Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/03: Turner Gets Hurt, Sale Struggles, Greinke Rebounds and More (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 3, 2019

Starting the show with a minor freak out about Chris Sale's velocity. What's going on with Sale and how should you value him? Then we get to the big news with some Trea Turner replacement options (10:30) and Anthony Alford thoughts (15:31) ... Buy or Sell (18:42) for Hyun-Jin Ryu, Zack Greinke, Cody Bellinger, Jordan Zimmermann and more. Plus early observations from Adam (26:35), Chris (31:40) and Heath (34:50). Adam touches on David Peralta, Matt Chapman and Lewis Brinson. Chris discusses Christian Yelich, Madison Bumgarner and Tyler Glasnow. Heath talks about the COL hitters and Adalberto Mondesi ... Bullpen notes (39:30), hitters who are off to a great start like Maikel Franco and Adam Jones (42:00), some SP talk (50:30) including our thoughts on Jose Berrios and Zach Eflin and Grade the Trade (55:00) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Now here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. Here on Wednesday, April 3rd, Chris Bales on Chris Sale. We got frantic texts from Chris Towers last night. And he was freaking out about Chris Sale.

It was really fun. It was really. Is that on tilt? Is that what that it was? Well, no, because on tilt means that I have some kind of investment in it. I didn't draft Chris Sale at all this year. I'm worried just as a fan of the game of baseball. Now, the best part of that whole exchange, you know what it was, right?

What was that? When you said that he just bounced a throw to first base and Adam says, I am watching him. I'm watching the game. I don't know. Maybe he didn't bounce it, but they were like two to three feet to the left. Mitch Morland had to go way off the bag to get them. There was something wrong with Chris Sale. Yeah, Chris was freaking out with the group text saying, you know, Chris Sales, velocity is so low and this and that.

And he's right. And then he said, he just bounced two throws. And at that point, I had turned a game on. I was like, I'm fact-checking you now, Chris. Also, I'm trying to fact-checked you again because I felt like you tweeted last night that you have a team with Chris. Sale and Trey Turner. That was a joke. I was surprised that people couldn't.

The joke was, I listed all the players who have been disappointments or are injured and then said, let me take a big glass of water while I check my lineup. I think the reason people didn't know. And I was going to do a comical cartoony spit tank. Bad joke. Yes. I think the part that threw people off, the reason we thought it was serious, you said, let me check my lineup for the first time since the draft.

And that sounded very much. That's fair. That's fair. All right, so we welcome to the show, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into fantasy baseball today. Please send us your emails, Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. We are going to read some grade the trade later today. So if you have a trade that you want graded, remember, a C is average.

So if I respond to you or I read it on the show and we give you a C plus, you did well. A C, you broke even. Anything worse than that bad? If you got an A, good job. But put grade the trade in the subject line. Tomorrow, I think we're going to do fantasy regulators. So if you have any league disputes, yeah. Are you on?

Who's on the show tomorrow? Chris is not of the show, right? I'm not. Chris is not. Woo! I mean, this is, wow. Yeah. Unbelievable.

It's just been a, it's been, it's been all morning. All morning. Oh, boy. It's 8.30. So, anyway, let's get to it. Let's talk about Chris Sale. We'll also talk about Trey Turner, who broke his finger, and we'll give you some, some options to replace him at shortstop, some of the contracts that have been signed,

buy or sell today. Is Junjun Ryu better than Zach Granky? By herself? We'll do stuff like that. Is Cody Bellinger better than Anthony Rizzo? Okay. Chris Bails on Chris Sale. And one strikeout, six innings, three hits, one run. That's great.

Two walks, that's good. Six swinging strikes and obviously something wrong here. Very low velocity. He said after the game, I'm still just trying to find it, still working on some things with my mechanics and trying to find my space out there, just trying to get comfortable and find the groove.

I'm sure he said that to everyone, but I read that in the Boston Herald. And the Boston Herald later in the article pointed out, there was a time in 2013 that Sale had a similar case of missing velocity. That year he averaged 91 to 93 miles per hour in his first four starts with the White Sox, and then sat at 94 to 97 miles per hour the rest of the way. But we did not get 91 to 93 yesterday, so how concerned should we be about Chris Sale? I don't know because the Red Sox, and this has been a thing since springtime, training as Scott has talked about. Their plan is to not have him throw 100% right away. But

after the first start, I was not concerned at all. He was throwing 92, 93. Yes, he got bombed by the Mariners, but we've seen Chris Sale be effective at 92 to 93 miles an hour. There was the 2016 season with the White Sox where he did exactly that. He wasn't throwing at Max's effort. He was pitching more to contact. He was a very good pitcher through a career high 226 innings. 88, 98, 89, which is where he was sitting last night. I think his max velocity was 92 yesterday. This is unprecedented territory for Chris Sailing. We just don't know.

Watching him last night, he looked like a junk baller. His slider looked like a big, slow curveball. The A's still couldn't really square him up. But that feels more like a, because there was a lot. You could see especially there was one. at bat with Marcus Simeon, who has actually had a pretty good career against Chris Sale, where he was just out in front of everything.

He was way off balance. And, you know, he was, it looked like he just hadn't adjusted to what Chris Sale was throwing. And maybe Chris Sale can just throw a different velocity every start and keep guys off balance and maybe it'll work. But I don't think there's any chance he can be a high level starting pitcher at 88, 89 miles an hour. My favorite part about all of this is Chris Sale is so good that he can pitch like a junkballer for one game and give up one run against the athletic.

I tuned in for like five hitters. Junk ballers can give up one run and six innings against the athletics. Like Mike Fires goes. The athletics are not bad. Right. But we've seen Mike Fires go six in and give up one run against good offenses. I'm not saying he's okay. But it sounds like what we can infer is that the Red Sox have a very bad plan.

to have him throw soft in spring training, and it's continued now into the start of the season, and not give Max effort and hope that he is full Chris sale in October. And I don't know. I think that's definitely what it is. Because he was throwing 94 miles per hour in the first inning of his first start against Seattle, and then since then hasn't even come close to that. And let's not forget, he had the shoulder injury last year,

and he came back and was throwing very soft, And then in the playoffs, he wasn't really himself. He wasn't going deep in the games. He was throwing out of the bullpen. He said in the spring, and I don't know that this happened in the opener, but just another piece of possible evidence. He said in the spring that there were times when he was throwing that his pitching coach or someone standing near him would have to tell him to slow it down

because he was throwing too hard. Yeah. So I think this is, it's possible that he's hurt too. as far as how freaked out you should be, there's not anything you can reasonably do about this right now. Everyone's going to be talking about what's wrong with Chris Sale. I don't think you can get anywhere close to fair value for him. And I think the most likely situation is he's going to be a very good pitcher

that's maybe not what you paid for, but still not a complete disaster. Right, but if you could get a Noah Cinderguard or a Trevor Bauer for him. I would not do that, but you might be. You wouldn't do it for Trevor Bauer? I don't think you can get Trevor Bauer. Yeah, I don't think so either. I would do that in a second. I would do it for Sindergarde if I could,

because at the very least, even if we think Chris Sale can be himself at some point, I think he's probably a bigger injury risk than Noah Sindigard right now. Oh, well, that'd be the first pitcher ever. I think it's probably the same. All right, but yeah, I think if anything, you try to buy low, well, you could sell for an ace, sure, But I think what Heath is saying is you're not going to get great value for him most likely.

So maybe you're trying to buy low. I don't know. Does that make sense? Yeah. It made a little sense. It is really concerning because by the middle of summer last year, he was throwing 97, 98 miles an hour on average per start and hitting 100 regularly. So that was by far the hardest we'd ever seen him throw. immediately after that he suffers a shoulder injury

and basically everything we've seen since has been five to nine miles an hour lower than his peak that's really I don't care if it's on purpose that's really well there is a big difference I know you don't care if it's on purpose and it's going to be bad if he does it all season on purpose

but there is a big difference between he's doing this on purpose and he's not sure if he's throwing as hard as he can right now he's throwing 88 or 89, you should absolutely panic and take whatever you can get for him because he's going to be terrible. Well, so that's the thing. We should really wrap on this. But one thing that struck me is that, okay, we should mention this, I think. The Red Sox did sign him to a big extension.

They should know better than anyone what his health is. But he basically stopped throwing his fastball at one point in this game. So it wasn't even like he's just throwing 88, 89, 90 miles per hour, and he's throwing in the fastball. He did become a junk ball. He scrapped his fastball in the middle innings. So I don't know that he has more velocity right now, or he probably would have thrown his fastball a little bit more. Well, again, and we don't, nobody knows. But if you knew that you were only trying to throw 88 or 89, and you've done that for four innings,

and you want to keep pitching, you can't keep throwing an 88 or 89 miles. That doesn't make any sense. Then he would throw harder. He wouldn't just stop throwing fastballs. He would throw harder. They don't want him throwing harder. Well, they want him throwing harder than 88. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, is what happened between Thursday and.

Now. It's where his average fastball velocity fell three miles an hour. It can't be easy to say take something off, but throw three miles an hour faster than you are right now. That's got to be difficult. Sure. But again, like his slider was 73, 75 last night, too. Like, it looked like a big slow curveball. Yeah.

He did not look like the same guy even from the first start. Sometimes it's mechanical. That is a real thing. Sometimes they just have to fix something mechanical. and get it back on track, but obviously it's a big story and something we'll keep an eye on. Something you should keep an eye on our other podcasts. Great time to listen to our State of Combat podcast, which is an MMA boxing and wrestling podcast. State of combat.

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Check it out at CBSportshq.com. All right, news and notes. Trey Turner broke his finger. Do we have a timetable? As last I checked, we don't have a timetable on Trey Turner. I did see Scott White saying that, based on precedent, four to six weeks seems to make sense.

his take on this, he wrote it last night, and it's up on CBSports.com now, you shouldn't panic. He should be back in a month. There should be available options on waivers who can at least help you keep the ship afloat. Well, let's take a look at some of those available options on waivers. I will go, and this is a useful tool if you play on CBS. You go to roster trends, go to Most Owned slash Most Started,

and sort by, I'm sorting by a team. status all, because I want to see everybody, but if you sort by free agent, it's a little bit, I think, better than the most added list, because sometimes there are guys that slip through the cracks that are like 80% owned that just happen to be available in your league. So if you sort by free agent, you'll be able to see that. But, all right, shallower leagues, I think Elvis Andrews is a good ad. He's 79% owned. So how about this group?

Elvis Andrews, Tim Beckham, Enrique Hernandez, Andrelton Simmons, Cattel Marte. Not bad here. Andrews, Beckham, Enrique Hernandez, Angelton Simmons could tell Marte. I'd be fine with Andrews, Hernandez, or Simmons. I'm not that interested in Beckham, probably, or Marte. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah. We'd be okay with Marte in a deeper league, right? But he is 73% owned.

Right. Tim Anderson, Jorge Polanco, Chris Taylor. I'm guessing Taylor's a little over-owned at 64%. Eduardo Escobar, Ahmed Rosario. Gosh, a lot of short stuff. I'm Ed Rosario, Marwin-Gonzalez. What range are they in? 60s.

Yeah, I mean, Rosario has hit some balls really hard in the early going. Tim Anderson had 20 homers and 26 steals last year. Those guys are unlikely to help you in batting average, and Tim Anderson in particular will almost certainly hurt you, but you could do worse. Okay, let's go a little farther down the list here. a Trey Turner replacement. Marcus Simeon,

Garrett Hampson, 51%, Toulowiczki, Willie Adamas, Bobauchette, Brendan Rogers, these are stashes, and now we're getting into deep territory. Brandon Crawford, Ledmus Diaz,

Nick Ahmed, these guys are no good. Yeah, if I was in a deeper league, I mean, Dansby Swanson is the first name that sticks out. He had a pretty good spring and not a bad start. He's 23% owned. And he's healthy. And he's healthy. So, and then, like, in that 40% range,

Willie Adame has been absolutely awful so far to start the year, but I still think he's going to be relatively good. So he's a 43% owned. It is worth noting Garrett Hampson. I think this is the first game since Daniel Murphy. Second, the first game he didn't play. He was batting second left yesterday. I don't know if that's just a platoon situation with a lefty up,

but, you know, that's a promising sign. If he plays four or five times a week, he might be the best trade turner replacement. He's just going to have to do some. something. Sure. Yeah, he was 0 for 4 with two strikeouts yesterday. I think he has one hit and 10 played appearances or something. Well, they faced Blake Snell yesterday. I think he struck out 13 batters, so tough matchup for all of them. But Ryan McMahon was on the bench, and Hampson was in the lineup,

along with Mark Reynolds. Some more news and notes, Francisco Lindor, maybe like a three-week timetable. I think it should get a little bit more concrete, but hopefully back by, let's say, the end of the month. Daniel Murphy will miss at least a month. I was, I was, I was Picking up Yandi Diaz, who I really think is one of the most under-owned players. He's up to 25%. But as of yesterday, I think it was like less than 20%. Yandi Diaz. And I put in a claim for him, and within seconds, he left the game with an ankle injury after doubly.

But he looks really good right now. And I don't know how serious it is. I don't think it's that bad. Maybe I still should have put in a claim for him. But I got a little scared off on that. So check out Yondi Diaz, I think 25% owned. Miguel And DuHar, optimistic that he would. won't need season-ending shoulder surgery.

Brandon Nimmo and Luke Voight were hit by a pitch on the hand, both of them yesterday. X-rays were negative on Nimmo and Voight. This is a rough day yesterday. Byron Buxton left with bruise ribs. Just a lot going on. San Francisco acquired Kevin Pilar. If you were in an NL-only league, let's say you had a $100 fav. How much would you throw on Kevin Pilar?

And if you were in an AL-only league, how much would you throw down on Anthony Alford, who the Blue Jays called up and he started yesterday? Well, what did you put, Heath? I put $21 on Alford. I would probably go somewhere like nine on Polar. Alfred was a big prospect and is no longer a big prospect because he's really kind of struggled, but he had a good spring. He's got 36 stolen bases in his last 180 minor league games. He has some real interest in any kind of categories league, especially with five outfielders. I actually put him in the waiver where I call him for mixed leagues today.

And there were really glowing reports out of spring training about him. He's always been, I think he's pretty much widely considered to be one of the best athletes in the game. It's just been about finding ways to put that into actual game situations consistently. But from what I saw, people were really high on him coming out of the spring. And, you know, the Blue Jays made moves to get him in the lineup. So that's a good sign. Ahmed Rosario and Alberto Monastis. Mondesies stole their first bases of the season.

Tampa Bay second baseman Daniel Robertson left with an illness and Brandon Lowe came in, pinch hit, and went two for three with a walk and a strikeout. So that was good, but he sat again, Brandon Lowe. That's bad. Tampa Bay is now one for, or no, sorry, Toronto is now one for 55 in the first three innings of games. So we'll keep track of this stat.

One for 55, that is insane. And Boston is one in five. and Baltimore is 4-1. So go figure. And Michael Givens still doesn't have a save. Yeah, Baltimore is, it's really weird what they're doing with their bullpen. Because you would think tanking, rebuilding team, although now they're a contender, would want to get one guy as many saves as possible to build his trade value and not so much for Michael Givens.

I'm still not convinced Givens was available yesterday. He threw, I think, 46 pitches two days ago, and he pitched the day. day before that. But Baltimore is historic, actually. They are the first team since 1991 to have four different relievers record saves in the first four wins of the season. And last night it was Miguel Castro. And the last note I wanted to get to was that Tommy Fam stole a bass last night and the PA system played the family feud music. And it was great. Oh, I didn't realize what that was. Adam, we're on video now. Yeah, I know. That's what. Okay. Yeah, I, no.

No. All right, all right, fine. I'll stop dancing. Quick lineup notes. Francisco Maha'i started a catcher. He went two for four with a strikeout. Max Muncie started against a lefty, but he went over four with two strikeouts. Ryan McMahon sat versus a lefty.

Three contract notes. Colorado signed Armand Marquez five years, $43 million. Somehow, the Blue Jays signed Randall Gritchick for even more money than that. Five years, $52 million. And Ronald Acunae, eight years, $100 million. I'd love to talk about it, but we have fantasy baseball to get, too. Buy or sell. Jun Jin Ryu is better than Zach Granky.

Sell. On a perning basis or for the rest of the season? Or the rest of the season in fantasy baseball. Sell. On a perning basis or a per star basis, I think he probably is. He's pretty good. He's really good. He's really good.

He's faced Arizona and San Francisco so far, but Ryu's off to a very good start. And Granky had a very good bounce back yesterday. he gave up two home runs, though. He hit two home runs, right? Didn't he double dong? He double donned. Wow. Yeah, I know.

He and Madison Bumgarner hitter hit a home run in that game, right? Yeah, he's a very good hitter. Yeah, he is. He's a great athlete. That's awesome. But, no, it was a nice bounce back for Granky. I have him later in the notes, but if you want to talk about Granky right now,

who obviously got lit up, I mean, I do think that the two home runs are a little concerning, but I think it was six innings, three runs, 10 strikeouts, like that? I can't find it. But yeah, Granky, talk. Yeah, he definitely had 10 strikeouts. Yeah, six innings, six hits, three runs, no walks, 10 strikeouts at San Diego,

rebounding from that bad start at the Dodgers. Now you talk about Granky. He's fine. Yeah, I think that's probably sure. I mean, his velocity's actually up from where it was last year, and, you know, he went from averaging like 88 in April to, 89, close to 90 for the season. So that's a good sign that he

does seem to have recovered some of that. Yeah, I think he's fine. Okay, is that Granky or James and Tyone? Brinky. Granky or Mount Marquez? Grinky. Yeah. By herself, Cody Bellinger, currently the number one hitter

in fantasy. By or sell, Cody Bellinger is better than Anthony Rizzo. So. Kind of want to buy it. I kind of almost thought it before the season. Nothing matters in the first week of the season, except for things that confirm things you already thought. Exactly.

I'll sell it. But it is nice to see. Who did he had a grand slam off of last night? Zach Grinky. No, no. No, Madison Bumgarner. Correct. And what armed does Madison Bumgarner throw with?

His left, but he's not a good lefty. His best one. He didn't give up an run yesterday, Zach. Mattis and Bubgarter. Yeah, Bellinger. That's such a stupid rule that he made the error that caused the inning to be extended and he gets unearned runs for it.

It is a really... If you're a pitcher, just throw the ball away every time it comes to. Also, if someone hits a home run, their run should always be earned. Like, I don't care if the inning should have been over. They hit the ball out of the park against you. That is earned. Also, if you load the bases,

the inning shouldn't have been over. You pitched crappily. I don't agree with Heath's thought. I think if you are forced to get four outs, no pitcher should have to get four outs. That it should all be unheard. But I do agree, if it's your error, the whole concept is stupid.

Okay, buy or sell, Jordan Zimmerman is good. You skip the best one. Oh, buy or sell. Tampa Bay could win the American League East. Buy. They could. They legitimately could get over Baltimore, though. The Yankees have like a Tigers-esque lineup right now.

The Yankees are that team. There's like always one team that just gets destroyed by injuries. It's the Yankees. And the problem is it's the type of thing that just perpetuates itself because the training staff spending so much time with the guys who are hurt that they can't do as much preventative care on the guys who aren't hurt. I think the Yankees should probably start selling. They're seasons over.

All right, buy ourselves. Jordan Zimmerman is good. He struck out six Yankees, gave up one run in six and two thirds. He had 13 swinging strikes. That followed up seven scoreless, one-heasons. hit innings at Toronto with four strikeouts. So now it's 13 and 2 thirds. One run, 10K is for Jordan Zimmerman, who is just 28% own.

I am not sure. I will sell Jordan Zimmerman is good. I will buy Jordan Zimmerman is different. I will say, I mean, first off, I'd like to see him against a good lineup first. But he has only walked one batter in 13 innings. And that was an intentional walk. And when he was really good, it wasn't because he was a striker. a lot of guys out. It was because his control was maybe the best in the major leagues.

I did put him in the waiver wire call on the day. I'm not, I'm kind of with Chris. I'm not ready to say that he's good, but I think he's been good enough so far that you need to pick him up to find out. Drop Eric Lauer for him? Yes. Sure. Matt Shoemaker or Jordan Zimmerman? I'd prefer Shoemaker. I think I'd still rather have Shoemaker, but it's close. Lucas Gialito or Jordan Zimmerman?

Zimmerman. I would stick with Gialito. I think there's some interesting stuff there. All right. Buy or sell. Blake Parker at 14%, and Anthony Swarzak at 25% are ridiculously under-owned. Blake Parker, 14%, Anthony Swarzak, 25%. Buy more for Parker than Swarzac.

Buy more for Swarzak than Parker. Discuss. Listen, this was good that Blake Parker got a save, and it was good. They brought Taylor Rogers into the 8th. the inning of a tied game and he gave up. It wasn't tied anymore when he left the game. So those are positives.

But I think there's still quite a competition going on in Minnesota for who's going to be the closer. There's not anybody in, like they've given saves to other guys, but his very first day off the DL, a lot of times managers want to see a guy pitching the seventh, see him pitching the eighth. He got a save in his very first game back.

And the Mariners don't really have anyone else. And I don't think we're going to see Hunter Strickland for two months. So I just think Swarzak, Parker's better than Swazak. I think Swarzac's more likely to get saves. Okay, and Swarzac, you know, 2017, I believe he had a great season. 2018 injuries was really bad. But 2017, I don't know. You look at his career.

I don't know that the Mariners. 2017 was a big outlier. I don't know. Also, Sporzac's 15% owned and not 25% owned, which makes him even more criminally under oath. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Typo. Am I?

Maybe Blake Parker's 24% in that 14. I don't know. But they're both widely available if you need some safe. We're going to get to some early season observations. I want to talk about David Peralta. I want to talk about Louis Brinson. I want to talk about Juan Soto. Some hitting machines like Mike El Franco, Adam Jones.

These guys are off to great starts. We'll get to all of that. Stick around. We'll be right back on fantasy baseball today. All right, early season observations. I gave you guys a homework assignment last night. Did you do it? Yeah, of course.

Always do. I did it on Monday. All right, so I'm going to go first. So why not? I'm just going to say something and then I want you guys to react. Early season observations. David Peralta,

who was a top 17 outfielder last year, and Matt Chapman, who had a 962 OPS in the second half, really broke out. Peralta and Chapman are picking up where they left off, guys. React. I think for Chapman in particular, it's really promising because of how much it was weighted towards the second half.

and, you know, my general position is you take the whole season. But he's a young player, really impressive skill set. I'm very heartened to see that he has picked up where he left off. It doesn't necessarily mean I think he's going to be an elite hitter moving forward. But, you know, the level that Josh Donaldson was at in Oakland, I think is attainable. He wasn't the first round guy, but he was a very good starting third base. Heath, have you moved Josh Donaldson, have you moved Matt Chapman up at all?

I moved him up a little bit at the very end of the spring just when it became apparent that he was probably just fine and we didn't have concerns over what it happened. But he is, I think he's my 12th third baseman in both formats right now. 13. He could probably be a little bit higher, but there's a lot of good third baseman. Right.

I think you have him 13th, but you'd have to jump him. over Vlad, Turner, E. Eugenio Suarez, Travis Shaw, Chris Bryant. I mean, I think it's reasonable to take Chapman over Vlad, right? Vlad or Chapman? I mean, I would guess Chapman's going to be better over the rest of the season. He doesn't have the upside. Right, okay. I would take Chapman over Suarez.

Heath, you want to give me a quick thought on David Peralta? No, not really. I didn't buy the huge increase in what he did last year, and he's making me look a little bit silly so far, but it's really, really early, and I've not found a reason to move him up yet. Okay. Lewis Brinson has a 62.5% hard contact rate that is 12th best in MLB,

31.3% line drive rate for Lewis Brinson. The numbers don't look good. No walk, six strikeouts, batting just 273, hasn't homered. I think he was robbed of a home. run. He has hit two doubles. He's played nothing but home games in that big part. Are we seeing anything that's encouraging for a 24% own Louis Brinson, anything you care about right now? It's kind of like with the hot start in spring. It's just a reminder that he's there and that there's talent. It's too early to say that he's figured it out. The strikeout to walk ratio obviously

suggests that he hasn't. But something to keep an eye on for sure. Dee Gordon is off and running. Dee Gordon has four steals, three of them batting nine. So bad news is he's batting ninth. Good news is he's running. And I was hopeful for this as I thought he basically was D. Gordon last year before getting injured. Can D. Gordon be a fantasy stud if he's batting ninth? No, not a stud. He could be a steel stud.

If you were redrafting today, he went like in the 90s overall in ADP. If you were redrafting today, when would you take Degordon? Right around the 80s or 90s. Yeah, in a Roto League. But not in a points league. No, points league, he doesn't need to be held. And then guys... I wouldn't go that far.

He's still a second baseman. Okay, but a second baseman batting ninth who doesn't walk, doesn't really do anything except steal. I'm interested to see where he'd, where he would end up. He's a low end, right? My number 12 second baseman right now is Rognito Dore. Yeah, right now. And he doesn't walk and he doesn't steal very much. Right now, D. Gordon's 10th in points, but he's played a couple more games than most people, most players.

Juan Soto is three for 16 with one walk, nine strikeouts, still very low fly ball rate. I don't know. He's faced great pitching. There was a really good piece on fan graphs right before the season about Juan Soto. He was like the second best hitter in baseball against fastballs. and I think he might have been the worst against all non-fastballs. I wonder if maybe there's just a scouting report that's out and he needs to adjust. That's what it's all about with young guys.

You come in, your skill sets can shine or you can struggle, but there's always either you making an adjustment or the league making an adjustment to you, and that back and forth is really what separates the talented from the truly great. Yeah, so I don't think anybody's worried about, Juan Soto, but since we have seen great players take a step back in their second seasons, one walk, nine strikeouts, you know, it's something to keep an eye on. Okay, guys, what are your early season observations? Chris, hit me with it. So we talked specifically, the two of us, talked a lot about how there was no way Christian Eilich was going to back up last year's power breakout.

Wasn't going to do a 36% home run-run the fly ball ratio. You might not need to. It's very early. It's five or six games for the Brewers. He has already hit 10 fly balls. He has already hit, I believe, three line drives, four line drives. So 14 of his 19 batted balls have been hit in the air. He is 10% of the way to last year's total fly ball. Total. Wow.

Total fly ball total. Yeah. He has a 53% fly ball rate. Again, it's really early. I'm sure he's had six games stretches where he's hit this many fly balls. But it is extremely, extremely encouraging and extremely worrying for someone who's a narcissist and was skeptical of Christian Yellick's power breakout.

And also we have a new category, new stat, new advanced stat, the TBFT, the total flyball total. Oh, T FBT, I said it. Okay, total fly ball, total. That doesn't work. All right, what else, Chris? What else? Well, in a similar vein, we said Madison and Bumgarner couldn't be successful. if he didn't change his approach.

He has changed his approach, and the results so far are decidedly mixed. He was awesome against the Padres in his first start, had nine strikeouts. The cutter was a tremendous swing and miss pitch. Last night against the Dodgers, not so much. He had eight total swinging strike five with his cutter, but that was out of 40 pitches, so it's not a great rate. It's still to be determined. I haven't changed my opinion on Madison Bumgarner.

but it remains something that we should continue to watch moving forward. Yeah, and I think we really need to consider sitting most pitchers against the Dodgers. Like, holy cow, what a lineup they have. And that was Bumgarner's opponent last night. One more, Chris? Tyler Glasnows' command over the weekend and his start really stud out to me. If you look at the, if you go to Baseball, Savon, or Bricks Baseball.com. that you'll see the strike zone overlay and basically every single pitch with the exception of

about five was within the vertical uh plane of the strike zone and it was just he either missed high with his fastball or low with his curveball that's exactly what you want to see from then he had a hundred miles per hour in this start the fastball was great and he even threw some changeups and sliders which is interesting because he's really been a two pitch pitcher in his career if he can develop a third pitch and his command can be better and that was a concern coming out of spring training when he walks so many people. It's really, really interesting if Tyler Glass now can just improve his command just enough. All right, Heath Cummings, you are up. Give me some early observations. The Rockies might be a really good matchup for pitchers when they're on the road again.

And we got really excited about the stallions, TM. And they still could be very, very good. but also the Rockies have now have a 208 batting average with a 290 babbip. They've got a 28% strikeout rate as a team. They don't look very good offensively once again outside of course field. That's what happens in case in the Stanley. Also, Caleb Smith won the other. All right. Okay, not all the stallions, but the Jose Urania.

But I think it's the old, like they've scored 16 runs on the entire season. Yeah, I think four of them were against Urania. You guys not even hearing that I'm playing the Staliener. I didn't hear it. Okay. All right, good. As long as you're acknowledged it. I didn't hear it. It's very low. I turned it up. What else, Heath? What else? Let me be a little bit of a homer for just a moment. Because I haven't done that very much this year. I'm not going to have very much reason to do it all year. Scott might have been too low on Adelberto Mondesie, which would mean we were all too low on Alberto Mondesie. One steal. Yes, he's only stolen one base so far this year. He's only been on first base twice. Right.

That's because he has all of the extra base hits. He had an inside-the-park home run and a double. He has five extra base hits so far. He has a high babbip. I know. He's hitting the ball in the air a ton. Most importantly, he's locked into that number two spot in the Royals batting order. I expect he's going to continue to run a ton.

I mean, if he runs 50% of the time he's on first base, he's going to be in pretty good shape. And he's with just one home run and one steel. He's on pace for a 40-40 season. I mean, find everything else. It is technically correct, the best kind of correct. Thank you. He has a 29% infield fly ball rate,

so he's hit a lot of infield fly ball, which is what they're called. Pop-up. He has struck out 28% of the time. It's only 18-played appearances so all, but I don't know, if we were going to be really, really excited about Alberto Mondesi after four games,

I would not have pictured it being because he had, as a single inside the park home run that probably could have been caught and a single stolen base. Stay low on Mondi, Chris. I'm not low on Monashy. You are. I grabbed him in the auction that we did for $26. That was a big box.

Clearly too low on him. But I don't think anything we've seen so far should change how we view out of Bota Monashy. I said Scott might have been too low on him. He might have been. He might have been too high on him. He definitely wasn't that. I've got Alberto Mondi you've got Francisco Lindor.

I say, hey, I'll give you Mondi you give me that injured guy who's not even going to run this year. What would you do? Oh, God. In a roto league, I probably take it. Wow. I think you kind of have to,

given the fact that Lindor's already been hurt, already suffered a different injury, possibly as a result of that injury. I don't know how the calf bones connected to the ankle bone. We just don't know what he's going to look like when he gets back.

Okay. Would you rather have Modesty or Trevor's story? Story. I think I had... I can't remember who I had high. I haven't changed the two of them. You have story higher. It's definitely story.

You have story higher. Yeah, I'll take story. Okay. That's... Oh, so did you want to give one more, Heath? No. Okay, good. Those are Heats' observations.

Some bullpen notes. Thoughts on Jose Barrios's weird start. Michael Franco, are we buying? hit with him. Christian Walker, Homer, again. He's 21% owned. Routy Thales is 11% owned. Keep an eye on him. Do we like, oh, Zach Eflin, I can't believe we haven't talked about Zach Eflin. We will talk about Zach Eflin. And we'll be right back. One last quick break. We'll be right back here on fantasy baseball today. Also stick around for grade the trade, but we're coming right back. All right, here we go. In the bullpen. Baltimore, the first team, oh, I mentioned this. Since 1991, to have

four different relievers record saves in the first four wins in the season. Great. Josh Hater, is he going to be the number one reliever in fantasy this year. If Jeremy Jeffers comes back and in his rehab assignment, they find out he just can't pitch because of his shoulder, then yes. Yeah, they are using him as a true closer. He has four saves. The last three have been one inning at a time. He's been amazing.

We talked about Anthony Swarzak and Blake Parker. They're available. Shane Green is off to a good start. Three scoreless innings, one hit, one strikeout. Ian Kennedy got a save chance yesterday. yesterday and blew it. That's weird. It's really strange.

Yeah. Willie Peralta pitched the seventh. It's going to be messy there. But I do think there's a chance that Kennedy is bad enough that Peralta just becomes the closer. What do you think? I think there's a chance that Peralta is bad enough that Bucksburger becomes the closer. I think there's a chance that Boxburger is bad enough that...

Some are currently pitching in AAA. Don't say someone. There is someone, and we all know who he is, and we're all excited for his debut. I have no idea. We don't know who he is. Everyone knows about Richard Love Lady. I have no idea who that is. I don't know either.

So what else? Oh, Kenley Jansen and a role is Chapman. Not a lot of swinging. Actually, Chapman did have six swinging strikes last night, but it was his worst appearance. He gave up two runs to the stinking tigers on three hits. Kenley Jansen. It was his worst appearance ever, or just of this season?

The season. The season. This season, okay. It was. A date. Kenley Jansen has thrown three scoreless innings. He has three swinging strikes. on 46 pitches.

It's weird that we freaked out so much about Kenley Janssen's velocity last April and now it's even lower. He's averaging, he was 91.2 miles per hour with his cutter yesterday. He didn't have a swinging strike on 15 pitches. He has, I think you put in the notes, three on 46 pitches.

Yep. I don't know. We saw him be effective last year with diminished stuff, but the peripherals were still pretty scary. I don't know. It's going to be interesting to watch if he can't get his velocity back up, because I think it could be a real concern. Well, I think we should talk about some of these guys who are off the hot starts.

Mike El Franco, 90% owned, 67% started. Franco's batting 545 with three home runs, six walks, and two strikeouts. Adam Jones is 62% owned. He's off to a great start with Arizona, batting 379 with three homers. Hunter Renfro hit two home runs yesterday. He's 47% owned, and that feels high to me, but he did in his last 48, 49 games of 2018. Hunter Renfro hit 18 home runs. And then there's Christian Walker, who's 21% owned, and he has only started against lefties, but he's been really good.

467 with three home runs. So let's start with Michael Franco. And is anybody buying Michael Franco as a fantasy contributor this year? Like a good one. I want to. I think we have to qualify what a good fantasy contributor is. I have lost most of my hope that Michael Franco still has like breakout potential to be a top five or six third baseman. But I do think that there's a reasonably decent chance that he could be a good corner infielder.

The thing with Franco has always been consistency. When you look at like there are peripherals that, look really good, but then, you know, he hits too many infield fly balls or, you know, he goes through different stretches where he just can't make hard contact. The hard contact is always lower than you think it should be for someone who hits with the kind of power that he does. And it's because he vacillates between hitting the ball really hard and not making good contact at all. And so far this year, he has hit four fly, four fly balls. One has been an infield pop-up. There you go, Oh, we compromise.

It's a really weird start for Michael Franco, and I don't know what to make of it. All right, well, let me get some third baseman out there. Let's see where we rank Michael Franco. Obviously, he's behind the Chapman group. Chapman was 13th and third base. Sorry, I'm just buying time. Well, I pull up the rankings. Here we go.

Mustakis or Franco? Moostakis. Well, if only because he's second base eligible. Okay, how about Uli Gurriel or Franco? I've got Uly. I just move Franco up because he's a guy I hadn't moved yet. I've got Yuli two spots ahead of him. I think that sounds fair.

Thanks for your answer to first. Junkho Gonco or Michael Franco? Franco. I've got Gonco one spot higher. Okay, so that means Franco is ahead of Jake Lamb, as Drubel Cabrera, Jamer Candelario, et cetera, et cetera. Adam Jones, Hunter Renfro. 62% and 47% owned, respectively.

they be that owned? Jones and Redfro. I think they're fine. The Padres are still figuring out their outfield. I think Renfro has only started twice so far, but he's been better than Fran Mill Reyes, so it's possible that that tilts in his favor a little bit. Adam Jones, it's just going to be really funny when nobody wanted to sign him this offseason at all, and then, like, the Yankees give up a decent prospect in July for him, which is absolutely what's going to happen. Not going to happen. Maybe not the Yankees. Some contender. is going to give up something of value for Adam Jones. The Indians.

They probably should have just signed him. They should have just signed him. I'm pretty sold. It's very early that Adam Jones is just Adam Jones again. Because he'd been Adam Jones for so long. He was so remarkably consistent. I think he's probably a little underowned. Renfro, if this current playing situation sticks, is way overowned.

But fun fact, Hunter Renfro had more home runs yesterday than Framil Reyes has hits on the season. So, you know, they seem pretty replaceable in a shallow, and certainly in a shallow league. Like even Adam Jones when he was recent Adam Jones, not like All-Star Adam Jones. He was a back end of your roster kind of guy in a three outfielder league.

He doesn't steal bases. He doesn't hit for a good average. He just hits like 26 home runs, and that's wonderful. But, you know, he's pretty well. He doesn't hit for a bad average. Yeah, well, he doesn't hurt you. But he doesn't accept. selling anything. He's good and whole lot. Yeah, no, I think that's fair. He's like the epitome of

the guy who finishes like 34th among outfielders, but is probably more like the 50th best outfielder every single day of the season. Right. So would you rather have Renfro or Adam Jones? Jones, if I'm starting someone right now. And should we get on the Christian Walker train here? I remain skeptical. Okay. They've faced. a lot of lefties early this year, right? Four-ish? That's a lot. They've played five or six games.

Yeah, so listen, San Francisco has faced five lefties. Arizona's played face, I think, four. And the last two seasons, I noticed this with Cody Ballinger, right? I'm obsessed with how he hits against lefties. It's the key to his season. The NL West has been loaded with lefties. And that's playing out again. So maybe that makes Christian Walker a little more valuable than if he were on any other team, basically.

Is it, I may need to correct myself. All of Christian Walker's home runs have come against Ritees? Yeah, I think so. Oh, wait a second. Okay, I got confused. I got confused. No, he did start against Lefty. You tell me, have they come against Ritees?

I don't think so. I'm looking at his fangraphs page, and it shows that he has eight plate appearances against lefties, eight against Ritees. He is six for eight with three home runs against Ritees and 1-48 against lefties. Okay, so he's starting against lefties and then homering on Ruff Ritey's. He could be better than Jake Lamb.

Oh, yeah, sure. He could be. Yeah. All right, so look, keep an eye on Christian Walker. He's 21% owned. And that's the end of that chapter. In Deep Leagues, Routy Tellez, 11% owned. He has SAT versus Lefties, so that's going to happen, it seems.

But DHs against Ritees, and he's off to a good start for the Blue Jays. John Hicks, if you need a catcher, he's 10% own. He started three of six games for Detroit, started two of the last three at first base. He's not that good, but he might play more than most catchers. And does anybody have any interest in Trevor Cahill, who's, you know. I'm always interested in Trevor Cahill, because he always does really interesting stuff for about a month each season

and then never sustains it. You also dropped him in a 16-team league yesterday. Yes, I did. Okay. Interested in dropping Trevor Cahill. For Anthony Alford, who is. exciting. Speaking of Anthony,

any interest in Anthony DiSclifani? Let's see a couple more starts. The biggest thing for him, he's always had potential, he's just never been able to stay healthy. I do think Routi Theles may be just a starter in a daily lineup league. It's been a limited sample size, but last year,

spring training, this year, he's been very, very good. So would you rather have Routy Telez or Christian Walker? They're both going to sit against, well, no, Walker's going to start against lefties. and sit against Ritees, Thales is the opposite. Walker, I don't know that Walker's going to sit against Ritees

if he has the same number of plate appearances against him this year as he does lefties. I'm going to still say to Les, I believe, more than him. Okay, but I do think that when Ritees have... You could check. I think when Ritees have been on the mound, Jake Lamb has started. But again, we're trying to pick up the trends here. I mean, there's no reason why Walker couldn't, you know, just become the starter. Injuries, news and notes.

Some quick ones. Edwin and Carnacion was scratched from the lineup East Day to Day. Todd Frazier began a rehab assignment. We need Jeff McNeil to get, I think, two more appearances at third base to get eligibility. Matt Adams Day to Day with back spasms. Alex Wood had some setbacks, and there's no timetable for his return. Let's talk about Zach Eflin. Five innings, scoreless, three hits, one walk, nine strikeouts at Washington.

He is 73% owned, and now let's throw Zach Eflin in the mix with the stallions, with Eric Lauer, who is 73% on as well, and probably will be less owned. soon. With all the guys we've talked about, the Odarezies of the world, the Jordan Zimmermans, where is Zach Eflin? Let's talk about S-J-D. Yeah. I think he's right there. It's really interesting that he had such a good start yesterday. What was a nine strikeouts? Yes. A decent amount of swing strikes. His velocity was back to pre-2018 levels, and what made him so interesting last year was that he had this velocity Spike. He said his legs were finally healthy for the first time in a couple of years,

and that made his stuff play up. So now he was back averaging like 93 with his fastball instead of 95. The results were good enough that I'm still excited, but I do want to see the velocity creep back up if possible. Trevor Richards is the only stallion that I like more than Zach Eflin. I like all of the stallions more than Eric Lauer, so that's kind of how I rank all those guys. I do think Eflin has quite a bit of upside, and if he's good, should win a ton of games, which is the one advantage he has over all those Marlins pitchers. Yeah, the stallions, in case you're confused,

are the Marlins pitchers? What are we going to call the Brewers pitchers? The Brewers. So how would you rank Eflin with Woodruff and Burns and Peralta? Burns was really interesting this weekend. A hard fastball with a lot of spin. Could be an excellent swing and miss pitch, even as a starter.

I want all of them right now. I'll still take Eflin over the Brewer's pitchers. I think I'll go Burns Eflin Woodley. Okay. Would you drop Sean Newcomb for Zach Eflin? I would. I'm not quite there. Let's talk about Jose Barrios.

It was an okay start. Royals don't strike out. They have a third few with strikeouts at baseball. Now, I don't know strikeouts per game. but I'm trying to look up the line. I'm sorry, I can't find it. Oh, there it is. Seven innings, seven hits, three runs.

Four strikeouts. No walks for Barrios. This is coming off. I'm never giving Jose Rios enough credit. Apparently not. I don't know. I mean, what do we have to say here? Yeah, nothing.

Nothing. He's been Jose Burrios so far this season. After his first start, we were like, whoa, potential breakout. Had his awesome start against the Indians. And this was fine. Why would we have done that, though? I wasn't on that podcast. I was not.

Yes, you were. We didn't say he is. You just didn't say anything. We didn't say he is breaking out. We just said this was a great start for a guy with big upside. The thing I'll say in Brios' favor, because he didn't have his good stuff last night. He was not as good as he was in his first start, and he's too inconsistent. I'll agree with all those things.

He's still a top 25 starting pitcher. He got through seven innings. And he may, I've ranked it. him higher in points the last two years than I do in Roto. One of his best skills is he should give you a lot of earnings. I got a bunch of starting pitchers that are owned in 85% of leagues or more. Tell me if they deserve it. Kyle Freeland, Marcus Strowman, Marco Gonzalez, Yolisha Seine, and Brad Keller.

Again, the names are Kyle Freeland, Marcus Strowman, Marco Gonzalez, Yolisha Seine, and Brad Keller. or they're all owned in 85% of leagues or more? Do they deserve it, or are these guys that we could drop for some of these trendy starting pitchers? I think you can drop Shasim pretty easily. I think Freeland at 95% is too high. Yep. I'm fine with the rest of them.

Yeah, Keller remains more interesting than really good so far, but he could just be the kind of guy who's just a tweak in his pitch mix away, from taking a big step forward. And he's a sport. That helps. I know, but 85% own goes way beyond Sparkland for Brad Keller.

And he had a 3080A last year. But 96 strikeouts and 140 and a third, a 130 whip. I'm sorry, but if I'm not starting Brad Keller as a reliever, I am probably dropping him for stallions and brewers and effens. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense to me. Was he a two-star pitcher this week?

I would imagine. Yep. That probably explains it. I think he probably goes back to like 65, 70% after this week. Our email address is Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. One of the segments we've been doing for years is Grade the Trade. And we'd like to put some teacher-themed music behind Grade the Trade.

So here's Van Halen to get us going. God, what a long intro. Okay, hold on. Let me mute it. I see, I need to really... It's an endless intro. Oh, here we go. It's amazing.

Okay, grade the trade from Matt. Hey, Jimmy, John, Robert, and John Paul. Lud Zeppelin. Yeah, not Van Halen. Give up Marco Gonzalez and Josh Donaldson. Get Trevor Richards and Travis Shaw. Marco Gonzalez and Josh Donaldson get Trevor Richards and Travis Shaw. I think that's a C plus.

A minus. Oh. Yeah, if you trade for Travis Shaw, like you're getting an A from Heath. Trout for Shaw. A, B plus. No name on this one. I was going to say, I actually, I'm going on a trip in a couple weeks to Tamp. And I asked for recommendations.

And I got hundreds. But one guy says, you must go to this restaurant. I'm talking like must start Travis Shaw must. Tell my wife, we're going to go to the restaurant. Perfect. All right. From no name on this one, grade the trade, give up. Trey Turner, and this came in this morning.

So after the injury, Tray Turner, Carlos Carrasco, and Chris Paddock. get Lindor, Stanton, and Marquez. So give up Turner, Carasco, and Paddock. Get an injured Lindor, an injured Stanton, and a healthy Armand Marquez, headhead categories. How's Carasco's fastball left? I don't know, but probably bad because it's not good. Nothing special.

I just had to make the joke to stall for time. Oh, okay. I think it depends on the state of your roster. I lean towards this being a B. I was going to say C minus. Yeah, this is a bad trade, I think. I think you're getting more upside. I mean, I love Paddock.

I think he's going to be really good, but there's a hard upside or a hard ceiling on innings. We know Trey Turner could be back maybe in the middle of May. And I just think with a little, Lindor and Stanton, you're getting two potential top five hitters. I would just say in a categories league, I would still today rather have Turner than Lindor. And I would much rather have Carrasco than Stanton. Right.

And I'm not certain that Marquez is going to be great. I think you'll probably still be good. So I think that you're winning two positions and losing one, but not quite as big. Alex in New York, grade the trade. Ron Brick, Champ and Brian. Anchorman. 12-te-head-to-head OBP League, categories, categories, OBP. Give Mike Trout, get Travis Schott.

No, give Mike Trout, get Cody Bellinger and Roberto Osuna. I think it's a D. Yeah, D. Oh, my gosh. Mike Trout is off to a, I guess, slow start by his standards. I think he has a 480 on base percentage. He'll probably have like a 420 on base percentage, you know. I don't even know what it was last year, but he's so...

I think it was like 460 last year. Okay, yeah. I sold them very short. He's so good in OBP. He's good in everything. Okay, this is from No Name Again. Grade the Trade. Ten team categories.

Give up. Chris Sale and Jordan Hicks. Get Paul Goldschmidt and roll this Chapman. Oh, yeah. Bravo. Hey. I think that's an A. I would trade Chris Sale and Jordan Hicks for Goldschmidt.

Sure. From Chris. No name needs to calm down with these trades. Just like let your roster marinate. Different person. But I think that was the joke. From Chris, grade the trade, give up. Goldschmidt and Kershaw get.

A lot of Yankees here. Goldschmidt and Kershaw for Paxton, Luke Voigt, John Carlos Stanton, and D. Gordon. So again, Goldschmidt, Kershaw for Paxton, Voight, Stanton, and Gordon. Yes. I like this one. I thought it was like a C-plus.

Oh, you were doing a bit. No, you almost always lose trades when you go the accumulator route, taking multiple players for two players. Sure. All Goldschmidt's the best player in the deal. Right, but Paxton is better than Kirchon. I think they're really close. Okay. But.

May, I could be wrong. And I seem to be a little bit more concerned over John Carlos Stanton than Chris does. He played like 317 games over the previous two seasons. No, I don't care about the past injuries. It's just I don't feel good about him coming right back and being John Carlos Tanton. He had seven walks in three games. That's pretty good. That's a nice thing.

You don't need your bice up to walk. Also, zero extra base hits. From Ryan, grade the trade in a points league. Give up Chris Bryant and Madison Bumgarner. Get Blake Snell and Luis Severino. Brian and Bumgarner for Snell and Severino. I think it's a C-minus. We don't agree on any of the trades.

What are you talking about, Chris? He doesn't like Blake Snell. I was going to give him... Well, no, I think Blake Snell's great, but... Like, Severino might give you nothing this season. And I don't know if Blake Snell's so good that he makes up for Brian and Bumgarner.

Yeah, but... But who would you rather have Bumgarner or Severino? I'd rather have Severino my team right now. Everybody would rather have Severino. Chris, you'd rather have Severino. I guess, yeah. And you'd rather have Snell than Bryant's? Come on.

I feel like we are not downgrading. I feel like we are not accounting for enough risk with Luis Severino. He's a starting pitcher who throws 100 miles an hour and is currently dealing with a shoulder injury. Have him than Bumgarder. New great, Chris. Here's my thing with Bumgarner. We have to go. Go ahead.

He was not a top 30 starting pitcher for me. Sure. And it wouldn't have been for me either, but I'm not sure Severino would have been after the interview. We're out of here. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball today. We'll talk to you tomorrow. A little by-low, sell high on Thursday's show.

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