Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/06 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Pitchers to Add and Pitchers to Avoid

Episode Date: April 6, 2017

We saw a number of dominant pitching performances yesterday, but are we ready to buy in to Wily Peralta, Alex Cobb, Bartolo Colon and Charlie Morton? ... We also discuss Dylan Bundy, James Paxton, Jameson Taillon and other standouts, plus Sam Dyson's issues and hitters who are off to great starts ... We play Buy or Sell with Greg Bird, Travis Shaw, Bryce Harper and more. Also, Heath embarrasses Adam and Chris with a fun game at the end of the show ... 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 a big day on the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast because Chris Towers is back. Yes. Hey, guys. Welcome back. How are you feeling, Chris Towers? I'm good. I have had half of a chicken breast and a like 75% of a breakfast sandwich in the last 70 hours. So I'm in the best shape of my life.

It's the truth is. The truth is to take two to three days off about every month. I look like, I look like spring training Pablo Sandoval right now. Okay. Perfect. Well, hopefully we get the better than Pablo San of All performance from you today. Let's talk about yesterday because I knew Tuesday was lame, and I knew Wednesday would be awesome. And there were not enough TVs in the world last night. I was trying to watch Bundy, Tyone, Eikoff, Finnegan, Morton, Peralta, Pax. I was trying to watch it all. I couldn't do it, obviously. I only have two eyes.

but, man, there's some great pitching performances yesterday. Which pitching performance stood out the most to you, Heath Cummings? I'll go with Jameson. Okay. Because, like, it was not the best pitching performance, but to go into that ballpark, and it's still a very good lineup, even without bets, and to go up against Chris Sale,

who's throwing blanks for seven innings. I'm impressed. I love Tyone. I don't. I haven't loved him. And he was very good. And he walked three guys, which is weird, because last year, Tyone walked 17 in 104 innings.

He had one start with three walks. It was actually his last start of the season. So Heath says Tyone, Chris Dowers, one pitcher that blew you away yesterday. I think the answer has to be Dylan Bundy. As someone who drafted a bunch of Dylan Bundy, season. I looked at the schedule and I saw he was going against Toronto and I thought this was going to be a disastrous first start for him. That's a team that hits a ton of fly balls,

hits for a lot of power and he gave up a lot of fly balls and a lot of home runs last season. He was incredible. That changeup was ridiculous last night. And the fact that he was able to do that against a mostly right-handed lineup in Toronto, I think that's a good sign. Yeah. Can I add a second one? Because we were probably leaving out. the most impressive. Well, hold on. We'll get to all of them, but I just wanted to say

Mike Excesa, he wrote about it on CBSports.com. Dylan Bundy got 17 swinging strikes for the game. He had 14 of them with his change-up. He was throwing change-ups

right-y-on-righty change-ups. He also, Dylan Bundy himself said his slider was working really well for him. So it looked really good if you're a Bundy owner. This is a guy they were kind of holding back,

letting him throw his slider because of injury, not anymore. And seven innings, one run. eight strikeouts, no walks against the Blue Jays. All right, Heath, are you going to go with Brandon Finnegan? I mean, he had two base runners in seven innings and struck out nine.

It does not get a lot better than that. Dude, Brandon Finnegan was awesome against the Phillies. So, yeah, seven scoreless, one walk, one hit. And he struggled in the first inning. And he, you know, he got a little flustered. He got out of the inning without giving up a run. Finnegan retired 19 in a row, and he finished the seventh inning with a called strike three at 94 miles per hour. Now, the weather probably played a little bit of a factor in this game being as low scoring as it was.

The Phillies played a factor. The Phillies played a factor. But Finnegan, I looked in every league. He was owned. He's only 61% owned. I made you an offer to try to train him to you. Oh, you jerk with that offer. I'm trying to trade you two of the fastest risers in fantasy baseball community.

Thank you. After three games. Thank you very much. Look, last night was a night where I was being active trying to pick up. players, and I couldn't pick up Finnegan, but I would have. The other two that I wanted to pick up were Charlie Morton, who's 45% owned. I don't know if I buy it with him, but I want to have him. And Willie Peralta, 8% owned. I don't know if I buy it with Willie Peralta, but I want to own him. His last 10 starts of 2016 after being recalled, Peralta had a 292 ERA. He shut out the Rockies

over five innings with five strikeouts, only seven swinging strikes. But yeah, I dropped Patrick Corbin for Willie Peralta? I don't think I dropped someone else for Willie Peralta. I don't remember. Oh, uh, Jacoby Jones. Yeah, I've got no interest in Willie Peralta. I, he throws like 98 miles per hour. And Morton, Morton, the velocity is legit.

I actually did what most, mostly watch the Astros and, uh, James Paxton's Mariners. They both look great. Morton and, and Paxton. I don't know about Morton. I feel like he's going to be one of these pitchers that gets beat up the third time to the order, but I think it's more to take. taking a shot on. I'm excited. You can hear it in my voice. I'm excited about yesterday's

pitchers. Yeah, yesterday was an interesting day for pitching. So what do you guys think about Morton and Peralta? Both are pretty available. Morton's 45% owned. Paralta's 8% owned. Only in league specific for me. I mean, I guess Morton's garnering more attention to other people. I'm not buying into it. Yeah, I don't see much of a reason in like a standard 12 team to go after either one of them. But You know, with my pitching strategy, I do have to jump on pitchers anytime they look interesting. And Morton looks a little interesting right now, I would say. Yeah, this is what I do.

I jump on pitchers when they're interesting, and I try to drop guys that don't really have much value right now. It wasn't easy to drop Patrick Corbyn in a pitcher in a league where he's eligible as a reliever. Well, you know, in a SPARP league. But I just, he might stink. So, like, I kind of want. Charlie Morton and Wiley-Willie Peralta might stink. as well. Yeah, they might, but, but I'm intrigued. I think there's something there with Peralta. Next week, I'm a little worried. At Toronto and at Cincinnati. Also, they're both two

stark guys next week. Peralta at Toronto and at Cincinnati and Morton at Seattle and at Oakland. I would assume pretty much everyone who pitched last night will be. Yeah. And I, and the thing is, like, Paralta's 8% owned, and that means he's probably available in some NL only leagues or some really deep leagues. And I do think you have to take a chance on him there. All right. Also, Jared Icoff, 78% owned. He was very good at Cincinnati. And Paxton, you got to be happy about that, Chris. 97% owned, so not picking them up, but 16 swinging strikes, six scoreless innings, five strikeouts at Houston. Yeah, Velocity was there. He looked very good. Looked like the guy I want to see. Now, you know, Houston's a team that

swings and misses quite a bit. So that number may be a little inflated, but that was the kind of performance I wanted to see against a lineup that still puts up a decent amount of runs. Garrett Richards left with biceps cramps, but could make his next start. I know it's not great, but they're downplaying the injury. But at Oakland, Richards was good. Four and two-thirds, no runs on three hits, four strikeouts. Nah, you don't look convinced, Steve. I don't have any Garrett Richards on my team.

I was not convinced that he really has a great... They told us just a few weeks ago that he had a hard limit of 100. pitches in any game. So he was still 25 pitches away there. Very first game he leaves with bicep cramps. You could not, his entire uniform should just be a red flag. Okay, but at least he pitched well. And it was just cramps.

That's fine. I don't get red flags for cramps. It's not really the cramps. It's the whole thing with him. Like he has an elbow injury that he's trying to just avoid the, the fix for. Yeah, I don't buy the pitch count thing. The bicep is actually attached to the elbow.

Nah, they're, you know. So, like, if it had been a forearm cramp or a tricep cramp, that would have been equally concerning. How bad are foot cramps? I don't get foot cramps. You ever get the jaw cramp? I never had a jaw cramp. Yes. Oh, that's awful. Yeah. I never had that. Who wouldn't do me when I was driving a couple days ago? I thought I was going to die.

Really? That's weird. He also missed two days of the tummy aches. Who would you rather own, guys? James and Tyone or James Paxton? James Paxton. Paxton. But I do think you can make a pretty compelling argument that we have downplayed James and Tyone a little too much because he might not have super high ace potential. But, like, he was really good last year after not pitching at all for two years.

Here's something I was thinking about last night. There were some phenomenal performances. A lot of the, there were also some bad performances from guys like Taiwan, Walker, Cole Hamels. Are you, you're an underreactor, I would say? Does anybody move in your rest of season rankings yesterday? No, probably not. I want to put a- Finnegan and Tyone might have gone up in mind.

Maybe Finnegan, that's the one. Because Tyone, I still, I think I have him in the 30 to 40 range at starting pitcher. I'm a little low. Yeah, I think you've been the low guy on James and Tyone. I want to put a little context on Cole Hamels, too. I don't really understand the official scoring thing here. Nomar Mazarra dropped the ball. Went off his glove.

Went off his glove. It was ruled a hit. So two runs that Hamill's allowed should have been unearned. In fact, he had one earned run. Two more should have been unearned. He should have given up one earned run all game, I think. On the home run, he gave up to Lindor. But he didn't pitch great, obviously.

It was a quality start. It was six innings, three runs, four runs, three earn runs. But, again, I think he got screwed on an official scoring. And also the same thing with Danny Sauer in that same game. Lindor, I just want to get exactly what happened here. So it was a three-run fourth inning for the Rangers, and none of them should have scored. Because with two outs, there was a ground ball to Lindor.

All he had to do was throw to first. He tried to run to second base. Joey Gallo beat him to second base. Lindor then threw the ball to first, and all they had to do was get one out. And Edwin and Carnaccio wasn't even looking for it because Lindor tried to get the out at second. So there ended up being an error there. Two runs scored on the error. Another run scored after that.

All three should have been unearned runs. I don't know exactly why they weren't because, you know, it was just stupid. So he should have been out of the inning unscathed. Instead, Salazar gave up four runs when he probably should have given up one. But he did walk four guys. The walks were a problem. The strikeouts are still awesome. 21 swinging strikes last night for Danny Salazar.

I'm not, even without hearing your explanation, I wasn't going to get too upset over Danny Salazar giving up too many runs against that Rangers lineup in that park. Also because it's Danny Salazar, and that's what he does. He does do that sometimes. The walks were bad for him, four walks and five innings, but tis one start. Yeah, okay, that's fair.

So nobody's really moving in the rankings. There are other guys we should talk about like Taiwan Walker and Bartolo Cologne, who by the way was a top 30 starting pitcher last year. Let me finish up with this section here. Would you rather have Dylan Bundy or Jameson Tionn? Definitely Bundy in a points league. Yeah, Bundy, when he's RP eligible, Tyone otherwise, I think. And I know you guys, you're not that excited about Charlie Morton and Willie Peralta,

but I don't understand how Alex Cobb is 60% owned. Alex Cobb needs to be owned in more than 60% of leagues. Fine. What do you mean? Fine. I mean, first of all, it's two starts next week at the Yankees and at Boston, so we'll see how he does. But in 2013... Yeah, that's the thing.

Like, are you starting him against the Yankees in Red Sox next week? I actually think the Yankees might be one of the better matchups in the American League. Yeah, their lineup is bad. I don't know if it's bad, but it might be. It might be. Cobb, 2013 and 2014 combined, he had a 282 ERA and a 1.14 whip and 8.12 strikeouts per 9. Like, there's no way Alex Copp should be 60% owned. Okay, 2015 and 2016 combined he threw 43 innings with an ERA over 7.

All right. So the guy had Tommy John surgery, and now he's back. Like, what is so hard to comprehend? Why do you just assume that he's just good again when the very limited sample we got last? He didn't pitch it all for one year, and then the next year he comes back and he can't get anybody out. And now I'm not saying he's bad. I'm not saying it's not possible. And I'm not even saying he's good, Heath.

I'm saying he should be owned in more than 60% of least because there's a good. chance that he's good. There's a chance. I think there's a chance he's good. I'm fine owning him. I just, I don't know if I'm going out to add him and then starting him against the Red Sox and Yankees, in which case, then I have to hope he's good enough next week that I'll feel confident to start him with one start the next week.

I would pick him up over Morton. I would pick him up over Wiley-Willie. I don't think, like, I'm not dropping Taiwan Walker for him. No. I will give you, I don't think I'm dropping Jarrell Cotton for him. I was going to give you four names that I would probably drop for Alex Cobb. And I want to know how you guys feel about this. Michael Paneda, Matt Moore, Jarrell Cotton, Ian Kennedy.

Michael Paneda, Matt Moore, Jarrell Cotton, Ian Kennedy. How many of them would you drop for Alex Cobb? Nope. Maybe Cotton? What? What? You, Michael Panetta. Okay, can I ask you something? What did you see yesterday that, like, you drafted Michael Panetta, probably in like the 15th round?

Don't talk to be. But it's more than like a last round pick. What did you see from Michael Panetta yesterday that changed your mind? Nothing. And I didn't draft Michael Panetta because I don't think, I don't like Michael Panetta. That's fine. But if you drafted Michael Panetta, you should know. You're saying something you saw yesterday convinced you he is no longer Michael Panetta?

No, I'm saying that he is Michael Panetta. Michael Paneda didn't deserve to be drafted, especially in the 15th round. That's not true. If Michael Panetta deserved to be drafted, it was with one of your very last picks. Somebody who has 240 strikeout potential deserves to be drafted. Fine, but if there's an option on waivers that's better, then Michael Paneda should be dropped. The guy, he's not a good pitcher.

I mostly agree. Michael Panetta was Michael Panetta yesterday. Yeah. But I don't see how you could have thought he was worth drafting a week and a half ago and then think he's worth dropping now because he had one bad Michael Panetta start. It would only be because somebody else emerged that you like that. Yeah, exactly. I just, I don't think that's happened. What if Brandon Finnegan was on the waiver wire? No brainer. I think you could easily make that decision. And I had Panetta ranked ahead of Finnegan in the preseason, but.

Yeah, I, maybe. Because I don't think if I dropped Michael Panetta, anybody's going to pick him up until he has a good start. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I have trouble with that kind of. logic. Like I, this, like you said, I'm an under, underreactor and I just, I mostly am too. I'm definitely not. I know I'm an overreactor, but. And Matt Moore, too. Like, Matt Moore had a start. Well, yeah, but that's a, like, and I don't know that I would drop Matt Moore for a cop. I think I would, but I understand that Matt Moore is going to be pretty good at home. He had some great, great starts for the Giants last year. He showed a lot of stuff. And I, I don't think that this start yesterday just kills Matt Moore. He gave up six.

runs three earned in five and a third and just wasn't good at Arizona. But I don't know. Like I guess I just like Cobb more. But if we're talking about Finnegan, 61% owned, about the same, a little bit more than Alex Cobb? I would drop Matt Moore for Finnegan. And Pereto. I don't know if I would do it for Panetta. Yeah.

You know, we always say... I still like, I just think Michael Padet is a pretty safe bet for 200 strikeouts and a, like, a long shot bet for like a huge 240 strikeout season. And I just think that upside's still there. But you will never start Michael Paneda, even if he strikes people out, if he can't, if there's no run prevention. I agree. So, all right. And like he said, nobody's picking up Michael Panetta right now because he looks like the guy who had a 5ERA last year. Okay.

Hey, Sam Dyson. Yikes. Gave up a grand slam. Blue is save. He's now had two appearances, and he's a 72 ERA. So they say they're sticking with Sam Dyson right now. It's way too early to panic. He was good in the world baseball classic.

He's been bad in two appearances. Matt Bush would probably be the next guy up. Would you guys agree? Is he the guy to add if you want to take a shot in the Rangers bullpen? I think it's like 65% Matt Bush. And people are acting like it's 95% Matt Bush. And I think it's probably 30% Jeremy Jeffers. Yeah, I think it's probably higher for Bush than 65%.

I think the guy who's working the eighth inning is usually the next guy in line to get the ninth. I'm pretty sure that was the case last year when their clothes were imploded, Sean Tallison in the first weeks of the season. So, yeah, I think Matt Bush is definitely the guy next. And Bush would be interesting if he takes over there. He had, as a rookie last year, a 248 ERA, a 0.94 whip, and a strikeout per inning. So he could get the job done, but right now they're sticking with Sam. Dyson, so, you know, don't drop them. Reisel O'Glaeasius got a save, and first save of the year for the Reds.

Michael Lorenzen pitched the 8th. I think he came in to the... No, he pitched the 8th. So, never mind. But this is what I read in Cincinnati.com. Quote, when right-hander Michael Lorenzen entered in place of Finnegan for the 8th, the stage seemed set for the first look at the Red's newfangled alternating closer bullpen.

It was not to be. Lorenzen gave up a couple infield singles. to start the frame and needed 24 pitches to complete the inning. His spot was due up to start the bottom of the eighth, and Red's manager Brian Price sent up Scooter Jeanette as a pinch hitter. Fellow closer-ish righty, Ricelli Glacius, toss the scoreless ninth for the save. So there's your context.

Brian Shaw got a save for Cleveland. Cody Allen was likely unavailable. He had two saves already. And Fernando Rodney's back, everybody. Scoreless and hit in perfect frame for a save against the Giants, his first of the season. Just good enough to keep his job. There you go.

Thursday is going to typically be Buy or Sell Day. So here we go from the listeners. Buy or Sell. This is from Big Earn, like Big Earn McRacken. One of the best Bill Murray characters. Agree or disagree. What movie is that from?

That is Kingpin. Oh. Great sports movie. Oh, please. Yes. Great sports movie. Not sure it makes my I'm not sure if it makes

like my top eight Bill Murray characters. I think... It's not Bill Murray's best sports movie. That's obviously Kettyshack. Oh, my God. Even if I thought golf was a sport, which I think I might now, I've sort of changed my mind on that.

Here's the thing. If you go to one of these golf courses and try to play 18 holes every day walking, carrying your own tour bag, you're going to be exhausted and most likely injured. It doesn't mean it's a sport. Like, I always compare it. Oh, I get hurt every day.

time I play golf. It doesn't... My oblique, every time. But it doesn't make it a sport. I always compare it to mowing the lawn. If I went outside and I mowed the lawn every day, I'd probably get pretty tired. And some people are probably better at mowing the lawn than me than I am. Yeah, but there's competitive lawn mowing. That would be a sport. They have lawn mower races in the Midwest. Yeah, but that's not a sport.

That's the Midwest, being weird. All right, anyway, Big Earn, buy or sell. Bartolo Cologne, defying the odds and being awesome again all season. I'll buy it, but I won't rank him like it. Yeah, I'll sell it just because I'm not going to move Bartolo Colon up in my rankings. I'm not going to rank him as a Mostone starting pitcher. Yeah, well, they loved him in New York last night. Got a nice ovation when he came up.

I'm happy for him. Nate Peterson, buyer cell Mark Reynolds plays himself into the Rockies lineup, even when Desmond and Dahl return. Hard sell. Hard sell, but I'm sticking by my take. Did you see he picked him up yesterday? Oh, good. In the For the People League? Good, good, good.

I think he's going to be very start-able until those guys come back. Okay, that's Mark Reynolds. Chad Banks, buy or sell. Dylan Bundy will be mixed league relevant all season. Hard buy. Okay. We shouldn't necessarily overreact from one start. I mean, we're very encouraged, but Bundy is top, what, starting pitcher right now?

50. Yeah, yeah. In 50. Okay. Buy herself from Nick. Greg Bird's spring training meant nothing. Yeah, you didn't get any fantasy points for it. Hard sell.

It meant that he got this opportunity at the beginning of the year. It didn't mean anything for fantasy, but it definitely... It didn't mean he was a 40-Homer guy if that's what you thought. No, but it definitely meant that the Yankees were going to give him a chance to play every day. It may have meant that he got overdrafted. I will say this. Greg Byrd right now is nursing a sprained ankle. He hit a foul ball off of his ankle at the end of spring training,

and he says it's bruised, but it's feeling better. And he does not think it's impacting his play, but nobody's going to admit to that. Right now, like, Sanchez and Bird are just off to an absolutely terrible start. I haven't even thought about Bilo's so high yet, but do you think Byr and Sanchez are Bilo can't? Or do you think you want to avoid them? You're a little worried.

If someone wants to sell either of those guys before they even play a home game, I would be very willing to buy. Okay. Jamie Sayer, buy or sell, Charlie Morton is the top 30 starting pitcher. On the Astros? Sell. But like, again, I'm not sure I buy it with Morton, but he is a completely different pitcher right now. He's throwing a lot harder. Yeah, for sure.

We just, we haven't seen much evidence that it. It's mattered. But we haven't seen evidence that it hasn't mattered because he had a good spring and he had a good start. Okay, that's fair, fine. He just has a really long track record of not doing much at all. He does. Now, Dan Malin, buy or sell. Kendall Graveman, buy or sell, or basically buy Graveman,

buy or sell, Kendall Graveman, good start and good velocity. Bye. It was a good start. It was a good velocity. and it's a building block for possibly, if he does that two times in a row, he's moving into a different range as a pitcher. So you understand that I just asked you about Charlie Morton and Kendall Grave, we got completely different answers.

You know why? Because Morton's been worse? We have a much more extensive history of Charlie Morton not being good. Also, like, I would definitely sell Kendall Graveman as a top 30 starting pitcher, too. Yes, absolutely. That's fair. But Morton, I mean, And Morton has thrown this hard before.

Morton had, I guess he had like a couple of good years. 2013 and 14 with Pittsburgh, he was all right. But like he's thrown, he's averaged mid-90s with his fastball before. He's up from last year. But he's right around where he was from 2010 to 2013 for the most part. Okay. Who would you rather have if you were going to take a shot, Graveman or Morton? Graveman because he plays in a much better park.

You'll go Graveman. All right. A lot of good lineups in that division. It's a little scary. Well, there are three. Three very good ones. What's next? The league sports block,

By or sell, Bryce Harper, back in the top four in drafts in 2017. I'll buy it. He looks so locked in. I know it's only three games plus the spring, but... And it's the Marlins pitchers. Yeah.

But, man, he looks really good. Dan Keller, buyer's sell selling high on Dallas Kichel. I have a hard time with this whole selling high concept after three games. I don't know, but if there's somebody in your league that thinks 2015 Dallas Kichel is walking through that door, then you should sell quickly. Okay. Great. From Josh, buy or sell.

Brandon Crawford finishes the year as a top 12 shortstop. I think I had him ninth in points, so I will buy it. I think I'll sell it. He definitely won't in Roto. We all agree on that. We'll both sell on Roto. I buy and points. All right.

And finally, Travis, buy or sell. Travis Shaw over Greg Bird in a head-to-head categories league. So far, for sure. Answer the question. Greg Bird's got some catching up to do. No, I've had Travis Shaw ranked ahead of Greg Bird for the entirety of 2017, so I will buy it. Interesting. All right.

I want to talk about Heath making a trade. offer to me, which was just a slap in the face. It involves Travis Shaw. But I also want to tell you that, you know, last night, maybe it wasn't a great baseball night for me at the Yankees losing. But dinner was awesome because I made my first of three Blue Apron meals for the week. You can have awesome dinner, too, with three free meals. Why turn that down? Three free meals at Blue Apron.com slash fantasy baseball. Go there right now. Last night, it was chicken with roasted vegetables. Tonight, listen to this, Fontina stuffed pork chops. And then this weekend, I'm going to make spinach and fresh mozzarella pizza. I can't wait. I love Blue Apron. The ingredients are fresh.

They're better than anything you're going to get at the grocery store. You get exactly what you need, so you never waste food. It's affordable, less than $10 per person per meal. It's convenient, delivered right to my door every week. And I've tried so many things that I've never had before. I really love the variety with Blue Apron. So check out this week's menu. Get your first three meals free with free shipping by going to blue apron.com slash fantasy baseball. That's blue apron.com slash fantasy baseball. Blue Apron, a better way to cook. All right. Heath makes an Azer trade offer. Hardly. Azer trades are very lopsided. They are insulting. I do them a lot, I guess. Not on purpose always.

Sometimes I think I just have a reputation. Actually, I make a good trade offer and people like, oh, Azer sent this. This must be a terrible trade. But Heath actually, actually wrote about this in his trade column yesterday. He's like, don't make azer trades. Well, no, to be clear, my original point was, I'm kind of tired of hearing I want to make sure I make a good deal for both teams. I want both teams to win the deal. You don't set your lineup on Monday morning thinking, I hope this game is really close. You're trying to win.

Yeah, of course. But you can do that without making azer trade offers, like this one. All right. This is a terrible trade offer. So he offered me Brandon Finnegan and Travis Shaw, Brandon Finnegan and Travis Shaw, for Cole Hamels and Roberto Ozuna. So 12-teampleading an injured pitcher.

I look, like I said, Hamels wasn't, let's look at Cole Hamill's lie. Like, why are we freaking out about Cole Hamill's? He had six innings, five hits, three earned runs, one walk, four strikeouts. To be clear, before this start, you had basically placed him on the block, and said, I don't want Cole Hamels, make me an offer. It's true, yeah. Okay. But, like, Danny Duffy is a better offer than Brandon Finnegan and Travis Shaw, in my opinion,

unless Finnegan just has a monster year. I didn't. I thought maybe you wanted to take a chance on Finnegan having a monster year. And I was offered Danny Duffy, by the way. No, I do. I would love to take a chance on Finnegan. I'm not giving up Cole Hamels, who's 280 and 200 strikeouts every single year. Like, there's no way.

I didn't think you liked Cole Hamels. I don't, all right. I don't hate Cole Hamels. I think he's better than Finnegan. And here's the thing. We've got to talk about this with Travis Shaw. 2015, Travis Shaw started getting regular playing time in August. In his first 18 games, Shaw hit 3.85 with a 738 slugging percentage, six home runs.

He was amazing. Rest of season, he batted 226. In 2016, first 39 games of the year for Shaw, 329 batting average, 573 slugging, six home runs, 13 doubles. Got off to a great start again. rest of season, he batted a 205. So I don't know. Maybe Travis Shaw is just a fast starter.

At best I can tell from the pattern here, Travis Shaw should be amazing for his first 81 games in 2017. No, about 30 games. Yeah, 18. And so you double 18 plus 3 is 39. You double 39 plus 3 is 81. So I would expect sell high on Travis Shaw just before the All-Star break. Okay, very good logic.

I don't know if that stuff means anything. You listeners out there could decide if that means anything to you when you evaluate Travis Shaw. Who did Homer yesterday? News and notes. Stephen Piscotti cleared the concussion protocol. Dernard Span sat again, but could be back for the Giants' next game. I think they play today. They do some arges on the mound.

Drew Pomeran's likely to start Sunday for Boston. I don't know if you saw this. Eduardo Nunez, he ran through a stop sign with two outs in the second inning, and he ended up scoring from second base on an infield single. He's playing with his hair on fire. Hair on fire, yes. Yeah, I was going to say his pants on fire, but no. He's playing like he just had a career year and then spent the entire offseason hearing everyone discounted.

Yeah, so we'll talk about him and some other hitters who are off to a great start, like Miguel Sino, George Springer, Noamazara, and a couple of Deep League guys. Mookie Betz was out with an illness. Manny Machado was robbed of a likely home run by Kevin Pilar. Oh, the autocorrects are back, everybody. Miami third baseman, Martine Pearl could come off the D.L. Next week. Do you think Scott's ready to drop Derek Dietrich?

He was just about to say. He better be ready to drop Derek Dietrich. Devin Mazzaraco is beginning a rehab assignment. Carter Caps is expected to throw a bullpen session today. Roberto Ozuna should be back on Tuesday. And we told you about Garrett Richards leaving with biceps cramps. Only one guy went double dongs yesterday, and that was Francisco Lindor. He homered from both sides of the plate.

He had the Homer off Hamels and a grand slam off Sam Dyson. Hooray. He had a very nice game. He appears to be hitting them a long way as well. Oh, man. I was about to go to sleep, and then I saw the score of the Rangers game. I said, oh, you know, I bet Sam Dyson's pitching. I'm going to turn it on.

He could not throw his strike to Santana. He walked in a run. It just felt so inevitable that he was going to give up something big. He had nothing. and he finally threw his strike at Lindoror crushed it. He killed it. All right, lineup stuff. Steve Pierce was in the lineup again.

He started in left field at Baltimore. He moved to first base later in the game. Justin Smoke started at first. Chris, you were talking about the Brewers off the air. What's going on with the Brewers? Their lineups are kind of wacky. I believe every position player has started a game in the first three for them. And, you know, that's kind of something that we're.

we expected. I would say the only one that we wouldn't have would be Kirk Neuwenheist, but this was a team before the season that we talked about how many guys they have. They just have a lot of people that we think are really interesting and it kind of the number added up to more than

our available lineup spots are available every day. Well, yeah, it's the first week of the season and you want to get everybody on the field and then the lineup, I want them to feel like they're apart. We're going to need everybody. Somebody's going to get hurt at some point and I want guys to be ready and so

I'm going to get them from the bats early in the season. You're good at that. You're very good at that. But Ernan Perez was in the lineup. He doubled. Eric Thames was back in the lineup batting second. He homered. Last night it was Broxton and Domingo Santana who sat. So the only starters that have started every game are Braun. Who will probably get a day off soon? VR.

Arcia. Arcia and Shaw. That sounds right. Okay. They're best players. Yeah. J.T. Rayamuto has been batting second from Miami. I wonder if that's going to continue when Martin Prado comes back. What do you think? I would guess not.

I would think he moves down in the order. Ray Almutto was the number six catcher in points league's number five in Roto last year. This was good. Adam Eaton batted second with Rendon back in the lineup, and Jason Worth batted seventh. I'm very happy they're not batting Jason Worth at the top of the lineup. That's good news for Eaton. Gregory Polanco played left field,

that was also good to see because he DHs in the season opener. Yuleig Ariel was back in the lineup at first for Houston. He batted sixth. Evan Gaddis caught and McCann sat. And Josh Reddick started against a left-handed pitcher. And we kind of had it. They have four straight lefties, including yesterday against Paxton. So we knew Reddick wasn't going to sit all four games.

Delano de Shields. We had Delano DeLino DeShield's D-Hing. We had Carlos Santana leading off Kyle Swarber leads off now. Like, such a... Baseball has changed quite a bit. Yes. You know?

But De Shields let off. He deached. He was pinch hit for at one point in the game. Carlos Gomez also played. He drew a couple walks batting sixth, and Joey Gallo had three more strikeouts yesterday. And Jake Lamb started again against the lefty, and he actually doubled off that lefty, Matt Moore,

but he went one for five. Here are some hitters who are off to a good start. Tell me what you think about these two. Let's do two at a time. widely owned one's a must start one is started in 75% of leagues george springer all of his hits have come off righties which is good because he's kind of okay against righties and amazing against lefties historically or last two years and mcelanoe mcgelson o two for six with a home run and a triple he also flew out to the wall yesterday he almost hit another home run so springer and sano anything worth mentioning here that first home run was an absolute bomb his triple yesterday was the black on the inside corner pretty close to the knees, and he hit it to the wall in right field. He's locked in, Sunnoe. When he makes contact, it goes a really long way.

And Duffy threw him a 91-mile-an-hour fastball on the inside, and he just, he turned on it. Okay. What happens first? Miguel Suno has a two-homer game, or the Kansas City Royals have a three-game winning streak? Miguel Snow has a two-homer game. Probably. He currently has a 100% fly ball rate. Chris is very happy with this.

That's a good approach at the plate. Way to go, Miguel. It is really making baseball, like, potentially very boring. With all these hitters, just fly ball, fly ball, fly ball. That's all they care about now. I don't think it's a good thing for baseball. Not that they should change what they're doing, but it's not great. If it's a good thing for hitters, then that's what hitters should do,

and it's up to the pitchers to make them change that? Two hitters. You want to weigh in, Chris? I don't think it's a bad thing. Hunter Pence. You love it. Be more honest. You love it.

I think it's great. Hunter Pence and No More Mizarra are 78 and 76% owned. Pence has a 400 batting average with a double and a triple. I've been watching Mizarra just seems like every time he's up, not every time, but many times he's up I happen to have the game on. He's reminding me of Gregory Polanco from last. year. He's just hitting the ball really hard. He's seven for 12. He has two doubles and a home run in three games. Has not walked, but only one strikeout. Seven hits and 12, but that's not much room

to walk. So I'm really happy about Mazarra. I'm assuming we all would rather have Mizarra than Pence. Absolutely. Yeah, Mazarra, it's funny because we talked about how, you know, there's no way you can maintain that home run to fly ball rate with his contact percentage numbers. And then he's just hitting the crap out of the ball. Well, that's, that, that was the weird thing about Noamar Mazar last season is when the ball went out of the yard, he actually, I think he was like top 30 in baseball in home, in an average home run distance. So when he did hit the ball out of the yard, it went a long way. It's just he didn't hit the ball particularly hard, particularly often. Um, so he was kind of a tough nut to crack for me. And it was clear, it's clear that the

talent is there. And it's more about finding that consistency. And, and, And, you know, if he does, that's great. But we also saw him get off to a great start last year. And then I think he had, like, a 680 OPS in his last 100 games. I think the Polanco slash Christian Yellich comp are both good ones. And I think that if you're in a shallow league, let's be honest. Most people aren't picking up Nomar Mazzara. He's 76% own.

But just philosophically speaking, like, if you're in a shallow league, this is a guy I dropped Michael Panetta for. It doesn't have to be Panetta for a pitcher. You know? Sure. You probably didn't draft Michael Paneda in a shallowly. He's 90-something percent owned. He's 96% owned. It blows my mind.

Drop him for Norma Zara. Who's next here? Eduardo Nunez, 98% owned, 94% started. 7 for 14 with three steals and three attempts. He stole 40 bases last year. No walks, three strikeouts. You know, let's not belabor it. Nune's off to a great start.

We'll see what happens. Sandy Leone had a big day yesterday. He had a three-run homer to walk off in the 13th inning, something like that against the pirates. And he also doubled. Last year, Leon hit 310, slug 476. It was very front-loaded. June and July, he batted 391.

August and September, he batted 263 with a 394 slugging percentage. I really had no interest in Sandy Leon, but he is 40% on it. Was I wrong? Should I have had interest in Sandy Leon? I'm going to assume 40% of our leagues are two-catcher leagues. Yeah, that's the only place he should be on. That's fine.

Would you rather have Mesoaraco? or Leon? Leone. Leone. He's playing. Hey, Maseraco going on a rehab aside. Yeah, he's coming back. That's never, that's never ended up poorly.

I'm just, like, I don't think that, just because number two catcher is such a bad position, that I don't think we should just completely overlook Devin Mezoraco. Oh, sure, but I would just say that Devin Maseracco's had, what, one half of a season more good than Sandy Leone, right? He's basically had one good season. Yeah, but you can't really compare them. And that was three years ago.

I mean, Mazzaraco was a prospect. He broke out when he was supposed to break out. And then he got hurt. He's like 30 now, right? He's probably up there in years. I don't know if he's 30. But he's, all things consider, if they're both healthy. Like, you would think Mesa Raco is going to put up better numbers.

He turns 29 this year. Yeah, I don't know. It's just, we've got 1100 plate appearances from him in his career. One good season. I don't know. Find a stash in a two-catcher league. It seems like oversimplified because I feel like he was the number two catcher for a while. I can't remember.

And then he finally got the opportunity. He hit pretty well. And then we were calling him a breakout and he broke out. He had a monster year, Mesoraco. Yeah. And he's just been plagued by injuries ever since. Like, he's more exciting than Sandy Leon. Two guys that are off to good starts.

Tell me if you have any interest. Logan Morrison, Chase Headley. No. Nope. If you're in an A.L. Only league in you own Chase Headley, you should know that he is, like, finally, someone is doing this consciously saying, I'm going to just beat the shift. And he is singling opposite field, and he's seven for 11. But he's Chase Headley. Rotation.

Yeah, I think there's quite a bit of debate over whether guys should do that or not, but a guy like Chase Headley definitely should. He should. His goal is to get them to start playing him more straight up and then hit like he wants to hit. We'll see if it works. I think Mike was talking to that a couple years ago. ago, and it worked. Okay. Good for us, Yankees and Royals knowledge.

Jacob de Grom had a good start. Rich Hill, he was fine. He gave up, he walked three guys, but he gave up one run with five strikeouts at five innings. Chris Sale was great, seven scoreless, seven strikeouts against Pittsburgh. And we talked about Salazar and Hamels. I don't know that we need to talk about any of these guys. The Grom, Rich Hill, Sale, Salazar Hamels, anything?

Nope. Also, these guys, Jay Hap, seven innings, three runs. He did give up two home runs at Baltimore. He did strikeout 9 with no walks. That's Jay Hap. And Tanner Roark, he got off to a slow start. He was a little bit rusty. I think his last spring training start got rained out, hadn't pitched in a while.

But then he turned it on and pitched great against the Marlins. Chris, have anything to say about Happer Roark? No, they both pitched about how I would have expected. I will continue to watch the Hap strikeout to walk ratio because I've been lower on him than most because he's not a good strikeout pitcher. He did have that short period of time when he was in Pittsburgh where he actually struck guys out and didn't walk anyone. If he found that again, he would definitely be much more valuable than I have him ranked. All right, let's talk about these four starting pitchers.

Taiwan Walker. So you guys have been saying like it wasn't a good start. He had 14 swinging strikes. He gave up four runs in six innings, but one walk, seven strikeouts. I kind of felt like since the two of you I thought like Taiwan Walker, I was expecting you to come away and courage by this start against the Giants? Well, the thing for me with Towin Walker is I've always, I've said it a bunch of times that it's the development of the secondary pitches that needs to come.

And he didn't show any of that last night. He threw six curve balls, eight cutters, and six splitters. That's just, I don't think you can survive throwing 80% of your pitches as fastballs. I just, I don't think anybody's fastball is that good, especially. his fastball average 92 miles per hour last year it's not like it it you know he was electric with the pitch um so for for what i need to see from him and what made me excited in the spring was that he was throwing he reworked his slider and it was you know that slider cutter movement um i need to see that that's what made me excited was the possibility of him developing a third pitch that could get right-handed

batters out. All right. Yeah, Taiwan Walker, like we saw Dylan Bundy use a change-up and a slider to go with his fastball. We want to see something similar from Taiwan Walker. Dan Straeli. Dan Straeli and Alex Cobb are owned in the same amount of leagues. How do you feel about that?

Alex Cobb should be much higher-owned. I was watching the game, and I think in, like, the third inning, I tweeted out. Dan Strelie is doing the thing where he's limiting contact again, just like last season. and it stopped very quickly. He was getting a lot of soft contact at first, and then that contact turned really hard. And Bartolo Colon, would you rather have Bartolo Colon or Dan Straeli? Cologne.

Yep, Bartolo. He's 33% owned. He is not a two-star pitcher next week, according to CBSports.com. But most of the guys we've talked about are, I'm looking for someone who has like two great matchups, and I don't really see it. Like Tyler Chatwood, he's home, but it's against San Diego, and then he's at the Giants. I could see him being a sneaky two-star pitcher.

We'll talk about this more tomorrow. I don't know. Charlie Morton at Seattle and at Oakland, considering he just pitched well against Seattle and Oakland's got one of the worst lineups in baseball, I don't hate that. Not one bit. So if you want to get ahead of the game, could think about Charlie Morton. I don't know. And Hector Santiago, any interest in him?

He's a two-star pitcher. a good start against the Royals. Santiago is at Detroit and home against the White Sox next week. At Detroit, home against the White Sox. I would rather have Charlie Morton, for sure. Yeah. So why is it that I'm so much more aggressive on the waiver wire than you guys? This early in the year?

Yeah. I think you're being emotional about it. and I am in between you and Chris and Chris is basically a robot Well, it's just that I trust my preseason I don't think really that you should change your preseason view of a player until like April barring It's April

Until the end of April Barring like some really dramatic changes If someone comes out throwing a lot harder Or throwing a lot softer Hitting more fly bolts Like Charlie Morton. He's not throwing that much harder, though. Like, Heath.

Like, he's throwing harder than he did last year, but not harder than we've seen him throw in his career. Heath, you might hate Willie Peralta. But I'm looking at, and it's like you're in more leagues than I am. So that could be like you just don't want to deal with it every night. And you also have kids. So I sit there. I'm on my laptop. I'm watching a game on my computer.

I'm watching a game on TV. I'm looking in my leagues when I see somebody interesting. Is this guy available? I'm thinking about putting a waiver claim. You might not like Willie Peralta. you should have put in a claim for him dropping Colton Wong. There is no reason why Colton Wong should be on your roster. Okay, that's fair.

Maybe you just don't like Colton Wong as much as I do. There's somebody on your team that's dropable. This is my message to fantasy owners. If you're sitting there right now, you don't believe in Willie Peralta. I don't necessarily believe in Willie Peralta either. But there's a chance. Like I said, last 10 starts last year. He had a sub-3 ERA.

He throws extremely hard. All five of his strikeouts last night were on a fastball. So obviously I want to see him with better secondary pitches, but who did they play last night? Oh, Bud Black was talking about how he was really good. He raved about Peralta. So even if I don't believe it, there's somebody on my roster that, to me, is expendable. I'm going to take a chance. And if Peralta has another good start, everybody's going to be in on him.

I typically don't draft players who I think are going to be expendable after three days. You don't have that option sometimes. I'm going to look at your roster right now. I guarantee there's somewhat expendable. Kenneth Vargas is expendable. Okay, sure. Scott Sheppler is expendable. Like, you've got expendable players.

You've got 30 guys on your team. Some of them are expendable. You have, no, he's on your D.L. Unfortunately, you're starting Tyler Saladino. Hey, how do you feel about Saladino leading off for the White Sox, Chris? It's great. Everyone loves him. All right, so that's my point.

Like, I don't want to sit here and say, I'm picking up this guy, and that means I totally buy. I'm picking up a guy because I think now's the time to get him, and there's a chance that he could be good. And predicting the future's hard, so let's give ourselves the most opportunity that we can to have a breakout player on our team. I understand that. In defense of Colton Wong, I will say, I thought a week ago that Colton Wong was a

more valuable fantasy asset than Willie Peralta. I still, that has not changed. That's fair. I get that. All right. Let's read emails. A lot of emails coming in the inbox. It's exciting.

People are into it. We want to thank you so much for listening. And if you've got time, want you, leave us a good review, a five-star review. Leave us a wonderful comment about Kreeh or scam or whatever. Just about the show. We would appreciate that in iTunes. Adam from Illinois, hey, Walt, Jesse, and Hank. That is Breaking Bad.

That's Breaking Bad. The second best show that I've ever seen. Behind the Shield. I've never watched it. What? I've never watched it. Oh. watch it tonight.

The whole thing? Start it tonight. The Shields, it's the second best show behind the Shield? Yeah, the Shield's better. They have the same cop in both shows, right? No. Being behind the Shield's a very good place of game. I get that guy confused with the guy that's the cop and the shield, I think.

The cop? No. Walt's brother-in-law. No, he's not. He's definitely not. He is not Vic Mackie. Michael Chick-Lis, no. All right, here's the question.

Adam is in a 12-team league with deep benches, so he's looking for a good hitter on his bench. Is Ryan Schimp worth adding to drop Matt Holiday or Keon-Brockston? I think I would drop Matt Holiday for him yet. Wow. Really? All right. Just be aware. You're going to get power.

Probably going to get a bad batting average from Schimp, right? For sure. Okay. But it could be pretty rare kind of power. Yeah, you've talked about that. You love his power. It could be 40 Homer Power Heath, would you drop Holiday or Broxton for Shimp?

I would drop Holiday for Shimp, most likely. Okay. Jeff in Tulsa. Dear John, Freddie, Lou, and Amos. I believe that's early 70s Royals. John Mayberry, Freddie Pawtech, Lou Pinella, and Amos Otis. How about that? That was impressive.

By ourselves. It could be. Not that. No, it's that. It's got to be that. I'm looking at it. I googled it. It's that. By herself, A.J. Pollock will hit 22 home runs.

Steel 36 bases. 370 on base percentage. 500 slugging for Pollock. So it's extremely unlikely. You're going to hit all those numbers on the nose. At least? At least, yes. He probably won't get all four of them exactly, but that sounds like a very nice projection.

I'm going to say slightly under. Another guy who's playing like his pants and hair are on fire. He legged up for lost time. He legged out a double last night on what was a single for most hitters. He's fired up right now, AJ Pollard. Let's just clarify this, though. You play like your hair's on fire. When you lie, your pants are on fire.

You don't play like your pants are on fire. Somebody's pants were on fire, they would not play at all. I don't know. They'd be rolling on the ground. Maybe you would run a lot faster if your pants were on fire. That would just add more air to the same principle. The same principle. as your hair being on fire.

Exactly. I agree with that. With the hair, you're running to a source of water. Not in baseball. With your pants, you're just rolling. In Arizona, it would have to be in the outfield. In the dugouts, after you get around the basins. Don't they have a pool?

Don't they have like a pool? Yeah, that's what I was saying. You jump into the pool out there. Blake from Boise, grade the trade. Give up. This is a, oh, this is a fun one. Head to Head Points League. Give up Charlie Blackman and Kyle Hendricks.

Say, that must be, that's a lot to give up. You better be getting something good back for Blackman Hendrix for Mike Trout. I think that's a B plus. We don't have a points trade chart yet. The Roto trade chart, I believe, would not like that as much. But I'm going to give it to him. I'm going to say a C.

Solid C. Okay. Ryan and St. Louis has a league dispute. Can you help us with a brewing league dispute in my 15-team Roto Keeper League. So the context here is that they've got a team that's co-owning, that they've never had co-owners before. Here we go. Last night, a trade was made, and this morning a message was posted from one of the co-owners saying he didn't get consulted, and now he wants to trade withdrawn. This is starting to cause a ruckus.

What are your thoughts, guys? We're only a week in, and these two co-owners are already pissing everybody off. This is Ryan from the For the People League, right? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Also known as Chris's arch nemesis. Yeah. It's their own fault.

It's their own fault. It's their own fault. Yeah. I think you let the trade go through and let the league figure it out. Or the owners figure it out. Yeah, of course. Yep. Agreed.

Yeah, it's their issue. John in Nashville, dear Angelica, Tommy, Chuckie, and Lillian. Chuckle, right? Oh, is it Chuckle? It's the Rugrats. It's Chuck. He spelled it wrong.

It says chuckle. Yeah, but it's a typo. It's a truckey. Yeah. Maybe there's some show that has chuckle-in. I know what I'm talking about. I just think maybe he's talking about a different show. Don't question me on 90s Nickelodeon cartoons.

Yeah, it's true. Chris, do you remember who hosted the show Slime Time Live on Nickelodeon? Slime Time Live, I do not. Okay, you should look that up. Can you all talk, it's 15-team League. Can you all talk about deep league players such as, would you rather have Dan Stry or Brett Anderson or Dickie, Chatwood, guys like that. I think Chatwood's an interesting person to look at.

I know pitching in Colorado makes them less interesting, but I would take a look. I might be slightly more interested in Anderson, but it's solely as I'm going to start. Like, all of these guys, I don't feel like even in a 15-teen league, 15-team league are guys that I'm keeping on my roster. They're guys that I'll, you know, I'll play for a week or two.

They have good matchups. Then I'm finding someone else. I'll tell you someone that I actually recommended to John that pitches tonight, I believe. Brandon McCarthy. I still think there's a chance that Brandon McCarthy could be good in a 15-team league or deeper. I'm interested in him. He's facing the Padres tonight. So, you know, I think there could be something there with McCarthy.

Or he could be terrible, but, you know, you got to take chances. Yeah, I think that's an interesting name as well. Did you look up Slime Time Live yet? Is that your brother? That is my brother. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't remember that show.

Yeah, we were a little older. It started in 2000. Ah, okay. That was a little after my Nickelodeon days. We kind of got done early today, so let me go into the inbox and see if I can find some more questions. I guess we could play my terrible game that I decided it was dumb. Oh, sure. We can do that at the expense of the listeners who have questions.

Well, it's going to take you a second. Brian in Pennsylvania. 10-team Roto League, would you give up Andrew McCutcheon and Carlos Gonzalez? Andrew McCutcheon and Carlos Gonzalez for A.J. Pollock and Christian Yelich. Yes. Oh, hell yeah. I think I would, too. I wouldn't say, oh, hell yeah, but you got to do it.

Hell yeah. Let's finish with your game. Heath, go ahead. Okay, we're going to play a little game because we want to educate the people. I'm going to give you a name, Adam. And you just need to tell me what team this guy plays for. Oh, crap. What position he plays, and whether he's right or left-handed.

Oh, crap. Okay. Okay. And there's three players for each of you, and you can try to steal the other persons that they don't get it. This is. Zach Putnam. Zach plays for the White Sox. This was Adam.

So, Adam, do you want to guess who it is? He is a left fielder for the White Sox. No, he's a relief pitcher. For the White Sox. Yes, that is correct. He is a relief pitcher for the White Sox. Chris, Jonathan Holder. Oh, I think I know this.

St. Louis Cardinals' beat writer. He is a relief pitcher for the Yankees. All of these guys have played in a game already this year. Azer should have known that. Yeah. Azer. Nick Whitgren. Nick Whitgren?

Yes. Relief pitcher for the Mariners. Miami Marlins. That is correct, Chris. That is a Marlins reliever. Adam's second favorite team doesn't know all the players on his team.

Jacob May, Chris. Jacob May. Yeah, I don't know. He is an outfielder, switch hitting for the Chicago White Sox. Sure. Two players left. Adam Azer.

Louise Torrance. Louise Torrance feels like another outfielder. in the National League East. I'm going to say Louise Torrance is a No, he's not.

He's on the... He's definitely in the National League. If he did this with the NBA, I would kill it. He's only 12 guys on the roster. He's definitely the National League and he's definitely an outfielder. He's on the Rockies.

He is a catcher for the Padres. And Chris will finish up with Jose Torres. Oh, well, that's not. He is an outfielder for the twins. He is a relief pitcher for the Padres, actually. Same thing. So, good job, guys.

O for six, although Chris kind of got the first one. Way to go. Thank you for listening, everybody. I hope you enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. Thank you for embarrassing me, Heath Cummings. You are definitely going to be playing this game. We will be throwing names at you, most likely tomorrow.

For Heath and Chris, back tomorrow on Fantasy Baseball today. I'm Adam. See you later.