Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/04 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Best and Worst from Opening Day

Episode Date: April 4, 2017

Khris Davis and Yasmani Grandal owners are feeling good, while Corey Kluber and Noah Syndergaard owners may be a bit nervous right now. We tell you everything you need to know from Opening Day ... More bullpen issues as the Angels and A's will annoy Fantasy owners, the Phillies could make a change and the Rangers bullpen had a rough night ... Anyone to add after one day!? We've got some players in shallow and deep leagues to consider ... 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

Opening day, a.k.a. Blister Day. We got some takeaways from the first, you know, the first real day of the season. Welcome to fantasy baseball today. Adam Azer with Scott White and Heath Cummings today. Chris Towers is out sick. We're going to tell you about some ad drops. We're going to talk about saves. We're going to talk about blisters. We're going to talk about the best and the worst from yesterday. But first, a message for employers. Are you hiring with zip recruiter.com? You can post your job to 200 plus job sites, including social media. networks like Facebook and Twitter, all with a single click. Try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. Good morning, gentlemen. What's up? Good morning. Baseball's awful.

Baseball's what? All of our, are we like 0 and 4 as a fantasy baseball department? Why? All of our teams lost. Oh, really? What do you mean all of our teams lost? Not our fantasy teams. lost.

Oh, like the actual baseball teams. I thought you were talking about fantasy teams. No. No, look, I mean, if the Yankees lose today, I'm done. I'm not watching any more baseball. Ever again. Do or die.

No, just for the season, you know. More importantly, waiver wire razor is added again, folks. Already making some ad drops. I want to know if I'm alone. Do you guys make any ad drops based on yesterday's action? I made zero ad drops. But I am going to halfway advise some in today's waiver wire column. Halfway.

Yeah, halfway. Who are you going to lead with? Well, who do you think I'm going to lead with? Is it Santiago Casilla or is it Hecala? Oh, I thought it was going to be Kendall Graveman. How could it not be? I'll tell you why. Okay, I'll tell you why.

Because Bob Melvin, this is the great manager quote, he said he used Ryan Madsen in the 8th to face Mike Trout and Albert Pooholz. So here's what happened in case you missed it. Santiago Cicilla got the save for the A's. He threw a scoreless inning. He did walk one. Ryan Dull pitch the 7th. Sean Doolittle pitched, I think he got two outs in the 8th.

Ryan Madsen came in and got one out. But Melvin said he wanted Madsen because it was the best matchup for Trout and Pooholz. And Melvin said, quote, it worked out. Now, I would say Madsen gave up a double to trout at an intentional walk to pools, and then I think he got C.J. Crone to end the inning. So I don't know that it really worked out, but they got the save. So just because, you know, that's why I was saying maybe not Casilla, because I don't know what will happen next time if he was really using Madsen.

You don't know what I was going to say about Cassia, Adam. I don't, but go ahead. Why don't you talk? I do think that Monday's bullpen usage wasn't necessarily all that revelatory because they did use Doolittle and Madsen in what would appear to be the highest leverage situation and they said at the start of the year that there were going to be several

pitchers in the mix for saves so just because that opportunity happened to fall in and he's lap this time doesn't mean it regularly will but he's only 9% owned and we have no other indication that there's a clearer front runner than him I equate the situation kind of to Ryssela Glacius's

and that he's the front runner in a very dicey situation. And Iglesias is 69% owned versus Cascia's 9% ownership. I'm not saying Cascia needs to be universally added. He's still near the very bottom of the closer pecking order in fantasy. But, I mean, 9%. And you just got to say that that certainly needs to be added in some leagues. All right, well, here's my question. Two questions.

First of all, would you drop Ryan Madsen for Santiago Cascia? Yes. No. It's a tough one. I don't know what to do. I have a situation where I have Ryan Madsen, and I don't know. I'm going to be so mad at myself if I drop Madsen and he gets the next save. I might.

I'm putting Madsen at like an over under of 20 saves and Casilla at like 12 and a half right now. I would, unless it was a situation where I needed the athletics closer, whoever I decided is in my lineup right now to get me saved. If it's just like a guy from my bench, I think I might rather own Hector Narris. I was going to say that. That's what I was going to say. That was my next question.

Like, would you lead the waiver wire column with Hector Narris? Because Jen Margomez was terrible in getting a save yesterday. And his manager actually came out and said, I'm worried. And, you know, we've been talking about this. Here's the thing, though. Like, everybody in the world knew that Jane Margomez was not any good. And you are so confident that he was. he's good that after one bad performance in which you still win the game, now you're worried.

I mean, he had like an 850 ERA in the second half last year. Then why is he the closer? Well, okay, here's the quote from Pete McKannon. I'm concerned. I had two guys up in the pen in that ninth inning. He's just not getting the ball down the way he did when he was successful. I want to make sure that he gets the opportunities, but at the same time, I don't want to let the game slip away.

He has to execute. Like I said, for me, he's earned the right to be the closer for right now, but he's got to get the ball down. So, you know, he's not, he's not removing him tomorrow. But it sounds like he had, Gomez has a very short leash. And Nerris worked the eighth inning while I think, uh, Joaquin Benoit worked like the sixth, which doesn't mean they couldn't change it all up if they decided to make a change and go with Binwa.

But Nerris is their best reliever. And I don't have confidence in Gomez turning this around. So if the Phillies are expressing some doubt here. as well. I think it's just a matter of time. So who's the best to own? Like, I am currently looking at one of my teams where I have Ken Giles and I have Mark Malanson. I want a third closer. I have Ryan Madsen. I have Jason Grilly and I have Fernando Rodney on my team. I actually also have Jayre's Familia. So I actually want four closers.

This is one of those head-to-head categories leagues where you can change your lineup every day. And I think you should have, you should try to get foreclosers in that league. I think it would be helpful for you. I still have plenty of starting pitchers. I don't think you need Grilly. Sounds like it's just going to be a minimum DL stay for Ozuna. And he's not very good anyway. So, you know, week two, it'll be too late to start Grilly. I know you said it's a daily league, but, yeah, so dump Grilly for Narris. And then, you know, if Madsen does end up getting the majority of the chances in Oakland, you still haven't. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you for helping with my team. And I think a lot of

people are probably looking at the same group of, of fringy closers. And Narris could definitely be, like, Nairus had over 100 strikeouts last year, right? He's good. Came close, at least. I know he had a good rate in a lot of innings, so there's a good chance. Let me find it exactly, so I don't have to just talk around it. Yeah, no, that's fine. He had a hundred to.

And he's probably, if he becomes the closer, Narris won't throw as many innings as he threw last year, which is working against him because I think they like him for more than one inning, but I don't know. It just seems like a guy. If you want to speculate right now, seems like a guy to speculate on. I added Carlos Gomez, who's 69% own in two leagues. And, you know... Did you drop the line out of his shields for him? I dropped the line of to shields in a points league. Because here's the thing. We thought Delano to Shields, he's one of the big losers from yesterday. I don't know how long it lasts, but just from yesterday, we thought the Lionel de Shield was going to lead off for the Rangers.

Carlos Gomez let off of the Rangers. Jerks and ProFar played left field, bat at ninth went over four with two strikeouts, and Jeff Bannister says that pro far, Rua, and the shields are all going to play left field. So I would not drop Gomez necessarily, or would not drop the shields for Gomez necessarily in a categories league. It kind of would depend on what I need. But in a points league, I don't see, I don't see how you don't make that swap. In fact, I probably should have drafted Gomez over to shields in that league to begin with. Yep. Yeah, it probably should have. But this is one of the, like, do we, do we have much confidence Dirk's and ProFar is good.

No. No? We don't have a lot. I don't have a lot of confidence Delano Shields is good. I have more confidence. Like, we've seen better from DeShields more recently

than we have ProFar. So if he just keeps doing what he did in spring training, this will sort itself out. He's probably going to be in the lineup tonight. Yeah, I think he'll get a shot. I was just really shocked,

like, why not just play ProFAR at third and play Delano DeShilds and left field? Like, why did they have to play Gallo at third? Well, that's a good question. I think that just saying, because you know I keeps talking about the liner to Shields and now one day into the season I drop him. It's really, that was about Carlos Gomez. Gomez is 69% own. He homered.

He also stole a base and was called out. I mean, officially he was caught stealing, but I'm pretty sure he was safe. And, yeah, again, leading off for the Rangers. So I think what he did with Texas last year, there was enough excitement there for me to take a shot on him. The circumstances you're mentioning, it's not like I'm chastising you for dropping Shields. It's a three outfielder points league where you don't need stolen bases. I'm just saying if you drafted DeShields as a sleeper for steals and like a five outfielder roto league, let's not pull the plug just yet.

Yeah, and that's what I was saying. I totally agree, and I didn't want people to think I was pulling the plug. It was more about Gomez than DeShields. And then that was the only guy I added that wasn't a relief pitcher. So let's get into yesterday's action. Who do you think is going to hit more home runs this year? Mark Trumbo or Chris Davis with a K? Well, Chris Davis has got a one-homer lead, but I'm going to go with Trumbo still.

I don't think either one of them probably reaches last year's totals, but they could both get within spitting distance. Okay, and they both were over 40 last year. Trumbo had more. I think Trumbo had, what, like 47. 47 for Trumbo and 42 for Davis? And they're off the good starts. I want a hit her in a deep league. Who do I want?

Steve Pierce, 14% owned, or Ryan Schimp, 19% owned? I'd rather have Pierce. I've always been fascinated by Pierce. Two of the last three years, he's hit about 290 with an OPS over 850, but didn't seem like none of his teams were giving regular and regular playing time. The fact that he, A, the Blue Jays removed a left field option when they cut Melvin Upton loose, and B, they gave Pierce the start at first base over Justin Smoke, even though. against a right-handed pitcher yesterday gives me some encouragement that they actually like him

as much as I do. So I want to see him play more before we talk about Mix League, making him a Mix League edition, but he's on my scouting list for now. I will say just in honor, since Chris Towers is not here, somebody should say it, that Ryan Shemp was pretty phenomenal last year, had a 130 OPS plus 869 OPS, 20 home runs and just 330 plate appearances, and didn't look like a fluke, at least on opening day. I think I'd lean Pierce, too,

but there's a pretty decent chance that we overlooked both of these guys. I don't have much confidence in Shimp hitting even 200 to be. I understand a lot of fly balls, a lot of power, but he had 217 last year and half the seasons of bats, basically, and just it seems like home run. or bust for him. Did he lead, did Ryan Schimp lead baseball in isolated power, which is slugging percentage minus batting average?

Because it was over 300. Well, he wouldn't have been a qualifier. Okay. But how many played appearances did he have? I don't know. He played 89 games. He batted 2.17. Shimp hit 20 home runs in 89 games.

Had a 533 slugging percentage. He's eligible at second base as of now. And he played third base and batted fifth yesterday. So Schimp could have second base and third base eligibility. soon. Let me throw Mark Reynolds in there, by the way. Mark Reynolds went two for three with a home run on the road at Milwaukee. Would you rather have Steve Pierce, Ryan Schimp, Mark Reynolds? Reynolds is going to be at the back of that list for me just because I don't think they'll have a job for long. No, he's probably realistically a one-month rental, but I think

there's a chance for the next month. He's better than a lot of guys who are currently playing at corner infield. I think Reynolds will be better than those two. in April. I just don't know that he's worth anything at all after that. It could be just like a two and a half week rental, too. That's, yes, that's possible. I think it's optimistic. It's like, when Desmond comes back, I don't think they're going to stick him in the outfield. I think he would just go first base, regardless of how Reynolds and Parra are doing. All right, guys, more stuff from yesterday.

Closer stuff. The Angels are using closer by committee as well. So, like, it looks kind of like the A's are going to use closer by committee as of now, but the Angels, and we like Cam Bedrosian and Houston Streets on his way back, making progress. What's your read on this situation with the Angels? Like, the difference for me is the A's have, like, four different relievers who are more or less equivalent and could all close potentially. The Angels just have one good reliever, and it's Cam Bedrosian. And, you know, he may have intentions. Social may have intentions of going committee, but the cream will rise to the top.

I do think two things. One, amongst players with at least 300 played appearances, Ryan Shimp did lead baseball in Issa last year. 315 edging out David Ortiz. Wow. Two, the only thing that really bothered me about that that I read, and I can't remember exactly where I read it was, it does make you think when they say we're going committee that they're just holding the job until street comes back. Yeah.

Like if they weren't worried about when Street comes back, I could see them just naming a guy. But then there's also how good is Street even? Right, but if Bedrosian's going to have to prove it over the next month and then when Street comes back, we have to wait for Street to screw it up too.

That's a long time before Cam Bedrosian's a closer you really want to start. Yeah. Well, we'll see. I mean, it is worth noting that Street actually did lose his job to Cam Bedrosian for like a day. last year before Bedrosian got hurt. And he had a terrible year.

That didn't help Benoit coming. I mean, not Benoit. It didn't help Hector Neres coming into this season. That's similar situation with Gomez. So who would you rather own Hectoranerneris or Cambridge, Rosen? Bedrosian. The Droger. Okay.

Jason Grilly struggled yesterday in his cameo. It was a non-save situation. He gave up the home run, the walk-off home run, to Mark Trumbo. Yeah. Sam Dyson got roughed up. Four hits, three runs, lost the game for the Rangers. Couldn't even get out of the inning. That was a non-save situation as well.

He's been a good pitcher three years in a row, so can we shrug this one off for Sam Dyson? The one thing that helps him is that the reason it wasn't a save situation is because Matt Bush blew the save the inning before that. So I think for, like, you just put this one in your back pocket and remember it, But it doesn't mean anything probably yet. And Blake Trining got a save. He struck out two.

He struck out two Marlins got his first save. I'm rooting for Blake Trinen now because I got him in Towardt, he's a quarter of my yearly budget to get him. So now I need him to do well. All right. Awesome. So injuries, news and notes, important stuff here. Noah Cindergarde left with a blister on his middle finger.

His next start will be pushed back from Saturday to Sunday, and he had a great start. Robert Giselman's going to pitch Saturday now. Gazellman pitched out of the bullpen for one inning yesterday. And Corey Kluber also had a blister on his finger, and it was affecting the spin on his pitches, and he had a bad start. He gave up three home runs, five runs, and six innings.

Also with three walks at Texas. So Cindergarde and Kluber both dealing with blisters, and are there any concerns, let's say for Kluber, other than the injury, if you looked at yesterday's start? I think he was terrible on opening day last year, right? Cluber. Oh, he had a lot of terrible starts early because that inspired the great and now infamous Adam Azar. Kluper is no good rant.

Oh, you jerk. I can't believe you just spun it like that. The R.A. matters. That's not what I said. That is not what I said. I never said he's overrated. I just said his ERA matters. You guys seem to overlook his ERA all the time.

And he did have a bad start on opening day. His first three stars for him. He didn't win the Sigh Young. You only finished third. Yeah, there you go. You said he's not an ace. is what you said. Is that what I said?

Yes, he is not an ace. Okay, well, maybe I was wrong about that. Getting back to the blister issue. Like, Richel missed most of the second half last year with a blister, so, like, it's one of those injuries that, like, can be a very small thing or it can be a big thing,

depending on its location and I guess its size and just how much it impacts your ability to throw the baseball. like you're used to. The Mets, for Sindergards, they pushed them back a day. Did you mention that? Yes. They pushed them back from Saturday to Sunday.

So, you know, that doesn't mean it can't become a bigger blister in Sunday start. But that sounds good. But yes, it's an encouraging outlook initially. Kluber, I don't think that situation is as clear. And you were saying off the air, Heath, that you thought it sounded more severe. Just from the, and I haven't obviously seen the blister. but just from the reporting that I heard. I mean, they said Klubr had a callus on his finger rip open.

And he was awful, which I would assume we can at least contribute partially to that situation, whereas Sendergarde was just completely and totally dominant. Maybe it didn't happen until the last pitch he threw, I don't know. But, yeah, I'm more worried about Kluber than I am, Cindergarde right now. I might put Cindergarde as like a three on the Worryometer and Kluber at a 6. Okay. Yeah, Kluber, like I said, it was affecting the spin on his pitches. So we can partially at least attribute his struggles yesterday to the blister.

We've just got to wait and see. There's nothing we can say. Felix Hernandez, what did you think of Felix Hernandez's start yesterday, guys? He left with groin tightness after five innings. He gave up only two runs in five innings. They were both home runs, and they were both rockets, one from Springer, one from Correa. It was an interesting start. You know, I watched a lot of this game, and then after he left, I watched the National Championship game.

which had a lot of fouls, by the way. 65 pitches, nine swinging strikes. That's good for him. The velocity was pretty encouraging for Felix Hernandez. I still didn't, I don't know. I didn't really know how to interpret the start yesterday from Felix. What did you guys think? If it wasn't for the groin injury, I'd be fairly encouraged.

I mean, he was efficient, got some decent swinging strikes. Yes, he gave up a couple of home runs, but that's much rather that than just get beat around. That was an issue for him last year, though, the home. home runs. Wasn't a terrible, wasn't a huge issue? I mean, everybody gives up home runs these days, I suppose. I think it also depends on what kind of curve you're grading Felix Hernandez on now. Are you looking for 2012 Felix Hernandez because you're going to be disappointed all year long?

But if you're looking for a solid number two starter, I don't think this is bad at all, except for the fact that he's now hurt. He expects to make his next start. If you're in a daily league and you've got Carlos Carrasco, who's pitching today, Ohio.com. I was just reading some notes after the game. Ohio.com said Carasco is going to throw maybe five innings as he isn't stretched out. So you might want to sit him at Texas. If he pitches like he did this spring, it'd be tough to last that long.

Yeah, I sat him for Patrick Corbin, a two-star Patrick Corby. It was a tough decision, but now I'm not regretting it. GM Ross Atkins of the Blue Jays says Roberto Osuna's injury is not serious. Joe Biagini could get some saves if Jason Grilly is not getting the saves. But it looks like Grilly's the guy there for now. but Osuna could be back, you know, next week at some point. St. Louis signed Stephen Piscotti to a contract extension. Drew Pomerance appears to be on track to pitch this weekend.

Junior Gera was bad, and now he's DL-bound with a calf injury. Junior Gera on the DL for the Brewers. Bronson-O-Royle will start for Cincinnati on Saturday. Let's see where to jump to now. I could talk about lineups, but I'd rather talk about pitchers. Let's talk about some of the good aces from yesterday. Dallas Kichel, Woo!

Seven innings, two hits. Dude, Dallas Kichel is such a good fielder. I mean, we obviously, you know, if you follow baseball, you know that. He wins gold gloves. He made some awesome plays yesterday. It's a big part of his game because he got a lot of ground balls and pitched brilliantly. Only four strikeouts, but two hits and no runs in seven innings for Kiko against Seattle.

I thought Danny Duffy, despite the three walks, looked really good. Eight strikeouts and six innings, one run at Minnesota. Steven Strasbourg only struck out three Marlins, but gave up two runs and seven innings. Clayton Kershaw was outstanding. Two hits, no walks, one run, one earn run, two runs total, eight strikeouts and seven innings. And Julio Taran, he did walk three, but, you know, pretty good start, six innings, no runs, six strikeouts at the Mets, and no runs for the Braves, and Taran had the second worst run support in baseball last year, and off to the same start this year.

So we had Keiko, Duffy, Strasbourg, Kershaw, and Terah. Ron, discuss, fellas. Well, Duffy's velocity was still was still averaging like 93 on his basketball, which is down from the end of last year.

So that, I mean, that raises concern for me. The result obviously doesn't indicate that there's any kind of issue, and it may be a situation kind of like Madison Bumgarner lost a mile and a half on his average basketball velocity last year.

and was, you know, he never would have known it. He had a career high strikeout rate. So it's not everything. On the Duffy Velocity thing, he was 91, 92 at the beginning of the spring. He was just barely over 93 towards the end of the spring. He was 93.8, I think, was his average fast fall yesterday. So it's still climbing. And I don't think it's fair to compare.

Scott wasn't doing this. but when you're wanting, a lot of times we'll compare where is this guy compared to where he was in April last year, compared to where he was in May last year, and Duffy's fastest velocity of the year was in April and May last year, but that's because he was pitching out of the bullpen in April and May last year. In July and August last year, he averaged 95.1 and 94.9 miles per hour on his fastball. So if he's one, maybe one and a half miles per hour off, that's not as concerning as if he's two, three, four miles. miles an hour off where he was last year. And it has, yeah, like you said, it's gone up a little since spring training. It could, since the start of spring training, it could go up a little more.

Like, the way I put it, and this may be not the most realistic scenario, maybe it'll be more realistic if Cole Hamill's has a bad start first time out. But if Duffy's relief pitcher eligibility doesn't matter to you coming off this great start, maybe you could flip him for like a Cole Hamill's type starting pitcher, just to be safe. Would you trade him for Garrett Cole? No. Do Darvish? Yes.

Oh, yeah, I traded for Darvish, but you watched the Royals game yesterday, right, Heath? Uh-huh. Yeah, I flipped. I thought he looked great. I thought he looked nasty. His change-up was Duffy, I'm talking about. His change-up was really good. He did a great job mixing his pitches.

I mean, the home run to Sano was just murdered, but that's going to happen. So no is going to do that, yeah. Could there be a more Dallas-Kichael start than the one he had last night? It was fantastic, and it turned out really well, but I don't, like, you're not going to throw very many seven-in-in-nings shutouts when you strike-out four-vatters. Well, the ground balls are more important to me with Kichel than the strikeouts. He seems to need... Well, ground balls are good, but still, you cannot expect to have...

have that type of success where the opposing team puts 19 balls in play and two of them turn into hits. Well, if you get soft contact, look, you're not going to get, you're not going to get shutouts, but I'm not expected of him to have a zero ERA. But I was very encouraged. I thought he looked good. And, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I feel like he's going to get a lot of balls in play, but they're going to be ground balls and they're going to be soft contact, hopefully. I don't know.

I came away encouraged. You, I guess, looking at the street. I wasn't discouraged. I just thought that's Dallas Keik. but who is Dallas Kikele? And he's always going to be a ground ball pitcher. Every start he won't give up his few as two hits, but every start he won't have as few as four strikeouts either.

I think it's fair to say. So, yeah, we've got one season in his career where he struck out more than 7.7 per night. And I just think that because he fields his position so well, because he gets so many ground balls, Dallas Kikel can get away with a 7.7 per 9 K-rate, and still, I'll say, I think he could have an ERA under three with that K rate.

He did it once. I think he could do it again. I don't know that he's going with a Sanyang. This was 2014 Dallas Keikl. Look, Scott and I are Keikl believers. Heath and Chris not as much. I'm not quite sure where Chris stands on that. I know Heath doesn't like him as much.

But, all right. One in the books for Keikle. Off to a good start. All right. Let's move on to the bad aces from yesterday. U. Darvish, four runs on five hits. No, on four hits, five walks against Cleveland. Garrett Cole, I have a lot to say about him.

Actually, those are the only two I have in the bad aces. Let's start with Darvish. Did you guys read the article I sent you today? Yes. And it was crazy. Let me just see who wrote it. Is it Mac Ingle? It was in the Star Telegram.

And who'd you think it was? Yeah, it was Mac Engel. Rangers should trade you Darvish, who doesn't have it. And he's basically saying, like, we've watched you Darvish long enough to know that he's a talented pitcher, but he doesn't have it. He doesn't pitch as well as his stuff should indicate. I thought it was like a blistering article.

This guy was second in Sy Young voting a few years ago before he had Tommy John. And ninth in Cy Young voting as a rookie. I don't know what you want from you, Darvish. But yeah, this was not a good start for him. Any thoughts, guys? Click, babe. Click, bait. I thought he wanted thoughts on the start, not the article.

Yeah, on the start. start. You know, it was not a good start. It's a very good offense. I am not overly concerned. Yeah, I'm not either. I don't think you should trade Udarvish off your fantasy team because he doesn't have it. I think you should hold on to him. I mean, look, you could look at the walks. He does, he can walk people. His U. Darvish's whip is sometimes a little higher than what you'd expect from an ace, but he makes up for that by being, the best, maybe the best strikeout pitcher in baseball. In fact, I think they were saying on the broadcast yesterday, he's got the best strikeout rate in baseball history for any pitcher was thrown a certain amount of innings or whatever.

Can we move on from Garvish and go to Cole? Yeah. I can't decide if I'm concerned about Cole or not. Like, the strikeouts weren't there. He kind of had a... Heichel-esque start to the first four innings and then had some sequencing issues. The swinging strikes weren't there. I think he had four swinging strikes, maybe six.

all game. And I just, I did watch this. And Cole, fastball was great. I mean, he's throwing really hard. The secondary pitches weren't there. And man, he was, I didn't see any Brooks baseball data, but it seemed he was very reliant on the fastball. And by the time he got to the batting order the third time around, Ben and Tendie gets three on Homer, I will say that there were two infield hits in that inning, so it didn't necessarily have to be so bad. But yeah, this wasn't a great start for Cole. Well, and I was, I feel like I was the low guy on Cole coming in, and obviously one start doesn't confirm everything I was thinking, but he was throwing hard last year, too, and not all that effective with it, not getting the strikeouts we saw two years ago.

So, I mean, one start in, it seems like a continuation of that. Like, the velocity is there, but he's not getting a whole lot out of it. Okay. And any thoughts on? on his counterpart, Rick Porcelo, who was the Ace So-So Ace yesterday. It was a very Rick Porcelo start. Nothing to be alarmed by, nothing to be excited by. He was Rick Porcelo. He sure was. One Walk in a Win.

That's what I drafted him for. Or in our case, one walk and a quality start in the For the People Podcast League. Yeah, sure. Good whip in this game. All right, guys, listen, so we've got a new sponsor, and if you're an employer, you need to pay attention, website that's going to make hiring much easy for you, much easier for you. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. So that's the free promo we got. ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. Posting your job in one place, it's not enough to find quality candidates. If you want to find the perfect hire,

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for him. He walked four. He gave up two runs on five hits and five and a third against Toronto. Usually not a bad walk guy, so bad control yesterday. But let's talk about John Gray and getting beat up at Milwaukee, five runs on six hits in four plus innings.

Yeah, I was disappointed. I mean, we talked about him yesterday, going against the Brewers lineup, away from Corse Field, the most strikeout, the team that struck out the most in baseball last year. I really wanted to see John Gray make a statement. for a pretty impressive spring training where he worked to diversify his arsenal.

You know, the strikeouts look great. The first four innings, everything was going exactly the way I wanted. But the thing about drafting a rocky's pitcher is you really want them to make the most of those starts away from Corresfield because you know they're going to take some lumps at home. So that's disappointing. I'm not doing anything differently with John Gray based on this start, but, You know, I'm disappointed by it, sure. Yeah, he looked about as dominant as I could have expected for the first four innings.

You said it was similar to Cole, and it was in the results, but I thought he looked much better than Garrett Cole did through his first four innings. And then, I mean, there was a little bit of him falling apart. There was a little bit of him getting babipped. It was a couple of – the Brewers had four doubles in that game that were groundball. which is kind of a rare thing. Yeah. It's disappointing.

I agree with Scott, but there was also a lot of reason to still be excited for the future. All right, so Scott said you're not doing anything differently with John Gray based on the start. I'm going to ask a question. I'm going to assume the answer's no,

but I'll ask it anyway. Are you doing anything differently with any pitchers based on yesterday's starts? Well, I mean, yesterday's starts we're talking mostly aces, right? Yeah. And so, you know, other than some potential, injury issues there with Clover and maybe Cindergarde down the line.

No. But the ones, like, I would, I'm at least thinking about picking up a couple of the pitchers who aren't aces and who aren't universally owned in fantasy who started yesterday. I might see if I could make a buy-low offer on John Gray. Well, we got an email from Chad Simmons. Chad is an obsessed fantasistocrat, as he calls himself, from Cape Breton. He wants to know about Kendall Graveman, who has a new cutter, and it is surrounded by new Kays, according to Chad. So, yeah, Graveman did get some good strikeout numbers yesterday, and he is 49% own.

He struck out seven angels. The Angels were pretty tough team to strike out last year. Last year, Graveman only struck out 108 in 186 innings. But I was unaware of this cutter, and I don't know. We can look into that. But what do you think about Kenneth? There's something else going on with Kendall Graveman. He was one of the two pitchers I was mentioning just a second ago, not adding him in any mixed leagues yet.

But a guy whose next start I'm going to watch very closely, next couple starts probably. Because, yeah, I mean, seven strikeouts and six innings in this first start, it's unexpected from Kendall Graveman, but it's one start. And it's not like he's never done anything like that before. You wouldn't make much of it on its own. but in spring training he had nearly a strikeout per inning as well and

his velocity toward the end of last season it went up it went up and then it seemed like it's in this first star based on the early data from Brooks Baseball and I tried, I looked at the broadcast to see if it verified

what Brooks Baseball was saying because Brooks Baseball had some questionable data early yesterday. So, you know, I don't want to get too excited until I know for sure. But it looked like Kendall Graveman's velocity was up even more in this start. To the point, he was touching 98 with his fastball. What I'm looking at says he is average 94.8 with his two seamer, the max velocity of 97.7. The cutter, I'm not sure, because according to this, he only threw 2.3.2.

two cutters, one slider, and one change-up. And he threw 100 four-seam fastballs or two-seem fastballs. See, that's the thing. I don't even know if the people doing the data would be able to accurately tell which one's the four-seamer and which one's the cutter. That's kind of an issue that I have with some of these pitch metrics, pitching metrics. And it's an understandable mistake to make. You know, it's hard to tell. But here's what I can say that's 100% factual, okay?

Graveman had this start, which was very good, and the strikeouts were surprisingly high. His last two spring starts, uh, six innings, two hits, six strikeouts, seven innings,

five hits, seven strikeouts, and no walks in either of them. So like, this is three starts in a row, granted only one of them counts, where he looked like a legitimate top of the rotation pitcher. Now,

this was against the angels, right? Yeah. And those spring starts were against the Padres and white side. So still a lot more I need to see, particularly since Graveman has established a bit of a track record now. But if he's adding pitches, if he's picking up velocity, and we know for sure he picked up velocity the last couple months of last season, even if we're not sure about started this year yet. It's definitely something to keep an eye on.

Yeah, he didn't pitch all that well. He had some very good starts last year when he picked up the velocity, but a lot of bad ones too. So I think Graveman probably, I think we're calling him like a wait and see. Watch list kind of guy? Okay. All right, then. We got to move on to hitters, but, you know, there was all, like, Irvin Santana. Overn Santana, at 265 ERA after the All-Star break.

And only three strikeouts, but one run in seven innings against the Royals yesterday. Jeremy Hellickson pitched well, but only had one strikeout at Cincinnati. And Edinson Volquez pitched well at Washington, five innings, no-run, six-Ks. So, like, between Santana, Helixen, Graveman, and Volquez, Who would you, give me your top two on that list. Irvin Santana, Helixen, Graveman, Volquez. I'd go Graveman, Santana. Oh, so you're, you're gonna be even higher than me on Graveman

because I'll go Santana and Graveman. I think Santana's ownership could stand to rise even from the 75% at that. Like, he's not a guy you're ever going to really, like, strain to get in your lineup in a one-star week, but he's just, he's the kind of, like, steady two-star option that you like to keep close. Okay. Well, it is team name Tuesday, by the way. We have some team names to read, some emails to read. Wednesday is Grade the Trade Day. So email us at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. We'll grade some trades. You can tweet me as well. I've got a lot of team names to get to. I think I'm going to kind of sprinkle them in throughout the rest of the show. I will start with two team names from Lewis in New Brunswick, Canada. Two team names. One, never go against familial.

Never go against the Familia. Is that a Godfather reference? You're going to have to get a little smoother in the transition of reading these. I'm sorry. Sell them. Sorry. And two is interesting here. I wish I were an Oz Kiermeyer Weiner.

I like that one a lot. What if we changed it to Oz Kiermeier Weeders? I wish I was a Oz Kiermeyer Weeners? Weeders. No. I think it's. makes it a little too like it

doesn't flow as well if you I wish I was an Oskier Meyer weiner Yeah I like that better No weaters Okay and then let me read one more Oh shrimp fried Bryce

Shimp Shimp shimp Geez man Shimp fried Bryce I apologize to everyone who sent in these great team names What about Detliff Shemp? Detliff Shimp is

Shimp is good too. This from Kyle, by the way. Yeah. You get that app where you can merge people's faces together. I think it's the second time you've used that. Well, I don't know that I've used. I mentioned to you off the air. Oh, off the air. I wanted that to be Team Scams logo. It's our faces merged together. There's an app for that, huh? Apparently, I don't know. I was...

My sister's wedding. One of my cousins was showing it to me. So it's funny stuff I don't know what it's called, but it exists. Chris Bazo writes, I want my league last year trying in to win another. That's not bad. Let's talk hitters.

Let's talk hitters. Multi-dong club. Yasmani Grandal, double dong. Chris Davis, double dong. Chris Davis with a K. Rugnett Odor, double dong. Hooray. This is exciting for all of them.

Yeah. All right. Good. Not entirely unexpected. No, obviously, Grandal is probably the one we're most excited about just because the other two are must-owns. Well, Grandal is two, but... Yeah, I mean, listen, Chris obviously very excited about Yasmani Grandal, Jock Peterson. It's too bad that he's not here to talk about it. Yeah, he's sick.

He's sick. Speaking of Grundel hitting two home runs, could there have been a more bipolar opening day matchup than Clayton Kershaw versus Ulys-S. No. And it played out exactly. the way it was supposed to. Except it was one nothing butres. And giving up nine earned runs in four innings and the other two hitting the team. Yeah, that was a big mismatch.

I got four, usually we do three up, three down. I got four up three down today. Four up number one is Mike Mustakas, 57% owned. He homered yesterday. Only played 27 games last year. Do you think Mike Mustakas, 57% owned is underowned, overowned, or just right? Just right. All right.

Yeah, I think eventually this Moustakis, Travis Shaw, Pablo Sandoval, there's even more. Nick Castellanos. Yeah, like that whole segment of third base is we're going to start to see some separations between the winners and the losers there. And then maybe if Mustakis is on the right side of that, he'll be a little underowned. But right now it's hard to pick between that big group. Cesar Hernandez and Freddie Galvis both homered yesterday off Scott Feldman, these Phillies middle infielers, and they're both 35% owned. And, yeah, are they under-owned?

Cesar Hernandez and Freddie Galvis. I would say Hernandez, obviously, I think, is under-owned. Of course you do. I wrote about him on Waverwire yesterday. I'm not so sure about Galvis, because if you had to ask me, is Galvis going to be better or worse than a lot of these upside short stops that we are drafting and just didn't even consider Galvis really? he's probably going to be better than more than half of him.

But he doesn't necessarily have the upside of any of them. So that's the problem with him. Well, last year, Galvis had 20 home runs and 17 steals, and he only finished as the number 18 shortstop in both points and Roto. He had 241. Now, very few runs in RBI, 67 RBIs, 61 runs. Galvis, 36% owned. Not a huge need to get him.

How about Lucas Duda, though? 29% owned. Duda in 2014 and 15 had an 830. and an 838 OPS. He averaged in those two seasons, 33 homers per 162 games. He was terrible last year in 47 games, but do you think Lucas Duda is underowned at 29%?

Maybe a little. I don't, like you say he averaged 33 home runs per 162 games, and he may average that again. I just don't think he'll come that close to 162 games. Wilmer Flores probably start against the lefties. And kind of a deeper league corner. infield option is how I see Lucas Duda. Okay. Let's go to three down.

Three down number one. I'm just going to keep picking on this guy, Cameron Mabin, and I'm doing it because I want Ben Revere to be the starter. Mabin went 0 for 4 with 2Ks at Oakland. He batted 6th. He started in left field. And I know that if Ben Revere is a regular player, he's a much more valuable player in fantasy than Cameron Maven.

So that's all I'm saying. Three down. Number two, Byron Buxton, 0 for 5 with three strikeouts against the Royals. and three now number three, washed up Andrew McCutcheon, O for four, with three strikeouts at Boston. Yeah, I mean, Buxden made two great catches, so he has some job security, I would guess. McCutcheon, you know, if you didn't have much confidence

in McCutcheon coming into the year, you're probably seeing this as validation early on, but even good McCutcheon would strikeout three times in a game every now and then. So let's not put the cart before the horse here. Okay. How about these team names from Ryan, from Tampa? Sin Guardians of the Galaxy. Pretty good.

Donald Trumbo. Donald Trumbians or cinder guardians? Cinder guardians. Damn it. Cinder guardians of the galaxy. You're awful. Donald Trumbo, I got that one right. And that's fun.

And Trinon Wheels. If we pronounced it training, which I thought as recently as a week ago. That's exactly how they say it in Georgia. Yeah. Get you training wheels on that bike. Yeah, right. All right. So those were good ones.

Thank you. I'm looking for more team names. Dodgers edition team name. When Puegs fly. And I can make a combo here. Get Rich Hill or die Trinen? Get Rich. So you're just, we're just,

We're just kind of ignoring it's get rich or die trying, but you have to throw the hill in there. Yeah, get rich hill or die trying in. Yeah. Okay. It's all right. Let's do no more team names then. Let's move on. Looking at the stolen bases from yesterday.

Trey Turner, Adam. Oh, Zander Bogartz, two steals. He said he's going to steal 20. It's a matter of the heart, Adam. A matter of desire. Do you want it badly enough? Zander Bogartz does. Mark Reynolds wanted it pretty badly.

yesterday, but it was still a bad idea. He got caught stealing, right? Yes. Well, you know, 162 games to maybe be right sometimes. Who else? Anything that really stood out to you is Drubo Cabrero, Wilmer Flores, Charlie Blackman. Domingo Santana and Keon Broxton did not hit well, but they both stole a base yesterday. That's cool.

Lorenzo Kane. Lorenzo Kane. Alex Bregman, he had two steals in 49 games last year. Breggman had 20 steals and 30 attempts in 146 minor league games. Do you think Alex Breggman could steal 15 bases this year? 15? Yeah. Sure.

Okay. Do you think he could? 20 bases? Less likely. Well, yeah. Oh, is not counting on it. 25's even less likely. 25 can't happen.

That's where he draw the line. Yep. I'm not going to add. Abraham Almonte for Cleveland, starting in place of Lonnie Chisunhall. Any interest in him? He had a good spring, and a steal yesterday. He stole eight bases in 182 at Bats last year, so I guess there's some potential there for Almonte.

Is he... Do we care? No? Not yet. All right. And Joey Gallo stole a base. G-A-L-O. The movie was on Saturday night, My Cousin'V-E-N-E.

I never can have... If it's on, I'm watching it. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen. It is highly rewatchable. I agree. Yeah. Caught stealing yesterday. I noticed Gregory Polanco, Mark Reynolds, Ryan Braun, and Carlos Gomez were caught stealing. Gomez, like I said, I think he was safe.

But Polanco, remember I brought this stat about Polanco? He really has a bad success rate. And of all the players who stole 30 or more bases last year, only Travis Jankowski had a lower success rate than Gregory Polanco. So that's something I'll be keeping an eye on Is he actually successful? And he wasn't yesterday. He's over one. So there's that.

And I don't think we have to say much about that. Did you notice anything in the lineups yesterday that you thought was interesting? Like Manuel Margoe leading off, Andrew Tolls leading off for the Dodgers. Yeah, yeah. This is one I was going to say was Andrew Tolls leading off. I'd assume Logan Forsyth would every day. But early indications are it'll be Tolls against Riteys, and then I would guess Forsyth against Lefty.

and Tolls is an interesting player. I'm not convinced he'll play regularly enough, though batting high in the order when he does play does help with the abat situation. But he hit, what, 315 in part-time work last year was in a regular part of the Dodgers playoff lineup. And you look at his minor league numbers. He missed a year 2015 was out of baseball. But before that, and obviously last year before he got called up,

There were some, like, Carl Crawford-type numbers going on for tolls. So, you know, particularly in a five outfielder league, I think he's somebody to consider. And if we see him start a couple times against lefties, maybe even more than five outfielder leagues. A couple of things that I think we'll see change today, but maybe not. Dyson hit 9th and Hanniger hit second, but that's because they were facing Keikle. So I would expect against a righty, you may still see Dyson. in that spot. And same thing with the Padres with Manuel, Margo,

leading off, Jankowski, hitting 9th. I wouldn't be surprised if they flip-flop whenever it's against the right-handed pitcher. And then the thing that was probably the biggest thing for me was Evan Gattis, not in the lineup. I would like to see him in the lineup today, please. Yeah, good call. And I just want to say about Forsyth, no, he did not lead off yesterday, but he did bat fifth. So if that's the problem, if he's going to bat fifth against righties and lead off,

against lefties, I still think that you're pretty excited about that if you like Forsyth. Eric Thames batted second, by the way. He's 47% owned. Domingo Santana batted fifth, Keon, Broxton's sixth. And they get a lefty today as well. So that will be interesting to see. Is Thames sit today? Does Shaw?

I don't think that's really probably going to happen, but it could. Who plays where? I would expect her on Perez to get in the lineup today. What are we looking for today in terms of pitchers? I'm going to have my eye on, I would say, Sean Mania and Patrick. Corbin. Those would be the two. Oh, Lance McCullors, too. Oh, yeah, the late ones.

Actually, we don't have any day games today, but... One day game. Oh, we do. Detroit, Chicago, rescheduled from yesterday. Verlander Kentana. Yeah, Carrasco is going to be worth watching. A lot of interesting stuff tonight. I think tomorrow's going to be a pretty juicy show, guys.

Yeah, I think so, too. Okay, well, yeah. So let's keep an eye on them, and I don't know if there's anyone out there that you're picking up if he's unowned. That's starting tonight. Like, I don't think we're going to care about Martin Perez, Tyler Anderson, Zach Davies. Well, Corbyn. Why not Corbyn?

Oh, I'm saying earlier. Yeah, Corbin has a good start against the Giants. I think there will be, I think he'll get a lot of waiver wire action, potentially even from me. And, you know, if Jake Oteresey's not owned, you just pick him up to start him night and then drop it in tomorrow. Yeah, home game. Home game against the Yankees doesn't seem like a bad thing. there. And, all right, let's read some emails to finish the show.

Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. This is from Zach. Dear, Ahmed, Franklin, and Brendan. And Brendan. What's wrong with me today? Those are guys, middle infielders that did not get a starting job? Hmm, okay. Nick Ahmed, Nick Franklin, Brendan Ryan?

I was thinking Brendan Rogers. Well, Ahmed and Fred. Franklin are both Knicks. Nick Brandon? Not New York Knicks, but their names are Nick. Yeah, that's true too. They're lucky they're not New York Knicks. Oh, Nick Brendan is somebody from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Here's the question. So, Zach is ranking his 10 short stops for 2018, and he doesn't have Zander Bogarts in his top 10. He has Correa, Turner, Seeger, Story, Glaibor Torres. Addison Russell, Lindor, VR, thinking he'll spell Arcea enough to keep eligibility. Segura and Dansby Swanson. What is up with this, Zach? What is up with the Bogart? Because he was batting six yesterday?

Man, he doesn't, he made my bold prediction of Bogart's not finishing in the top eight. He made that look pretty lame. Thanks a lot, Zach. By the way, if Bogart's does live up to his prediction, of stealing 20 bases this year, then my bold prediction is not coming true. He's not going to regress that much as a hitter that if he's stealing 20 bases also,

it's just not going to happen. So I disagree with Zach here, top 10, and I'm starting to disagree with myself, too. And this Glabar Torres and Dansby Swanson, like, if they are Zander Bogart's next year, that will be phenomenal. Yeah, Bogarts, remember I said, I said that, okay, I asked Heath and Chris, I gave you guys like two or three players.

I said who's got the best chance to like break out even more. And it was between Springer and Bogarts. I said Bogarts, and I thought I was trying to say like he'll have better stats than Springer. I don't know that he'll have better stats. What I wish I had said, I think they're going to have pretty similar stats. But the fact that Bogart's is a shortstop will make him more valuable than Springer. I am, I don't know, I really wish I had Zander Bogartz. I don't have him in any leagues, and I'm regretting that.

Hey, he doesn't have a Ledmus Diaz in here also. Hey. Yeah, Diaz, too, Steele. Yeah. Come on. All right, here's a question from Will in Oakland. He says, hey, Bobby, Houston, and Andrew. Houston's...

Those are Angels Relievers? Who's Bobby? I don't know. Okay. I picked up Freddie Galvis. Who's better to have this season? Galvis or Dansby Swanson? Swanson.

Samson. Yeah, that's, again, this is one of those guys I was talking about where Swanson's upside so much higher. I think you have to say him, but I'm not, like, I don't know what the odds of Swanson hitting 20 home runs and stealing 17 bases this year. What are the odds of Galvis doing that? I mean, he just did it, and he's already got a home run. Okay. It was a surprise that he did it last year.

But, okay, fair enough. Mike in Nueva, York, I know he didn't do much. I didn't know, what, okay, what is, what happened to me? Why can't I talk today? What happened? Stupid, you know, why do they have to start the tournament game at 9 p.m.? At 9.20? What is that?

Tournament. I just noticed you say tournament. Do most people say tournament or do they say tournament? Tournament. Yeah. All right. Let's figure out where we finished. I finished 164th in the bracket out of like...

Congratulations. That's high, yeah. Well, I had UNC. I'm guessing I finished amongst the worst of the UNC people. Oh, you picked UNC? Yeah. Good for you. Yeah, you beat all of us then.

I picked Gonzaga. We don't need to do this more. It would have helped a lot. The question from Mike is really just about Hanager. I'm getting on board the Hanager hype train with Scott. I added him in shallow formats over players like Pueig, Mazara, and Beltron. Late Bold prediction, Hanager wins Rookie of the Year over Ben Intendi. It's going to have to be hard to do that when he doesn't get any hits.

Wow. I saw his walk last. last night, though, man. I was such a good at bat. Really nice walk, huh? He came back from down, 02 or 1-2 or something like that, fouled off a couple pitches. Really nice bat.

It really helped those categories ever. Well, would you rather have Hanigur or Pueek? I'm kind of leaning Hanigur right now, but I have a lot of shares in both. Hanigur or Mazara? Mizarra. I'd rather have Hanager

I'm sorry Hanninger or Beltron Anniger Unless it's a play If I'm forced to start a player I'm more likely to start Beltron right now But I'd sure like to love Mitch Hanigar on my bench That's right

That's right Like you want Mitch Hanninger over all these guys As long as you don't have to actually play them I am playing it I think I'm playing him in our league at him Team scams playing him. Yeah. Yeah.

Playing him in Tout. I'm starting him in two leagues. Basically, uh, 15 team, 15 team leagues are deeper. I'm playing Hanigur. I'm starting him in a, I think, a 14 team league. I think I'm starting in our editorial league. Uh, this is, this is from, uh, Wilkie.

Dear Mike, George, and Brooks, 14 team head-to-head categories with two keepers. Uh, I have Trout. I also have Eureas and only two bench spots. Trout's going to be one of his keepers. Is it worth keeping Ureus and wasting one of my benchers? bench spots until he comes back up to the majors, or should I drop him and try to play waivers in a very crowded league that I know someone will pick up Urius if I drop him? 14 team head head categories.

Only two bench spots? Yeah, you can't do that. Like, I would probably try just because of the keeper aspect of it, but you're going to drop him eventually. By the way, I just got offered Danny Duffy for Cole Hamels in our auction league. that's really weird That's exactly what you said Scott But I also put out it I also wrote it yesterday

So maybe they wrote it And I put out a note in that league That I'm kind of down on Hamils And I would take something equivalent I'll think about that one I will think about that one That's a league where he actually matters As a Spark

No he doesn't matter as a Spark That's not our head to head league No that's our auction league Well we have a head to head auction league No then no it's our Roto League Oh okay I'd rather have Hamels than Adam.

I would. Well, that's who I have. I think I might rather have Hamels. All right. I'm going to end this show. Thank you for listening, everybody. More of your emails tomorrow, Grade the Trade. And, yeah, we'll have plenty to talk about.

Tomorrow should be a fun show. For Heath and Scott and a sick Chris Towers, I'm Adam Azer. Peace out.