Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/03 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Jansen Concerns; Players to Add

Episode Date: April 3, 2018

Well we've got some good news and bad news for you. Bad news: Kenley Jansen is off to a terrible start (1:00) and we'll discuss what we expect from him going forward. Good news: There are some SPs to get excited about (9:45) like Tyler Mahle and Reynaldo Lopez. We discuss who to add and who to drop (16:00) ... Why is BABIP relevant for Fantasy (26:53)? And who could you pick up if you need stolen bases (30:30)? ... The best and worst hitters thus far. We run through the good (32:30), the potential waiver wire adds (38:10), the bad (41:25) and the potential drops (42:46). We also play Start or Sit for today's games (49:30) ... 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

You take Kenley Jansen in the third round or maybe early fourth round. You might be freaking out right now. Welcome to the show. And are you looking to pick up a starting pitcher with Aldo Lopez, Tyler Malley? They were among the, you know, surprise. I wouldn't say surprisingly necessarily, but very, very encouraging starters in yesterday's games. Welcome, everybody. It is Tuesday.

It is team name Tuesday. We have a few team names. But more importantly, we have players to add and players to drop. I am Adam Azer with Heath Cummings and Chris Towers. Tell me something interesting, guys. Tell me, just wow me right at the start. I have no idea whether you should be worried about Kenley Jansen right now. How about that?

That is exactly the opposite of what Adam was looking for. I just made my first in-season rankings adjustments. And I did move Kenley Jansen down. Down goes Jansen below Craig Kimball, basically tied with a ruledless chap. We got an issue here. chance of the velocity was better, but he was rubbing his shoulder in the dugout after. All right, we are going to start with that. Other stuff coming up on today's show.

Not a ton of injury news. Carlos Correa left with Topaine. More on Yuleiguriel and that saga. A question about Babbitt and some steals. And, oh, who's gotten off to good starts and bad starts? Bryce Harper, by the way. Oh, my gosh. Four walks, no strikeouts, three homers.

I think, yeah, three homers. Six walks, no strikeouts, three homers. excuse me. He is among the hot starters Miguel Cabrera, Gregory Polanco. A lot to get to today. Let's start with Kenley Jansen. Gives up a three-run homer after getting the first two outs. He walked two batters. He doesn't walk anyone. He walked two batters. A mild complaint about the strike zone from his manager after the game. But whatever. So this guy who has no strikeouts through two outings and has given up two home runs. And like I said, velocity up a little bit, still not where it needs to be. And Jansen was seen rubbing his shoulder in the

dug out after leaving the game. So we know that Heath has moved him down behind Craig Kimbril to the number two closer. What else do we have to say about Mr. Jansen? Looking at the pitch effects date on Brooks Baseball, he peaked at 93. That's not exactly where you want him to be, but it's very different from what he was doing on Sunday when he was peaking at 90. Two swinging strikes on 36 pitches so far this season. That's real bad.

But, like, coming off the first stouting, I was really worried. Throwing 90 miles an hour, peaking at 90, averaging 89 with his fastball, that's worrisome. He goes out and averages 93.2 peaks at 93.5, throws a couple of 94 mile per hour fastballs in addition to the cutter. And I just, I don't know. I have trouble getting worried about it after seeing him pick up the velocity, assuming the shoulders help. The one thing I will say, and I don't, it was just a couple of games that they played in Los Angeles. This game was on the road, right, in Arizona? Yes.

Yeah. Every starting pitcher except for one that pitched in the opening series in Los Angeles was down at least one mile. Clayton Gerchall was down two. Was that true for the Giants pitchers? Yes. Because it wasn't on Sunday. Or whenever, whenever Kenley Jansson pitched, everybody's velocity was basically fine except for his. Alex Woods was down, but I.

Grinchaws was down like two miles an hour. Yeah, I don't know. It could be a calibration issue, but, God, who pitched for the Giants on Sunday? Because if it is, then whoever that was added, like, four miles per hour to their fastball. That was Chris Stratton, I think. Yeah, so, like, we're not running out to add Chris Stratton, so I don't think we buy that argument, right? I don't, I wasn't, I don't think we just, like, it's not an argument that I was making, but I think it's a question. like five of six starting pitchers, velocity was down, and Kirshaws was down.

Why are we not worried about Clayton Kirshall? Because it's Clayton Kirshall. And it wasn't as steep as Kenley Janssen. Kennedy Janssen was down four miles per hour. Right, that's what I was saying yesterday. Jansen had probably the biggest velocity drop of anyone, certainly anyone's significant. But it was back up a little bit yesterday, so that's good. They said it was mechanical.

They continue to say that he says he's healthy. The rubbing the shoulder thing is a little bit concerning. And the comparison you make is to errol this Chapman. Chapman threw 15 and 2 thirds postseason innings in 2016 And struggle a little bit in 2017 He lost his job briefly He went on the DL briefly So like I said

Chapman threw 15 and two thirds Innings in the postseason in 2016 Jansen through 16 and two thirds Innings in the postseason last year So you know he pitched in six World Series games He threw more than an inning five times I guess I'm not shocked This is how I feel

I'll sum it up I'm not shocked he's having a slow start I wouldn't be surprised if there are more struggles to come. Ultimately, I think like Chapman, who found it and was fine down the stretch and in the postseason last year, I think Jansen will be totally fine. But there might be some bumps along the way to get started. That's how I feel. Is that how you guys feel?

Yeah, I'm not panic selling Kenley Jansen. Right. Yep. All right. So, right, don't freak out. Things can get better. And hopefully they will. Speaking of better, let's talk about Monday standouts.

If you listen to the Sportsline DFS podcast, good stuff so far for our baseball shows. Heath and Mike McClure recommended Brian Johnson against the Marlins, recommended Wellington Castillo, who is only 79% owned. Double-dong yesterday, the only double-donger, two-for-four with two home runs and two strikeouts at Toronto. This guy had an 8-13 OPS last year, so Castillo is 79-owned. You might want to take a look at him in 10-team leagues. But, yeah, Heath, double-dongs for Wellington Castillo, White Sox catcher. And part of it's just Wellington Castillo was in the Rogers Center against the left-handed pitcher.

Part of it is I have thought that Wellington Castillo was a better hitter than he got credit for each of the last two years. He's had playing time concerns each of the past two years. I don't know those concerns. They shouldn't be really a concern at all now. He should play every day that he's not tired. He crushes lefties, and he's serviceable against righties. Wellington Castillo is a top ten catcher, just barely. Okay.

But I'm assuming at this point you'd take Yasamani Grandal over him, because Gondal is off to a great start as well. Yeah, I have more playing time concerns as the season goes on with Gondal, not because of Austin Barnes so much, just because of the way the Dodgers have managed that situation and the way Gondall's been. He's hitting well, yeah, to start, though. He is.

Now, he only has one home run. I think a lot of singles, but it's a great start for Gondal. We'll talk about him later. Give me some other standouts from Monday, guys. So we laughed when Haley Ramirez said he was going to go 30-30. this off season. He is on pace for 33 home runs and 65 stolen bases. I just want everybody to know that.

I know. He has two steals. Like the home run, whatever, but two steals. More importantly, he's going to get first base eligibility, but he did steal his second base yesterday. He is in better shape, and he's hitting the ball pretty well right now. Hanley Ramirez, 71% owned. I think he should be more highly owned

now that he's getting first base eligibility. Justin Smoker, Hanley Ramirez. Probably smoke. still. Yonder or Hanley? That one's a little closer. Probably Yonder still, but I want Hanley. Okay. Hanley or Gurriel?

Hanley. All right. Hanley's a standout for Chris. Wellington Castillo was my standout. Heath talked about him. Heath, give me your standout if there was one. I'm going to talk about somebody that we all know was a standout, but there were some talk that he would probably come back to Earth a little bit from last year. And that's Charlie Blackman. he had his third or fourth road home run of the season already.

Fourth also had two doubles in San Diego. He's got an OPS of 1694 early in the year. We maybe should not have scoffed at the idea that Charlie Blackman just is the one or two best hitters in fantasy. Yeah, I hope he can get 20 steals. I don't think he can count on it. But he does have a 40 steel season under his belt, a few years. years ago. So I'm hopeful for that as a Blackmun owner. Yes.

And they just will not play Ryan McMahon. Like, we're not starting you, Ryan McMahon. Yeah, what's up with that? Desmond was back in the lineup yesterday. We do have a question about dropping Ryan McMahon. How much, I'm not sure who sent that email in, but it's in the notes. You know, this guy from wherever said, should I drop Ryan McMahon? What is your advice to that guy who said that?

Oh, Omar and Buffalo. 12-team categories league. I have McMahon, Franco and Gurriel on my roster. should I drop McMahon? I wrote the waiver I called today. The two hitters that I featured were Colin Moran and Brian Anderson. I don't think either

of those guys has enough upside for me to drop Ryan McMahon. I don't think there's any... I would rather have Handley than Ryan McMahon, I guess. Okay. Would you drop McMahon for Tyler Skaggs? Yes. In a points

league for sure. Okay, guys. So those were some hitters and Kenley Janssen. But what about Rinaldo Lopez, Tyler Malley, Andrew Triggs, Liriano? There were some very good appearances yesterday, very good starts from guys who are widely available. Every picture I'm about to mention is owned in 35% of CBSports.com leagues or fewer or less, less, right?

You will never get that right. I believe that is fewer and less. I don't want to keep going. I may say it wrong. Okay. Just make fun of Adam and don't. offer a correction. And I got to tell you, I watched a lot of Tyler Malley. I watched a lot of Rinaldo Lopez. Good stuff from both that didn't see Andrew Triggs. But they're very different

Lopez and Malley. Malley pinpoint control yesterday. Almost all of his strikeouts were looking, and almost all of them, maybe all of them came on fastballs. Lopez is a little bit different. He had 14 swinging strikes. But Lopez, Malley, Triggs. Let's start with those three. How interested are you in Lopez, Malley, and Triggs, all owned in 2016? to 35% of CBS Sports.com leagues. Well, we all agree that we prefer swinging strikes to looking strikes, right? Yeah.

And so I'll take the guy with the most of those. And I'll take the guy with the most pedigree in what I think is upside. In my opinion, that's Rinaldo Lopez. This was a, is it a tough pitching environment? He struggled with home runs a lot last year. So this was encouraging. Yeah, I wrote about this in Waverware,

and what I said was I'm, I put Malley as the lead, and I wonder if I'm penalizing Rinalda Lopez for having gotten to the majors earlier. Yep. And it's struggled. But I also, like, Tala Mali looked really good, too. He doesn't have the big swing and miss stuff that Rinalda Lopez does, but, you know, he throws pretty hard.

He can hit 96 with his fastball. He average 93.4. only nine swinging strikes, but it's one start. He had decent strikeout numbers in the minors. Rinaldo Lopez definitely has more upside, but Tyler Malley's pitching for a better team. He's probably a little safer. White Sox are on fire.

What do you mean? They haven't lost yet. Yeah. I still feel confident that Cincinnati's a better team. And, yeah, I would like to add both if I could only add one. Lopez is probably the guy. And Malley pitched against the Cubs, and we know the Cubs have a good lineup,

but they have set the record for the most strikeouts in the first five games of a season for any team in national league history. Keep in mind, they played a 17-in-ing game, but they are striking out a ton. We know that about the Cubs. A lot of it was, I mean, I think all of the strikeouts were, maybe one was swinging for Malley. But he's an interesting pitcher.

If you look at the numbers from last year, he walked 11 in 20 innings. But then I went back and looked at his minor league numbers, and he did not walk batters. So I think he's going to be a good control pitcher. I want these guys on my team. With Tyler Skaggs being the hot WaverWire ad from last weekend, how do you rank Skaggs-Lopez-Malley?

Lopez-Skagg's Malley. Yeah, that's probably fair. And then what about Andrew Triggs? Five innings, one run, seven strikeouts against the Rangers. I just don't buy it. I'm probably not being fair to Andrew Triggs because of his past, but I would put him last in that group, and I think he has the least amount of upside.

Yeah, I think I probably agree with that. He's older, doesn't have a track record. And, you know, Malley is a top 100 prospect. So let's not ignore that there is some upside there. It's just probably like mid-rotation upside. How have we gotten this far without talking about Bartolo Colon and Francisco Liriano? You know, you guys were doing the Sportsline DFS podcast yesterday. I listened to a little bit, and I know you talked about Bartolo Colon.

I can't stand him because he's never as bad. as I want him to be when I'm stacking hitters against him. You know, for all of the fun in swinging strikes and velocity, Bartolo shows there is some, like when he is good, and he was good last night, there is a lot of value in location, location, location. Oh, yeah. And I watched a little bit of that start, and he was just peppering the outside corner. And he'd be three to four inches off the outside corner and then right on it.

and then three to four inches off the outside corner and right and even when they were hitting the ball they couldn't hit it hard where he was throwing it so i that's not i don't really think that he can do that for very long in fact i know he can't but it's kind of fun to watch it when he does it but he's not but we're not picking up for the purposes of this show uh francisco liriano is more interesting than bartolo claw claw cboleone and francisco liriano is r p eligible i believe in cbsports dot com league so that makes him maybe slightly more interesting, but not particularly interesting. Okay, well, that is actually slightly more interesting. So of these pitchers that are available in deeper leagues, we got Leriano, Jaime Garcia, great start against the White Sox, Brian Johnson pitched well at Miami, Trevor Richards was cruising along, and then not so much for the Marlins against the Red Sox and his MLB debut, and Bartolo Cologne. You guys playing some deep leagues, are you looking on the waiver wire for Liriano, Garcia,

Highmaker C, Brian Johnson, Trevor Richards, or Bartolo Colon? Trevor Richards should be owned in L-only leagues. Does not have much prospect pedig of the Marlins signed him out of independent ball two years ago, but he has dominated the minors. He's not that old, and he was impressive. I mean, until the third time through against the Red Sox, which that's a tough lineup. The change-up is a real swing and miss pitch.

And he was averaging like 92-93 with the fastball. I think he's an NL only pickup. Yeah, I would say that Jaime Garcia is the one of that group that should be owned quite a bit more. Okay. But I'm still not particularly excited. So now we've got to make room for these guys. We've got to make room for Rinaldo Lopez or Tyler Malley or Tyler Skaggs. So who can we drop?

I know it's only one start, but I think all of these guys are pretty fringy to begin with. So are you willing to drop? Now, I don't want to make sure I'm phrasing this right. These are not must-drop guys. But if there's somebody out there on waivers that you really want, are you willing to drop any of the following pitchers who pitched yesterday? Tyler Chatwood for the Cubs. He gave up one run in six innings.

He walked six, though. Taiwan Walker, who's actually owned in fewer leagues than Tyler Chattwood. Lance Lynn. Terrible first inning, terrible control. All five desert runs came in the first inning. Lance Lynn. Zach Davies, over-rate. Over-owned alert.

Zach Davies. percent own. Sean Newcomb, 61% owned. Miles Michaelis, 59% owned, Jun Jin Ryu. So there's Chatwood, Taiwan Walker, Lance Lynn, Zach Davies, Sean Newcomb, Miles Michaelis, Hyun Jin Ryu. Are you willing to drop any of those guys? Junjun Ryu, I'm absolutely willing to drop. Miles Michaelis, I'm pretty certain I'm willing to drop. Zach Davies, I'm willing to drop. The rest of the group I'm probably hanging on to Tyler Chatwood's ownership is probably a little too high. If you're in a 10-team league, it's okay to drop him as well.

I don't actually understand Tyler Chattwood being 91% owned. He must have been a two-star pitcher this time. Yeah, but... Yeah, I think that's it. And I think that we wrote quite a bit about him in the weeks leading up to the season, like the last two weeks. I like the possibilities for a bunch of wins. This is some confirmation bias.

But Lance Lynn was lucky he only gave up five runs yesterday. he was really, he was awful. Really bad. And I come from a place of thinking that he was actually a very bad pitcher last year that got very lucky. So I'm not, I'm not dropping Lance Lynn if I have. See, I'd rather drop Lance Lynn than Tyler Chatwood. Well, I think Chatwood, so I think the reason why people like him is he's been really good on the road. He just doesn't strike out people, but he pitched for the Rockies.

And in the last two years, his R.A. was 169 in 2016 and 349 in 2017. But, I mean, we're talking really low strikeouts and a lot of walks. So I just, you know, and you know the Cubs don't really let their starters go deep into games. I don't see, like, Lynn, I totally get dropping in a categories league. But, you know, 170, 180 innings with a decent ERA. He could help you in points leagues. That's why I do. Yeah, I don't expect a decent ERA.

And the fact that he's been and it wasn't anything in Zeder last year was solely because of his good fortune. But he's been a much better pitcher than what, Lance Lin has been a much better pitcher than the 2017 version that we saw in his career. So I know that this is a guy that we argued about, mostly Scott and Heath versus Chris and Creith. That's fine. I mean, I'm not going to make a huge case for him. He was a late round pick. But the ownership percentage for these guys is inflated because they are two-star pitchers. So keep that in mind.

I think a lot of people will be streaming those types of players, Lance Lynn, Zach Davies, even Chatwood. Sean Newcomb, most of the struggles were early, but this was a bad start against a team that's just killing it right now. The Nationals, 61% owned. Does he have too much upside to drop for Raynaldo Lopez, or would you make that switch right now? I would not make that switch.

And I should have said this more clearly. I think some people did. You were going into week one or week two or whatever week this is. I'm never using what week it is again. on the podcast, you were going into this week, hopefully with him on your bench, and just blindfolded to results. He's pitching against the Nationals, and he's going to Coor's Field, and it's going to be a bad, bad week. Still had 11 swinging strikes. The velocity was still good.

I like this stuff. I'm not dropping him. Yeah, the only number I really care about from Newcomb is the walks, you know, four walks and four in a third. That's a problem. Sure. Yeah. I mean, but this is a tough lineup, too. This is a lineup that has, you know, Turner's not going to walk much, but Rendon, Harper, Zimmerman.

Those are all guys with a pretty good eye at the plate, and Harper walked four times. And it started, like, that game started off with a Freddie Freeman error, and then Newcomb made an error trying to pick the guy off first base. And he just got shook early. Do you guys know Freddie Freeman's walked a strikeout ratio? It's infinite, right? Eight to one. He finally struck out. Bryce Harper's is then.

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The draft, you play every day, you compete against people, you win some money. Use the promo code FB today on the draft app. Here are your news and notes. All right, so Adam Wainwright might actually pitch this week for the Cardinals. I believe Flaherty is pitching today, right? So we will hope for something good from him. Will Myers left with a triceps injury, and it's a bit of an issue because he has to play the outfield now,

and he's having trouble throwing. So, you know, they're not moving Hosmer off of first base. It's possible Myers ends up on the DL. He's already dealt with an injury a few days ago. Now he's got triceps. Jake Lamb has a shoulder issue. Didn't seem too serious, but we'll see. Shohei Otani's going to DH today.

Annabal Sanchez, if you're in an NL only league, I don't know if you even want him, but he could end up in the Brewers rotation, apparently. And Daniel Murphy was cleared to run. Carlos Correa left with Toebo. Payne does not seem serious. Let's call Correa Day to Day. Greg Holland, scheduled to join the Cardinals on Monday.

Are you guys fine dropping Leon and Gregerson right now? Yeah. Annabel Sanchez is going to be in the Brewers Road. That's what? He was... He just got... He pitched for the Braves yesterday. Oh, the Braves.

He's going to be in the Braves rotation. Okay, the Braves. I said the Brewers. I meant the Braves. I'm very sorry. I think he's the fifth starter for the Atlanta Braves right now. Okay. Annabal Sanchez.

I know. You got stuck on the 1970s. I confused that, too. What? 1970s? The Braves used to be in the Lord? Oh, okay, I get it. Okay, everything, yes.

Everything is really confusing right now. Annabal Sanchez, we have spent too much time talking about it. But thank you for the correction. He will be in the Braves rotation. Other news. So Lucas Duda left with hamstring tightness. Team name Tuesday, Zippity Duda. Sure.

Zippity Duda. That came from my listener. Yuleiguriel apparently is now going to go. go on the DL. So he served his suspension and then he's going on the DL. It was weird. But wait 10 days. You'll get Gouriel.

Batting order stuff, Billy Hamilton batted eighth. This is a big deal because in 2016, he batted seventh, eighth, or ninth, 38 times in 38 games. He scored 18 runs. That's a really bad pace. This is a really bad start to the season for Billy Hamilton owner. Well, no. For every single person who was supposed to get stolen bases. I know.

It's been like, oh, we can't get any stolen bases. We have to get the elite guys. Let's make sure we draft Trey Turner, who's batting fifth. They batted lead off yesterday, but Adamine was off. Or Billy Hamilton, who's batted lead off once and got two days off. Yeah. Or one of the other guys. Dee Gordon doesn't have a steal.

D. Gordon is now a power hitter, apparently. Actually, we got- to, Shields is out. We got a great tweet that was like, D. Gordon has more, I have D. Gordon and Jay Bruce. D. Gordon is more homers than Jay Bruce. Jay Bruce is more steals than D. Gordon. Yeah.

Exactly like we thought it would be. Exactly. Domingo Santana sat against the righty as we continued to monitor the brewers. As Chris just mentioned, Trey Turner led off Adam Eaton was resting. Zach Cozart is outfield eligible. No, no, no, I got that wrong. He's second base eligible? Second base?

Yeah. Derek Dietrich is outfield eligible. Yes. Edwin Encarnassione hit an inside the park home run. That was amazing. I didn't see it. Got to see that. The left, I think Justin Upton thought the ball went out,

and so he just stopped playing it, and it carammed past him. No, he said he thought it was foul. Oh, okay. Either way, he stopped playing it, and I went across, you know, and just chugged. It was like a steam train. Joe Musgrove is on the DL with a muscle strain on his shoulder, and there's no timetable. You might be waiting a few weeks, at least, to see Joe Musgrove.

The Marlins are reportedly doing away with their orange jerseys, which they say they made the decision before Marlins' man and they broke up. Derek Jeter's going to change the team's colors to black and white. The most boring man in America. That's awesome. Matt Weiner's is on the D.L. with an oblique strain. Austin Hedges was scratched with upper back tightness.

Jed Jerko left with a hamstring strain. And George Contos got a save for the pirates because Felipe Rivera was unavailable. with Jerko leaving with a hamstring strain, I do wonder if that will put on hold Matt Carpenter's attempt to gain second base eligibility. So you'd probably just play third, right? Right, but I want him to play second.

I want him to get second-based eligibility. I think he's got three appearances at second, Carpenter. So Jerko out, might go on the D.L. Well, yeah, we'll see. Might just have to wait for Colton Wong to face a couple lefties sit and we get Carpenter back. He needs both three games to be eligible at second and third. All right.

Do you get the email? Yeah, you get the email. That's how I knew about Zach Cozart and Derek Dechuk. Okay, here's an email. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. It's from Jeff in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. What is Babip, and why is it relevant to fantasy? Babbip is batting average on balls in play,

and it is relevant to fantasy because it affects the hitter's batting average. It affects the pitcher's whip. Essentially, if it's not a home run and you hit the ball, What is your batting average on those plays? Now, it's relevant in a way that certain pitchers are able to limit Babbitt because they limit hard contact. Well, yeah, we should say that the average is right around 290 and it pretty consistently, even with the juice ball. But that's not an average for every player. You should not assume every player to regress to 300 or 299 or whatever the average is.

some hitters like Lorenzo Kane are able to maintain a bad bit of 340, 350. Some hitters like Chris Davis often have a bad bit around 240. So for one, like we use that a lot in regression analysis because we get a month into a season and a guy's hitting 350 that's never hit better than 250. The first thing I'm going to look at as, well, what's his betting average on balls in play? Because a lot of that over a small sample size is just good fortune. Right, right. That's the point. I think why it's relevant in fantasy is it kind of helps us see who's been lucky or unlucky. It doesn't always work out that way. But a guy who has a really high BABIP, that means some regressions coming. Those balls that are falling for hits, right now Robinson Kano is an 857 Babbap. So some of the balls that are falling for hits, they're going to stop falling for hits and the batting average will go down. And a couple of things about that. One, it's like it's been what, just in the last two. 10 years that we've really kind of more embraced the idea that the batter and the pitcher

don't have complete control of what happens after the ball leaves the batter's bet. So that's just something to kind of keep in mind. The other thing is, like, we talk about regression. You don't ever know when it's going to happen. And even in 162 game season, it doesn't always happen this year. So there are guys that are career over eight years, career 292 babbip guys, and they might have a year where they have a 340 basketball. And that's not that weird.

And we can put Babbip into context by also looking at hard contact rate and soft contact rate. And you can buy a high babbip more if there's more hard contact. Yeah. And line drives. Speed. Speed. Sure. Guys who hit a lot of fly balls and are very pull heavy.

Joey Gallo being a good example are going to have low babbips. Guys who hit the ball all over the field are going to have higher babbips. And pitchers have, pitchers tend to have less of a spread in both the results and the talent level. So you'll see fewer guys, fewer pitchers that have like, obviously Al Garcia had like a 390 babit last season. That typically doesn't happen with pitchers.

They have less control over it. So Joey Gallo, not buoyant at all. Extremely pool, extremely pool heavy. Dollars. Pool heavy. Oh, that's great. And Jeff, if you're new to the show, I used to say Babip, because I do believe it should be pronounced Baybip, because Babbip is stupid.

Clearly, it should be Balbip. Balbip? Why? Batting average on balls in play. Oh, that's true. Bayobip. But, you know, I gave up the fight because everybody says Babbip, even though everybody says Wobah instead of Waba, Wobah being weighted on base average.

But whatever, I'm not going to, I'll let the idiots win this one. Babeb sounds stupid. Babib sounds great. Email of the day number two is from Brandon in Washington. State, dear Ricky, Lou, Billy, and Ty. And these are Steele's sources. As a guy who lost the line on shields, are any of these guys worth targeting for stolen bases? Bradley Zimmer, Malick Smith, Jose Parraza, and Chris Owings.

Malick Smith has barely played, right? Yeah, I think Zimmer's the only one on this list that I'm really excited about potential with. And even he's getting less playing time than Tyler Naquin at this point, isn't he? I don't know about that. not sure. I think they both played yesterday. Okay. But it's so hard to tell it this early in the season.

But other steel sources? What are the people that need steals? I have Will Myers, Scott Kingery, Ozzy Albies, Billy Hamilton, and one other, like, decent steals guy in a league. I have zero steals. I'm in dead last. Jose Perrazz is probably the best one out of

this group, actually. He's the one who's most likely to get playing time. I'm not sure if he's any good. That's still very much open to a question, but of this group, he's the best option for steals. Okay. Is there anyone else that comes to mind? Kevin Pilar has three.

A little skeptical on that. They were all against Patanus. And they were all right back to back. Michael Taylor has two, and he stole 20 last year, right? Yeah, Cameron Mabin is playing more the last couple of games after not playing early. So he's someone, Lewis Brinson actually hasn't stolen a base yet for the Marlins, and he was 0 for 4 in the spring. He may not be the stolen base guy that we were hoping for.

I can't believe Michael Taylor is 86% owned. He's still 17 bases in 118 games. Oh my gosh, 86% owned Michael Taylor? That's incredible. It was good last year. Was he? I mean, I don't think he wasn't a points league. In Roto, yeah, in Roto.

86% tells me he's owned in Points Leaks, too. That's probably too much. Okay, let's move on. Good starts and bad starts to the season. We're talking hitters here. All right, so here are the good ones. There are a lot that are off this list, but some of them that have stood out. Bryce Harper, he does get off to hot starts a lot, but this isn't exceptional.

417, 3 homers, 7 RBIs, 6 walks, no strikeouts. Yasmani Grandal, we already talked about him. I think we can move on from him. DJ LaMeyu has two home runs. He's never hit more than 11. Yonder Alonzo, we also talked about him. He's 90% own. Miguel Cabrera is off to a nice start, batting 353 with three walks, three strikeouts, a home run and a double.

That's Miguel Cabrera. Three doubles for the season. Oh, yep, I wrote three doubles. Sorry about that. Thank you, Chris. You are helping me out today. I just want to make sure Miguel Cabrera gets his due. You know, I'm the biggie guy.

I love him. Gregory Polanco is off to a really good start. I mean, he's batting 385 with a home run. Three doubles. a steal and six walks four strikeouts for Polanco. Paul DeYoung has three homers. Lorenzo Kane is crushing it. He's batting 500 with a home run and three steals in three attempts.

So I said a lot of names here, a lot of guys, Harper, Grandal, LaMayhew, Alonzo, Miggi, Polanco, DeYoung, Lorenzo Kane. Who is making you think about moving them up in the rankings right now? I don't have rankings. If I did, and I would have had Gregory Polanco probably higher than the industry coming into the season. So there's some confirmation bias there. But he was not healthy last season. He was a guy that we thought had a huge chance to break out.

And he's, I think he's breaking out. The plate discipline has been awesome. Four walks yesterday. One was semi-intentional. But he's hitting the crap out of the ball. We know the talent's there. We know there's 25 homer, 25 steel potential. and he is absolutely dialed in.

Yeah, I had Polanco as a top 40 outfielder. Now he's sitting at 33rd for me in my ranking, so he's probably moved up the most. The problem with this list of guys is, I moved up Yonder Lanzo a couple of spots just because I moved guys behind him. I already had Lorenzo Kane as a top 15 outfielder, and I was really high on Pauli Thi Young.

So this is largely a group of guys where I don't have a lot of room to move them up, but I'm pretty excited about all of them. And we know that Lorenzo Kane, the last two years, has hit a lot of his home runs on the road. So he finally got to Miller Park for his first game yesterday. I believe it was their home opener. And he homered. That was nice. Well, and the steel, like, we talked about how it's a bad time for steals guys.

Kane is a guy that we talked about has been extremely efficient as a base stealer. And we thought going to Milwaukee, he might run more. So far, that looks true. Would you rather have Kane or Yellich? Still Kane for me. You had Kane ahead of Yelich. I did. That's very, very impressive. Would you rather have... It's been four days.

Well, no, but I mean... It's bold that you did that. And good job. Would you rather have Gregory Polanco or Adam Eaton? Polanco. So here's something about Palanco and Yonder Alonzo. He says he'll take Eden. And Yonder Alonzo.

Now Alonzo hit a grand slam off James Pax and a lefty. He had a good spring against lefties. This has been a real issue for Yonder Alonzo in his career. And for Gregory Polanco, who so far is one for two with a double against left-handed pitchers. He's also walked and struck out. You know, I'm not, I can't just say because Alonzo had a good spring against lefties and because he homered off Paxton that he's fixed. And last year he had a 181 batting average against left-handed pitchers.

And last year, Yonder Alonzo in his first 53 games had a 1062 OPS. In his last 89 games, he had 2.30.80 had 7.49 OPS. So there is a danger in jumping in too early, especially when we haven't seen enough at against lefties for Alonzo and Polanco. Sure. Yeah, and to be clear, Alonzo, like, he's moved up a couple spots in my rankings. He's not in my top 20 first baseman. Oh, he's not?

Okay. And then Miguel Cabrera, let's, I guess, kind of monitor this, but good stuff so far? I'm very pleased with what I've seen so far from him. And it's worth saying, Nick Castianos, a guy that there was some skepticism and some excitement about on this podcast. Yeah, he's also off to a nice start. And so is Seat Geek. Yeah, we got a lot of tweets about Seek geek, people saving money, people buying tickets, asking me for the promo code, which is fine.

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And Escobar is owned in 25% of leagues. Oakland third baseman Matt Chapman is 42% own. And then in deeper leagues, we got Derek Fisher for the Astros, Nick Ahmed for the Diamondbacks, Brian Anderson for the Marlins. They're off to good starts. But let's talk about Escobar and Chapman first. Eduardo Escobar from Minnesota, third baseman, Matt Chapman for Oakland. Do you think these guys are underowned?

they're 25 and 42% owned respectively. Yes. I don't know that there is an enormous difference between Matt Olson and Matt Chapman. Matt Chapman strikes out even more. Okay. Well, I mean, like he was a guy. Matt Olson in the minors would hit for decent batting averages. Even in the minors, Matt Chapman was not putting up, I think he was like a 250 kind of hitter in the minors.

He does have good power. And I think in my sleeper's breakouts and bust calling that I wrote right before the season, I did say that, like, Matt Olson was probably hogging a little too much of the limelight. Matt Chapman's still a good power source. He hit the really long home runoff, Shohayotani on Sunday. He's going to be an average suck. That's the only thing with him is, and there's not really very much hope for him to not be that. An average suck.

Yes. I like that. All right, so that's Matt Chapman we're talking about. I'm trying to think of some third base. Whether A. E. E. E. E. Hsuarez or Matt Chapman? Swares. Okay. All right, then Derek Fisher, Nick Ahmed, Brian Anderson,

all owned in less than 15% of leagues. Derek Fisher, Nick Ahmed, Brian Anderson. Want to pick him up? Brian Anderson has been very impressive to start the season. More walks than strikeouts. He has a hit in all five games. And last year at AAA, he did hit I think 22 homers with like a 275 average.

He's always been a contact guy. And he's the kind of player who could conceivably play up in the majors with his contact ability and with the juiced ball. Probably still just an NL only or deep league guy, but probably should be owned in 15 team leagues. Yeah, Anderson needs to play a different position. Sure, yeah. Brian Anderson, third baseman. So you like Chapman better than Anderson? Yes.

Oh, yeah. Okay. And, you know, we actually picked up Derek Dietrich, Team Scam, in the 16-team league. He's second base and outfield eligible. So that's another Marlin that's off to a nice start. Good pick up an OBP league. Who, Dietrich? Yeah.

Okay, great. It gets hit by a ton of pitches. How is Team Scam doing in week one? Yesterday we were up 8 to 1 with one tie. And that's with Anthony Rizzo having a terrible start to the season. But so far, so good. I haven't checked today. Bad hitters so far.

Andrew Benin-10, he's one for 15, but he has more walks. He has three walks, two strikeouts, so it's okay. Byron Buxton and Rugnett-Odor are owned in more than 90% of leagues. Now, Buckson, I believe, has two steals. But he's also three for 15, no walks, six strikeouts, and no extra base hits. That's Buxton. O'Dor is one for 16, with two walks, five strikeouts. People are frustrated.

I think Byron Buxton's been pinch hit for twice this season. Wow. No, just once. But yeah, he may have gotten a day off then, but he's, it's too early to do anything about it yet. It is. I think I'm going to invent something called pre-concerned. I'm pre-concerned about Buxden and Odor. I'm concerned that we're going to be concerned pretty soon.

Fair. But Bruget Odor is going to have terrible months. Right, right. You got to give it some time. But he just had a terrible season, too. I think in a points league, he doesn't have that much upside in a points league because of his pathetic walk-to-strike ratio. Odor? 12-team points league, if there's somebody out there?

I mean, would you consider dropping it? I wouldn't drop him for Joe Panic. But would you consider dropping him for Scooter Jeanette? Odor? I would not yet. Probably not. All right. Then are you ready to drop these guys?

And again, this is not a must-drop situation, but there's someone you like out there. Lopez is out there, Tyler Skaggs, Tyler Malley, Hanley Ramirez is out there, somebody that you're really interested. How dropable are these players? Justin Boar, Jason Kipness, Manuel Margo, Albert Pujols, 52% owned. Stephen Piscotti. Piscotti is the lowest owned at 42%. Justin Boar is 69% owned. Jason Kipness is 78%. Manuel Margo, 72%. Pooholt is 52%. Poole is 52%. Piscotti, 42%. How many of them are you willing to just cut loose right now? There are two first basemen that I had below Justin Bore at the beginning of the season

that I have moved ahead of him, and it doesn't really have a whole lot to do with what he has done, although I didn't like him sitting against the lefty already. I did move Jose Martinez ahead of him. I did move Yonder Alonzo ahead of him. So if either of those two were available, I would drop him for those guys. Okay, that's Justin Bore. Kipnis is off to a slow start. He's batting second for Cleveland.

and I'd like to give him more time. Yeah, I'm not that worried about that yet. Pooleholz is 52% owner. Are you kidding me? No. Get someone else. Right? Yeah, I mean, he's probably...

What was Hanley? He's probably going to end up with 100 RBI at the end of the season, right? 71% Hanley. I don't know. I mean, he got... He's... This is the last guy, you're... I agree.

But, like, at the end of the season, we're going to look up, and Albert Poulos is going to have hit 30 homers and driven in 100 RBI Are you sure? He's done it pretty much every year. He did that last year? He did that last year? Yeah, he had like 111 RBI last year.

I know he had a lot of RBIs, but it was weird and not to be expected again. All right. That last year was the last year. Wait, Chris. The last four years, he's had 101, 119, 1995, and 105. RBI aren't everything, and he's going to be a drain on your batting average, but even that hasn't been, I never thought we'd get Chris Towers arguing the merits of RBI.

Wait, but, Marriott's of the offensive categories in fantasy baseball. You're arguing the merits of Albert Pujol. See it 241 with 23 homers last year. He's done, man. I mostly agree. All I'm saying is at the end of the season, he's probably going to have decent numbers and be a top 200 player. Albert Pujols or Matt Davidson?

Poolews. I think I'd take Davidson. Has anybody? Was it? That was the first time anyone said the name Matt Davidson since he hit those three home runs, right? No, I think he's had a hit and a walk since then. They announced it. I would take anybody with upside over Albert Poo-Holes. I would drop Pujolz for Rinaldo Lopes in a second.

In a heartbeat, yes. Sure, yeah. Or Malley. Not Luriano, though. Unless maybe for spark purposes. All right, four-man rotation from yesterday. Then we will get into today's game, start or sit, and then we will finish with a bunch of your emails.

Charlie Morton was great. And something to keep in mind with Charlie Morton, he had six scoreless innings with six strikeouts, 17 swinging strikes against the Orioles. Well, two things to keep in mind. One is another starter who completely dominated the Orioles. They've been really bad so far. But last year, third time through the order,

Morton had a 718 ERA. So just the fact that he was able to get through six innings and not show any signs of faltering was nice. James and Tyone was outstanding. I couldn't believe he even gave up two runs because through the first five innings. James and Tyler was. He didn't.

He kind of ran out of steam late, and there was like a weird, there was like a defensive miscue, I think. I don't know that that's true, but I do, like, I question whether he ran out of steam. I think this whole, because it was a third time of the order for him as well. He did give up a home run. He gave up a single and they yanked him. It's going to, right, the bullpen allowed the last run. It's going to be really interesting.

And it kind of a little bit the Gabe Capilar thing, but I, I. The math behind this third time through the rotation thing for starters makes complete sense, and I get it. I don't think there are enough average relief pitchers to make it work. There aren't. This trend is going to fade, I think, unless they expand rosters at a 26 guy. I won't even get into it, but I just don't think it's sustainable. What happens when you have a starting pitcher that gets roughed up can't make it out of the first or second inning? Like exactly what happened to the Phillies with Vince Velasquez.

You've got to get length out of starters. But I think it was a really bad weekend for pitching to see Charlie Morton, James and Tyone, Mike Clevenger, and Tanner Roark. All guys that you got in the mid to late rounds, Morton, Tion, Clevenger, and Roark all had really good outings yesterday. They gave up a combined three-earned runs and got some strikeouts. It's good stuff. And Tyone, this was a very good reminder that for whatever reason he doesn't get the respect he deserves in terms of upside. He had the 12th highest fastball velocity in baseball last year. I don't think anyone really realizes it.

He has two swing and miss secondary pitches. This is a good pitcher with upside. It is team name Tuesday. We have Panic at the Cisco. I like it. Should it be Panic at the Frisco? It's Panic at Chance Cisco. That would also work.

What is? Oh, okay. So this guy. wants to make a pun on Ben Intendi. So he put Ben and then Ten Dees. That one takes some thinking. You know, I was walking the dog last night, and one came to me about Ben and Tendi. Because I had several Red Sox stacks in DFS that were fine.

But has anybody done Ben and Tendi in the Betts? Yes, it's a very good one. I like that one a lot. Yeah, that's... There's something with eggs, eggs Ben, but I can't quite nail it down yet. No, it's Egg's Odoreezy. Exeter easy. No, I was talking about Benintendi.

I know, but you're ruining the eggs. I'm a millennial. We love brunch, Adam. Avocado toast. He doesn't like brunch. Honeynut burrios. Sure. We've gotten that before.

It's very good. And I think that's about it. Yeah, that's about it. We need better team names. So, but I appreciate, I can't think of good ones. I have terrible ones. I have a really dirty one that I can't say on the air. It involves...

Adam Eaton. Yep. And a closer. Stop. Stop. That's all I'm going to say. Stop. What about behind the candelaria?

Yes. That's really good. Good for you. All right. Start or sit for today's games. We'll start with the full. Fine. We'll just do Royals Tigers.

Jake, I'll tear in up my heart. Nice. All right. Yes. Stop encouraging him. No, these are great. Jake Junis, Matt Boyd, start or sit.

Start. Sit both. Gert Junis. Yeah, you're not starting, Mapawood. Chris Archer, yes. Jordan Montgomery, home against the Reyes. Interesting one. Start him.

Start both. Marco Gonzalez and Ty Blach. Nope. I want to watch Marco Gonzalez in this game, but I'm not starting. Chris Sale, yes. Hosea. Arania. I knew it.

No. No. Could there be something with, like, the word arraignment that we could do for arraignia? Okay. I was trying to think of like a transaction where you dropped Poo Holes and picked up Cologne and some type of team aim with Pooholes and Cologne. I don't know how you got there with Arania. Aradia. Yeah, I don't know.

John Lester and Cody Reed today. Cubs at Reds. Oh, Billy Hamilton, DFS Superstar. He owns John Lester. I mean. I will start Lester again. I will not start Reed. Start John Lester.

Marco or, wait, no, this is Miguel Gonzalez. and Jayhap, White Sox and Blue J-Hap. I don't really feel good about starting J-Hap. I think Matt Davidson's going to Dongtown, but you'll probably start J-Hap. Ben Lively at Matt Harvey. Pass. I mean, I want to watch both of them. I think they're both pretty interesting, but there's no way I'm starting you.

I am starting Matt Harvey in a league. A.J. I guess I'll say the first controversial thing today. A.J. Cole with Julio Turan. I don't know how controversial this is. I'm not starting Julio Taran. I'd rather start Matt Harvey than Julio to Run. Okay. Yeah, I don't see why we would be starting to run against the nationals.

Would you start Harvey over him? I'd probably have another pitcher that I could rely on. I might, if they arrest Bryce Harper, guys get rest early in the season. Maybe Tehran's okay. But if Harper's in no way. Yeah. We have got Jumping Jack Flaherty and Chase Anderson. Chase Anderson.

Yes. You have to start Anderson. I didn't start Flaherty. I have him in multiple leagues, and I saw at M.I.L. on the schedule, and I didn't start him. I don't really feel great about starting Anderson, but I think you have to. Why? He's good.

Yeah, he is. So is Miller Park. Yeah, and he, after whacking his head on the plate on his slide attempt in his first start, his velocity did, like, drop two miles per hour. immediately. Interesting. So I don't know if there was anything there, but something to keep an eye on. Chase Anderson. All right. Orioles

at Astros. Mike Wright at Justin Verlander. All right, that's easy. Clayton Kirschaw, yes, Zach Godly, yes. Cole Hamels at Kendall Graveman. What do you guys think? I'm probably starting Hamels. Yeah, that could be a really rough matchup, though. Like, he's

going to get some swinging strikes tonight. Oakland's going to swing and miss a lot, but that's a lineup that could really rough him up. Do you sit Matt Olson? The lefty. I don't know what Matt Olson's splits are like. Yeah, it's too early in the season and in his career for me to start playing lefty matchups with a guy that I was drafting in the ninth round, you know?

Yeah, plus I don't know how many innings you're going to get out of Hamels, so you'll get some bullpen in there. I'm just, I've got Matt Olson's splits pulling them up right now. Oh, me too. He's 0 for 4 against lefties this year. I win. He went 9 for 46. He is a 170 career average against lefties.

Some pop, though. 675 OPS. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Well, you know, DFS you probably don't want to start him. No chance. Josh Tomlin at Garrett Richards. I'll start Garrett Richards in this one, yeah.

I mean, it's a tough matchup, but he's good. Yeah, this is healthy. This is decision time for Garrett Richards. I mean, if I start him again, Look, you drafted Gary Richards. You're only going to get so much out of him. You got to start him when he's healthy. He hurt you last time he started him.

You started him. You started him against the Indians? I think so, yeah. What about Josh Tomlin? No. He's one to watch and just see how he looks early in the year because he has a two-start pitcher next week. So he may be somebody that gets picked up tonight.

We'll see how late I can stay up to watch Kyle Freeland at Tyson Ross. Any interest in these guys? Kyle Freeland for the Rockies, Ross for the Padres. Ross is on my watch list. Yeah. I want to see if he can get back to his level of three years ago, two years ago. As I recall, he had a very good spring. So Tyson Ross was that it once must-own, must-start pitcher.

Three straight years with an ERA between 281 and 3-26. And that was 2013 through 15. All right, let's read some emails. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Austin from Peoria, Illinois. Tyler Skaggs or Sean Newcomb, rest of season. Nukum. Yeah, this is another one of those where I think if I had to bet money on it,

I would bet money on Skaggs, but Newcomb has a much higher ceiling. I'm going to tell us Skaggs. This is from Adam, from the Hoosier State, where basketball is king, but we still have plenty of room in our hearts for America's pastime. It's very nice. Dear Chapel, Clark, Stedman, and Harris. Now, I read the entire email. I didn't put it in the notes, but he was making...

Stedman is from, like, Rookie of the Year or something, right? Right, so where's Harris? Chet Stedman? Yeah, Chet Stedman. So who's Harris in that same vein? Is he? I have no idea. The crafty veteran Eddie Harris.

Ah, okay. Major League. So he's putting together a rotation made up of fictional pitchers, but I didn't put that in the notes because I just wanted to kind of talk fantasy. But it is a funny concept. 12 team, 37-man roster, head-to-head category's Dynasty League. I have Denelson Lamet, but I noticed that the Walker Bueller owner dropped him because he needed immediate starting pitcher help,

would you drop Lamet for Walker Bueller? Denelson-Lamette is your worst pitcher in a 37-man roster head-to-head categories league? That's the part that shocks me. And can't you be on a DL? This... Who would you rather have in a dynasty league, Walker Bueller? I mean, you're hoping that one of them can help you by May,

but Denelson-Lemette is probably more likely, too, I guess. I would rather have Lamed if this were... a redraft league. But in a dynasty league, I think I'm going to take Walker Bueller. Okay. Andrew in Toronto, 12-te-to-head categories league, rank the following most added players. McMahon, Anduhar, Drury, Neil Walker, Hanager.

McMahon, Andehar, Drury, Neil Walker, Hanager. Hanager, Manager, McMahon, Walker, Drury, Andehar. Hanager, Walker, McMahon, Drury, and Hart. How about all those Yankees? Isn't that nice guys? That's great stuff. Ryan and Tampa.

Hey, Ezra, Gus, Phineas, and Hatbox Ghost. The hell is that? I know a Ryan in Tampa. Yeah, Phineas and Furb, right? It's a cartoon. Okay. I'm assuming. Good start for Ronaldo Lopez.

Would you drop any of these pitchers to add him in a 14-team league? Would you drop Sean Maniah, Taiwan Walker, or Miles Michaelis to add Ronaldo Lopez? Mikolas. By the way, that was the hitchhiking ghosts in the haunted mansion. Okay, yeah, I was completely wrong. Okay. This is from the Great Bambino. I think you mean the Great Hambino.

Dear Ham, squints, Weeks, and Smalls. Weeks, there's a Weeks? Squeaks. What did you do this on your... No, no, it's not Squeaks. It's squints. I don't remember a week's. Is King Felix or Tyler Skaggs worth picking up in a 10-team Roto League?

I'd have to drop Jose Martinez, Kyle Seeger, or Mitch Hanager. This is a 10-team Roto League with only one bench spot. So I'm assuming the waiver wire is robust. I would drop Seeger for Skaggs. Bertram Weeks is the nerdy kid who builds the erector set. Oh, okay. Who has one of the great lines in the movie. Which is?

We've been going about this all wrong. Oh. I blame myself. Yes. The delivery of that line is top edge. He crushes it. He crushes it. All right.

Finally from Jeff. I love loading my bench with multiple position eligible players. Both Scott Kingery and Zach Cozart are likely to get triple eligibility. I have two openings on my bench and Paul DeYoung is also available. Which two of those three do I add? De Young, Kingery, Cozart. De Young and Cozart. Yep, I know Scott's going to be very angry if he listens to this.

You guys hate Scott Kingery. I think he might agree with you, though. I think that's, yeah, I think that's obviously the right call. Okay. Thank you guys for listening. I am Adam with Heath and Chris back tomorrow, probably with some Great The Trade and a Tuesday recap. Already ready for the weekend, apparently. Great outro.

Bye.