Upton. We touched on it a little bit yesterday. Peter Borges will get an increase in playing time. Do you have, you still have the same types of expectations for Upton? Just, no. When he's healthy, or you think this could be a bad year?

He was, of the guys that are not out for the year Or definitely out for a significant chunk of time, He was the guy that fell the furthest in my ranking. I had him as like a top 25 outfielder. I would not take him in the first 10 rounds now. And it's, Turf toast is such a bad name for this injury Because it sounds adorable. He's like, oh, he's just got a,

a case of turf toe. And it's actually a really, really bad injury that tends to keep guys on the sidelines or limited for a lot longer than you would think. I had turftoe once. That's adorable. It wasn't. It hurts really bad. Old guys get turftoe.

What I understand. I was like 17. So, you have your old soul. So maybe you guys know more than I do, but on CBS Sports HQ tomorrow, you got to tune in. We have awesome opening day coverage, and we're going to be on it, too. So CBS Sports HQ, if you have like a Roku, I have a Roku, their Apple TV, Amazon Fire, all that stuff. Any connected device, download the CBS Sports app, and you can watch HQ for free, 24-7 streaming, and we'll have opening day coverage, you know, as the games are going on. And I think start at noon, do you guys know for sure?

I think it starts at noon tomorrow, an hour before the game starts. That sounds right. Yeah, I'll tweet about it and keep everybody updated, but, but, you know, I'll tweet about it and keep everybody updated, please watch us. It'll be a lot of fun. You'll see the greatness of CBS Sports HQ. If you're watching the video tomorrow at noon, Eastern Time. On CBS Sports HQ.

Live. Watch. Wait. Didn't I just say that? We were just confirming. Oh, okay. Great. So today on the show, now that we've talked about Tatea's and all the other news,

we got some buyer sell, we've got some bold predictions, we got some week one help. We might save the bold predictions for tomorrow when Scott. is back. That probably makes sense, actually. We have a look at the most added list, which includes a lot of interesting pitchers. I think I should maybe be a little bit more open-minded on Eric Lauer. His last five starts of 2018, he had a 1070 RA, nine walks, 25 strikeouts, and 25 in a third. And he is the opening day starter for the Padres who have some exciting arms. So we'll talk about guys like that. Buy or sell. I mentioned that. Okay. Let's recap just a little

bit. The Four of the People podcast league. A 16 team league. Wild Wild West. How many pitching spots? What was it? Seven. Seven. Okay. Five by five head-to-head categories. Seven pitching spots. Quality stars instead of wins. OBP instead of batting average. Fun league. Stressful league. We picked back to back. I don't know what you're talking about. Fourteenth and 15th. Team Kreeh, which is Chris and Heath, and team scam, Scott and Adam. And once again, Scott and I like our team. which has never been a good thing in this league. How did you guys do?

Oh, love our team. Really? Let me see your team. And I would, one of my favorite things about this league is I would guess our drafting experiences are a lot different. Ethan and I basically never like veto each other. I would assume you and Scott probably have a little more problems with that, right, Adam? Um, not really. Like, Scott kept vetoing my Jeremy Jeffers pick, which ended up being a good thing because we got him like three rounds later.

Uh, there were a couple picks that Scott made that I didn't love, but for the most part, we were on board. And then I made him take, I made him take Greg Bird. Well, our experience is definitely different because you both participate in the entire draft, right? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Except I didn't, the last two picks I had a mishap and I couldn't get to the draft on time. But I was...

Or the third year in a row. I was there in the third round. And then there were two picks where you just disappeared. I was writing. I was doing my job. But previously, I had just... I got off the train at the wrong stop. That happens to everybody.

I'm sure everyone listening can relate to just getting off the train at the wrong stop. And then my wife called me because she was going to pick me up. And I said, yeah, I'm here. And she was like, yeah, I'm here too. And I was like, no, you're at the wrong station. And then I, like, 15 minutes later... realized. The only time I got legitimately mad at Chris was when

he chose Matt Chapman over Travis Shaw and I had made every pick up to that point so I felt like I had to go with what he said. And the other thing that's really stressful about that is we're not in the same room. And so a lot of times I'm texting Chris saying, okay, which of these two guys do you

want? And there's 20 seconds and there's a little dot dot dot on Chris responding for the next 20 seconds and then I just have to hit a button. Once again I was writing The Fernando Tees news break. What? Tatees.

Fernando Tis. Yeah. I said Tatees. No, you did it. And if I didn't, I meant to. Context clues, guys. Okay. So, by the way, speaking of Travis Shaw, we had a very difficult decision to make Justin Turner or Travis Shaw.

We went with Turner, but Scott had actually a very good idea at that point in the draft. If you're still doing a draft today, this is a deep league. Okay. All right, 16 teams, headhead categories. Fairly smallish lineups, but still it's deep. And he said, we should take Glaibre Torres and Travis Shaw back to back because they both have dual eligibility. And that is really big.

And this is rounds five and six, we're talking here. But what is that? You guys did take Glaver Torres way too early. No, we did not. We took him 70th, 79th overall. That's not too early for Torres in a league this deep where second base, no longer has Scooter Jeanette, and he's dual eligible. So then we took Justin Turner over Travis Shaw, but we were thinking about Shaw with our next pick.

I would just say, and Heath probably disagrees, I think Justin Turner is a lot better than Travis Shaw. I think Shaw is good, but I think Justin Turner's just much better. I think he is much better on a per game basis, especially in a 16-team league where replacement cost is much, much lower. I think the odds of Justin Turner producing more numbers by the end of the year is lower. Right, and that's a good point. In a deeper league, you have to think about replacement player. So, okay, I just want to say this about my team, our team, team scam. I'm not going to go through the whole lineup.

I think the hitting is pretty good. We took Chris Sale with our first pick, 15th overall at a 16, and then we took Ronald Ocuna with our second pick. but we have sort of a tweener pitching staff. Like it's not super relief heavy, it's not starter heavy. It's Sayle, Tanaka, Lucchese, and Musgrove. Reisel O'Glaeasius, Wade Davis, Matt Barnes. That's our starting seven. I imagine Jeremy Jeffress will be a fourth closer and we'll go with Sayal Tanaka.

And then one of our starting pitchers, we have some guys on our bench, Alex Wood, Wade Miley, Jesus Lazzardo. or maybe we'll just go with a middle reliever and get ratios. We didn't fully commit to either one, but this draft, they don't feel like a lot of teams went super-closer heavy. So we actually could do pretty well in saves ERA and WIPP every week with just three closers, and if Jeffress does become a fourth closer for us, I think we'll be in good shape.

So I'm excited about this team. I think we have a playoff team. You guys, give me a quick recap of your teams and what you did. So I guess my takeaway was, I wish we had maybe committed a little bit more to one pitching strategy, but I still think we can pull this off. Go ahead. Yeah, I think we kind of ended up with a somewhat similar pitching staff in terms of it's not heavily weighted one way or the other.

I think we have seven starters and four relievers. But we also didn't invest a ton in our pitching staff. So not surprisingly, our pitching is, our, or our hitting is much better than our pitching. But we do have good ratios, guys, guys like Shane Bieber, Junjin Ryu, you know, hopefully Julio Reyes, and then a bunch of good relievers, even if they're not all closers. So I think the pitching staff could be okay for this format.

Now, we're probably not going to win wins most weeks, but we're going to be competitive in the ratios, and that should be a good place to be. One thing we have is the ability to kind of go either way, depending on who we're playing. If we're playing a team with four closers, we'll probably try to win wins and try to win those counting categories. Quality starts. Quality starts. Quality starts. Yes. Nobody's going to win wins because there are no wins.

We did start this draft off with Aaron Judge and Francisco Lindor, so I felt like we had a huge edge on base percentage. We got a couple of home run guys, Gary Sanchez, Matt Chapman. We got a couple of steals guys and Malick Smith and the Lunders. Lorenzo Kane. So I think our offense is pretty balanced and should be tough to be most weeks. Yeah, we don't have speed. We have Acuna. We are not going to win steals.

And we were fine with that. And we said, like, we're not going to reach for steals. Scott wanted, Scott's number one stipulation was we are not going to take steel specialists unless the value is just amazing. He wanted, if we were going to get steals, it's going to have to be a well-rounded hitter. And, oh, we took Ahmed Rosario, but he's a bench player for us. Uh, but yeah. And he's not really a steel guy. We're kind of hoping for 25.

Yeah, he's not D. Gordon, you know. Okay. So that's the For the People League. 16 team leagues are challenging, but this, uh, shallow rosters here, so it's not like super deep. Well, shallow starting rosters, but we did, we had 24 rounds. That's true. There's not much on the waiver wire.

Yeah, you're right. It's deep. Let's do a quick round of buyer cell from Jeff. Byer Sell. Chad Pinder has more home runs than Matt Olson. sell yeah I'll sell that okay

by or sell from Scott Cory Kluber is the fourth best pitcher in the Indians rotation sell yeah I

the thing is one of those guys is going to miss some time and Kluber is the oldest and has the most innings on his arm so maybe he's the most likely it's the only way

I think one of my bold predictions was that Shane Bieber is the second best Indians pitcher in fantasy this year? He doesn't have that many innings on his arm, though, right? He's only a 1,300 in the major. Oh, that's pretty low.

He's been injured two straight years. That's why I avoid Cory Kluper. I'm nervous about him. He had to get any injury last year. He's been able to mostly pitch through it, but he has been injured just three years. He led the American League in innings last year. And was it 203 the year before.

He struggled. He was not great, though, in the second half, and it's because he was pitching hurt. So I don't know He just kind of looks old Doesn't he? Like I know he's not that old He just looks

He's gonna be 33 in a couple of days He's old guy He's one of the guys who's older than you think He's kind of like Josh Donaldson Because he debuted so late But The track record's still so good with him That sure there's injury risk with him

But there's injury risk with every starting pitcher Every starting pitcher over 30 has elevated injury risk so it's you go with the track record and because every pitcher has a pretty high chance of getting hurt I don't think you downgrade him that much and he did throw almost 800 innings in the minors yeah which is he had a long minor league's careers

he's over 2,000 professional he's around 2,100 professionally but like I think Max Scherzer's around that just in the majors that's Corey Klooper we're talking about next buy or sell Frankie Montas finishes the year as the A's number one starting pitcher. Fine, fine, I guess. They don't have a number one starting pitcher, and Jesus Lozaro is going to miss six weeks. So that gives Montas a head start.

He has a new pitch, and he had a very, very good spring. So the guy is currently on the roster, he's the best bet. Yeah, it's mostly just like, who else would it be? Yeah. Buy or sell. All right. Okay, buy or sell. Josh Donaldson finishes above Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

In runs, RBI's, home runs, OPS, and average. I will buy 60% of this. I don't think he's going to beat him in average for sure. I'm probably not OPS either. But just because he's going to be there on opening day, I think you take him in the counting stats. Yeah, it's interesting. knowing that Vlad's likely going to miss the first month of the season

and knowing that Donaldson's 33 years old and has played like what 160 games the last two years combined would you set the over under on Donaldson's games played higher just because he's starting on opening day even though he's far more likely to miss time he's not currently hurt that's true and he's in the majors

so I would I think it's close. Yeah, but I think Vlad's re-injury risk isn't nothing once he gets back because it's an oblique injury, and we've seen. And he's got a lot of oblique. He does. He really does have a lot of oblique. I mean, like we're joking about that, but you'd like to see him look a little better. I mean, I'm sorry to say it like that, but, you know, if you're putting so many hopes in Vladimir or Jr., I don't know that he's in good enough shape.

Is that a legit concern? I it's a small concern. Yeah, like he might be Miguel Sineau who just can't stay healthy, but it's not like David Ortiz was a small dude. Yeah. And he didn't really miss time. Now, he never played in the field, so that's part of it. But I don't know how much of a correlation there is, at least when you're 21 years old. I just don't know.

Well, I mean, Raphael Devers talked about it last year as well, that he thought his weight kind of contributed. I think it's a small risk. I will say I finished up my 14th draft. I think it's one best ball league that's not quite done drafting. I have three teams with Eloy. I have two teams with Tatis. I have two or three teams with Victor Robles. I have zero teams with blood.

Yeah, as of now, same here. I have nearly as many leagues as you. Sean says, By herself. Byron Buxton finishes as a top 30 outfielder in all formats. I haven't drafted him yet and his price has been lower than that so I feel like I have to say sell. Yeah, I could definitely see a path to Buxton finishing as a top 30 outfielder in categories leagues. If he plays 150 games this year, I do think there's still some upside. I've drafted him a couple of times in that 15th round range.

But it's really hard for me to see where he gets the plate discipline to finish in the top 30 outfield. there's no points lead. Buy herself from Kyle. Nomar Mazarra finally puts it together and hits 30 home runs. I was hopeful at the start of spring, and then he had the worst spring he possibly could have. And so I'm going to sell. I don't think his approach has changed enough.

Maybe they should have changed the approach, not the day before they got to spring training. Yeah, that was my thing. If he had started working on a new swing in November, I would have been much happier to buy him. Yeah, I'll sell that. He's at 28. every year.

He's probably going to hit 20 this year. He hit 20 home runs last year, and seven of them came in an 11-game stretch. He was pretty useless other than that. That's no Mar-Mazara. By herself from Kurt. Alex Bregman will be a first-round pick in 2020. Bye. Yeah, he was a first-round pick this year.

And he will back it up. Buy herself from Brody. Dallas Keiko and Craig Kimbrel have a home by opening day. Sell. Why can we not get the Padres? You're going to waste a year of Tatis. his eligibility, go get Kikel and Kimbrel, sign them to four-year front-loaded deals, and win a World Series the next four years.

Yeah, it's stupid. It is. But sell. The great John Dean says, By or sell, Manuel Margo goes 20-20 with a 270 batting average. Sell. I don't think he's going to get enough playing time in that outfield to go 2020. Yeah, I'd probably sell on all the Padres, Outfielder's, Overunders, or Counting

stats. I do think that Margot could give you that type of production on a per game basis. From all things sports, buy or sell. Yoan Moncada goes 20-20 this year. Yo-a-Muncata. I'll buy that one. I knew you'd buy it. He has had some real interesting stuff.

I think it was Mnondo that tweeted it out with his plate this one. 11 walks, just 16 strikeouts in the spring. And that's one thing that can become meaningful fairly quickly in the spring. And he was 17 and 12 last year, so yeah, I'll buy it. Hey, guess who has no walks and 25 strikeouts in spring training? Travis Shaw, the mayor. That's right. He's not the mayor of Walk Walk City.

Wickwalks? He's not the mayor of spring training or wherever they hold their spring training. He's the mayor of Ding Dong City. Okay. Cedric Walter, buy or sell, Luis Castillo wins 15 games. Sell? That's ambitious. I've been the Castillo pessimist.

Even I, as an optimist, I don't know that he's winning 15 games. It's not an easy thing to do. He should have ranked him higher, Heath. He's by that. I got him of my top 30 starting pitchers. He should have ranked him higher. Last one for Kyle. Bryce Harper outscores Mike Trout in points leagues.

Sal. That could be like a bold prediction, but. Yeah. That would be an Azer bold prediction that Chris would rip for not being bold enough. Yeah, I mean, he's my NL MVP pick, but I wouldn't bet on that unless you gave me good odds. All right, when we come back from this quick, quick break, we are going to talk about strikeouts and guys who struck out a lot in spring training,

like Travis Shaw, mayor of strikeout, strikeout city. And then we have a look at the most added list and some week one help and your emails at Fantasy Baseball at cbsi.com, and we'll be right back. All right, guys, let's look at Travis Shaw and his terrible spring. Well, actually, the numbers weren't that bad. 269 batting, average five homers, 12 RBIs,

but no walks, 25 strikeouts. a quick segment. Travis Shaw, unbelievably bad plate discipline. Kristen Stewart, for the Tigers, had a bad spring. Two walks, 23 strikeouts. Brandon Lau actually hit 377 with three homers, but three walks, 20 strikeouts. Ehayno Suarez batted 220 with four walks and 20 strikeouts. And Lewis Brinson, off to a great start and spring training, finishes at 278 with five home runs, two walks and 18 strikeouts. Shaw, Kristen Stewart, Brandon Lau, Aeohenio Suarez, Louis Brinson, five players with particularly bad

plate discipline. Does anything scare you guys going into the regular season? The thing that's really interesting about Shaw is last year he actually had a big jump in his walk rate to 13% and his strike rate fell down to 18%. So maybe the only thing I would say about this is it makes me a little bit more concerned that he's going to go back to being a sub 10% walk guy, but not really no. I think you have to be somewhat concerned, 25 strikeouts in 21 games or whatever. that's a lot, especially if you're not walking at all. Yeah, I would downgrade him just a little bit. The way I look at spring training and really any small sample size is,

it only really matters at the extremes. If you do, and it's not really even results as much as it's like stuff like strikeouts and walks that are more process oriented. So that's where I think spring can matter. So you would like moving behind somebody like Matt Chapman? I'm not sure I necessarily, if I knew Chapman was healthy, would have had him behind him. Gotcha. So the one that jumps out to me is Louis Brinson.

You know, at the end of the day, it's not that great of a spring for Louis Brinson. And sure, I guess he's still worth a flyer. But as someone who, you know, was it three weeks ago when we did our auction? You know, he's one of my five outfielders. I have crappy outfielders. I'm obviously a little less enthused about Brinson right now. But, you know, worth a look still. A lot of talent there.

All right, these guys are definitely worth a look. Here's the most added list. Some of the most added players in CBSSports.com leagues. I'm not going to go through all of them. But Freddie Peralta's number one. And Peralta, how excited are you guys about Freddie Peralta? Obviously, he's in the Brewers rotation. His first, if you're playing the long week, he'll have St. Louis at home and Cincinnati on the road.

So not exactly an easy start to the season. He had a 425 ERA and a 1.1.4.4.4. whip despite 40 walks in 78 and a 30. He just didn't give up a lot of hits. 5.6 per 9 last year. How excited are you about Freddie Peralta? There's a lot of upside there. He's for me right in that Sean Newcomb range of guys that can miss a ton of bats

and just have to improve their control to actually be reliable every week fantasy starters. I view him as like a borderline top 60 guy now with the upside to jump into the top 30 or 40. with a good month. 72% owned. Are you going to start him, St. Louis, and that's Cincinnati? I mean, it's going to depend, because the weird thing is we don't have a great idea on some of these pitching rotations. And so I would start him over most non-top 25 starters that I only think are going to start once.

Okay, so who else on the most added list jumps out of you? I'm going to read the starting pitchers. Eric Lauer was a first round pick in 2016, and like I said earlier, he finished the season strong. was, you know, he didn't one. Eric Lauer in his last five starts in a 107 ERA, but he did not throw a lot of innings. Only one start of more than five innings. Brandon

Woodruff, Matt Strom, Chris Paddock, his minor league numbers are just unbelievable. 182 ERA, 20 walks to 230 strikeouts in 177 and two-thirds, a point-80 whip. And Chris tweeted a kind of a highlight reel of Paddock striking guys out with his fastball, and he

just, I wish I had him on some teams. That's the thing that stands I wrote a column about him. I'm all in on the Padres. I'm a Padres fan now. I bought a Padres T-shirt yesterday. I'm all in there, my team this year. And I wrote a column earlier in the day saying that Chris Paddock was the first

potential league winner on waivers. And I looked into both his minor league numbers, scouting reports. And then what also, the scouting reports have kind of missed about him. And that's that his fastball is really, really good. You know, most of the scouting reports have raved about the change-up. he has a slider and a curveball. I think he's developed a new pitch this offseason, but the fastball, you look at the start that he had on Monday.

And it's the only start that we have the stat cast data for, but he had above average velocity with his fastball, 93.8 miles per hour. So already he's starting from a good place. And then if you look into his spin rate, which is the thing that matters most for fastballs when it comes to swings and misses, he had elite spin rate on his.

fastball. He had like the Astros using foreign substances kind of spin rate. And so that that tweet that I posted that had the highlights of him getting all the swings and misses with his fastball, he had 10 swings and misses on 34 fastballs on Monday night, which is ridiculous. Yeah. It's going to be that that could be a really, really special pitch. It could be one of the best fastballs in the majors. He's the healthy one right now and the one that's going to start.

the year in the majors. I do think it's interesting comparing him to that group of pitchers that we think are in the 130, 140 range in terms of an innings max for this year because 90 innings is the most he's ever thrown. That was last year. And there are guys that aren't going to start

the year in the majors, but will probably be in that same range. I think Paddock needs to be owned over them now because he's not here now. But guys like Josh James, guys like Julio Urias. Eurias is in the majors now. He's going after Paddock. now.

Sure, but the one thing I would say is none of those guys have numbers as good as Chris Paddock. It's only 170 innings, but every small sample size that he has has been completely unhittable. Yeah, and if everything goes right for the Dodgers, Luis Arias is probably in the bullpen in like three weeks if Kershaw and Hill come back. Kulia Arias. What's that? And earlier I said, Jose Arias.

I don't even know who these people are. Yeah. I like if everything goes right for the Dodgers. They won't. If everything goes right for the Dodgers, they're going to have two pitchers on the IL at all times because that's what they like to do. That's true.

Okay, so Paddock is on the most added list. Woodruff, Corbyn Burns. Like these guys are all excited. I mean, you look at Corbyn Burns and his minor league numbers, and they were really good except he was terrible in the PCL, but at every other stop, Corbin Burns had an ERA of 220 or lower. But just so, it's so hard to know what to expect.

he hasn't made a major league start yet. And then Woodruff, he made like four starts last year. His numbers as a starter were terrible, but that was mostly due to one dreadful start at Colorado. He had a 632 ERA, but most of that was seven runs and three innings at Colorado and four starts overall for Woodruff. So, yeah, look, everybody, we have talked about this list, and all these guys are really worth a look.

But I think, I don't know, okay, two guys. Eric Lauer, Tim Beckham. Probably the two guys on this most added list, if you're watching the video that we haven't talked a lot about. And I doubt we have much interested in Tim Beckham. I know he had a very good two games in Japan. He's playing shortstop for the Mariners. But, yeah, you tell me, if you disagree,

I imagine we don't care much about Beckham. What about Eric Lauer, though? There's potential there. I think he actually had a pretty good swinging strike rate with his fastball last season. I just don't think he has the upside of a Burns or a pass. among this group or Freddie Peralta either. But, you know, when we're talking about young pitchers,

a lot of the times you're just talking about throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what sticks. And so, you know, that's what you should use your bench spots for, is guys like that. Okay. That's a look at the most out of list. We got a preview week one. By the way, email us at Fantasy Baseball at cbsi.com. I will save some time for your emails.

We'll do bull predictions and MLB predictions tomorrow. I have the Angels making the playoffs. What? So... That's pretty terrible. I found the second wild card in the American League to be pretty tough. And the second wild card in the National League feels like there are like six teams that could get that. The American League is hot garbage.

Agree or disagree. How many teams in the American League are even trying to work? win right now. I mean, like the Indians, Yankees, Red Sox, and Astros, I think everybody should pick them to make the playoffs. Something crazy could happen, but those four teams should make the playoffs. Fifth team? Yeah, I know Tampa Bay is going to be trendy. Minnesota, Oakland.

Angels? I don't. I think one of those teams will definitely make it. Yeah. Yes. But in the, but they're not as good as like Colorado, Dodgers, Brewers, Cubs, Cardinals. three or four teams in the NL East. NL's much better this year, much more fun.

Hey, here's a quick Twitter poll. It's from KCJ for the USA. This is a complete non-sequitur. It has nothing to do with fantasy baseball. Can you do me a big favor? I am trying to convince my fiancé that Rudy earned his playing time by being gritty and hard work.

She says that Rudy was just annoying and pestered everyone to play. I have no real followers. Could you do a poll to see what the consensus is? Regulate. You know, my generation gets, gets hit with the Oh, you're the participation

trophy generation in one. Like the adults gave them to us. So like that's not on us. Don't put that evil on us. But also like, Rudy is every boomer's favorite sports movie and it makes them cry.

I love it. That is the biggest participation trophy movie of all the time. We're talking about sports are the ultimate meritocracy and we're letting some five foot four dude who's not even good at football getting a game because he asks nicely.

That's not why. It was a great YouTube mom. It was hard work and grit. It was hard work and grit. I can't believe... I definitely voted for being annoying and pestering, and so far that's winning the results. Lots of your wrong again. Lots of people work hard at him.

That's not the only thing that matters in this world. Who did he even... This is stupid thing. Who did he even pester? He didn't pester anyone. In fact, he was demoralized. It was the rest of his team that started chanting, Rudy, Rudy. That got him in the game.

This is ridiculous. Rudy got in on his own merits. He got in on his own merits. I will say that this take is still much better than your tweet that directly preceded the Twitter poll. Which is what? That you're wrong about the commissioner vetoed stuff? That I am wrong about the commissioner veto stuff when literally everyone agrees with me. I agree with you most of the time that commissioners should never veto.

But I do think if there's a terrible trade that happens, like a newbie got ripped off. You know what? Listen to me. You have never kicked one person out of the league, you tough talker. Oh, I have too. I've done it. I've kicked people out of the leagues for that. Okay, guys, week one preview.

So if you're playing a four-game week, a four-day week, as opposed to an 11-day week, some teams are playing three games, some teams are playing four games. It's split fairly evenly, I think. And it kind of makes a big difference. Like, you know, you're not going to sit like a three-game Aaron Judge for a four-game Ryan McMahon, if that is even a thing. You know, you're not going to do that. having one extra game, when we're only talking about four versus three, it does make a difference.

The Mets face Max Scherzer, Steven Strasberg, and Patrick Corbyn. So that sucks. And I don't know. I mean, which Mets? Yeah. Would you say, Pete Alonzo? Maybe not a great week to start Pia Lanzo in this short week? I'm trying to think of a Mets player I would want to start.

I'd start Walson Ramos for sure. Conforto, Canfordo. Conforto. I think you still start. Conforto. Yeah. Probably Conforto, yeah. But I don't know if they have any must-start guys.

Canoe. Canoe. Cano is a must-start guy, given how short, shallow. One thing I do want to say is I've been working with John Bowman, our new data science engineer, who's working with the projections, and him and I put together a schedule preview that you can get on sports line that basically just it weights the strength of the pitching, matchups for each team and gives them a rank. So this year, or this week, the

Rays have the hardest. They've got four games against Houston. That shouldn't be a surprise. The Blue Jays have four games against Detroit. They have the best schedule. So it's something to check out on Sportsline if you want to see that. That's great. The Randall Gritchick, I think, definitely becomes a sleeper. Yeah. That's good stuff. The Yankees have three games against Baltimore. So, I mean, start Aaron Judge. Greg Bird. We look at the, well, we can get to the long week in a second. More week. Did you get mad last night during my Greg Bird rant?

Yes. Good. Do we know if he's making the team? Yeah, he is. Like 100% sure? Yeah. While Aaron Hicks is out. He texted out of when they told him.

No, I guess I'm not 100% sure, but yes, he's making the team. Would you start Marco Gonzalez and you say Kikuchi at home against Boston? No. It's going to depend. But probably, I probably am at home against Boston. At Boston I'm going to try to avoid starters. But at home against Boston, I'm probably going to start Kikuchi most weeks, unless he proves me wrong. Most weeks that he's not an opener because I don't expect him to have any inning's concerns,

those four starts that he makes a month when he's not an opener. But he will have one start each month and we should know when it is that he's only going to pitch one inning. Would you start just, he's enough of a question mark still? And I do expect him to be good. But he's enough of a question mark that against the team like Boston, I'm fine missing that one. Would you start Tyler Glass now against Houston? No. No way.

Probably not. I'd like to see it. Would you start Cole Hamels at Texas? Oh, yeah. No, we know we can't pitch in Texas, Chris. The only reason he's good now is because he's away from Texas. Revenge game, Heath. Cole Hamels hates Texas.

Exactly. He's going to show them what they missed. He's probably crying right now. He's going to show them. Either watching Babe or thinking about pitching in Texas. In all seriousness, would you start Cole Hamels at Texas? I would not. I would.

Okay. Would you start Jose Arania, Trevor Richards, Sandy Ocantara, or Pablo Lopez versus Colorado this weekend at home? I'd start Richard. That's it. I would probably avoid them all. I'm excited about them all, but I would want to, I'm taking a wait and see approach before I start them. Okay. No David Price for the Red Sox.

short week. No Matt Strom for the Padres. Eduardo Rodriguez will replace Price. No replacement name for Strom. Both Price and Strom will start on Monday instead. So for the short week, here are some pitchers that you might want to stream. This guy is owned in a lot of leagues, but not every league. Marcus Stroman has Detroit. And then he is Baltimore. So you could get a two-start Detroit, Baltimore, Marcus Stroman, if you're playing in the long week, 73% of. And my favorite pitcher for opening day DFS. Okay. Carlos Rodon He should be more on than that anyway

I don't agree in categories or Roto versus Stroman I agree he should be like 100% own in points leagues Agree to disagree at him I will Carlos Rodon 55% owned at Kansas City Yes or no Sure

Yeah I'm probably I'm excited about what Rodon could be But he did not have a good spring He did not earn the opening day role he just got it because they don't have any other pitchers to give

it to, I don't want to. Sleeper, not for this week, but for the season. Actually, for this week, it's facing Kansas City. I'm interested in Lucas Gialito. I feel like he's got a breaking ball that's ridiculous. I think there's a chance he's relevant at some point. Just want to throw that out there. They have three pitchers that have not actually been good,

but that we could all see being good. Yeah, Gio Lito, he's another guy who bought a Rapsoto. Trapso. What's it? Rapsoto. Repsoto. Yeah, one of the pitching devices and has been working on refining his arsenal and trying to get back the curveball that made him such a good prospect. So definitely someone to watch.

Would you start Tyler Anderson at Miami, 22% Own? Real quick, guys, go for it. Yeah. I think you're starting like 80% of major league starters if they're in Miami against that lineup. San Diego pitchers are facing San Francisco, so all the guys we've talked about, you can give them a look. San Francisco pitchers are at San Diego. you know, it's not it's not like San Diego

such an easy matchup now, but I think we have some interest in Jeff Samarja just on the whole. Derek Rodriguez, Greg Holland, Derek Holland, rather. I think they have a four-game set and all those guys are going, so you could take a look at them.

And how about these Milwaukee pitchers that we've been talking a lot about? They have St. Louis this week. Are they good enough to start against St. Louis? Peralta, Woodruff, uh, yeah, Peralta, Woodruff Burns, et cetera. I think you probably want to just let them go.

It's another one like Miami where none of them are proven enough that you're going to start them against a, what should be a tough match of in St. Louis this year. The one thing I will say is I'm probably not picking up another reliever if Woodruff or Burns is a spark for me. I'll probably just start them as a relief year. If you have the long week, the 11-day week, the Yankees have great matchups, Baltimore, Detroit, and at Baltimore,

nine games. The Nationals have tough matchups, the Mets, the Phillies, and the Mets, and they have eight games. I got to be honest with you, this was a tough exercise to do. Maybe Chris has more information about this, but I could not find a lot of teams with good or bad matchups. Plus, not all the pitching rotations are set right now. I think the Mariners only have eight games, too. Okay. I love Junjun Riu.

You should start him. He has Arizona and San Francisco. Walker Bueller is honestly a questionable start for me, I believe he will have Arizona and at Colorado, and they've taken it so slowly with Walker Bueller. I don't know what to recommend, guys. What would you do with Bueller? I do believe that his second start will be at Colorado.

His innings are likely to be limited early on in the season, at least for the first week or two. So I think it's fine to sit him in week one. That's crazy. You don't sit him for a bad pitcher. Right, but in either format, really, because he might not have the volume to carry in head-to-head, and Colorado is just a tough place to pitch for anyone.

Luke Weaver, I don't know that I'd be willing to start him. I think his two matchups are going to be at the Dodgers and home against Boston. So you can own him, but I don't know that you start him. And if somebody drops Luke Weaver... You're sitting a lot of pitchers. Well, that is the other thing. It's like... First of all, no, I'm not.

There's not that many pitchers. No, I'm not sitting that many pitchers. But these are all guys in the 50%-owned range. They're not even going to be on everyone's roster. And then I think people are going to be tempted to look at Domingo O'ermon, because I believe he will have Detroit and then at Baltimore in two starts. I'm not sure he gets any quality starts. I don't, there's talk about him piggybacking with Louis Sessa.

I have no idea how this is going to work out. I must say that. But Detroit and at Baltimore is enticing in a deeper league for Armand. Maybe it's worth it. But just be aware there might be an innings cap. First time through the rotation, there is an innings cap for everyone. Yeah, and the thing to keep in mind when you're talking about an opener is

yes, it does limit the potential for a quality start, but in theory it makes you more likely to pitch an extra inning because you're avoiding the top of that lineup that third time. So in theory, it could go... Mon would open,

I think. And then Sessa would replace. Okay, look, I honestly don't feel comfortable enough saying it because it was just something I read and I don't know for sure. Yeah, I had read it too. I just thought it was the opposite.

Okay, it might be. I don't know why they would do that with the Wyeasd. Yeah, they should. Time for your emails. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. This is from Nick in New Jersey. He says, hey, Brandon, Vincente, Randy, and Brett. Philly's rotation from the early 2000s?

Nice, okay. I know you guys mentioned Strom in passing when talking about Chris Paddock. where does Matt Strom rank with Brad Peacock, Brandon Woodruff, Trevor Richards, Stephen Mats, and Joe Musgrove. I'm looking for upside. Strom, how does he compare to Peacock, Woodruff, Richards,

Mats, and Musgrove? Peacock's the only one I definitively put ahead of Strom. I mostly have interest in Strom in leagues where you can use them as a spark, and in those leagues I'd rather have him than Richards and Mats. If you can't use him as a sparp, I'd probably rather have Musgrove. I do think Musgrove is going to be a little bit safer in terms of innings.

A little worried about Strom's innings, but there's a lot of upside. You tried to well actually meet Heath, but I was right. I didn't even say anything. I know, but you gave me a look. About the Phillies? It was the 2002 Phillies, or early 2000s. From Pete, what do you think about Drew Pomerantz as a spark in points leagues? I think he's really, really bad, but he is a good park.

Yeah, I think he could be good in that rotation. in that park. And I tweeted about this other day. Most years, we'd be talking about Drew Pomerantz. We'd be still excited about Ryan Yarbrough and Yanni Chorinos for the Rays. We'd be talking about Jordan Liles, even, for the Pirates. But there are 14 sparse that I am excited about this year. There are not so many, you don't have to reach to this level.

Okay, next email is from JT. in Boston. Hey, Tony, Lucky, Sunny, and Alfred. Am I supposed to know this? Well, he put the note. I thought it was Sopranos characters because I've never seen the show and it just sounded like it. It's serial mascots. Yeah, how about that?

So Tony the Tiger, who's lucky? The Tricks Rabbit or something? Or the Lucky Charms? Lucky Charms guy, maybe? Yeah, I think so. Sonny apparently is the Cocoa Pups guy. And Count Chocula's name is Count Alfred Chalky That's pretty funny.

With Josh James and Jesus Lazzardo Hurt and Paddock seeming to rise out of this category, can you name some reserve round starting pitchers that could be big sleepers? I still think James and Lazzardo belong that category. Sure. Yeah, it's just you'll have to stash them. Is Lazzardo on the MLBIL? No.

Okay, so that's going to make a tougher for both of those guys. But, I mean, names that we've talked about a lot, those Marlins guys, the Padres. guys, the Brewers guys, I think all have sleeper potential. I can give all the actual names if we want, but we've mentioned them a bunch today. But yeah, I think

those three rotations in particular have a lot of sleeper potential. And I'll say, I mean, we just talked about him, but Luke Weaver, in drafts that Chris and I are not in, is actually available in the reserve rounds. Scott really likes Joe Musgrove. He was excited to take Joe Musgrove in our 16 team league draft yesterday.

And I like taking Sunny Gray. I'm hoping that a change of scenery will help. Look, if these guys don't work out, you drop them, no big deal. Except, like we're saying, if you believe in Luke Weaver, you've got to give them a little bit of patience. Dodgers and Red Sox with his first two starts, it might get off to a bad start. You know, don't be so quick to drop them. This is from Ed from the Pacific Northwest, gentlemen and Adam.

With Scooter Jeanette down. I'm in a hole at second base. The best available option in our league was Adam Frazier, so I picked them up. But I also have Ryan McMahon on my bench, but our league requires 15 starts to gain eligibility. Another owner has offered me his Jose Al Tuve for my Jose Ramirez. So he could put in Altuve at second base, and then he could put Justin Turner, who's on his team, at third base. It's a mini-dynasty league. Each team keeps five players each year for as long as we want.

So should I give up Jose Ramirez? for Jose Al Tuvei to fill that scooter Jeanette void at second base. So it's Jose Ramirez for Jose Altuve and half a season of Scooter Jeanette, basically? Yes. That's the thing I don't like about this is I don't, I think Adam Frazier's, I mean, he's obviously not on the level of any of these guys. I think he's going to be a fine fill-in for a couple of weeks. I do expect Ryan McMahon's going to have second base. eligibility in a couple of weeks, even in a league that requires 15 starts to gain eligibility.

And so I really think you can piece together second base, and I'd rather have Jose Ramirez than Jose Al-Tuvae. So I'm going to pass. Yeah, I think particularly in a dynasty league, he's a little younger than Al-Tuve. Omar from Buffalo. I haven't heard you talk about Teoscar Hernandez. He's had a nice spring. Is Teasca Hernandez worth rostering in a 12-team-five outfield or categories league? he has pop.

I'm not really sure he has all that much else. And a guy who has pop and doesn't hit for average isn't that hard to find. I'm not saying he's not worth rostering. He's just not a priority for me. Okay, this is from Will. In a head-to-head daily categories league, it's a keeper league. I am the Mookie Betz owner. I've been getting offers for him since the draft.

What would you guys give up? What would you guys rather give Mooky Betts or Mike Trout up for? You know, how valuable are these guys? At first, I was thinking two top 20-ish players could get me to bite, but the first offer I got was Cluber and Judge for Mooky Betts, and I just couldn't do it. So am I crazy to turn down Judge and Cluber for bets, and what kind of offer would it take for you to move either Betts or Trout?

I would take an offer like Judge or Judge and Cluper. You would do that? Yeah. I'm not 100% sure I would pull the trigger on it, but yeah, that's the right range. Yeah, I would do like personally just because I don't love Kluber. I would do judging like Verlander or, you know, something like that. But it does take a lot and you're losing steals if you do a trade like that.

But just think about it, like when the draft started, I'd be pretty okay with trading my number two overall pick for pick 12 and 13. Yeah, I guess so. And that's kind of what you're doing there. Okay, this is from hilarious 310. Should I drop Yadhi Malina for Danny Jansen? I'm fine with it. I prefer Janssen, but they're right in this very same tier,

so just take the guy you like better. From Jordan, who is the best saves, holds option, saves plus holds option. Tony Watson, Michael Givens, Chris Devansky, Drew Steck and Ryder, Willie Peralta. I think DeVansky's the best pitcher of the green. group, so I'd go with him. And he might be on the only team that actually has holds and saves.

That's fair. So Davensky, I just wanted to point out, you look at his overall numbers, they're not great from last year. There was an injury. His first three months, he had a 134 ERA, seven walks, 40 strikeouts, and 33 and two innings. And he was well on his way. Devanski was well on his way to a third straight, brilliant season. So he's probably the best pitcher, as Chris said.

Tony Watson, though, did have a great year with a 259 ERA, 72 strikeouts, to 14 walks and 66 innings. He's pretty good, too. So, yeah, saves plus holds. I think you just kind of go with the best guys. Chris and Heath, you're the best guys. Yeah.

Thanks. Kick him out of the league, folks. We'll come back tomorrow. Get ready for opening day with some bold predictions, some MLB predictions, and anything else that we need to talk about here on fantasy baseball today. Thanks for listening, everyone.

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