Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/06 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Knebel Replacements, Early Observations

Episode Date: April 6, 2018

Who should you target in the MIL bullpen (1:00)? Michael Conforto or Ronald Acuna rest of season (5:48)? Should you sell high on David Price (9:50)? ... We give our early observations after eight days of baseball (19:02). Ian Happ, breakout SPs, Billy Hamilton (22:30), CHW hitters (29:03), Miguel Sano (31:20), an underrated OF and our favorite waiver wire SPs (34:34) ... Our thoughts on Jon Lester's great start (45:21) and our favorite two-start pitchers for Fantasy Week 3 (49:30) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's been eight days of baseball. Let's see some of the major storylines and some of the smaller storylines of what we can on earth today on the fantasy baseball today podcast. We'll talk about some trade values. We'll obviously give you our opinion on the Brewers Bullpen and who you need to be picking up. I am Adam with Scott with Heath and with Chris, four-man show. Guys, Scott White is running team scam. He is making ad drops without even telling me.

Oh, I had to do it, Adam. You could have told me. Did you want me texting you at 1230? Sure. Okay. I didn't know you were up. Sorry. I would assume most people are asleep at that hour.

I texted out I'm at like 1 a.m. two days ago. Yes, you did. I was asleep. But yeah, you picked up Matt Albers, right? Yeah. Yeah. And look, I don't think anyone really knows who's going to take over as the closer for however long Corey Kinevel's out. And I would guess it's a pretty lengthy absence, maybe six weeks plus as, as, as,

much pain as he seemed to be in with that hamstring injury. So my guess is Matt Albers because he's been the eighth inning guy so far this season and because he was better than both Jacob Barnes and certainly Jeremy Jeffers last year. Obviously, the best reliever other than Coneville that they have is Josh Hater. But I feel like he's so valuable in that multi-inning role, that bridge to the closer, that they would be reluctant to move him out of that. kind of the same argument I was making against Archie Bradley closing for the Diamondbacks, but I think it's even more obvious in Hater's case.

Good chance in the kind of leagues where you're desperate for saves, Haders owned anyway. Yep. So Matt Albers would be my first choice of those other three, Jacob Barnes and Jeremy Jeffers being the others. Yeah, and so here are the ownerships. Hater is 60% owned, and he's been great so far. He's pitched three innings over two appearances with seven strikeouts, one hit, one walk, no runs.

They've all been pretty good. Jacob Barnes has pitched six innings and four appearances, Matt Albers is 4% owned Barnes 11% own Albers 4% and Jeffers 2%. So a hater actually was probably the one that most people rushed to pick up but he was already owned in a lot of my leagues. He's 60% owned. Scott's going for Albers.

Creith, how about you guys? Team Cram and Sheet. Right, exactly. Yes, it's exactly what you said before we started the show. Yeah, Albers is the way to go. Oh, okay. Okay, great. Pick them up, everybody.

I would hope Josh Hader can get a chance if Albers fails, but he probably won't be the first person. Jacob Barnes seemed the most popular pick on Twitter last night. It's worth noting. I remember last year watching a couple of Jacob Barnes appearances and getting excited before he just completely blew up. So I do think there is a little bit of upside. Yeah, you can pick up Barnes too. I mean... And Jeremy Jeffers has actually done it before, right?

Yeah. For a very short period time. No, he's been a closer before, but he was terrible last year. It would simply be a comfort thing with Craig Counsel. Oh, I've seen this guy close before. Tom Hadrick Court of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did say Barnes is a candidate to close. Okay, so Barnes 11% owned, Albert's 4% own, Jeffers 2% own, and Hayter's 60% owned, and we'll see what happens.

And Canabel could be out for a while. He has a hamstring strain. You know, it looked painful. He's going, if he's not already on the deal by the time you hear this, he will be. and this stinks. Sorry for the Corey Knavel owners. Some other news items, and we're hoping that these are day-to-day things, but Miguel Cabrera left with a hip injury.

Christian Yewitch sat with oblique tightness. And I thought my fantasy seasons were over. Adam Eaton left with an ankle injury. I thought it was going to be worse. He says he's day-to-day. It was apparently some scar tissue moving around. It's probably just overuse. Could be.

He's not really running. He's just running the bases so damn much. He's not really running full speed. Yeah, he is running the bases. You don't have to run full speed when Bryce Harper is behind you and you're getting on second base with a double every time. This guy's hitting the crap out of the ball. Eaton did run full speed on the play in which he got hurt.

He was sliding into home plate. And, yeah, so he's day-to-day. I actually saw it was a scar tissue thing with his knee, but I did also see X-rays on the ankle negative. So he also hurt the ankle when he hurt his knee last year. It's what I was led to believe. Ah. In any case, sounds like a day-to-day.

The ankle bones connected to the knee. Nebo. Somehow, sure. James Paxson got attacked by a bald eagle yesterday, viciously attacked. It was terrifying. Canadian James Paxon, very nice poised by Paxton, and he is fine, and he pitched well. I mean, I was worried about, like, the eagle just tearing off his ear when, you know, made it to the shoulder, but just the talons itself, even through the uniform.

Yeah, that has to hurt. He has to be bleeding. Well, I mean, he actually has always had the talons. We've just not known if he could hold it. He gave a pretty detailed play-by-play of what happened, and he said he didn't think that it punctured the skin. I'm pretty sure that's what he said. But my God, that was terrifying. That was like a horror movie.

And we're not really going to talk too much about what went on yesterday. I think we're going to take more of an overview of what's happened so far or what has stood out to us. And I don't even know what you guys are going to talk about. You're going to surprise me. But one thing we do have to talk about is Michael Conforto, who said, no, I don't want to sit. I want to go up against the best. I want to face Steven Strasbourg. He led off for the Mets yesterday.

In the fifth inning, he had a two-run homer. Conforto's 93% owned. He struggles against lefties. We do know that. So keep that in mind. But we have an email from Brian. Would you trade Michael Conforto right now for Tommy Fam? Yes.

I'd much rather have Fan. Guys? I don't know. I mean, fans top 12 outfielder for me. Top 10 out. fielder, I think. Certainly in Roto, he's top 10. So, I mean, that's been the case all along. I don't know why you're reacting to it

strangely now. We always do. I thought there was... Wait, Scott likes Tommy Fam? No, I thought there was a moment where we thought it was funny because Scott was the Tommy Fam guy, but I had him ranked higher everywhere. And I've never had him higher than, like, 15. So that's why... You may have had him higher in, like, the combined rankings as opposed to position by position. Okay. It's possible. Okay. Well, uh, Creth, you guys want to weigh in? Fam, Conforto?

I think I'd still go fam, probably, but yeah, it's really, really close. All right. If you own Conforto, you got great value on him, and let's hope he can have another nice season. And what did he hit? 27 home runs in 109 games last year, but we'll see what happens with lefties. I don't think he'll sit. Just hopefully he won't be bad. Chris, you asked an interesting question before the show.

Acuna or Conforto. Where do you guys stand on that? Yeah, I got that one a couple times on Twitter, actually. I mean, I can't imagine a scenario in which you would ever drop either one, but I'd rather have Conforto. He's done it. I'd rather have a Coonja, and I'll tell you why. He's the base dealer of the two, and I think he's going to be a big base dealer.

And once he arrives, I have fewer playing time concerns for him. I mean, Conforto has historically been bad against lefties, and he's not a natural center fielder, so we saw him sit more regularly than we would have liked, even last year. Yeah. Now, the NL-only owners really need to pay attention to what's going to happen in the Mets outfield when they face lefties. They could just keep Gonzalez at first base and go Cespitas, Conforto, Bruce, or they could move Bruce to first base and get Ligaris in there, or they can sit conforto, or they could sit Bruce. So we'll see. It's more for NL only. Hey, everybody I want to tell you, please spread the word about our podcast. We want to keep it growing.

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So one person might like me because he emailed us and said, I traded Johnny Quato. for Madison Bumgarner yesterday in a Roto League, and I gave it a big thumbs up. I got to talk more about Quato in a bit, but we're always looking for sell highs or buy lows. We got an email from Rob. He says, hey, Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath, close enough. Would you be looking to sell high on David Price? And what would be high, pitcher and hitter selling on David Price?

David Price is a weird one to figure out. He's not getting very many swinging strikes. He has gone the way of the old pitcher and stopped during his fast. as much as he has in the past, which is weird because his fastball hasn't exactly lost much effectiveness early on. He's throwing it pretty hard. But generally what you want to see is like what happened with Cole Hamels this year so far, where he's throwing his fastball less to compensate for the loss of velocity as he ages, but he's getting more swinging strikes as a result of relying on his breaking balls more. And David Price hasn't seen that yet. So I actually,

it's two starts. I'm having trouble figuring out what to exactly make a of David Price? I think selling high on him's not a bad idea, given the elbow injury. Is there a lot of difference between what David Price is doing right now and what Johnny Quato's doing right now? Like, shouldn't you feel pretty similar on the two? Or John Lester, who was good last night? I think Quoido's lost more stuff than Price. Like, I feel like it wouldn't take much for Price to get back to Prime Price.

I don't know if Quato's capable of that anymore. Price is throwing three miles per hour harder, and he's left-handed. But I do, I mean, there is, if you want to sell high on price, I think the case is the elbow injury, the lingering elbow injury, as I've mentioned like a thousand times. Surgery would have been recommended last year if he were younger. And the fact that he's had an ERA around four as a starter each of the last two seasons. And he's faced the raise twice. The raise are ninth right now in baseball and strikeouts per game. That's very small sample size could be a factor of who they've faced.

And it's nine. It's not first or second. No, it's not. Right, but he struck out, what, like, he struck out 10 raise and 14 innings. So, again, very small sample size, but that's the case for it. Only 9% swinging strike grade. For me, that's the one that I'm going to watch moving forward. Trade David Price for Jose Conton.

What was the swinging straight grade last year? Just out of curiosity. Yeah, it's pretty low. But what was it as a starter? No, it's not pretty low. You're using fan graphs swinging straight grade. I always use baseball reference, and they measure it differently. Sorry.

Yeah. He was pretty good last year with the swinging strikes. I don't know if you can separate that as a starter and a reliever because his numbers were really good as a reliever and not so good as a starter. But anyway, all right, so you're saying he'd sell him for Jose Cantana. I think, right, sell David Price right now for somebody that all these guys had ranked higher than David Price in the preseason. That makes sense, right? That is how a sell high works. Yeah.

So, right. No, it's worth clarifying because, like I said yesterday, a lot of people sell. I'll hear Sell High, and it's like, oh, my gosh, I got to get rid of this guy. Right. That's not how Sell High works. Right. All right. Do you have a favorite two-star pitcher for week three?

It was the same as my favorite two-star pitcher for Week 2, and it's Jake Junis, who didn't end up making two starts in week two. So we'll do it all over again. He's still available in about 35 to 40 percent of CBS Sports Leagues, and don't have the matchups right in front of me, but I was looking at it last night. Pretty good matchups. Yeah, well, he faces Seattle and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Not bad.

It's a bad week for two-star pitchers. The ones that are owned in, like, less than 50% of leagues, like, forget it. I think Miles Michaelis was also somebody I recommended in week two, and he is instead making two starts in week three. And I feel confident in both of those guys, because it's seven game weeks, and they're both scheduled to start Monday. I don't like Michaelis' matchups so much, but he's still probably among the available options,

one of the better choices. Yeah, the matchups aren't great. A lot of the lower-owned two-star pitchers are like versus Houston at Colorado, at Washington. So there are some not great situations. If you need to go really deep, like I could see Jose Arania, who's about... Metz and Pirates. 65% available and coming off a good start where you used to slide or more, got more swinging strikes. Maybe. It's risky, but like if you just really need an extra two-start option,

I can see doing a rain. Yeah. I mean, is Andrew Kachner going to be a two-start pitcher next week? He looked pretty awesome last night. I don't have him on the list. Speaking of sliders, he's throwing one again. Was that the pitch that he was working on this off-season? Yeah.

It didn't lead to a lot of swinging strikes yesterday, but he did get five strikeouts, which is better than the Kachner we saw last year. Best matchups next week for a barely owned two-star pitcher belonged to Ben Lively, facing reds. at home and the raise on the road. Currently, those are two of the four worst teams in baseball in runs per game,

averaging three runs per game or less. Hail Mary on Ben lively, or what? He's not totally uninteresting. His minor league numbers at AAA are actually pretty good, low 3ZRA, but not a guy who gets a lot of strikeouts. So there's limited upside. Yeah, I think the chances of him just harming you twice are pretty high. All right, guys.

We'll get into two-star pitchers a little bit later in the show. We have a team name Tuesday from Dan on Friday. He really was pushing for me to read this. He thinks it's very good. Forgot about Quay. I forgot about Dre, but for Quato, spelled Q-U-E. Dan, I don't think it's that great, but... Well, there's a better one in baseball with a more high-profile player.

That's the problem. Forgot about Trey. Forgot about Trey. Yeah, that is better. Forgot about Quay, but I did just want to say that after all that talk about Johnny Quato yesterday. I forgot to mention that he was pitching through part of that game with an ankle injury. He took a comebacker off the ankle in the third inning. Does not change my opinion, but I did want to mention that just in case it might change any of your opinions out there.

Jeff from Alexandria, Virginia, wants us to grade the trade. Johnny Quato and Matt Davidson for Sonny Gray and J.T. Ray Almuto. Would you give up Quato and one of the top hitters so far, Davidson, for Gray and Ray Almuto? Yes, I would. fairly easily too. I think Gray's better than Quato. I think Rayo Muto's a lot better than Matt Davidson. Oh, this is like Team Kott. Because he was all about Quato's better than Gray yesterday.

And I was like, no way, Jose. I want to clarify. It might be, like, it might be a push. I definitely don't think, like, one is significantly better. I think Quato and Gray are very similar. And Quato's going to pitch half of his games in San Francisco. And Gray is going to pitch half of his at Yankee Stadium. How much better do you think J.T. Rolmuto is than Matt Davidson?

I would rather have J.T. Rolmoto, than Matt Davidson for sure. This is entirely dependent, though, on what you have at catcher. Probably something bad. Great to trade, guys. Grade the trade. A. Oh. Matt Davidson's not going to be on your roster soon. J.T. Rue Muto is a top seven catcher.

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All right. What have we got so far? Early season developments. Tell me what stands out to you, fellas. I believe that the player who has lost the most value since opening day is Ian Hap. And I believe the player who has gained the most value, unless I'm forgetting a closer change. There haven't been any closer changes yet. But I believe the player who's gained the most value is actually Patrick Corbyn.

That is my perception of things. Corbyn's been really interesting so far. throwing a slider like 52% of the time. This is a really good arm. This is a guy who before Tommy John's surgery especially was consider one of the best young pitchers in baseball. There have been flashes the last couple of seasons. I think last year, with the exception of May, I think he was really good last year. Yeah.

And he started to incorporate that slider more. He was throwing it about 40% of the time in the second half. But if he makes that his primary pitch. First of all, I think we're going to see more and more pitchers start to do that. And we already are. Yeah. Except for Pittsburgh. Then, yeah, I think Corbyn could be like a top 30 pitcher this year.

And, you know, you bring up Pittsburgh with the, I actually wrote an article yesterday for pitchers who are already showing signs of a breakout. Corbyn was among them, but also James and Tyone was among them because he made an arsenal change himself had relied mostly on a two-seem fastball throughout his career and swapped it out for four-seamer through it twice as often as his two-seamer in his first start of the season. It's a much better pitch the data has shown over his career that it's much more effective than his two-seamer. It was the pitch he missed the most bats with in that first start when he equaled a career high with nine strikeouts.

And he has good secondary stuff. So if he has a honest to goodness good fastball to pair with that, I think he could become the strikeout pitcher he hasn't been so far. He's very good. All right. So Ian Hap losing value, Patrick Corbin, James and Tion. I read that article this morning, actually. Scott also Mike Fultenevich was in there and Dylan Bundy was in there.

So it's a good read. Check it out. Not just who, but why these guys are potential breakouts. And Hap, look, it was good news, bad news last night for Hap. Face the lefty, and exactly what I was hoping would happen. They benched Kyle Swarber. They had Almora and Hap in the outfield, better defense. Swarber can't hit lefties.

Hap started, but he went one for six before strikeouts. He struck out 14 times and 22 a bat. That's the – his Hap might not be able to hit lefties either. Well, he's a switch hitter. He was okay against – I think he was good against lefties last year. I think he's going to be better than Schwerber at that, but yeah, it is a bad start for Hap. It's a bad start for the Cubs. I mean, Anthony Rizzo is having a terrible start.

Obier Bias has been awful. Yeah, he had a good game yesterday, but yeah, he's been bad. Zobris is actually maybe going to get more playing time. Maybe just against lefties, I don't know. And to be clear, the reason I'm down on half isn't as much the performance. I expect he'll get hot at some point. I expect he'll have another 20 homer season. It's just Joe Madden is showing no interest in playing him every day,

and that was kind of a prerequisite to him becoming a fantasy mainstay. On that same note, and he's played four out of five games so far, but I'm not sure how much longer it's going to last. I'm getting pretty concerned about Billy Hamilton very quickly. So yesterday was interesting, though. He was bad, 0 for 4 or 2 strikeouts, but he did lead off with Jesse Winker in the lineup, which is the first time that's happened. Maybe the last. Maybe. He is now one for 16 with seven strikeouts.

He has reached base twice this season. He has not stolen a base. And they have other outfielders. I mean, they could very easily put together an outfield without Billy Hamilton and just use him in what may, like, he may be like one of the most valuable bench pieces you could have because he's an elite defender and you can put him on against most pitcher-catcher combinations and he goes from first to third. So it seems to me like that type of weapon that you could bring into a tie game in the sixth inning,

As early as a sixth, manufacture a run, and then have a lead, and he's your defensive replacement in the outfield. I'm afraid as smart as baseball as getting, that's what Billy Hamilton's going to turn into. Yeah, well, I think the only thing that's good for him right now is that, well, Shebler, or Duval hit a home run yesterday. He's got two, but nobody's really hitting on the Reds. So that's good, but it is, yeah. I mean, I own Hamilton in one league, and I can't believe I don't have a freaking steal yet. I got, not from him anyway, of one steel. I was relying on him.

It is concerning, definitely. What else you got, Heath? What else has stood out to you early? I mean, obviously, Conforto has moved. Like, I just feel stupid for being as concerned as I was. I don't think you should. I know, but it was a shoulder injury from a guy who, like,

just messed up his shoulder just swinging. But specifically in Rotisserie leagues, where I spent most of the preseason talking about how I just care about upside, that's a guy that I should have on a bunch of my rosters. I don't know. I have a hard time worrying too much about anyone. I know we did the crap on Johnny Quedo yesterday, and we've questioned David Price.

But I do think it's worth mentioning that in the preseason, we were wondering, are those guys going to be startable fantasy pitchers anymore? They've done a little bit to solidify their place. Oh, yeah, definitely. I think that I still have doubts, so it's a good time to take two start. for price against bad opponents, for Quedo without very many whiffs, and try to turn them into somebody that you like better than them before the season started.

You know, that's all. Look, I'm more down on Quedo than that, but even if you want to take the optimistic approach, you could still take him and turn him into something. Because we see bad trades go down all the time. Like, you're not going to be able to do it in leagues with us, right? We're not going to sell. Before yesterday, James Paxon, Virginia.

Johnny Quato, but in theory you could have offered Quato for Paxton and maybe someone, I don't know, I'm having a hard time thinking off time. I think you could absolutely trade Queto for Snell. I just wouldn't do it. No, aim higher. You'd rather have Quato to Snell? I'd rather have Quato to Snell. Hmm. Well, I'm just saying you could make a slam dunk trade that everybody would agree on with Johnny Quato. No matter how we feel about Quato, I'm convinced that in most leagues, in many leagues, you can trade him right now after his hot start for somebody that we all agree on is better than him. Luis Castillo.

I know you like Luis Castillo better than Quato. I'd rather have Luis Castillo when I rode a league. I'd have points league. I think I'd rather have Quo. I feel like Darvish is a player who just people get annoyed with them for some reason. Quato and maybe pair them with your fourth outfield or maybe that could get to Darvish. I wouldn't expect it to work, but it seems feasible. Chris, developments for you.

Anything catching your eye? So I tend to It's hard to separate signal from the noise this early in the season But one there are a couple things that you can do it with Lineup decisions I wrote about that yesterday guys Playing in new spots playing more or less than we expected So or velocity is something that Is going to show up as real very often or very early and Robbie Ray

Fastball velocity is down Two miles per hour from last season on average. And comparing to last March and April, it's also down about a mile and a half per hour. So Robbie Ray with less stuff, that could get ugly really quick. I don't know if that's necessarily

what it's going to lead to. Yeah. But it's worth... Any excuse to hate on Ray, right? I mean... We could have just... We can just discuss him as rational adult human beings. I feel like most pitchers velocity is down at least a mile per hour, right?

That's been my observation. No. Most of the really good pictures. Alex Woods is. His is down like two. Yeah. And Alex Woods is down like four miles per hour from last, this time last. Paxton's was down.

It went up yesterday. Quato's is down. Lester's down. Rays actually went down yesterday. He is one of the four. It's Matt Boyd, Cole Hamels, Julio, Terrell. Robby Ray and Jose Cantana are the five biggest velocity losers from last year to this year. That's just last year overall, not April.

I do think in Scott's not, like I question Robbie Ray a little bit, but on Scott's side, it's like I would probably need to see three or four starts before I start really worrying about a pitcher's velocity. I mean, the strikeout total was huge for him, even in the bad start. I don't think all starters start off the year with low velocity, but I do think. think there are certainly enough of them that build their way up in the first four starts. And he has been one who does start off a little lower and builds as actually most starter velocity. Velocity for starters peaks in August actually, which is kind of weird. Doesn't really jive.

Well, it doesn't really jive with what we think of, but he's just, he's lower than any other April before. All right. Well, he has, Robbie Ray has 17 strikeouts in 11 innings, but he also has eight walks. So that's not going away. Got it throws strikes. For me, it's not the performance. Like, Robbie Ray could have had 18 strikeout or shutout innings to start the season.

I would still point out the velocity. You know? Yeah. I think we have to talk about all the White Sox guys. Tim Anderson is a top three shortstop. He's number one in Roto, third in points. Another stolen base. Yeah, he's got four and four attempts.

Heels already. Yeah. And he had nine steals in September. Matt Davidson. 40 steel season, calling it now. 40 steel season for Mr. Anderson. There you go. He should be a top five to second basement for you then. Short stop. Short stop, sorry. Maybe in Roto.

Screw that up. Maybe in Roto. Such good snark. Look, I'm a little more cautious in my rankings than I am in my loudmouth podcast situation. Matt Davidson is the number one third baseman right now in both points and Roto. He had another good game yesterday. He and Tim Anderson both walked twice yesterday. That was incredible. And you all Homer Sanchez is 7% owner, and he's hitting 400. So between Anderson, Davidson, and Sanchez, who are you buying the most? Anderson the most, but I do want to talk about the Matt Davidson no-walk thing, because that was completely and entirely true in 2017.

He only walked 19 times in 443 plate appearances. But that's not what the rest of his history shows us we should expect. He had about a 10% walk rate in the minor leagues. I don't know that it's all that surprising that he's walking a little bit more. I think we should expect him to. We should not expect him to hit 318. But if he strikes out 25% of the time and walks 10% of the time with his power, he's going to be a must start quarter-end filler.

That would probably be the, I haven't looked it up, but I would imagine that would be the largest single-season improvement and strikeout rate ever. You was at like 37% last year? Okay. Let's go to 30. Yeah, 30. That puts him really, like that makes him really fringy. I don't know.

I mean, if he plays an entire 150 game season and he's not, he's putting the bat on the ball 5% more often, 40 home runs is pretty close to what the pace would have been from last year. He may be a walk slightly less than Joey Gallo type guy. All right, moving on from Matt Davidson. Miguel Seno, Homer again yesterday. He's the number seven third basement in points right now, number two in Roto. Bad walk to strike out ratio as of now.

He's going to strike out, but only two walks to 13Ks. I think it's, you know, look, we didn't know what to expect from Sanoe. We thought there could be a suspension. We heard he was overweight. And he is. Is he? Doesn't seem to matter. Oh, he looks huge.

I didn't notice that yesterday. But, yeah, look, before the... All-Star break, he batted 276 with 21 homers in 82 games. He was just having a monster year. He dealt with a shin injury. He had a terrible second half. Are you guys feeling pretty good about Suno right now, though? I don't think any of us really had concerns about

the production, right? Oh, I had bouts about all of it. Offseason surgery, showed up out of shape, possible suspension that ended up not happening. But like, he's just, it's like it hasn't mattered. He's gone in the battered

box and crushed the ball. So, I'm not worried about it anymore. I told you he was a breakout. Yeah, for me, it just, I thought when he was healthy, he would hit. I just, I still, like, he's yet to make it through a full season in the majors. He had injury issues in the minors. I'm still just as concerned about Miguel Snow as I was coming into the season. The fact, I mean, he's had the most Miguel Seno start to a season possible.

48% strikeouts, 440 ISO, 444, bad. He is extreme in all of those things. Yeah. I don't, I, nothing, nothing about Miguel Snow has changed for me since the start of the season. Sinoa or Castiano. Suno, Suno still. Yep. Okay.

How about a couple, a few underrated storylines, Daniel Vogelbach, I dropped him a few days ago. I picked him up again because he's batting 333 and Ryan Healy is one for 18. So when Nelson Cruz comes back, maybe Vogelbach just gets that job. I don't know, 10% owned. AJ Pollack has five doubles and two steals. He's off to a nice start. He's number 10 outfielder and points, number 28 in Roto. It's so close right now.

You shouldn't really pay attention to that. One point could swing you. Two points could swing you pretty big. But Pollock's tied for second in baseball and doubles. I think it's encouraging that he has five doubles and two steals. He's not getting on first base all that much. And Shinsu Choo Choo is 40% owned. And this guy was the number 24 outfielder in points league's number 28 in Roto.

last year. He played 149 games. By no means am I saying, shouldn't you choose a top 30 outfielder on a per game basis, but he actually might be in a points league because he walks so much. I think he's batting leadoff now, right?

He is. He is a lead off hitter for the Rangers and playing every... He is a top 30 outfielder on a per game basis. Yeah, all right, fine. Even in Roto, you think, if it's not an OBP league? No. I mean, he'll still...

He stole 12 bags last year? I will say he's a must start. in both formats, but that's because our roto is five outfielders. In a three outfielder categories league, I don't think he's more of a bench player, in my opinion. Okay, that shouldn't suit you, 40% own. Anything else? You know what? No, let's transition to this.

I think big development is the starting pitchers that a lot of them are on the most added list. Some of these guys are two-star pitchers, but I want to know who you like the most. There are a lot of starting pitchers that have caught our eye. The most owned this group that I'm going to mention is Sean Maniah. I believe he is 82% owned. Second most owned is Jake Oterese, followed by Fultenevich, Jake Junis, Tyler Skaggs, Jack Flaherty, Miles Michaelis, Tyler Malley, Rinaldo Lopez, Kyle Gibson, I'll stop there.

There's a lot of names, so it's Mania, Odarezi, Fulti, Junis, Skaggs, Flaherty, Flaherty, Michaelis, Malley, Lopez, Gibson, and how many questions have you guys gotten, and I know I've gotten, some combination of these pitchers, which one should I prioritize, should I drop one for another? So who are your favorites on this list?

Anaya Juniskex. That made it easy. I would go, honestly, I think, no, no, I'm going to go to this. Manias, Junis, and Flaherty. Want that upside of Flaherty stashed away. Agreed, and Adam Wainwright was bad yesterday. He was Adam Wainwright.

He was bad. It was not a surprise. I mean, we usually, let's cut him a little bit of slack a first day off the D.L. But he's going to be bad on the road. He might be good at home. We know, we know that Flaherty's better, but we also know he's Adam Wainwright. He's going to have some leash for the Cardinals, right? Yeah.

But we want more than three of them. I mean, oh, yeah, I think I was going to say, I think a more interesting way of looking at is who do you want the least of this group. And for me, it would be Kyle Gibson, Francisco Liriano. It's the guys that have been around for a while. And Jake Oteresey. I didn't say the guys that we've seen. We know what they are. Right. Gibson and Oterese are the two that I mentioned that should be the least owned.

Liriano, Povetta, and Lucchese. I mean, Gibson and Liriano are the two that are like, they don't belong on this list. Oterian. I at least think has decent mixed league value. Liorano is a spark, and we've lamented the spark landscape, so it's worth noting that. Okay. No, I said Oterisi instead of Liriano, because my original reading, I didn't say Liriano. Oh, okay, I was in the notes here. Sorry.

Spoiler alert. Yeah, Liriano, Nick Povetta and Joey Lucchese. Povetta and Lucchese, both pitched very well yesterday. Do you guys want to pick them up? Got to let Chris talk about Povetta. That's his boy. Povetta has always had capital letters. matters the good stuff.

Always throws hard. Big strikeout numbers in the minors. Big swing and miss numbers last year. And big strikeout numbers in the minors? Because that's kind of what's help me back. I think when he got to AAA after the trade to Philadelphia, because he was the Papalban trade, I think. Oh, okay.

I know he had five starts before getting called up last year at AAA, where he was just amazing. But his minor league career before that was more just pretty good. So, and then he was obviously had the 6ERA last year. So I haven't been as high on him as Chris has. But it certainly looks like there's potential here. This was, what, 15 swinging strikes? 15 swinging strikes and a big thing there, he threw 44 curveballs and sliders on 97 pitches.

Last year he threw his fastball like 65, 66% of the time. And the secondary pitches need work. That's always been the thing. The fastball has always been his best pitch. the breaking balls were really good yesterday. And if that's a sign moving forward, I really do think this guy has the potential to be a contributor through the rest of the season.

My opinion, I think it's more likely that Lukasey gives us useful production over the first half of this year just because of the type of pitcher he is, the fact that no one's seen him yet, and he does have that funky delivery that once it's on tape and guys have seen it a couple times, I'm not sure it's going to work. But he, like, you can discount Povetta's performance just a little bit yesterday because it was against the Marlins. Lucchesey's now thrown nine and two-thirds innings against the Rockies and the Brewers.

He's given up three runs. I'm pretty excited about his limited upside over the first season. He's not somebody I would be as excited about in, like, a dynasty league. Just to, because we've talked about how he had really good numbers in the minors last year, but the numbers he had were a 220 ERA, a 0.97 whip, 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings, sometimes actually hearing the exact numbers, I think is a little more meaningful. But yeah, it's a lot of like, he's one of those players who doesn't get a lot of buzz in the scouting reports, and it has to do with that deceptive delivery.

He has a really interesting off-speed pitch that's kind of like a chirr, a change-up that curves. And I don't know. To me, that profile always reminds me of Alex Wood, a guy who's really good in the minors. Scouts don't seem to love him, but then he comes up and pitches well. And I think Lucchase, particularly after the way this start went,

I'm starting to come around to that idea. And I think you have, like, I think Shorinos, Yanni Shorinos could really be interesting, just not as the type of pitcher that we generally get excited about. it's more of a Johnny Guido type thing. Elite strikeout numbers will probably never be there, but his control is outstanding,

and he's thrown nine innings, all of them against the Red Sox, and he's given up four hits in a walk. So that's Yanni Chorinos. Chorino's, Povetta, Lucchase, how would you rank them? I would go Lucchase, Paveta, and Chorinos.

I mean, for me to get excited about Charinas, we need to know he's actually a rotation spot holder and not just the lead guy in bullpen game B or whatever. Right. All right. So what was I going to say? I think that's fine. I think we're good there. Oh, Lucchese. Is he going to go back down when the Mets comes off to D.L?

I would guess not. Have you seen the Padres rotation? And it's a long enough time away. think Lament threw for the first time yesterday. And he was stationary. It was 45 feet off his knees and then not stepping into it. So I think we're still a ways away from Denelson-Lemette. How far do you guys think you could throw a baseball off your knees?

45 feet? No. Oh, I could get it. Yeah, I think I could probably go 60. No, I could throw it over 100 feet easily. No way. Yeah. No chance.

With no accuracy? Yeah, it depends on the law change. 12 feet. No, from your knees. No chance. No chance. It would be more than 12. You could get close.

A hundred feet is not very long. I was thinking of yards. A hundred feet is not even catcher to second base. Chris, more importantly, what is your favorite Tom Petty song? American girl. I'm going to go basic. I'll be basic. Oh, I'm extremely basic.

Well, it's time for our wager of the day from Ryan and St. Louis. Ryan says, Chris Towers and I have agreed to terms on a. wager. Chris has Joey Gallo over 39 and a half home runs. If Joey Gallo does not accomplish this, Chris Towers will be singing a Tom Petty song of my choice in its entirety on the podcast at the end of the season with no backing tracking. If Joey Gallo does accomplish this, I will be sending down 12 beers from a microbrewery here in St. Louis of Chris's choice. Please help me hold Chris to this bet when I inevitably

win. Now I must go run and break Joey Gallo's leg. You need to get a clarification. there are make sure he knows that Anheiser Bush is not a microbrewery sure yeah because that is it's my choice that is in St. Louis so I don't don't fall into that trap it's the microbrewery of my choice I think the waiting is what I want to hear Chris sing oh I love that song those are some tough notes to hit yeah I mean I don't know if I can sing like Tom he's got that weird kind of croak every day you get one more yeah that is pretty good that is pretty good Tom Petty You better watch what you say.

He has some weird accents that you could work on. Can I do some traveling Wilburys? No. I think you should change this bet to an All-Star break bet. Because I know by the end of the season, it's fantasy football time. There aren't going to be that many people listening to the show. There will be plenty of people, but not our full audience. I think you should make it an All-Star game bet and find a different number.

I would definitely take the under on 39-and-a-half homers before the L-Stra break. and maybe revisit it. But if not, we'll take whatever we can get. All right, big news and notes for you. Mike Zunino is not returning this weekend. I just dropped Irvin Santana because his timetable has been pushed back. I had to put somebody else on the DL. I'm not saying you have to drop Santana.

But it's unclear when we're going to see Irvin Santana. He has not begun throwing yet. It could be June before we see him. Three pitchers who are going to be starting soon, as soon as this weekend for a couple of them. Detroit's starting pitcher Mike Fires. Cincinnati's starting pitcher Brandon Finnegan, Boston starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez.

Fires Finnegan Rodriguez. Who's your favorite? Eduardo Rodriguez for me. Yeah. His peripherals were actually pretty good last year, I think. Yep. He was looking like one of the biggest breakouts. I know I called him that a few times.

His strikeout rate, was it over 10 per 9? 9.8. It's pretty close. Yeah. We'll call it 10. Sure. Round up. Why not?

Neil Walker, a game away from. first base eligibility, same with Hanley Ramirez, Matt Carpenter, two games away from second-based eligibility. Chris has a good write-up on all the eligibility changes. You can read it right now on the website, CBSports.com slash fantasy. But Mani Machado is shortstop eligible,

Zach Cozart's second base eligible, Derek Dietrich Outfield. Walker and Hanley both got it yesterday. Oh, they did? Oh, wonderful. Tim Beckham, Ryan, Flaherty, and Brandon Jury are third base eligible. Garrett Cooper's on the deal with a risk contusion. Yesterday, Tray Mancini led off for Baltimore.

Chris Davis batted fifth. Davis sat against the lefty on Wednesday with Danny Valencia. Davis is off to a terrible start. And that's about it. For that, we covered a lot of yesterday, actually, but some stuff we didn't. It was John Lester. So first start of the season, he was terrible. Three in a third, seven hits three runs at the Marlins.

Yesterday he was outstanding. Location was pinpoint. And that's kind of Lester's thing. He's always been able to hit the corners regularly, and he was on fire. Six scoreless innings, three hits, one walk, six strikeouts at Milwaukee. Your take on John Lester? I mean, the velocity's down for him, and that was a concern last year. It continues to be.

It's just a question of whether he can continue to adapt to those losses. But I still have faith. I think he deserves to be in the David Price-Johnny Quoido discussion. Okay. Who's your favorite? Price, Lester Cuedo. Price, for me, for the reason I said before, I think the stuff is still more or less there. I would go Lester. Like, he's underrated in terms of how much he can deceive hitters.

And I think he's still going to be very good. The strikeout numbers were still very good last year. I'm going to go, Quedo. Very helpful. Yep. Wow. Pick your favorite. Me?

It's your turn. No, I'm telling the listeners out there, like he said. Oh, yeah. Which a bus do you like more, and that'll determine which pitcher? My favorite on a per-game basis would be Price. I don't think he's going to make it through the season, so my favorite favorite for the season would be Lester. And you hate Johnny Guido.

I hate Johnny Guido. Yeah, I got to say Jacob de Grom is off to a weird start. It looks really good, and he got 15 swinging strikes yesterday, and his first start against the Cardinals is really good, a ton of strikeouts. but everybody even including de grom seems to acknowledge that he is not quite there yet he got a little lucky yesterday the bases loaded nobody out and uh kentrick i believe laced a line or a line drive right at short could have been a basis clearing double could have been a

much different start i don't see the electricity in de grom that we saw a couple of years ago it did not really see yet last year so much um or maybe you know maybe i'm getting my years confused but but i really good last year yeah yeah Yeah, yeah. But no electricity, Chris. No, the power outage. But even like they were talking about it on the broadcast,

he's not quite there yet. The early returns have been good. The lines have been good. But yesterday could have been a bad start. Yeah, I don't know. Like if the results are good and you're getting 14 swinging strikes and you're hitting 96 with your fastball and you're not there. Yeah, I know.

It sounds weird. That sounds like a good thing. Right. It does. That sounds like a situation where I'm like, yeah, that sounds great. I'll take that every guy. It does. It does.

It will I get there. I hope you're right. Something about DeGrom was a little concerning, but it's not really showing up in the numbers. It's also, it was the Nationals. Right. I know. I know. All right.

Bowpen, Alex Colome, blew a save, and Joachim Soria, Waukeem Soria, not Joe Kim Noah, blew a save. Yeah, it was bad for Soria, but in the inning before that, Nate Jones also gave up a run in the eighth inning. So, I, Soria's gotten the three save opportunities. I think it's still still still where he's job. And Brad Brock is 52% owned, and his last three appearances since blowing a save on opening day, three scoreless innings, one walk, one hit, five strikeouts. Got the save at the Yankees yesterday. Please forget what I said about Jacob de Grom. It was really stupid.

Are you interested in any of these pitchers that we haven't talked about? It's really just two. Brent Suter and Tyler Anderson. Not really. I mean, Tyler Anderson does this sometimes. He is good at getting soft contact, but that doesn't seem like a particular skill that leads to great consistency.

And that's what Souter's going to have to do to ever be good. But both of these guys could be two-start streamers. Both of these guys could be, oh, they've got one start in San Diego, like Anderson just did, and you start them. But I don't think either will be somebody you keep on your roster all year. Did somebody say two starts? Let's do it. Yay!

Two-star pitchers for next week. Okay, so we've already given you some of our favorites that might be available. Jake Junis, who you should not just be picking up for two starts. He's 64% own. Miles Michaelis has the Brewers and the Reds. Brewers at Home, Reds on the Road. Those are two guys we talked about. Let's go through the higher-owned guys.

See if there are any landmines here. Johnny Quato, Arizona at Home, San Diego on the Road. Start or sit? Start. Start. What are you? San Diego. We can't have someone steering this ship

if they're going to have such a deep, bias and hatred. I'm just asking. Of a nice man like Johnny Quoito. John Gray, San Diego at home, Washington on the road. Start or sit? I think I would definitely start him in a points league. I think I'd start them in categories too.

I probably would. It's very, like, it's really, let's go through the rest of this list. John Gray is the new marking point. Okay. So Zach Godley, yes. Jayhap, J-Hap at Baltimore at Cleveland. Set.

Definitely start in a point, ladies. I don't think Baltimore have been awful. Baltimore is a tough matchup. Yeah, but Baltimore at home is still a tough matchup. I'm not convinced that this team's just hopeless. Yeah. I think I'd start half. They're going to start Danny Valencia in that game.

I mean, I'm usually of the mind, like, if I could never consider dropping this pitcher, I should probably just start a minute, two-start week. Hap is a start in points, don't in Roto for me. Hap is what? Start in points, no in Roto? Okay, that makes sense. Tyler Chatwood, Pittsburgh and the Braves, both at home. I would start him over Hap, and I would start him over John Gray.

Yeah. Really? Okay. It's fine. I'd start him all. Felix Hernandez at Kansas City and home against Oakland. I would start him. Yes, and point snow and roto.

Yeah, I agree with Heath. Blake Snow at the White Sox, home against the Phillies. Start. Start him over all these fools. Come on, Blake Snow, big week for you. Garrett Richards, at Texas, at Kansas City. Start? Yep.

Yeah, yeah, he's right below, yeah, right below John Gray for me. Jake Oteresey, no. Houston at home, White Sox at home. I don't know. That's not so bad. I mean, obviously the Houston matchup could be better, but... It's like four degrees in Minnesota and probably will be until June. The White Sox are the second highest-scoring team in baseball right now, FYI.

Yeah, well, wow. Matt Davidson is surreal. Somebody in a points league should be starting Oterese for sure, and I wouldn't have a problem with it in a Roto league. Okay. I'd no chance I'd start him in Roto. So that's Oterreasy. Yvonne Nova, at the Cubs and at the Marlins.

Nope. Nope. No. at the Nationals and at the Cubs. Nope. Yeah, I'd lean against that. I think... The answer is no.

I mean, I could see doing it in a points league, but probably not. You should start Bryce Harper since he gets to go against Tolio-Turon. Yay. Pro tip. Dong Chasers pick for that night. Jake Junis, Seattle and the Angels at home. Yes. Miles Michaelis, Milwaukee and at Cincinnati.

Milwaukee's at home? Yes. I'd do it. Okay. I'm going to tie those scags. I'm going to Tyler Skaggs at Texas and at Kansas City. Yeah. Yep.

Kansas City, by the way, fewest strikeouts per game by far right now at baseball still starts Skaggs. I don't think Whitmerfield has swung and missed yet. Wow. It's not doing them a lot of good, though. They don't have, like, they're not going to strike out this year. They're not going to swimmer in the runs either. Whitmerfield, 0.0 swing and miss on 63 pitches.

There's a by-low. Buckey Betts has swung and miss once. I saw that this morning. Wow. Compared to Merrifield. All right. Now the rest of the list. I think the only guy is, well, I don't know.

There's anyone. Urania is someone Scott mentioned, Ben lively if you're desperate, but Yolisha Seine, Kyle Gibson, Iranian, Clayton Richard, A.J. Cole, Homer Bailey, Doug Fister, Josh Tomlin, Tyler Anderson, Brian Johnson, Carson, former, Ben lively, Matthew Boyd, Miguel Gonzalez, Joey Lucasey, Danny Morris, Cody Reed. No, he's in Colorado. Colorado. Yeah, like Matthew Boyd, I think, is kind of interesting,

but he's at Cleveland versus the Yankees. So, no, it's a bad week for two-star matchups. I did pick up Lou Geesey in a couple of leagues with the idea that I'm not starting him this week, but I want to have him. By the way, Jacob de Grom had trouble gripping the ball yesterday. So that would explain his pathetic stuff, which only generated 15 swings and misses against the nationals.

Not enough electricity. Yeah, I, I, really regret saying that. He should have, you know what? With the hair shorter, there is less static electricity. He probably shocks people less when he high-fives them. Okay, emails to finish the show and send you off into your weekend. Please watch CBS Sports HQ, by the way.

It's friggin' awesome for baseball, for fantasy sports, for the Masters this weekend, for everything. It's just great stuff. Download the CBS Sports app on your connected device, on Roku, on Amazon Fire, on all that stuff. What are the other kids using these days? Apple TV, that's the one I was, the big one I was forgetting. And watch CBS Sports HQ on the CBS Sports app. I watch it pretty much every night. I really enjoy it before I go to sleep.

Good way to catch up on what's going on in the sports world. All right, from Tom in Totawa, New Jersey, maybe. Dear Sean, George, Roger, and Timothy. The Beatles. What? I was like, what? Oh, this sounds like bonds? Those are bonds.

Bonds, yes. My two second baseman, Jose Ramirez, and Oziel, but he's had off days yesterday, so I picked up Yommer Sanchez. And he did great. Should I hang on to Yommer Sanchez until he cools off? No. He's not a good offensive player. You have two really good ones. He's on fire, though, Scott.

White Hut. Dear Kevin, Joey, Andy, and Sterling. The Beatles. Oh, the Book of Mormon. Maybe. Oh, okay. I never saw that. I'm getting a lot of different.

I was thinking Yankees' lefties, but I only had Andy and Sterling so far. I'm getting a lot of different results here on the Google. Ten team head-to-head points. Dynasty League. I have Donaldson and Aeronado. Sounds great. Unfortunately, I can only play one because we utilize the D.H. position. I've been offered a trade where I send Aeronado.

I get Luis Severino and Jose Abreu. Should I do that? Give up Aeronado for Severino and Abreu in a Dynasty League. I would not do that. All right. I mean, you know. I don't hate it. Yeah, I don't hate it either.

It's just Aeronado Dynasty League, only 10-team league. So, you know, that increases the value of the elite players. You probably wouldn't have traded your third and fourth round pick for a first rounder. You probably wouldn't have traded a first round pick for a third and fourth. He can't start Donaldson. And he's not probably going to get that much for Donuts. Donaldson in a dynasty league, and he has Devers on the bench. It makes it more interesting with content.

I think, yeah, like, I think it's fine. I don't necessarily think I would definitely do it. There's a lot of downside to that trade. Send an email to your entire league and say, I've been offered Jose Abraeo and Luis Severino for Nolan Arnato, who can beat that offer. That's a great idea. Somebody will.

Is that tampering if you're giving the exact offer? I don't think it's tampering, no. Just say I've been offered an ace from the city of New York. and a really good first baseman from the city of Chicago. Just leak it. And if you say an ace with electric stuff, people will know it's not the ground that you're talking. Exactly. From Jordan, rank these third basemen in order of dropability.

Who's the most dropable? Matt Chapman, Evan Longoria, Jake Lamb, and Matt Davidson. I think it's David. Matt Davidson. Wow, all right. Like Lamb is currently on the DL, but this is a guy that people eat, despite our, protestations was being drafted around the top 100, so somebody's going to pick him up. They're all pretty, like, Lamb's the only one I would say, is undropable.

Protestations? That's a good word. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. I have the best words. I'm not sure I've ever heard that word, to be honest. I know.

He doth protest too much. Adam K. from New York City. Dear Michael, Kenny, Paul, Al, David, Meredith, Jack, John, and Bob. How many people are on this podcast? Those are all Yankees' Yes Network broadcasters. You always talk about... Shut up, Chris. You protest too much.

It's a starting pitcher question. I'll just cut to the chase. Are there any starting pitchers in the 10 to 5% own range that you would target for upside? Joey Lucchasee. Lucchia. Yonnie Sherinos. Nick Povetta. Is he in that range, too?

Probably. There's three of them. Okay. Yeah. and Jake from Iowa gives up Justin Turner and Eric Hosmer gets Josh Donaldson in a Keeper Points League. Gives up Turner and Hosmer gets Josh Donaldson. Yeah, I would do that. We're done.

Scott would not. Scott will sigh. I will end the show. Thank you for listening. I can sell my trade chart. Have a wonderful weekend. Have a blessed Kokomo Friday. I'll see you at the Yankees game tonight.

Let's go Yankees. Adios. out and not you are