Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/03 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Closer Problems Already?

Episode Date: April 3, 2017

Roberto Osuna is on the DL and three closers struggled on Sunday. What should Fantasy owners do (specifically with Osuna and Fernando Rodney)? ... Thoughts on Masahiro Tanaka's struggles, the Cubs lineup, Carlos Martinez's strikeouts, Jake Lamb's issues with lefties and some players to add ... Looking ahead to some future games we're discussing who we're keeping and eye on and who we're ready to add as soon as we see something good. Plus, best ways to manage your daily roster and DFS advice ... 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

We are underway. Baseball season is started. Fantasy baseball season is started. Welcome to the podcast, everybody. This is fantasy baseball today. We want your emails. Fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. I have said the word baseball now five times in the first 15 seconds of this podcast. What's up, Ethan Scott? How much baseball did you watch yesterday? Baseball, baseball, baseball. There it is. I saw just enough that I know I should congratulate Fernando Rodney and Sung 1-0 on their victories yesterday. Good job, guys, getting your wins. It's too bad Madison Bumgarner could not as pitched as well as you did. It sounds like the middle game was the most interesting with Madison Bumgarner home wearing twice, and that's the one I didn't catch any yet. Would you believe that of the three of us, the only one here who did not watch the Yankees game yesterday, was me? Ah. I was traveling. I don't believe that.

What is wrong with you? They looked awful. I was traveling. I didn't get a chance to see it. But we'll read. Yeah, I'm sure they didn't look very good. We'll recap every game. and as you know, the friendship of Scott and Adam, team scam.

Scum. We got an email about that. We did get an email about that. It's clearly scum. We could read that a little bit. Adam says. Yep. Yeah.

Tough break. No, we're going with scam. But actually, it kind of makes sense to be scum. I mean, scam isn't exactly like. So glowing. A flowery, yeah, you know. Yeah. It's not so great either.

No, whatever. The fate of our friendship of Team Scam is all about Dexter Fowler, the one guy that Scott let me pick against his wishes. And I just want to say... Not the one guy. He's got a... It's one of two guys. He's got a 400 on-base percentage, and he's on pace to score 162 runs. I'm feeling pretty good about Dexter Fowler right now.

Okay. It's one game. He'll probably have a high-on-base percentage. I was more concerned, will he give us enough home runs and stolen bases? Don't worry about him. He's going to be fine now. Opening day is today. I want to give you a little perspective. Just remember, in 2015, Kyle Kendrick faced Milwaukee. He was a Rocky's pitcher at the time, and he went to Milwaukee.

He threw seven scoreless innings. He struck out six batters without a walk, and Heath dubbed Kyle Kendrick, Kyle Kershaw on the next day's podcast. He then gave up 32 run runs at his next five starts. 2016, Stephen Matt's It was not opening day, but it was his first start, so whatever. He gave up seven runs in an inning in two-thirds, and then he was very good after that. And also last year, Francisco Rodriguez, I don't remember if this was opening day. I think it was. He gave up three runs on four hits in his first appearance of the season.

So just putting everything in perspective. I just want to be clear. This section was titled Opening Day Perspective, and one of the three things actually happened on opening Day. It's first game perspective. I think K. Rod, I think it's two or three. I think it's two at three. But let's talk about some actual opening day milestones from yesterday. And we're going to talk about everything from yesterday, including Senwado Fernando Rodney and Mark Balancet's all off to bad starts. Carlos Martinez with 10 strikeouts and 21 swinging strikes. And Roberto Osuna on the DL, just we got a lot of lineup stuff and what we're looking for in

today's games, maybe some DFS advice, and your emails. Masahiro Tanaka had the worst opening day start in Yankees history. Tanaka gave up eight hits and seven runs in two and two-thirds. He gave up two home runs, and it was weird. Last year, Tanaka was the number 15 starting pitcher in points, number 13 of Roto. You just don't really expect this from him, especially against Tampa Bay. Any concerns about Tanaka guys? if you're his owner you're probably feeling a little betrayed because he probably had the most dominant spring of any pitcher period yep but am i worried no i mean he's he's going to have bad starts and this was kind of like there were a lot of weird like defensive lapses that happened for the yankees and there was that two run homer from longoria that barely scraped the one portion of the wall and dead left that was shorter than the rest of it and just it seemed like everything

thing that could go wrong did go wrong for him, and I'm not really, no, I'm not worried. So the Yankees got unlucky yesterday and they're going to be fine, that's what you're saying? They played terrible. I may need to rearrange my standings predictions for the Yankees in the last place. Oh, and 162. Those were the two bottom feeders in the AL East, I think, for all three of us and Chris, too. How about Madison Bumgarner? He became the first pitcher in baseball history. to hit two home runs on opening day. And I ask you, what if hitting stats counted for pitchers? Don't get Scott and I started on this fight, because we've fought over this before.

Yeah. I think I looked it up and pitchers combined to hit 136 with a 310 OPS. Not OBP, but OPS. I'm going off the top of my head with those numbers, but it was something that ridiculously bad. So, like, the occasion, the odd pitcher who has a good power game, or even a halfway decent power season, like, isn't nearly worth the negative impact of all the other pitchers. Well, negative impact. We got it from three guys in the bullpen last night. Let's talk about some closer problems.

Sen Juan O, an inning in two-thirds. I don't know why they had to go. I guess, you know, he came on with runners on first and second in the eighth with one out. So they extended him quite a bit. And I don't know. I ended up watching the eighth and ninth innings of last night's game this morning and just to see what happened with Senwono. And I'm not worried.

I'm sure you guys aren't either. He did fine in the eighth. He came in. And by the time he gave up that home run to Wilson Contreras, he'd thrown 28 pitches entering the abat. Matt Carpenter made a really bad play before that. What should have been ruled an error was ruled a hit. So can we just eliminate any?

Are you concerned about Senuano discussion? It's too early to be worried about him. It was more like, oh. But Fernando Rodney, on the other hand, was really bad. He only gave up a run, but he left the bases loaded. He gave up two hits, two walks. And it's honestly got me thinking, like, do I even need to – like, do I even start Fernando Rodney in my head-to-head categories league?

Because the saves are going to be – like, okay, He could get said, but he's going to kill me in Whippen ERA. He's just not good and got off the bad start yesterday. Yeah, presumably, if he keeps the job long enough. I mean, it's, you know, what's happening here is kind of confirmation bias. Like, I'm not going to worry about Zone 1-0. I'm not going to worry about Mark Malanson who are about to talk about. Okay.

Because I had every reason coming into the season to believe they're good. But then Fernando Rodney, like, he was the least talented pitcher in a close- role. Maybe John Mark Omes, maybe Brandon Kinsler. But it's that trio. Of that trio, Rodney is the one whose team has the most to lose by keeping him in that role. It's just there isn't a clear replacement yet.

So I feel like he's going to get maybe an undeservedly long leash. Yeah, I would say, I'm not, I don't want you to go drop him at him. I'm not going to drop him. I think what you want to do at a head-to-head categories league specifically, is look at your matchup that week. If you're playing a team that doesn't have any closers and you've already got one, there's no reason to start him.

Sure. I'm still going to start him most weeks where I think he might make the difference between winning or losing the saves category. Yeah. Go ahead. Tom Wilhelmson, J.J. Hoover. They're both in the Diamondbacks bullpen.

They both have closing experience. I think there's somebody will emerge eventually as a viable Rodney alternative. So if he keeps this up. I was going to mention Hoover. Sorry, we keep talking. Yeah, no, that's okay. People want to know who the next guy is.

I mean, Randall Delgado is there too, but Hoover is probably worth mentioning because this time last year, we were talking about him potentially being the, well, not this time, but a few weeks ago last year, we're talking about him being maybe the Reds closer because in 2015 he had a 294 ERA. That was his third of four seasons with a sub three ERA. You know, he had a good year. Then last year was really bad. He only threw 18 and two-thirds innings who were at a 1350 ERA. It's kind of a lost year for him, and now he's on a new team. But this is interesting because I think the dimebacks could actually be pretty good. You're not talking about Brandon Kinsler and the Twins.

You're talking about a team that might win some games and get a lot of saves. So whoever emerges there, if it's not Rodney, could be pretty valuable. Right, Adam. I mean, technically Rodney himself could be pretty valuable. He had a good stretch with the Padres early last season, a good stretch with the Cubs late this season before. And he's made in a very long, career out of sucking just not quite bad enough to lose his job. Yeah, he got a bit.

So it shouldn't surprise anyone if he bounces back and converts his next two or three save opportunities before imploding again. I would still guess he's my top choice to lose his job, though, of any closer. Okay, so he also, by the way, pitched in a non-save situation if you want to give him that excuse. Let's talk about Carlos Martinez, but I spelled it with a K instead of a C. So clever. Thank you.

Seven and a third. Six hits. No runs. No walks. Ten strikeouts. They talked about him maybe pitching more to contact. He wasn't a great strikeout pitcher last year. I don't think Martinez had good strikeout numbers in spring training.

But, yeah, this was tremendous. 21 swinging strikes. And last year, Martinez had two games with double-digit strikeouts. Both were against Milwaukee. And the Brewers led baseball in strikeouts last year. The Cubs, by the way, were ninth in strikeouts, most strikeouts. But yeah, what did you think? I mean, pretty nasty stuff last night from Carlos Martinez.

Yeah, I saw a couple tweets from Chris Towers, and I hate to, like, read his tweets on the show when he's not even here. But he said 45% of Martinez's pitches last night were change-ups, and he got 16 of his whiffs on that pitch. He'd never thrown more than 29% of change-ups, and he's starting his career. And I got to track down Chris and see where he's fun. finding this information this early. Because I was looking for some pitch FX stuff this morning and couldn't find it.

This was last night. Chris was at the game. He was charting it. We sent him on assignment. That's pretty cool. And he was throwing, like he hit 100 miles per hour. And he's had troubles getting lefties out. So if this changeup is now a huge part of his repertoire,

he's probably going to have an exceptional year. He never had a start last year with 21 swinging strikes. The most he had was 20. He only did that once. And it seemed like, you know, since I don't have the pitchfx information, I'm just kind of speaking anecdotally. But it seemed like he was hitting 100 more consistently last night than I remember him doing that. So that's, you throw in his secondary stuff and the movement and everything. It's, yeah, I think, like, I'm not really changing anything yet just on one start,

you could certainly see the potential for this guy to develop into a true ace based on that start. Carlos Martinez is outstanding beginning to the season. If you want to go to Brooks Baseball, by the way, Scott, they do have updated pitch effects now. I'm looking at it. And, yeah, he averaged basically the same as he averaged on his four-seem fastball on April 2016. I don't know game by game, but whatever. Carlos Martinez, great job. Hooray.

Anything stand out to you guys yesterday from the three games that we haven't talked about? A couple things. Aledmus Diaz stole two bases. Yeah, John Lester. And he only had four last year. It was against John Lester. But he's, you know, pretty fast. I look, though.

He only had, like, I think his minor league high was like six. Maybe that was at one stop. But stolen bases are mostly a matter of desire. I'm not... Anybody can steal bases that they just choose to run to second. Scott, he stole third base. It was... I'm just saying it was mostly about Lester.

yesterday. It probably was. Just one point that out. I mean, if we that was one of the more notable things that happened yesterday, you would agree. It's worth discussing. Yeah, yeah, it was. Good day for Kevin Keirmeyer and Randall Gritchick went atop the initial

waiver wire claim or article today. He's still only 63 percent owned. He could just have a monster year. Yeah, what is it with the, what did you find when you wrote about him? You included him in Sleeper's two

point out, right? Yes, and it had to do with his, I don't have the exact piece of data right here in front of me, it had to do with his profile as a hitter and his line drive rate and his hard contact rate and such few hitters had matched those numbers. I will find it before the podcast is over and we will have a Randall Gritchick section. I know we were raving about his power peripherals from two years ago at this time last year. And then, you know, he had kind of, he had some issues early last year where he was getting left out of the lineup at times and just seemed like a long time it took him a long time to really to find his form but he is a guy with big power potential if he makes enough contact

and if he plays as consistently as it sounds like he's going here comes the randall gritchick information he has a 43% fly ball rate and a 39% hard contact rate for his career only 15 hitters have topped both of those marks over a full season for the last five years. I'm like Chris Davis did it three times. Poppy did it twice. Carter, Trumbo. Twelve of the 15 guys to top those marks had 29 home runs,

and half of them had at least 38 home runs. And when you say 15 players did it, that includes repeats, right? Like, it's happened 15 times. 15 players did it. Oh, 15 different players. Right. Okay. Well, all right, yeah, Gritchick, 60.

He's actually behind the times here, Heath. He's now 64% owned. I'm driving it up. Creeping up. Actually, he and one other player who I think are pretty similar had really good 2015s and then were total busts in 2016. Both played yesterday, the other David Peralta for the Diamondbacks. Who would you rather own Gritchick or Peralta? Gritchick. I would also rather own Gritchieck. All right. I'll remind everybody what Randall Gritchick did in 2015. He hit 276 with a 548 slugging percentage, 17 home runs and 103 games. He does have bad plate discipline, though. 56 walks, 283 strikeouts in 283 games.

All right, let's do the news and notes. Roberto, oh, sorry, was there anything else from yesterday? We'll get to it. Noonias had two stolen bases. I mean, it was a good first game from a popular bust pick. I think you mentioned Kiermeier had a good game. He had a stolen base off Gary Sanchez. Yeah.

I was big into the stolen bases yesterday, apparently. One of the throws that Sanchez didn't throw into the outfield. And I think we can confirm AJ Pollock looks like he's going to be okay. Yep, good star for him. I think it's funny how Scott likes a Ledvis Diaz, and he's like, hey, Leibis Diaz stole two bases. Does it like Eduardo Nunes? He's like, yeah, Eduardo Nunez.

It's good star for him. But I thought that was encouraging, you know, and he doubled, too, Eduardo Nunez. And I'm with you. Sure. I didn't draft Eduardo Nunez, even when he kept falling and falling and falling. I don't have much faith in him, but good star for him. There's a lot more we can talk about.

Is that Grinky? His velocity, and I haven't looked at the numbers yet, but just from watching the gun during the game, it did not look like his velocity was as big of concern as what it had been all spring. I didn't. Well, now I can check Brooks Baseball because apparently it's been updated. I was able to check on fan graphs. He averaged, according to Fangraphs, 91.8 on his four seamer last year, and in this opening day start, it was 91 even. Right.

So that's not. I agree. I agree. It wasn't as alarming as I thought it would be. and if I look at it on Brooks baseball now, they have him averaging on his four-seamer 91.6 Compared to... He sat at 92 and 93 a lot yesterday.

Yeah, look, I thought Granky, you know, five innings, four hits, two runs, two walks, four strikeouts, 11 swinging strikes on 92 pitches. I actually was sort of encouraged by what I said. saw. Like, he didn't look bad. He didn't look like, oh, man, this is a problem. That's a bad matchup for him, I feel like, and I don't know what his career numbers are against that lineup for those particular hitters, but he was dancing around the edges of the plate a lot, and that's not a lineup that's going to chase a lot of bad pitches. So I'm... And that's what he does. I'm mildly encouraged.

Yeah, but it still wasn't a very good start. And also, they mentioned on the broadcast, he's had problems in the past with the home plate umpire that was behind the plate yesterday for Zach Granky. I want to bring something else about Granky. Last year, he had a bad year, obviously. Granky had four starts in which he allowed seven or more earn runs. That's like, that's crazy. Seven, seven or more runs and four starts. In the other 22 starts, he had a 292 ERA. He had 15 quality starts. I'm going to say at a 21, not 22, because I believe he left one with an injury after two innings. Actually, Granky was a little better than I realized yesterday,

than I realized last year, as I was looking at it yesterday. And there was a lot of good there, not a lot of great necessarily, but it was really four starts, two of them early, that just destroyed his ERA and his season. I don't know. We'll see what happens. Obviously, this is a guy that we're going to be monitoring a lot early in the year. For what it's worth, Brooks Baseball shows a bigger difference between his velocity last year and his velocity in this opening day start.

It seems a lot. It's not as encouraging if you look at that. And I don't know what the difference would be, why they would record different numbers, Fangrass versus Brooks Baseball. Well, that's what bothers me about all this statistical revolution here. It's like, why do we have all these different defensive metrics and why can't we – Why do we have different wars? And why can't we get simple thing like pitch effects right on the same?

You know, this kind of stuff. Why can't we just agree? Let's get everybody on the same page. If people are going to make out numbers to be like the single most important thing in the world, don't you think that two websites do the same exact thing? Should have the same exact numbers? That's the point of numbers. Yeah, no.

I hear you. I don't disagree. Good. Good. I'm glad you don't. Roberto Osuna is on the DL with a cervical spasm. and he must be on my auction team because everybody on my auction team is hurt.

I picked up Jason Greeley for $5 yesterday. Your thoughts on this? I mean, I don't think it's going to be a situation where Gilly's saving games for long. Obviously, if it's a league where saves are scarce, you kind of have to pick them up, as you would anybody who gets moved into that role. But my thinking right now,

it's very early hearing about this injury, from Ozuna, but I don't think it's going to be a long-term DL stay. No, and I was more motivated to pick up Grilly because I am the Ozuna owner. I thought it was important because he's had this issue. His velocity's been down a little bit. So, Grilly, by the way, looking at last year's numbers, he had a 412 BRA. Awesome. It was 364 with Toronto, though, in 42 innings.

He was really bad with the Braves. Yeah, much better toward the end of the year. Just kind of to give you a comparison, in my Tout Wars League, Fab ran for the first time last night. So, you know, we had the draft in early March. Blake Trinen was still out there. He went for like five times what really went. And that's probably the way it should be.

Yeah, I went and got Kinsler on my Azuna team. Oh, Kinsler. Yeah. Ian Kinsler, I didn't realize. No. Was available. Hey, Melvin Upton. The Blue Jays released Melvin Upton yesterday.

I feel like Heath, you probably kind of intrigued by this. He was a 2020 guy, 20 home runs 27 steals last year. Yeah, I don't think he should just stay a free agent for very long. There's plenty of teams that Melvin Upton should help. So I'm just hopeful that he goes to a place where maybe he has a possibility of semi-regular playing time. Should we be picking up Melvin Upton in a Roto League right now,

thinking he'll be a starter somewhere? I think that's right now. I think the discussion is more about do you drop him if you already had him. He's 15% owned. pretty deep roto league. But unless there's other base dealers out there, I think I'd hold on just a little longer, see how this plays out. Yeah, I might.

Could you make a speculative ad on him in an NL only? I don't. Well, since he's not in, at least on our site, he's not available in the player pool because he was last with an AL team. But you're the commissioner, Scott. If you could work something out with your commissioner. No. No. The NLT, the NL League I commission, I'm not going to let you do that.

Scott is a tough commissioner. You know that? Yes, he is. Very tough commissioner. Does you get your players on the disabled list? No, I didn't get my players that disabled list. Scott didn't think it was worth doing. All right, a few more notes. Roberto Perez, Cleveland Catcher, four-year, $9 million deal.

Do you think he's going to play more than Jan Goams? Can I just go back to this for a second? Oh, please. I'm glad you are. I am glad you are. Well, with the Melvin Upton thing, like, just because somebody is sneaky enough to be like, hey, can I get special treatment and pick up this player early, like, how is that going to make everybody else feel when they're holding on to their auction dollars knowing that if anybody changes leagues, they're going to want to throw a lot of money at him? And this one guy just completely usurps the rules and gets him for nothing. You should not do that. You should not make the Melvin Upton exception. That is actually dumb.

That is Heath being dumb. But the DL thing you need to evolve on. Force players onto your DL early when they're not officially on yet, to be clear. That's what you were wanting to do. The real problem, and it happened to me in a league that actually Adam commissions, is I had two players that went on the DL on Sunday. And one of them I did not have a backup at that position. So I put in waiver claims, picked them up.

But because we had games yesterday, those players on my roster for next week now. So I'm stuck with Roberto Ozuna in my starting lineup for the entirety of week one. But that wasn't anything the commissioner could have done, right? That was just bad luck. But it's an illustration of why waiting until they're officially on the DL can really make things difficult. You didn't have to wait until yesterday to pick up a replacement, though. You could have done it sooner. Well, yeah, if you just want to drop some other healthy player on your team.

Yeah. But we don't want to. Nobody has to make those tough decisions in spring training because they have expanded rosters just for these types of situations. And whatever, who cares about Roberto Perez? Paul Molitor did say Brandon Kinsler is the closer. He said, Kinsler is my closer. I've talked to Brandon some about being open-minded about some situations, maybe a little bit unique to the old-school closer definition. So I don't know.

Maybe that means Kinsler won't get every ninth inning opportunity. He might be used in the eighth. Whatever. He's the closer. Because he's so good. leverage situations. You can't save Kinsler for the night. You meet him with the bases loaded because he's branded Kinsler.

Ouch. And Gregory Polanco is going to DH. They're at Boston. They opened the season in an AL park. So Polanco's going to start as a designated hitter, but at least he's playing. Guys, I learned some very exciting news yesterday, actually. And yeah, I'm going to share it with you. You're not going to care, but I do.

Third Eye Blind is touring, and I am a big third-eye blind fan. This would be my third time seeing third-eye blind. So it has to happen. Last night when I found out, I opened up the Seekek app on my phone. I searched Third-Eyeblind. I saw they're playing at Jones Beach in June. Clicked on the event. Seat Geek does all the work.

Searches multiple ticket sites, finds the available seats, ranks them based on value, and lets me know where the best bargains are. Seat-Geek does the price comparison for me, so I know I'm getting good deals. and I'm saving a bunch of time and money, and I'm no longer looking at multiple ticket sites on my own, which was a real waste of time and really annoying. So $48 tickets to Third Eye Blind.

You can sign me up for that. You can get those seats for $28 because Seekek will give you $20 back after your first ticket purchase. Download the Seekek app and use our promo code, Fantasy at checkout. Again, that promo code is Fantasy, all caps, and you're going to get a $20 rebate after your first purchase. So again, great website, great app.

Download the Seekek app. the promo code fantasy 20 bucks back and it's the best way the most efficient way to get tickets some lineup stuff from yesterday should we have anticipated this Javier Bayez started at second base Ben Zoprist and right field Jason Hayward in center field by his bat at ninth he went one for four I want to see if it happens again like it happening on opening day I think that makes sense you can start John Jay on opening day on well the way the way Joe Madden put it was it was a tribute to last year's World Series team. He had everybody on the field who was there at the end.

And it sounded like a last-minute decision on his part. So, no, you shouldn't have expected it. Okay. He should have been thinking less about that and more about using his best pitcher in the late innings instead of losing a game without ever using them. Wow. Agreed. This would be the ideal alignment.

Like, Jason Hayward and Centerfield, he can play Centerfield. Why not? But he can't play Center Field as well as John Jay. And Ben Zobras can't play right as well as Jason Hayward. Are we sure Jason Hayward can't play center field as well as John Jay? It's not like John Jay's Kevin Keirmeyer out there. I think we're pretty sure. Okay.

Like, I'm not saying there's a huge difference. I think there's a bigger difference between Hayward and Zobriss and Wright. Like Hayward and Zobrists next to each other versus Jay and Hayward next to each other, that's a huge difference. Zobrist is... I mean, do right fielders get enough chances that it matters? It's not like Zobrists is a bad difference. We're going back to just put the kid that can't catch in right field. No, no, because novers can obviously catch.

I just, I mean, this would be great. This would be the way to make it all work out if this became their most common lineup. And who cares if John Jay's in there? But I would guess, based on the way Madden talked about it, this will not be the norm. Okay. And don't forget Albert Almora, too, who's a very good fielder, right? And he's, he is. He is very good, yes.

But he would be platooning with John Jay and getting the lesser half. if it's even half of those at bats. Johnny Peralta batted clean-up for St. Louis. He went one for four with three strikeouts. Peralta is only third base eligible, so it's going to be hard for him to really matter, I think. Jed Jerko started over Colton Wong against a lefty. That looks like a platoon there.

Corey Dickerson did lead off against the righty. He went one for five with two strikeouts against the Yankees. Stephen Sousa apparently could lead off for Tampa Bay against lefties. It's probably more relevant in Daily Leagues. And a guy we haven't talked about much. for speed. Malick Smith, he's batting eighth. He played left field for Tampa Bay. He stole 16 bases in 24 attempts last year, which isn't great. But 16 bases in 72 games is pretty exciting for Atlanta. Smith is filling in for Colby Rasmus right now as a groin strain. And by the way,

he was four for 50 against lefties last year. Does Malik Smith have any mixed league relevance? No. Okay. Yeah, I don't think so. There were, there's also some lineup news for from today. Courtesy of Chris Towers. Courtesy of Chris Towers. Zander Bogart's hitting sixth in the opening day lineup. That's not ideal.

And with Anthony Rendon out, it sounds like Adam Eaton is hitting second. Oh, okay. Interesting. So I don't know. I mean, the Rendon thing's a little bit scary. But that would, Adam Eaton, I feel like, is one of the guys that may have the biggest swing in his fantasy value. you just depending on where because he could hit anywhere from second to seven

Adam Eaton yeah and he's going to need those plate appearances right he's more of a points lead guy adam he is a rhodo guy because he hits a lot of doubles and triples that's the main reason i would say right uh when we look at the three games Tampa bay seven Yankees three diamond back six Giants five uh St louis four cubs three is there anything else you want to talk about that we didn't cover so far. All right, let me ask you a question. Are you concerned at all about John Lester pitching to Wilson Contreras and not David

Ross? Not really. No, no. Wilson Contreras was a three-run doll. Yeah. Yeah, it was a nice game-tying home run in the top of the ninth inning off Senwono, Contreras, off to a good start, two for four day. Are you intrigued at all by Starlin Castro, who's 58% own, went three for four,

and batted 290 with 11 home runs after the all. All-Star break last year. Sounds like he's well on his way to doing that again, and where did that get him? Yeah, let's see. Dinarz-Ban is 35% owned. He let off, he went two-for-five at Arizona for the Giants. That's probably too low in terms of ownership. He is a guy, and I feel like this has happened for a few years now, that nobody really gets excited about drafting him.

but inevitably we're going to realize why is Donard's fan so lowly owned? He should be like 100% in points leagues. And that ownership will creep back up. There's not any upside there, but that's too low. And I think my biggest loser yesterday was Jake Lamb. Jake Lamb, who I am a big fan of, over four with three strikeouts. He did bat clean up. This is really tough for him.

We know Lamb doesn't hit lefties well. He batted 164 and 110 at bats, and he's facing Madison Bumgarner. So you had to figure it would be a bad day for him. But then in the eighth inning, tie game, nobody out, runners on first and second. They brought in a lefty to face Jake Lamb, and he promptly grounded into a double play. So, you know, I just wonder at what, look, it's one day, but it is a concern. Do they eventually sit him against lefties? Do they pinch hit for him against lefties late in the game?

I think the fact that Lamb was the cleanup hitter against Bumgarner on day one tells you something about what they think about Lamb, but he does have to start hitting lefties a little bit better than 164. Yeah, the obvious thing that's working in his favor is that Brandon Jury is playing every day. I don't know who you're going to put it third that's going to hit lefties a lot better than Lamb. Yeah, I don't know. All right. I want to talk about a potential problem for team scam. Scam, you ready? What's the problem?

The problem is I'm very aggressive. on the waiver wire. And this is not a league where you have to wait. You could just go grab somebody. Really? I thought I had done away with all those leagues. Nope. I saved one.

Preserved it. Why? Why would you go with the absolute worst way to do add drops? I think it's good to have a variety of different types of leagues in our repertoire. Not when they're bad. Really empathize with all fantasy owners, no matter how they play the game. We should do a league that counts nothing but wins. That's, I mean, sure.

You just draft Fernando Rodney and San Juano. Is anybody else playing in that league, Adam? Is that a format type we're not representing well here? Well, maybe they will now. All they have to do is here. The CBS guys are doing it. So here's the issue. Like, it's not so much, hey, should we pick up this guy?

I trust you to make those ad drops. I don't want to give away the guys that I'm high on and say, hey, Scott, I think we should pick up this guy. Meanwhile, in the other three leagues that were in together, or maybe it's just two, you're stealing my guys because I alerted you to them because I'm great, basically. But Scott only does waiver wire once a week in all other leagues, so as long as it's not a Friday or Saturday, you're good. But this is going to change that. He's going to be like, oh, Adam likes this guy. Maybe I should. He won't take the time.

You think you're really going to give me the scoop on a guy, Adam? He wouldn't take the time to go put your guys on the deal. He's not going to take the time to do that. Plus, this is a 16-team league. I mean, the quality of players on the waiver wire relative to the other leagues that we play in together. Like, it's not even in the same ballpark. Speaking of the waiver wire, one name that I want to get out there and not forget on this podcast that I noticed, we talked a lot about Delano de Shields last week.

We didn't talk enough about him. Oh, really? He's 30% out. Adam wanted to draft him in every league. Yeah. Adam got the message. I haven't been two or four leagues. He has not been...

I don't think there's any reason that should be below 55, is there? He should be owned in every five outfield or roto league, I feel. And every AL-only league. Yes. So I have a hard time believing that's only 30% of our leagues. Well, he's owned about the same amount of leagues as Dernard Span. Who would you rather have Dynard Span or DeLanard-E-Sheels? Totally depends on format.

Yeah. But probably Shields. Yeah, I'd probably own DeShields regardless of format. Span is clearly his better format is points. Span's going to be better of points, but... Well, not necessarily. I mean, if DeShield steals three times as many bases as him, which is possible... If that's possible, then he needs to be owned in much more than 35% of leagues.

Just take a shot early. Don't miss the boat. He needs to be owned him more than that. I don't know that I'd go as high as... 60, but he needs to be owned in more than what he is now. I'm just going to tell you, if Delano DeShield steals that many bases, Adam Azors is going to have a very good year, okay, because I got me a lot of the shields.

I'm actually sitting him in our Roto League just this week. I just want to see, you know, I'm not quite ready to pull the trigger, but I own him, so here's to hoping. All right. So how is this going to work, getting back to your original point, Adam? Are you going to, like, text me when you want to pick a guy up? Yeah, I think so. Or I think you and I should just have like a drop list of like the two players on our team that were totally fine dropping if one of us sees someone on waivers.

Because the only time I'm going to scoop you is if I'm watching a game or something, I'm paying attention at night and you're doing, you know, taking care of your kid, something completely unimportant compared to fantasy baseball. And I'm like, hey, let's pick, you know, let's pick this guy up and you might not be aware of it. But yeah, I think we'll have to set some rules and some guidelines. Over under, Heath, how many minutes of every show do Adam and I spend talking about how we're going to do this? Too many. Yeah, it's already been too many, so we'll move on. Let's look at the most added list here. I was trying to transition into ad drops, and the most added list, Blake Trinen is number one.

Zach Wheeler is two. He's 61% owned, and Junjin Ryu is three. Another thing I wanted to ask you guys is who you'll be monitoring early in the season, who's sort of on your watch list right now. you at 44% owned was the guy that I was going to mention. I suppose if he has a good start, I'd be pretty interested in picking up Junjin Rio. Yeah, that's a good one. I know Tyler Glass now is still out there in a few leagues if he has a good first start. Charlie Morton, what I like is a deep sleeper.

I've actually started picking him up in some leagues where I had a roster spot freed up because of a player going on the DL, but there's still a few where he's available. Rew's a good one, like he said. The Milwaukee Brewers. All of them. I'm just going to be watching to see what does Keon Broxton do. What does Domingo Santana do? Travis Shaw has got seven games at Miller Park.

We know what he's going to do. How does Junior Garrett? Does he look anything like what he did last year? Willie Peralta, the second half he had. Willie Peralta. Jack Davies. When is Erndon Perez playing? Eric Thames.

Eric Thames. Tims, Thames. That's a good one. I mean, especially how they're going to sort out. the playing time with all those hitters. I'm not, did you mention Ernan Perez too? Because he could play. Briefly. Yeah, anywhere. And Jesus Aguilar, how much is he going to play? How much does that cut into Thames at bats? There's a lot of questions there. Brockston's probably two-owned, but the rest are all are all possibilities for the waiver wire.

Yeah, and I'm pretty aggressive early. I mean, if I see a pitcher have a great start, I am going, you can make fun of me all you want. I am the kind of guy who, early in the same. season, I will pick up a pitcher who had a great start. Last year, I picked up Aaron Sanchez after his first start. And he obviously had a very good season. It's obviously about who you dropped. That's the only one you're going to mention. Like, we're not going to mention any of the other four.

I don't remember. I don't remember who I picked up. But that's the point. Like, you pick up three or four guys. If one of them hits, you did a good job. Yeah. I call it casting a wide net. And we're actually on the same page with this, Adam.

There are players who break out in every league every year on the waiver wire. And if you want to ensure that you're the first one to them, you have to be willing to make the move for them the first time they're getting everybody else in your league's attention. First time they capture their attention, they're no longer somebody who's going to fly under the radar. So if you want to ensure your best chance of landing as many of those players as possible, you kind of have to make the move. And have a short leash with them.

Fine. If they're terrible next time, cut them loose for the next guy. The danger in this approach is obviously you don't want to go too far into the players you actually drafted. We're talking about just a roster spot to you're playing with. You're not dropping your 10th round pick for any of these players. This aggressiveness does greatly increase. the chances that you drop somebody that has a great year, right? Yeah, for some reason that it almost never happens.

I mean, I have talked about, like, the dumbest thing I ever did in fantasy was I dropped R.A. Dickey early on in his Siams season because I just didn't really think much of R.A. Dickey, you know, and he won the Siong. But for the most part, I mean, there are just so many interchangeable guys at the end of your roster that you always want to be looking for upside and you always want to be looking for immediate value. Scott kind of talks about this a lot. It's like if I drop someone, you got to drop someone that you think nobody else is going to want to pick up. So you could potentially get that guy back.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. If you're dropping the bottom guy on your roster who just had a bad start to begin the year, in all likelihood you're going to have another chance at him. You're not dropping a guy who you have to worry about losing to somebody else. And it's not that you're giving up on him. It's just you're going after the player who you're more likely to lose to somebody else because of the performance he just had. So if we wanted to get ahead of the game,

you know, Zach Wheeler is a guy that could definitely go out and dominate. It wouldn't surprise anyone, right? 61% owned. I don't know. Scott's guy Brandon Finnegan. Yeah. He's like 55%-oge. Yeah, I got a few shares of Brandon Fettigan.

If he walks four guys in his first start and Charlie Morton strikes out eight and seven innings, I'm dropping Finnegan for Morton, absolutely. Sure. Herardo Parra, I think, is 33% owned. We talked about him. He's got good matchups this week. So he might be added pretty early. It gets off to a good start.

Joe Musgrove? Patrick Corbyn's 45% owned. Joe Musgrove, yeah. How old is he? He's 51% owned. 45? 551? 51.

Yeah. So there are actually too many guys right now. This is why you got to pay attention to what they do early. And you pick up the ones that are doing well. You drop the ones they're doing poorly, but only if it's somebody that you can afford to lose. Yeah, so like don't drop Tanaka. Let's just, let's do that. Yeah.

Anything you're watching for in today is games. Anything big? A lot of aces out there today. Garrett Cole is my number one. How's he going to do? This is a tough test for him at Boston. Garrett Cole, Rick Porcelo, that's a matchup fantasy owner should be paying attention to. Let's see how these guys do.

One of the early games today, 205 Eastern. Right, right. Yeah, that's a big one. I got more. Sorry. I'm pulling up the matchups now, Adam. Irvin Santana is 74% owned. After the All-Star break last year, Santana had a 265 ERA, 81 strikeouts at 88 and a third, and he's got Kansas City.

Yeah, Danny Duffy's who he's facing, so you'll want to keep an eye on the velocity of Duffy, actually, I think even more so than whatever happens to Santana. Santana, I feel like he's always going to be that fringy guy who you're looking to add whenever he's making two starts. And that's a good point. We've got to see Mitch Hanager in real baseball. We do have to see that. But I want to go back to Santana, because we're kind of talking about being aggressive and who to add and who to drop.

Like, you got to – if you know it's somebody like Santana who – we've got a track record. We've got a long career. We sort of know what he is. You're less likely to pick someone like him up than I don't know if there's anybody going today that has, like, huge upside that's not already owned. If Ricky Nalasco, just based on what Nalasco did in his last six stars, 147 ERA, if Nalasco has a big start against Oakland or Santana has a big start against Kansas City, who would you be more likely to pick up? Well, still Santana.

I mean, it's just we don't have a great example today for what you're talking about. I know. Alaska has so much of an uninspiring track record himself. But I get what you're saying. I agree. What about Kendall Graveman? If Santana, I don't know, Kendall Graveman's pretty, like I'm just not sure the talent base is high enough for me to get excited. Patrick Corbin on Tuesday is the first one I see that if he has a good start, he's got more upside than Irvin Santana, more upside than Ricky in Alaska, that I could see me dropping someone that I kind of like for Patrick Corbin.

If Irvin Santana has a nine strikeout in six innings games, which he's done that kind of stuff before, it's not going to mean as much to me as if Corbin does that. What about if Junior Guerra does it? Gera is 78% only. He had a 281 ERA last year. Well, yeah, because he'd be striking somebody out, which would be brand new. What if he just goes, who are they playing today? They're playing Colorado?

The Rockies, yeah, in Miller Park. What if Junior Gera goes six innings, gives up two runs, strikes out four? I will think he's still Junior Gera. Probably not enough to move the needle for me either. Heath, any DFS advice for today? You know, I think you stack the Rockies and the Brewers, right? That's the simplest thing that you can do is the game with not great pitching in the best-hitting environment as you go after that. The interesting thing will be, because yesterday it looked like fading Madison Bumgarner was a really bad decision, but then it worked out.

One thing I would remind people is that they've added four points for the quality start on Fandual. So I think that levels the playing field just a little bit for some of the mid-range pitchers. Well, we also have Scott Feldman going today for Cincinnati against Jeremy Hellixon. That could be a higher scoring game. Maybe we'll get some Phillies in there. Cesar Hernandez, maybe a sleeper. You got Yolisha Sassiz for the Padres facing the Dodgers. I can't see paying $12,600 for Kershaw.

I'm more likely to go with Thor for $1,500 less. What is John Gray today? Because you mentioned it wasn't good pitching on either side of that Brewer's Rockies matchup. And I don't know that that's true. I actually could see John Gray against the most strikeout pro lineup. He's 8200. 8200. So he is a good, cheap option, I think.

Yeah, why would you stack Brewers against John Gray? It's Miller Park. I mean, like, if we think that of John Gray, then he was drafted too early. Like, Miller Park is not Corris Field. It's not. But it's the closest thing. Is it really? Is it the second, in your mind, the second best hitter?

I believe for left-handed hitters, it's actually the, best park for home run hitters for left-end-home homeraders better than course there really is no comparison for cores because I mean what what the the atmospheric conditions there do to pitches themselves right it just completely they can neutralize pitchers in a way that no other park can so I do think you're right that Miller Park was technically a better park for home runs last year, but the overall hitting, the overall hitting issues, of course, field just are beyond any parks comparison.

I think John Gray sounds like a really good option, though, because he could have a great start and a lot of strikeouts. As I mentioned, Brewer struck out more than any other team in baseball last year. It doesn't mean what happened again this year, but it's all we got to go off of right now. All right, so I wanted to talk about our Major League Baseball predictions. We forgot to do that last week. The story was up on the website. But before that, let's read some emails.

Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. This is from Greg in Baltimore. He says, Dear Jim, Johnny, Kaylee, and Simon. Those are the actors on the Big Bang Theory, right? Some for the actors. Interesting. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galicki. Yeah.

Jim Parsons and Johnny Galicki. There you go. Happy opening day, says Greg. Six-by-six-by-six-head. Head Categories League, OBP instead of average, total bases and holds are the extra categories. How should I utilize my bench? That's actually with total bases and holds being the extra categories, that's kind of interesting. How should I utilize my bench when I can make daily lineup changes, specifically with hitters?

Should I play as many hitters as possible that I can play each day? Will this hurt me too much in OBP? Should I stick to my starters? What do you think I should do? Yeah, like how do you manage your lineup in these daily lineup? leagues. I think it depends a lot on the size of the league. I'm in a 10-team daily lineup league and there's so much talent available on the waiver wire and on everybody's bench that I'm all for getting as many played appearances as possible. 12 team is kind of the crossing

point for that. If it's anything deeper than that, then you're probably hurting yourself by playing these guys on your bench on a regular basis. I like more to use those bench spots. I mean, Okay, you want to have an extra outfielder to mix in when one of your many outfielder has a day off, maybe an extra infielder depending on what kind of line of flexibility you have. But I like it more to mix in. Like if you happen to get a lot of more closers than the average owner, but even if you can mix in middle relievers or just, you know, starters who you trust, you have those on your bench.

I like to take advantage more of the pitching side of things, even if it just means putting a quality middle reliever in on a day when you don't have many starts. And let's think here, like, you should use your bench spot for pitchers. I'm actually looking at my roster in a 12-te-to-head categories league at 7 by 7. And we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. We have 7 bench spots. 5 of my bench spots are pitchers. Two of them are hitters.

And week 1 is a little bit different because the off days are weird. But as you get further into the season, you know, there's only so much substituting you can do. Most teams are playing six or seven games. This is an eight-day week. So, like, I have Anthony Rizzo and A.J. Pollock on the bench today. I put in, I think, Deliner to Shields and Mitch Hanigar. I, as long as I feel like those hitters are good, I am going to use them whenever I can. But I don't think you need to stream hitters.

I think you need to stream pitchers. You can make much more of an impact with one starting pitcher than one starting hitter. But also, it's got to be a good starting pitcher. I was going to kill all your ratios. Yeah, that's like if it's a league that's so deep that the kind of pitchers you'd be picking up are ones that would kill your ratios, that's where I think it's appropriate to start mixing in some relievers, even if they're not ones who get saves. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. You can do that to help your whip and your ERA for sure. By the way, it's Simon Hellberg, not Heedberg. Important correction there. Thank you very much for that. This is Chris from Cincinnati, dear Rick, Darrell, Carl, and Glenn. That's some walking dead Dude Scott you're killing it right now

He's just on fire Not even exerting any effort First time playing in a Roto league 12 teams Do you suggest streaming starting pitching Like in head-to-head leagues Could help boost wins and Ks But run the risk of bad outing

Hurting your ERA and whip So this is a slightly different question I did put them back to back for a reason But I will stream two start pitchers If they're one's worth having On my roster in the first place Like, I'm more likely to run out and pick up an extra two-star pitcher in a points league than I am in a roto league. That's true.

Okay. Next email is from our boy Rupert, who's in the podcast for the People League. His first ever fantasy league was a 16-team ed head categories league with podcast listeners. So it was daunting for him, but he did a great job. Rupert says, dear, Renton, Sick Boy, Begby, and Spud. That's the movie Train Spotting. Dude. What in the world is going on here?

You're just killing it right now. No, this was one of my college roommate's favorite movies, and so he had a poster on the wall in our dorm room of the different characters from the movie. Is it good? That's how I knew it. Is it a good movie? I've never actually seen the movie myself. Neither of I.

All right, here's the question. I have Adrian Gonzalez at first base and reading info on him. I see Gonzalez might lose his job at some point to somebody called Cody Bellinger. Should I pick up Bellinger and stash him on my bench? Or would that be a waste of a bench bot? I would be dropping Kevin Pilar. I think those are equally valuable pieces. I don't know.

Is Pilar really that valuable? Like, I think it's worth it just because. Billinger may not ever... Right. But Pilar would probably not crack your line out. 16-team league, though. 16 teams. Yeah.

I think... Yeah, I think based on the buzz this spring, Cody Bellinger is going to be up at some point this season. I obviously can't guarantee how early it is. It doesn't necessarily have to be at first days he was playing outfield and spring training. And he is one of the top-hitting prospects right now. So, you know, is he that much more stashable than Yohan Moncada? I don't know that he's any less so, really, and I'd rather have Moncada than... Maccada's already owned that league, though.

Pilar, so... Right, exactly. this might be the best you can do is if you're looking to stash somebody who can actually be an impact player, which I think is pretty safe to say Pilar will not. I will say that Pilar wouldn't have a spot on team

scam because our team is just too good but most teams aren't. This is Paul from Prague. Dear Nick Schmidt and Winston, that's an easy one for Scott. New girl. Yeah, new girl. Keep the streak alive here. Grade the trade. Give up Goldschmidt

Get Rizzo and Tanaka. Points League. I will give that. Points league? Yeah. A. You're so generous with your grade. It's a A.

It's a favorable trade, but A is like... It's an A. I could see myself taking the gold from its side. I'll give it a B plus. A. It's an A. Good trade. People panicking over Tanca.

That's a good thing to do. Dan in Iowa. All right, Scott. Can he go five for five? Dear Nick Noheart, Sammy Scrap, and Can O'Corn. I have no idea. I have no idea either. I'll look it up.

My 12-team points league went nuts on pitching in the earlier rounds. I decided not to follow suit. I ended up with a loaded, I mean loaded lineup. Got to Grom early, but then it was all upside and almost no security. My question is, would you be comfortable with this pitching staff if you knew you had the best offense in a points league. Jacob de Grom, James Paxton, Stroman, McCullors,

Mania, Estrada, Penaida, which is Pineda, Rodon, and Bundy. DeGrom, Paxton, Stroman, McCullors, Mania, Estrada, Panada, Rodan, and Bundy. That is one hell of a qualifier on there. If you knew you had the best offense,

you better, but as long as you have the best offense, I'm fine with that. I mean, there's a lot of upside here even if you don't have the best offense. This could work out. I wish I had a truer number two pitcher than Paxton, but by the end of draft season, you know, Chris and I were competing over Paxton in round eight or nine. So, like, that makes sense. Do you find out who these people were from? I think this is an old Nintendo reference.

Really? I think these were... Nick Noheart sounds like a carebear's villain. I think these were names in a Nintendo game before they were allowed to use real names, maybe? Ah. I'm not sure. Yeah, it's a tough one.

It's a tough one. Thank you for the emails. I like the surname O'Corn. Yeah, at O'Corn is very funny. Very funny. All right, so do we have our MLB predictions up? give our division winners, wild cards, and all that stuff? Yeah.

Yeah, it's all up on the site. I mean, do we have it up in front of us right now? In front of us right now? No, I can do it off the top of my head. Wow. Oh, I wonder if I guess. Yes, I have it up front of it. We didn't have a lot of differentiation between the four of us.

It was kind of underwhelming, I think. Okay, we all picked the Red Sox to win the ALEs. We all picked the Indians to win the AAL Central, except Heath was the only one who had the Royals finishing ahead of the Tigers. second place. But I do have the Indians winning the L Central still. We all have the... I'm surprised we all have the Astros winning the A.L. West. We love Apsop.

Team Scam has the Rangers in second and the Mariners in third. And Heath and Chris, Team Kreef, have the Mariners in second and the Rangers in third. I actually think I swapped that. I think I had the Mariners, then I switched it to the Rangers. Which is funny because, like, I'm the one who believes in Seguera. Mitch Hanager's my guy. James Paxton. I mean, Chris kind of stole him from me. I'm still very high on him. Like, on an individual level, it would seem like I'm the highest on the meritors,

and yet I pick the Rangers over them. I think maybe it's just I'm not down on the Rangers. Oh, yeah, the Rangers are really good. I have the... That went to the rotation as good as anybody. I have the A's in fourth and the Angels in last, and the three of you have the Angels in fourth and the A's in last. National League, we all have the Nationals, then the Mets,

but the rest is just a jumbled mess. Between the Marlins, the Braves, and the Phillies. Scott's the high guy on the Braves. He's the only one who has the Braves third. Heath and I have... No, Heath is the Phillies third. I have the Marlins third. Yeah, I mean, I guess I could see it.

I can't really see the Phillies finishing third. But that's what Heath has. So, yeah. They're all kind of the same, right? Those three teams? There's a lot of upside, I think, on the Phillies and the Braves. and also tragically low floors for both of those teams. The Marlins, to me, I feel pretty confident

that Marlins are going to win somewhere between 70 and 79 games. Marlins have the best offense of the three. I feel confident saying, but it's just the pitching is such a weakness. I feel like there are more things that can go right for the Braves and Phillies, which is kind of what he was saying too. We all have the Cubs winning the NL Central. Team Scam has the Cardinals in second and the Pirates in the, third. Team Creeth has the Pirates in second and the Cardinals in third.

And then we each all have the Brewers and followed by the Reds. And Heath picked the Giants to win the N.O. West. That's a surprise. And the rest of us have Dodgers won Giants too. Wow, Giants to win the N.O. West, huh? Yeah, I just got some question marks about the Dodgers. And they, I feel like, are more susceptible to injury than the Giants are. I don't love their depth, especially in the pitching rotation. Yeah, they've got a lot of names, but they've got two verifiably good starters. That's what

everybody brings up first when they talk about the Dodgers is the depth. Yeah, I'll look at the depths. Yeah, the problem is, like, I think they have depth because a couple of their starters aren't actually very good, and then there's like six of them that same level. That's, yeah, no, I hear you. I mean, I think Alex Wood is pretty good. I think

who else got left out of the rotation? Well, obviously Ares is going to be up at some point. And Casimir, if he gets his velocity back, he's okay. But I don't know about the hitters if there's as much depth. I certainly like the Cubs hitter depth more. I know some people are picking the Dodgers to upset the Cubs and get to the World Series. I don't really see that. That leads me to the World Series here.

Oh, man, I picked the Cubs. I was hoping I did something a little more creative. Let's just say who you have winning. Chris has the Dodgers over the Indians. I have the Cubs over the Astros. Heath. Cubs over Red Sox. Scott. Cubs over Red Sox. MVP in the AL, Mike Trout, Mike Trout, Mike Trout, and Scott wanted to be different. He went with Josh Donaldson.

Who? MVP in the NL. Chris Bryant for me, Rizzo for Heath. Have you heard that one before? Ann Harper for Chris and Scott. Team Cot. Why not? A.L. Sy Young. We have four different answers here. Archer for me, Heath. Sayle. Chris? Stroman. Scott? Verlander.

He did say he was inspired by Rick Porcello's season in choosing Marcus Troman. Ah, okay, that's a good call. I decided not to go with Kershaw for Syung. I went with DeGrom. Everybody else went with Kershaw. We all went with, yeah, we all went with Ben Intendi for A.L. Rookie of the year. NL. Rookie of the year.

For me, Hunter Renfro, Heath. Coda Glover. Chris Gansby Swanson Scott I also pick Danesby Swanson There's a lot of team cot

in these predictions Yeah Way to go team cot That's it for the show Thanks for listening Back tomorrow With a super fun Awesome informative

Who to add Who to drop Episode of Fantasy Baseball today See you later