Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/04 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Tue. Recap, Humidor, SPs to Add

Episode Date: April 4, 2018

You can add Jack Flaherty, Jake Junis and Marco Gonzales to the list of young, exciting SPs. Should you add them to your rosters (1:50) or be patient? Which SPs can you drop to make room for them (8:40)? And we discuss the effect the humidor might be having in Arizona (13:20) ... Big hitting nights for Christian Villanueva (20:20) plus Didi Gregorius, Tim Anderson and Josh Reddick (23:30). What does it all mean? And after a little less than a week, who is rising in Scott's rankings (34:25)? ... More from Tuesday as we discuss some deep league options (39:30), wonder about sitting Chris Archer on the road (41:55), play Keep or Drop (48:00) with Kevin Kiermaier and others and marvel at Cole Hamels' weird start (50:23) before looking at today's matchups (53:24) ... 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 Wednesday show, Hop Day. And you know what? I have to remind people that Wednesday is Grade the Trade Day. So feel free to send in your trades with a Grade the Trade subject line. I am Adam Azer with Chris Towers. Scott White will be joining us soon. And this is Fantasy Baseball today. Our email address is Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com.

A quick trivia question from Mr. Chris Towers. Are you ready? Yes. All right. You got it right. That was the question. Are you ready? Oh, so good trivia.

The other question is, who has a higher OPS right now? Bryce Harper or Freddie Freeman? Bryce Harper seems like the obvious answer, so I'll go with Freddie Freeman. Otherwise, you wouldn't be asking. It's Bryce Harper! Reverse psychology or something like that. But, man, they played yesterday, and they're both amazing. Bryce Harper has a 1742 OPS.

Freddie Freeman, a 1507 OPS. Yeah, those guys have combined for like 17 walks and two strikeouts between them, I think. Maybe one strikeout? Some of our listeners must have drafted. them both in the first two rounds. Like very realistic, one, two. Going well. Yes.

It's working out okay for them so far. All right. So yesterday, to me, was a very normal day. No major injuries. Yeah. Nothing major, right? Some, you know, Shoemaker, Cruz on the DL, but nothing like catastrophic. Good starting pitching.

Guys that are available that we can look to add. The base dealers stole some bases. but I heard something really interesting about the humidor, and I'm excited to talk about it. But let's get to three starting pitchers who are available in leagues, some more than others, and whether or not we want to pick them up, Captain Jack Flaherty for the Cardinals, five innings, six hits, one run, one walk, nine strikeouts, 15 swinging strikes for Captain Jack Flaherty,

64% own. Jake Junis, seven scoreless at Detroit, 12 swinging strikes on 87 pitches, six strikeouts. Again, scoreless work for Jake Junus. He's 45% own. And Marco Gonzalez, 39% owned. He will surely be last on this list, but he pitched well for the Mariners at the Giants. Six and a third, three runs, two strikeouts. Jack Flaherty, Jake Junis, Marco Gonzalez.

Who's your favorite? And how excited are you to be adding these guys? Jack Flaherty is by far my favorite of this group. He has the best stuff. The only question for Jack Flaherty really is what's his role going to be? Adam Wainwright is expected to make his return to the rotation. I believe tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken. And that does not leave Jack Flaherty with a rotation spot. But they can't leave this guy out of the rotation, right? You know, I think they probably will short term. Sure. Yeah. My expectation would be that he, He probably goes back to AAA.

But between Miles Michaelis, Adam Wainwright, who, let's be honest, Adam Wainwright's had a great career. I'm not going to be quite as dismissive of Adam Wainwright as Scott was on Twitter. I don't know if you saw his tweet where he said Adam Wainwright can suck an egg, which seemed a little, a little dismissive to a former Sy Young Award winner. But Adam Wainwright is cooked. He's done. And so whether it's another injury to Adam Wainwright, whether it's underperformance, whether it's just Miles Michaelis can't keep the ball in the yard and loses his rotation spot, Jack Flaherty will get another chance, and he'll get another chance soon. And what he showed last night was really impressive against a very, very tough Milwaukee Brewers lineup. Milwaukee Burroughs lineup that actually came back and won that game with back-to-back home runs, including a Ryan Braun walkoff. His slider is ridiculous. Yeah, he pitched pretty well. He pitched only five innings and started to get hit a little bit harder as the game went on.

And I'm sure you watched a lot of that. But we can't scrutinize too much. It was really good. What I've noticed is that I'm watching all these pitchers and trying to get a personal sense of who I like. And even if I just keep some of it private because I don't want to sit here and act like a scout. But, you know, most of the time I watch a pitcher, like Matt Harvey last night, was not nearly as impressive as the five. final numbers. He was bad.

I'm sure when Scott gets here, we'll do the, we'll do the Matt Harvey Roar Shark test. He wasn't bad. He don't think he was good. I'll think he was bad. He wasn't bad. Let's be fair here, but he was not throwing very hard. He gave up one hit. He gave up two base runners.

I don't know if there were errors. It was an error. I don't know if they were hit batsmen, but five innings, one hit, no runs, one walk, five strikeouts. I'm sorry. I know the stuff didn't look great, and even the write-up on CBS. Sports.com, one of our writers said, like, the, the, results were better than this stuff, but you cannot say he was bad.

I will not allow you to say that. I'll just say this. On another day, he would have been bad. If he throws those exact same pitches, all those thigh high, 91 mile an hour fastballs and sliders right around the belt, he looks like the same guy he did last year with worse velocity. I completely agree with that. That's Matt Harvey we're talking about. There was one thing that encouraged me, though. It was actually that Jayreys Familius velocity was down like three miles per hour yesterday.

And I'm thinking that the weather might have been a factor. It was a cold, gross, rainy, ugly day in New York. So that's just a little bit of positive. But yes, you look at Matt Harvey and the results were a lot better than the stuff. That said, would you drop Harvey for Flaherty? I would rather have Flaherty than Harvey, yes. Okay. I'm not quite sure I'd go there.

Scott's here. Scott is here. We just had the Matt Harvey discussion. Scott, sorry. We cannot go back. Oh, we'll go back. No more Matt Harvey talk. Scott, would you drop Matt Harvey for Jack Flaherty?

Would I drop Matt Harvey for Jack Flaherty? No, I wouldn't be looking to drop Matt Harvey at all after yesterday's start. Not that it wasn't another questionable start. I feel like spring training and this start combined, I look at the results and I'm not sure whether I can call it a good start or a bad start. That's been going on. The real question is how did Bobby Cox think he looked? Yeah, it's too early to say.

But Flaherty's a guy that you want to have, even if he gets sent back down. Yep, definitely. If he gets sent down, he would definitely be the top minor leaguer to stash. But, you know, let's talk about Junis, because Junis is not going to get sent down. Would you rather have Junis or Flaherty? I'd rather have Flaherty.

Like, Junice has a rotation spot, and that is valuable, but he was good yesterday. I just... I think he is good. I think Jack Flaherty's a lot better. Probably. Yeah, I mean, there's a good chance Jack Flaherty is, you know, kind of going to make the kind of impact Luis Castillo did down the stretch last season. Like, I think it's a similar talent level, but since it's not clear exactly when he is going

to have hold of a rotation spot. and like I think Jake Junus there's a good chance he becomes a must start not must start but a must own pitcher in his own right and yeah I think I'd lean that direction like I feel like most people listening can probably have both there's probably somebody else you can cut right that's what I want to do actually I want to take a look at starting picture here's an email we just got from Jake just came in Jake from Wisconsin and so State Farm. Good morning. No. Good morning, Lorenzo, Christian, and Ryan. Those are brewers. I've heard of those guys. Thoughts on Skaggs, Flaherty, Taiwan Walker. He's looking for end of the rotation help. Skaggs, Flaherty, Taiwan Walker. Honestly, well, honestly, the one I'd least one of those is Skaggs. But I wouldn't have a problem, since we're bringing up Taiwan Walker. Like, if it came to that, I wouldn't have a problem dropping him for either Junis

or Flaherty. Right, so let's take a look at some starting pitchers and just ownership percentage and who can be dropped. Because, look, Ronaldo Lopez even Skaggs himself, Junis, Jack Flaherty, and probably forgetting someone. These are starting pitchers that we'd like to have a piece of here. So who can we drop? That's widely owned. Give me one second here. This was an unplanned segment of starting pitchers.

Going to look at ownership percentage. And here we go. All right. So how about Jordan Montgomery? 89%. He had a good start yesterday, but 88%. Oh, Lord. No, I'm hanging on to him. I mean, there are concerns about how long the Yankees will ever let him pitch into a game.

He might not see a number three hitter a third time at all this season. But he's good. Yeah. I mean, if it came to it, would I drop him for Junus? Probably not. Okay. Probably not. Yeah.

It's a close call. Patrick Corbyn. No. No. Okay. How about J.Hap pitched yesterday, 92% own? I mean, that's one of those guys that, like, he's always going to have some value, but he's always good. It's pretty clear what his ceiling is, too, and it's not a must start, you know?

Yeah, he's an interesting one. Like in a shallower league, I think I could drop half for Junis. Or Flaherty? Yeah. How about... How about Tyler League? How about Tyler Chatwood? Yeah, I would drop Chattwe.

would for either of those guys. Me too. It wasn't a surprise that this guy was bad yesterday, but Julio Tehran, 87% owned. I mean, I don't want to drop them, but I would if I had to. Yeah. Did they have whatever the opposite of a Humidor is in Atlanta last night? Only what he pitches. That game was ridiculous. Not no, AJ Cole gave up like 14 runs.

Well, yeah, he's... But AJ Cole's definitively bad. He also homered. Right, yeah. He was responsible for 13. 37 runs. Jake Oteresey, 79% owned. You drop Oderizzi for Flaherty or Junis?

Yeah, I'm fine with that. Easily. Alex Cobb, 75% own. Easily. Yeah. Zach Davy, 75% owned. Yes. Very easily.

Right. So there are guys that are more easily dropped. C.C. Zabathe has 65% owned. Yes. Fulton Nevich, 64% own. Yeah. These guys can be dropped. All right, cool.

Quick thought on Marco Gonzalez, guys. 39% owned. Marco Gonzalez, 6 and a third, three runs, two strike out. Yeah, three runs? Yeah. Two strikeouts at San Francisco. He did give up two homers. I'm giving my eye on him.

He was, you know, kind of a pretty hyped prospect back in the day for the Cardinals, had some arm issues and had a good spring, but this start isn't really moving the deal for me. Nothing jumped out yesterday. Neither the velocity nor the swing strike rate, any of that. It was just kind of, meh. Yeah, the Joe Panic jumped out. We'll talk about him in a bit. Hey, yeah, go ahead, Scott.

I am disappointed. that the Giants finally scored a non-Joe Panic run yesterday. That's really upsetting. I was hoping there was a point, I believe, before Evan Longoria hit his two-run home run, that the Giants had three runs on the season, and they were all Joe Panic solo home runs. I was really hoping they could keep that going. Yeah, I wanted to clarify that was Chris jumping in, because you said Scott. And he doesn't want anyone to think that the dumb thing he said that I just said was actually.

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This is big. I was watching the Diamondbacks game last night. The Arizona announcers, they said the humidor is having an effect. They said it's easy to see, basically. And then either the next pitch or two pitches later, David Peralta, Homerd off Clayton Kershaw. That was two lefties, homered off Clayton Kershaw. And neither of them is good. It was really bizarre.

David Peralta and Daniel Descalso, Homer, off Klan Kershaw. And there's been a lot of talk about Clinton Kershaw's velocity being down. Nobody's worried about that, right? Do you know the last time two lefties, homerof Kladen Kershaw in the same game? The second start of last year, right? Well, it's sort of a trick question. Two different lefties have never done it. Okay.

One lefty has homered off Kershaw in the same game twice, three times. Three separate times. But this was the first time that two different lefties homered off Kershaw in the same game. That's pretty fun. He said, you know, this kind of happened early last year with lefties, and there's really only two runs he gave up. But, yeah, no, I think the humidor is interesting because I was watching that game, and Zach Godley didn't really have his best stuff last night.

And there was one inning. He gave up some really loud outs. And he gave up a fly ball to Pugge in center field that was crushed. And it was about, I don't even think it reached the warning track. So that is when it was right after that coming out of the break that the announcers, I think it's Bob Brenley and Steve Perthume, were saying that they are seeing the effects of a humidor. And then, of course, great timing. Peralta, Holbertoff.

Was it Peralta or Descalso? Yeah. Whatever. I'm not sure. Both of them homered off Kershaw. But I did think it was interesting for the guys who have seen the humidor the most to say, without any hesitation, that it has had an effect. I think so. That's the thing.

It's easy to do this confirmation bias thing one way or the other where, okay, there was a decent run scoring game where some guys hit home runs. So clearly the humidor is not having an effect here. But we're not really going to know until we have a lot of data. And until somebody is willing to take on the project of mining and compiling that data, which I don't trust myself to do very well. But I'm sure there's a lot of smart baseball writers out there and somebody's going to take it on eventually and then we'll know a lot more. All right, let's go through the rest of the news and notes.

Matt Shoemaker on the deal with a forearm strain, what are they going to do about their little sixth-man rotation? They're probably going to have a five-man rotation. Right? I mean... I'm sure there's somebody they could call up. Nick Trappiano was healthy. And this spring and got sent down.

So, like, I'm under the assumption that to make this pitcher-and-hitter Otani thing work, he can't start every fifth day. It has to be every sixth day. But there's after last... Yeah. I mean, they may be able to work around it. for a while. But obviously, based on the way last night went, they're not looking to move Otani off DH anytime soon. Now, he had a three-run homer. He had a very nice game.

He hits. Nelson Cruz is on the deal with a sprained ankle. Could be just a minimum stay for him. Jed Jerko on the deal with a hamstring strain. Will Myers is day-to-day. He has back-and-triceps injuries. Jake Lamb is on the D.L. with a shoulder sprain, guys. What's the impact here, Jake Lamb, D.L. I haven't seen like an official timetable, but I did see that Tori Lavullo. Novello. Lavello, the Diamondbacks manager. It looks like Lovulo.

It does. But it's Lavello, Adam tells me. He hoped to be the minimums day. All right, we've got 80% owned and less. Yeah, less than it, yeah. Evan Longoria, no, he's 86% on. Ehuyaheño Suarez, Matt David, Janherva Salarte, Ryan Healy,

Brandon Drury, Michael Franco, Todd Frazier, Josh Harrison, Matt Chapman, do any of these third basemen stand out to you? Suarez, Davidson, Salarte, Healy, Drury, Franco, Frasier, Harrison. Certainly, Suarez. Swares is good. Yeah. Here's the, so last week, I guess on Thursday, or Friday after the big game, we had the, well, why not take a shot on Matt Davidson?

He had a big game. maybe this is at what point do you realize that he's still Matt Davids he's got one hit in his last three games he struck out three times last night I mean the thing about Matt Davidson homering three times in the opener is it's not like it's not like that's not yeah he has power so I'm I'm usually front of the line for let's take a shot on this guy everybody's attention is being drawn to right now just to see what happens but I really wasn't part of that charge with Davidson because I feel like I'm not surprised if he hits three homers in a game, you know, maybe three homers, but you know, if he has like a two homer game, he had 26 and like 400 of bats last year. So that shouldn't be surprising. It's also not surprising he strikes out when he strikes out three times like he did last night.

That's who he is. And there actually are a lot of third basemen that are usable if you need a lamb replacement as Drewbara Cabrera that are owned in 40% of Leontrofier or less. Cabrera, Candelario, Brian Anderson, Derek, Derek. D-trick, they're off to nice starts. So it's a deep position right now. Yep. Okay. St. Louis, Milwaukee was the first game in baseball history to begin and end with back-to-back home runs.

Very cool stat. Houston, are you guys getting a World Series ring from the Astros? I have three of them. Among the 1332 that they have given out. They're actually beautiful. They are really nice. Yeah. Great job.

Michael Conferto. Conforto could return in a couple days. Austin Hedges is day to day, so we're back. J.T. Ray Almuto hopes to return in about two weeks. Carlos Correa is going to sit today due to his toe. Quick lineup notes. Ryan McMahon, 56% owned. By the way, the Correa thing is fine.

They're just giving him two consecutive days off. Inside the park home run last night, right? It looked like he was running fine to me. Yeah, they just want to give him a little time. They have a day off Thursday, so two days off. Ryan McMahon, 56% owned. He started. He went 0 for 3 with a walk and a strikeout.

Good job, Ryan. Yeah, right? Way to take advantage. Scott Kingery has started three straight games after sitting the opener. Ooh. Yay. Eighty-six percent owned. And Domingo Santana Sapp, but he's likely to play today.

Let's talk about the standouts. Let's talk about the hitters. I'm going to throw out the first standout. You guys can pile on. Christian Villanueva. We've got to talk about this guy. Four percent owned. Three for three with three home runs.

This is Padres' third baseman. Christian Villanueva. None of his home runs traveled. farther than 400 feet should mention that. Any interest in Christianville and Oweva? I mean, he hit well at AAA last year. Yeah. He hit well in a very, very brief minor league or major league stint last year.

Right. He has like seven home runs and 40 major league. I think he's, he and whatever, whatever stats it is, seven and however many games, he and Trevor Story are the only two to do it ever. And it's only Chase. Headley in his way. So, like, I feel like this is going to earn him more playing time. Andy Green seemed to indicate as much. I don't know if it means he's going to be an everyday player,

but I will tell you, Adam, and in our 16-to-head categories league where we share a team, and we just lost Jake Lamb, once I saw the results of this game, I went to see if he was available. He is not. That's one of the 90s, that's one of the 4% of leagues where he's owned. Well, this is Bill Inouva.

But we have Derek Dietrich, so I will just ask, who would you rather have, Dietrich or Villaniela? Viannawa's upsides higher. So if he does become a full-time player, then I could see him becoming a lineup fixture easier than I could, D-Trick. It's kind of interesting. I don't know just because it was so late last night, and people didn't see it,

but a much different reaction to this three-homer game than Matt Davidson's three-homer game. Like, filling away of a, I mean... It's opening day. I didn't remember. Opening day is always going to generate a different reaction because there's nothing behind it. But, I mean, I admit, I did not even remember that he did well in a short call-up last year. And it's a much better profile.

I mean, he didn't have the crazy strikeout rate you will often see from home run hitters in the minors. And, you know, he's 26, so it's kind of a late bloomer thing. But it was more just that he was blocked in the Cubs organization by Chris Bryant. That's kind of the reason it's taken him so long to get a shot. Rebuilding team like the Padres is the perfect chance. Sure. But we must caution that he is not, unlike Matt Davidson, he's not an everyday player yet. So it is just Chase Headley.

And is it Villanueva or Vianueva? Because I feel like I called him both in this discussion. That I don't know. I will get on that. We are not the go-to for pronunciation. I usually am. I just got an email from Zach, says. Because he wants to be in Nueva.

Couldn't bring myself to drop McMahon for him, but I'm dropping Mats or Devin Travis or Nick Williams for Viavila Nueva. Fine with that. I don't know. I wouldn't. I wouldn't drop Mats for him. I wouldn't. Who were the other two? Devin Travis and Nick Williams?

Yeah, either of those would be fine. I mean, the fact that Nick Williams isn't playing every day. Yeah. Okay, so, all right, you know what? I know I said that you guys were going to get to do stand. outs, but let me speed it up. D.D. Gagorius, huge game. Two home runs, eight RBIs.

Tim Anderson, three for four with a home run and two steals. He now has, I think, three homers and three steals this year? Yeah. Josh Reddick, 62 percent owned. Anderson's also 62 percent owned. Reddick went two for four with two home runs. This is not a home run hitter, so this was rare for him. He did homer off a lefty, though, righty and a lefty.

So, D.D., Tim Anderson, Josh Redick, big-time hitters yesterday. You guys have any thoughts? I mean, I'm encouraged to see that Anderson's already up to three steals because that was the hope for him after he finally showed that ability last September, stealing more than 50% of his bases for the season that month. And so I drafted him late in a couple of Roto leagues, hoping he would be a sneaky steel source. And so far that's shaping up pretty nicely.

And he's only been on base four times that weren't a whole. run. So he's running a lot when he gets the opportunity. Yeah. Tim Anderson or Ahmed Rosario? I mean, if you need, we have both of these in that team we share at him. We started Ahmed

Rosario this first week. I think we've got to go Tim Anderson next week as a starter. And if we're doing that, Ahmed Rosario has a lot more upside. Like, Tim Anderson could really be a drain on your batting average. He could end up being a pretty empty

source of steel like he could be Michael Taylor last year which is a valuable player but he doesn't walk at all but I don't think it's I don't think it's I don't think the bad at the time last year yeah and yeah points leagues like Anderson's really a rhodo or category

specials I don't think you want him in points leagues whereas Rosario Rosario could easily hit 300 he could I know his players that discipline was really bad last season but I'm thinking specifically like the only leagues where I drafted either of them were roto leagues because they were the only ones with big enough roster sizes to justify it, and I was

drafting both primarily for the help in steals. Certainly if it's a keeper situation, Rosario is probably the way to go, but if you need steals from your middle infielder, I think I'd rather have Anderson. And he'll get an extra play to parents every day that Rahman and Rosario won't batting night. Yeah, and here's what I, real quick on Redick, you think he's underowned, overowned, or is his porridge just right at 62%? How many daily leagues are there? because he's not going to play against lefties, pretty much.

And so he's someone you want in your lineup against Ritees, but probably not in a weekly mixed league, unless there's a lot of Ritey's coming up. He's going to show up in top 10 sleeper hitters a lot this week. Okay. This year. He did, I think, this week. Redick is, like I said, 62% on.

Reddick is a guy I like a lot against the Ritey in DFS, Vanduo, Draft Kings, Draft app, whatever it is. Having my lineup last night. Oh, I have a finished second in the draft app. on the draft app with the listeners yesterday. I thought I had a good line of Verlander kind of let me down, to be quite honest. I want to say something about Didi Gugorius. If you give him an extra month, because he missed about a month,

I think he debuted April 28th last year. I think he would have been a top four or five, maybe top three or four shortstop last year. He was awesome. And my concern with Dedi was that they were going to change the ball, and he's a guy who basically just relies on homers, but he's good at it, and he scores runs, and he drives in runs because of it.

Well, it doesn't seem like they changed the ball, and I mean, Gregorius could end up being a steal considering he was going in about the ninth round. Agree? Disagree? Yep. Okay. He's good. I'm not sure he would be good in 2013.

I'm not sure he would be good if he played in Boston or Miami. But given the factors that have conspired in his career, him playing in the Yankees, him playing with the juice ball, he's good. And there's also this better plate discipline. After the All-Star break, 15 walks, 31 strikeouts. He's not going to walk a lot, but that's better play-discipline. Postseason, seven walks, 12 strikeouts.

So far this year, three walks, one strikeout for Dede Gagorius. He just keeps on getting better. Blake Parker pitched in a non-save situation last night, guys. Was that important to you? I noticed it. I'm not sure it's terribly meaningful. He obviously was terrible, his first two outings. and I think it's pretty common to bring,

particularly since the struggles date back to spring training, bring him in a lower leveraged situation, a big lead over the Indians. I don't know that it means anything. It was the eighth inning. I'm still assuming he's the primary option for saves there. Drop her hold John Carlos Stanton. What do you guys think?

O for five. Boo! Boo! I had to listen to Yankees fans all offseason telling me that Miami didn't. deserve John Carlos Stanton. They're not good fans. He had to go to a team that deserved him.

He has one bad game, and they start booing him. Boo, New York. That is my favorite. That is my least favorite angle that, you know, loudmouth writers and, you know, talking heads take. They're pretty much always from New York, and they pretty much always say, you fans in this area don't deserve this guy. You don't deserve to have nice things.

Like, that's just not nice. Look. I'm very offended by all this. After one season where the Yankees were almost not the villains, and you could feel okay, like, eh, I don't mind if the Yankees win. I'm so glad that you guys are doing this stuff again. It feels, it's like a warm blanket. Baseball needs it.

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He stole a base. There was a great sports illustrated article about him where he said the F word a bunch of times. Great day for Tommy fam. He seems to be seeing the ball just fine. Four walks and five games. Yeah. Yeah, he's fine.

And that's a big side for release. for him because you know, and for Scott, I had for me. That's what I meant to say. A big sigh relief for me because you know I have a lot of shares in him. Yeah, it just seems like the I is the thing that could keep him back and hopefully they have it under control. Right now it looks pretty good. I highly recommend that Sports Illustrated piece, by the way. It's very entertaining. It gives you his background, his story, his approach to the game. He is an obsessive baseball guy. Nice. Scott and he has a lot of funny things to say. Dan doubts for you, including the effort apparently. Scott, standouts for you.

I think I'm going to be obviously very excited when Ronald de Cunia gets called up. But also a little sad that Preston Tucker isn't going to be have a regular lineup spot anymore

because he has been on fire here to begin the season and had an awesome spring. Obviously was once considered an exciting up and coming bat for the Astros and just kind of got pushed aside for bigger prospects. but three-run Homer and a double yesterday. He's batting over 400 on the year. Doesn't wear batting gloves and swings a bat leg.

He doesn't wear batting gloves. He seems to have really good control of the strike zone. And I hope events will conspire to, you know, make him the go-to and right over Nick Markechikas, or I guess probably Acuna and right and Tucker and left. But I'm not counting on it. Oh, and you know what? I'm seeing a better one here. Want me to do another one?

Sure. Because Tucker's probably limited to deeper leagues because of the playing time. Impending playing time loss. But Jose Arena start yesterday. Equal to career high with seven strikeouts and seven innings with one or run aloud. And what I noticed is he threw his slider 37.6% of the time. Rarely threw it that often last year. Obviously, a pitcher's best breaking ball is going to be.

be a better swing and miss pitch than his basketball. So it's normally a good thing when he's leaning on it more. Arena throws hard. So, like, you see, you can see how the potential is there for him to become an actual asset and not just this guy that has a suspiciously low ERA like he was last year. I'm not rushing to pick him up. He's obviously not on the level of the Jake Junice or Ryan Flair, or Jack Flaherty. But it was interesting enough against.

the Red Sox for me to keep an eye on it, and particularly his slider usage. Interesting. Jose Arania, 31%-0, and must be a two-star pitcher this week. Oh, now you're calling him Arrana. It's a Rania. It is Arania. It is a Rania. So baseball reference is just wrong. That's what I argued when Adam was calling him Arana after opening day.

But I had always been calling him Arrania. Officially, we're deciding here, and now we're always going to call him Jose Arrania. It is Arania, yes. Arania, okay. All right, I'm going to ask you if you have any rankings risers, Scott, and then I have three players that I feel like maybe could have been rising in your rankings, and we'll see if I'm right. So have you made any adjustments to your rankings who are some interesting risers for you?

So I'm going to do a more thorough look at this today in leading up to the first trade chart of the season. but I would say other than the guys we've talked about Flaherty is obviously a riser Junis is obviously a riser I might I might be moving Chase Anderson down after the way

his season has started obviously yesterday was awful four and runs eight hits three home runs and four innings but the bigger issue is that both of his starts here he's been his fastball's been like 91-92 as opposed to the 93-94 it was last year and that was kind of the key to his whole turnaround and you know it's early so maybe he'll get it back still but uh i don't have the confidence i did in him two weeks ago okay i do want to point out we i think we have reached i think we reached

peak velocity last year uh velocity around the league is actually down like it's like 0.1 mile per hour so far but it's the first time it's been down i think ever since pitch effects has been tracking it. So something to keep in mind, there do appear to be some velocity losers around the league, and it's not just an isolated thing. Okay. Well, Scott, let me throw three names at you.

Tell me if you think you're going to be moving them up in your rankings, I probably should look at your rankings right now. But guys who are off to good starts, J. Rees Familia, first of all, it's clear he's the closer, and he has two saves now. And he struggled yesterday, and he has walked three, J. Rees Familia, in an inning in a third. He does have four strikeouts, just giving up only one hit.

Yesterday wasn't great. The velocity was down, but in his first two appearances, he was throwing gas. It looked a lot better. Jamie's familiar as someone that would be rising in your rankings. I didn't really lower him based on some of those concerns that popped up this spring. I figured that was just noise. And the only reason he'd rise for me is if other closers in front of him fell, but I can't think of anyone who would fit that description right now.

Maybe Hector Nerris. It wouldn't be a big move. Okay. Yeah, I think the Mets are at least respectable. I think I picked them to finish second in the division. I know you guys did not, but... I did. Oh, you did?

I'm sorry. I'm an idiot then. But, yeah, I think they're respectable at worst. Jehose Martinez. He only has one extra base hit, Scott, but one walk, one strikeout, and he's batting 444. Jehose? Yeah, Jose Martinez.

Oh, okay. I thought I had the pronunciation for that name wrong, too. Does he have like some kind of dramatic arm injury in his past? Because like he cannot throw the ball. It's really bizarre. Like I saw him like try to make an easy throw to say. I mean he had mail-miled one on opening day, but they're like he just cannot throw the ball. It's really weird.

But he can hit. He's can certainly hit. And I have I have already moved him up my ranking significantly just because it's it's obvious. Now he's an everyday player for the Cardinals. And I like the batted ballpark. profile a lot. I think he's like a ready-made 300 hitter with, you know, at least 25 homer power. So would you prefer Jose Martinez or Yule Guerriel?

Martinez, I think. I think Guerriel is kind of the downside for Martinez. Okay. Boy, first base is deep, huh? Yeah. And how about Joe Panic, 57% own? He is on his way to a career year. He's never hit more than 10 homers.

He already has three. Joe Panic, anyone? I mean, here's the thing about Joe Panic. There probably is more power in him than we're giving him credit for. All 10 of his home runs last year came on the road, but he still has the same home part. It was cool that he hit that home run yesterday, that splash hit. There haven't been that many of those. So he can hit home runs at home still, but it's like for most left-handed hitters,

it's it's uh it's daunting it's daunting for him and um i don't see him being like a 20 homer guy suddenly because of it panic or moncada moncada i you know what i could see panic being more valuable than moncata and in points leagues especially this year i could definitely see it hardly strikes out at all it's not as dependent on the counting stats that format but you got to you got to with the high upside Molokada right now. Yeah, Paddock's the kind of guy only in a points league where you got an injury at second base and the waiver wire is not good.

If he's there, you can plug him in and feel okay about it. He's always been solid in that format. All right, how about some deep league targets? I usually say this for the end of the show, but deep league guys, do you have any interest in any of these three pitchers? San Diego starting pitcher Tyson Ross. Detroit starting pitcher Matt Boyd. Philadelphia starting pitcher Ben lively.

Tyson Ross, Matt Boyd, Ben lively. I feel like the only one who I would say pitched well yesterday was Matt Boyd and I mean obviously the fact he gave up one earn run in six innings that's good but one strikeout would probably cause most of us to ignore him 11 swinging strikes though a respectable number probably should have had more strike up than he did it's just one start and you know it's not like I was excited

about him coming into the year but he has shown flashes in the past has a good minor league track record and somebody to keep an eye on. I want to watch Tyson Ross. He didn't, I was watching the Padres broadcast, I think, last night, and they said he didn't have the feel for the slider until very late in the game, but it looked better as the game went on. And that's his bread and butter pitch. It's the kind of only real plus pitch that he has at this point in his career.

But if he can get the feel for that and start racking up swings and misses, which he didn't last night, he'll definitely be interested. And deep league hitters, we already talked about. Preston Tucker, who's 4% owned. Howie Kendrick is 8% owned, filling in for Daniel Murphy. He's got four doubles batting 368. And Toronto shortstop, Aled Miz Diaz. He homered yesterday.

Now, I played Ledmus Diaz and DFS. And if you listen to the Sportsline DFS podcast, it does help sometimes to just kind of understand good matchups. It puts things in perspective. I'm not surprised that Diaz had a good game yesterday. They were facing bad pitching. But he does have two home runs. He's batting 313.

no walks three strikeout so far. And just two years ago, Diaz had a really good year for the Cardinal. So there's a Landmiss Diaz 7% owned and Habi Kendrick 8% owned. What do you think about those guys? I think Diaz is going to be a riser for me when I update these rankings today. I'm not saying he's going to be a top 12 shortstop all of a sudden, but he'll be in the top 20 and with the potential to move up from there. It was a guy all of us liked coming off that rookie season.

and he was probably the short stuff I had the most shares in going into last season. So if he shows the kind of power he showed then, and we'll probably have an indication of that pretty early, then he could gain a lot of value in a short period of time. That is a Led Miss Diaz. I have a tough question for you. I hope you're sitting down. It's going to be not easy for me to even say, guys.

But is it time to sit Chris Archer in roadstarts? So he gave up a 346-foot home run yesterday. Yes. That's just, that's stupid. Okay, but I have more data for you. He was very good in the first start. I don't even think that's a question. Well, that was a home start.

Okay. Okay, so yeah, let's put it in context, right? Chris Archer gave up four runs in six innings against the Red Sox, one walk, six strikeouts. That was opening day. Two of those runs were on the stupid Eduardo Nunez inside the park home, or it never should have happened. So yes, he had a good start.

But yesterday, five innings, for some reason he didn't wear long sleeves. That was a big mistake. Five innings, four runs, three walks, eight strikeouts at the Yankees. And the last two years, he's had a 497 road ERA and a 544 row DRA. In about 200 innings, he's given up 37 home runs on the road in 2016 and 17. So I don't know if it's every road start, but if you see him at Fenway or you see him at Yankee Stadium or even at Roger Center, I think it's time to start asking the question about whether or not Chris Archer's a must start in those situations. I don't know that he is.

I'm allowing you to ask the question. Thank you. I am not to that point. I mean, even this start, the fact he got eight strikeouts, like, it was a bad start, yes, but there's still, like, he still contributed something positive there. And I feel like he pretty much always does. Like, that's, like, if he was just kind of an above-average strikeout pitcher, it's, it's, be easier to justify, but he is, you know, among the top five strikeout getters in baseball, and you can't make that kind of investment in him and not let him carry you in that category.

He also had a 344 career. He has a 344 career ERA at Yankee Stadium, too. There you go. Yeah, but, I mean, now the Yankees are much better now. And he has been a worst pitcher over the last two years, and over the last two years, it's mostly been home runs on the road. I think if you could isolate one problem, it seems to be home runs on the road. 37 home runs in about 200 innings on the road.

It's just, all right, you know what, let's keep an eye on it. It's probably too early, and it was the Yankees in Yankee Stadium. And yes, the D.D. glorious home run was very, very Yankee Stadium of him. On the other hand, he's not going to get to face John Carlos Stanton every day. So he really only struck out five batters yesterday. Right. Okay, so email the day number one real quick here, fantasy baseball at CBSI.

com from loyal but disturbed in St. Louis. I love the show. I listen every day. I have the sandlot in my top three movies of all time. You can imagine how disturbed I was to listen while you unceremoniously ripped apart what is a national treasure of a film. Bircham Grover Weeks is the, quote, nerdy kid, your words, on the team. It sounds like you're basing this solely on the fact that he wears glasses. Have you ever seen a movie before?

I have, yeah. He's the nerdy kid. He wears glasses. That's how it works. However, Smalls makes it clear in the narration that the erector set they use belongs to him, not weeks, as you stated yesterday. Also, the line you were quoting, we've been going about this all wrong. I blame myself. While it is a triumph of a quote, it was not Weeks that said this.

It was the underappreciated Timmy Timmons, who said these timeless words after the vacuum cleaners had blown up inside the treehouse. Oh, and one more thing. John Moseilac. It's pronounced Moseilac. Oh, Moseiloc. Moseiloc. Other than that, you guys are doing amazing work. I'm a huge fan. John Mazzeliac. You guys shredded the sandlot yesterday? No, I got minor details wrong while referencing it off the top of my head.

I'm so sorry. So you weren't bashing the movie. It's a great movie. I was praising the movie. Okay. You just, he's a sandlot nerd. It's been a while. And he didn't like that you kind of took some misty. We don't know if he wears glasses. That's true. That's true. Loyal for. Loyal but Disturbed in St. Louis, you have to let us know if you wear glasses. Email the day number two is from Dan. It's 1942.

You and your friends have decided to try this new game called Fantasy Baseball. Who is the number one pick, Teddy Ball Game or Jolton Joe? So I have done this. I have this research available. In 1941, so that's the season that we're coming off of at this point. Ted Williams at 406 with 37 homers and had 726.5 fantasy points. it's the 54th best fantasy season of all time by fantasy points in terms of hitters. Joe DiMaggio hit 357, only 674 fantasy points.

Ted Williams is the clear number one pick in either Roto or head-to-head because he also had the 406 batting average. By the way, to put that in context, how many points did Charlie Blackman score last year, like 640 or something? Yeah, no. I was doing this to see like where current players, he had 653. It's the 217th best season of all time. And how much did Williams have in 1941? 726. Okay.

Actually, so Blackwood was actually not that far off. I mean, it's big, but, you know, that is Ted Williams. We're comparing him to. All right. Another way to get ready for the Masters, I already told you about sports line. How about CBS Sports HQ? I watch on my Roku every day. You can watch on your connected device or at CBSportsHQ.com or Amazon Fire.

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I got it. Yeah, is Reese Hassan. And this one's great from Chris. Sally Jesse Raphael Devers Right? It works It works It would work with anybody

named Raphael, right? Yeah, it would Yeah Let's keep her drop Play keep her drop here Kevin Kirmyer 55% own Keeper drop Keep

Trey Mancini 78% own keep her drop Drop There's no reason to own I'm in a point fleet I'll say that much Five out for the league You're keeping them obviously

Craig Mancini. Chris Davis, 0 for 5 with 4Ks. This is Cress Davis. Bad A, he's, what, 1 for 20? Keeper drop. There's no reason to own him in the points league. He was making up for lost time. He only had one strikeout before yesterday.

Oh, man. Matt Kemp, 58% owned. You can drop him. Drop. Jorge Alfaro, O for 3. He got pinch hit for in a big spot last night. He's off to a bad start. Jorge Alfaro, 39%.

Drop, except in like a two-catch. Yeah, I'm keeping him in two. Catchers. Jorge Elfarro. And Jorge Solair, 28% of him. Keep. He's hitting the ball really hard, and he just has had zero luck. He had a ball the other day that had a 99% hit probability, and it was caught.

And, of course, it was At Comerica. But you'd rather have Tray Mancini, right? I would rather have Jorge Saler. Okay. Oh, wow. All right, so rank Jorge Soler, Matt Kemp, Trey Mancini. I would go Mancini-Sini-Solair-Cemp. So Lairman Sini Kemp?

Man, I don't... I mean, just because you're putting him last, doesn't mean you totally hate him or anything, but I don't want to completely dismiss the Matt Kemp thing. It's only five games. He wasn't bad last year. He really wasn't. He's also lost a lot of weight.

He made a really good play in the field the other day. He's a terrible fielder. How many games has he started so far? That's my... I think four. Okay. I mean, I can double check, because it is a very important question.

I'm pulling it up right now. He's played five games. Five of the six, yep. Jock Peterson. Jack Peterson. I've gotten one start over Kemp and left and one start over Chris Taylor and center. Okay, let's get to the rotation real quick.

Zach Godley, only three strikeouts. Definitely did not have his best stuff last night, but still held the Dodgers to four hits in one run. Beat Clayton Kershaw. He did. Cole Hamels. Cole Hamels, 11 strikeouts. Everything looks good so far.

Yeah, it was a really weird start in so many ways. Have you guys seen X-Men First Class? No. Yes. There's the whole like adapter die motto that, uh, what's his name? Kevin Bacon has. That's where Cole Hamels is at in his career. I thought that was Billy Bean.

Maybe. Moneyball. That's a good movie too. Yeah. But yeah, he's reached the point where his fastball is just not any good. And so he's not throwing it. And that is typically what happens. with starting pitchers as they get older.

He only threw 37 four seamers or two seamers. Here's the thing. He averaged mid-80s on his fastball. Not 89. According to baseball savon. Yeah. His cutter was 85. Well, look, we all, you know, I certainly did.

I think a lot of people watched the first game he pitched against the Astros on opening day. And we came away thinking there was actually some encouraging signs for Cole Hamils, even though he gave up four runs or three runs. But again, the walks are a problem. And this is the last two seasons, 3.5, 3.2 walks per nine. And he was not that kind of – he was a good control pitcher. And he's got seven walks so far in 10 and two thirds. If he's an average walk pitcher, again, like he's been the last two years,

that's – like, that's not really as much what I'm concerned about. Really? Is his stuff any good anymore? And, you know, based on K-per-9 so far, It looks like it is, and he had an intention this spring of striking out more hitters. He realized he needed to do that and started incorporating a slider. I don't know that he threw even one slider in this start. So I don't know exactly where this is coming from.

His change-up is still awesome, and he got most of the swinging strikes on that. But if there's not a good fastball to pair with it, or at least a respectable fastball, then how long is that going to last? I don't know. I would, I think I'd be looking to sell high on Cole Hamels right now. Just seems like it could fall apart very quickly. I really think the walks are a big issue. Also, one thing about Hamels, you apparently don't think that way, Scott, that's fine.

Well, it's just, there's bigger issues there than the walks. Like, it's hard for me to, like, there's so many hurdles that have to be cleared before I can worry about the walks with Cole Hamill. Gotcha. But I hear what you're saying. Even last year, he held lefties to an OPS under 500. So if you get a lefty-heavy lineup, you might get a good start from Cole Hamels. You might be more likely to get a good start. Something to keep in mind.

If you get a righty-heavy lineup, might want to be a little cautious. Bullpen stuff, Dominic Leone, was about to get a save, and then he gave up back-to-back-home runs, and he blew it, and it doesn't matter because they have Greg Holland. And Keone Keller got his first save of the game. And that brings us to today's games. We'll go through this real quick and play some starter sit. games, a lot of them today.

Wow, a lot of them. Scherzor, yes. Fultenevich, no. Blake Snell at the Yankees, start or sit? I think I'd start. I can't believe he only got like two strikeouts in his last start, because his stuff was incredible. Red Sox.

Yeah, start. Red Sox don't K. They did yesterday. Phillies at Mets, Aranola. Got a face arena. Aaronoa and Noah Sindigard. We're starting them. Start both.

Yep. You'll definitely get four good innings of Nola before the bullpen. All right, here's the more interesting one. Danny Duffy at the Tigers against Daniel Norris. Do you want any other of these guys? I will roll the dice on Danny Duffy with that matchup. It is freezing and apparently may snow in Detroit. So keep an eye on that one.

Yes, good pitching environment yesterday, and we saw, I think, a 1-0 game. Good pitching environment today, probably. O's at Astros. Dylan Bundy at Dallas Kikegole, start or sit Bundy. If the slider throwing Bundy from last time shows up, he might just do well against the Astros line. But I'm not going to bet on it. No Correa, though.

Yeah, they still have pretty good guys. Oh, they're fine. Dodgers Diamondbacks. Alex Wood at Patrick Corbyn. Start of both? Definitely would. I would lean toward Corbyn, unless you're just really trying to be careful with the RA and whip. Corey Klooper at Tyler Skaggs.

I'm not going to trust Tyler Skaggs against this matchup. Yeah. Okay. Twins and Pirates. Oterizi at Yvonne Nova. I could, yeah, I might start Oterese against the Pirates. I might start Nova against the twins. I wouldn't do that.

Okay. We've got Carson Fullmer and Aaron Sanchez, White Sox of Blue Jays. Start Sanchez. Yep. Felix Hernandez and Johnny Quedo. We starting them both? Yeah. I am not starting Felix.

All right. It's a good matchup. Other than Joe Panic. It is. I just think he's a bad pitcher. And in San Francisco. We are going to start, okay, we are going to start Carlos Martinez.

We're going to sit Yolese-Sacine. Rangers A's Doug Fister at Shaw Mania. I'm willing to throw Mania out there after that debut. Yeah. Yeah. And Rocky's Padres, John Gray at Clayton Richard. I will start John Gray. Yep. And let's finish with some emails.

This is from Dave. Ron, Gary, and Keith. Matt's announcers? The best announcers in the biz. My bottom three starting pitchers are Sean Minaya, Dylan Bundy, and Shohei Otani. Should I drop any of them for Jake Junis? I get the feeling Heath might say yes, but I would not. It would be a close call for me with Manaya, but yeah, I think I'd lean toward keeping Mania.

Maybe depending how this start goes for Mania would change my opinion. Dan from Liberty Mass. I decided to punt saves, but I have Ryssel Eglacius on my roster. I've been offered Blake Snell for Eglacius. Pull the trigger or hold out for a better offer. It's a pretty good offer. Yeah. Yeah, I like both a lot.

I mean, why did you punt saves and end up with Ricell Eglaclius? It doesn't seem like you punted saves. Like, I don't like punting categories. So if you leave your path, if you leave yourself with a path toward not having to punt, that's preferable to me, I think. You know, the value for these two is pretty even. But I think given your circumstances, I'd hold on to Eglacius and be on the lookout

for a second closer to pair with him. If Snell doesn't pitch, if Snell pitches well today but doesn't have a good start, like doesn't have a good line, I'm going to probably be looked, I'll probably make some buy low offers on Snell. Yeah, his velocity was up in the first start. He was averaging, like, especially early on. I don't think he was able to sustain it,

but he was at like 96-97 in the first couple of endings of that game. Here's Oscar from Chicago. Who would you rather have in an eight-team dynasty points league? Scott Kingery or Eduardo Nunez? Eight-team league. Kingery or Nunez? Kingery and because of the dynasty aspect. Yeah, and the playing time, you never know with Nunez when Padrella comes back.

From Michael, Dear Brewer, Horford, and Noah. Florida Gators, legends. Head-to-head points league. I'm trading John Lester for even. in Hap, what do you think? Yeah. And Points League especially, I'd definitely rather have Lester. And you know I didn't even like Lester,

but there are, you know, the playing time concerns for Hap are playing out in the worst possible way, and he's striking out a ton. So in a points league where there are a lot of replacement second basements and strikeouts hurt you, like I think Hap's borderline dropable in that

format. This is from this is from Cliff. This is a cheers reference. sort of. Hey, Archibald, Bernard, and Lucille. So I think this was the question that, yeah, the question that Cliff got wrong on Jeopardy, something like that. I know it, but I don't really know it. Haiku question. Head-to-head 12 points. With Delano to Shields hurt, should I start Tucker?

No, you can do better than that in a 12-te-to-head points league. Yes, you can do much better than that. And Chris from Edmonton, somebody just dropped Kyle Seeger in my head-to-head points Dynasty League, 14 teams. Should I pick up Kyle Seeger? I can drop Javier Baez, Miguel Anduhar, or Orlando Arcia. I would drop any of them.

Yeah, I would drop any of them. But Andahar points league, probably Baez, isn't it? Unless you know, unless you really value that versatility. Yeah. He's just not going to be a huge contributor in that format. I don't think ever.

Which, you know, Anduhar, the odds are against him being that either. So you could go either way. All right. See you later, everybody. We'll talk to you on Thursday, recapping Wednesday's games. That's it. Goodbye.