Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/09 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Round - Ohtani!!!

Episode Date: April 9, 2018

Beginning the show with a couple of SPs to add (0:40) and our reaction to Jameson Taillon's complete game shutout (5:00). Then we get into who we added and dropped over the weekend (7:43) which covers Maikel Franco's great weekend and recent developments in the LAA and MIL bullpens ... A look at the Most Added list (16:50) which includes Matt Chapman, Preston Tucker (sit him this week) and many more. And we've got the Worryometer (25:10)! How worried are we about Marcus Stroman, Luis Castillo, Cole Hamels and a couple of Top 5 closers? ... Shohei Ohtani is awesome (36:25), but is he an incredible sell high candidate? Are we worried about Giancarlo Stanton (42:00)? Also, which hitters should you be looking to add (45:03)? And who should you start and sit in today's matchups (53:08)? ... Your emails at [e-mail] This episode is sponsored by www.ziprecruiter.com. 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

Hey, real quick, Scott's phoned about the humidor. And take your milk for breakfast cereal. Mount Rushmore. They'll be there for Roach and Food. Are you ready for week two? Or maybe week three, depending on however you set your league up. Welcome for the show. It is Monday, April 9th.

Adam and Heath here. Scott will be arriving shortly. Heath is already tweeting and waiver wiring. all that great stuff that we do on Monday morning and he is all fired up about Sean Newcomb. How could you not be fired up about Sean Newcomb? When a pitcher does something and he's only the second pitcher ever to do it and the other one's Randy Johnson, you get excited and that's what Sean Newcomb did.

Six shutout innings as a visiting starting pitcher at course field, nine strikeouts, no walks, and he's less than 60% owned. I feel like this is a little bit of validation of my don't react too much to things that happen early because he was drafted in more than 54% of leagues. There were people that dropped him because of a bad start against the Washington Nationals. You don't drop that type of upside. But would you rather have Ronaldo Lopez or Sean Newcomb? Because they're both owned than right around 50% of leagues.

It's not even close. It's definitely Sean Newcomb. No, of course it's close. No, it's not close. Lopez was good. Kind of. He had five walks and five strikeouts in seven innings. He's got an 096 Babbat so far this year against him.

He's not been Sean Newcomb. Nine strikeouts at Coors Good. Let me just tell you the one problem with Sean Newcomb's start. Annabal Sanchez. Anabal Sanchez, the day before Sean Newcomb's brilliant start, through as good as you could ask for Annabal Sanchez at Colorado. Five-innings, seven hits, two runs, two walks, six strikeouts. And this is actually, I think the theme that I want to get into right now is

the weather and and we are seeing a lot of really good starts and and i don't know what to make of weather sometimes you know like i'm trying to think of some off the top of my head but in chicago in detroit the weather's just been like junez last week right amazing start i don't know how much the weather had to do with that i think that was a one-nothing game rinaldo lopez against mike fires this weekend right getting a lot of great starts very cold in colorado with for that braves rocky series there wasn't that much offense kind of sucked for the braves because because this is your one weekend at Corr's Field and didn't, like, Freddie Freeman, did he home or?

I don't know if he over it. Maybe on Friday, but anyway, I think the weather is suppressing offense a little bit, Heath, and it's kind of making me wonder just how legit some of these starts are. It makes a little bit more challenging, I think, to look at some of these great starts and get excited about them. Well, the thing I will say, and this goes back to the Sean Newcomb versus Raynaldo-Lopez discussion, Lopez isn't missing that many bats. He's not striking out a batter per inning.

There's a lot of balls in play, and batterers are hitting 096 on them against him. That sounds like something that could have something to do with cold weather, although his first start was in Toronto. It might have been cold there, but it was inside, so it wasn't for the hitters. Newcomb, I don't think cold weather creates strikeouts. I mean, I think it does.

I don't know. The other thing is with cold weather is that sometimes it's great for pitchers. Sometimes it's bad for pitchers. I mean, Armand Marquez basically couldn't feel the ball in that same environment. He had a terrible start. So it's really, it's tough to gauge. Hey, hey, great. Sean Newcomb, great.

Adam both, Heath, add Rinaldo Lopez 51% owed or 51%. Yeah, 51%. Yeah, definitely. He was the second name in the way of Ryder. Oh, there you. Okay. So I just don't think it's particularly close who you should be more excited about. one of those performances was much different than the other.

Yes. Now, Newcomb had a much better performance. I think if I were really nitpicking, I'd say Newcomb's got big-time walk issues, which we saw in his first start. Versus the guy that just walked five guys. But you know the history is not the same. You know Lopez doesn't have the same control issues that Sean Newcomb has. Isn't that right, Scott White?

Yeah, but I'd rather have Newcomb. Fine, fine. Screw you, Scott White. Get out of here. I'd add both of them. That's it. I give the wrong opinion, so I'm gone. Now, apparently you're giving the right opinion.

These guys are owning about half our leagues, and that's who we're starting to show with. Let's get further into it. Hey, Scott, how you doing? I'm good, Adam. What about you? I'm happy that we executed the trade, and Team Scam made a trade. Yeah, yeah. I still don't feel totally great about it.

Adam was just talking about what a great teammate you are and how enjoyable it is to try to work out of trade. I imagine he wasn't. Don't make it out to be like that. Scott, it took a lot of, I guess I tried to stop convincing Scott, and he finally went through with the trade. We gave up Jake Junis and Delano to Shields for Jameson, and Brad Ziegler in a 16-to-head-to-head categories league. Let's talk about James and Tyone complete game shutout.

Was it a shutout? Yes. It was a shutout. Yes, thing. One hit shutout. Yeah, it was awesome. The only hit was to the opposing pitcher, as a matter of fact. Yeah, Tyler Malley.

So this is a guy that Scott wrote about last week in his pitchers that looked like they were breaking out column. And I know that he didn't strike out a batter per inning or anything, but I can't complain about a complete game one hit shutout. Big start for Tyone. No, it was obviously a great result. I feel like the process was a little not as encouraging. Like what got me so excited in the first start didn't happen in the second start. And that was, you know, in the first start, he really emphasized his four-seamer over the two-seamer, which he leaned on in the past.

Four-seamer, all the data shows is clearly the superior pitch. And he started out the same way in this start. But after like the third inning, he featured the two-seamer a lot more. And it basically was a 50-50 split for the whole start. And yeah, he's not going to miss as many bats if he's throwing, If he's leaning on the two seamers, probably going to give him more hits. But, you know, it's just one start, and it's hard to...

I mean, it's hard to know what to take away from that. Other than, like, he threw, like, 80% fastball's period. Between the two pitches, like, his secondary stuff is great, but he just didn't need it. So he was throwing tons of fastballs all day. Exactly. He didn't need it. We love James and Tyone. We're all about time.

I mean, I was a little bit disappointed as a James and Tyone owner. that like he pitched on Sunday. I already had my matchup wrapped up this week in that league, Adam, as you know. Oh, this is – you're having one of those mornings, huh? It's going to be one of those mornings. But in all serious, it's great suggestion on Twitter. I think you better call Taiwan. Oh, I screwed it up.

Tyone. Call him. Is that who you want to talk about? He's your standout, Jameson, Tyone. I mean, he's everybody who's standing. out. It's a great team name. Oh, I'm sorry. You just screwed me up because I thought you were talking about Taiwan Walker. But you're right. Because you screwed up the song. Oh, I totally screwed up the song. Sorry, Ms. Bedou. I hate, who else did we add and drop? Any

interesting ad drops? We'll look at the most added list in a second. I think you have to get a little bit excited about Mikel Franco. And I did hear somebody say over the weekend. Maybe he just needed to be challenged. He had a very good weekend. He had a very good weekend. He has is now three walks, three strikeouts, and four extra base hits on the season. Yeah, I added him in two leagues, and actually dropped them earlier in the week because I didn't think his playing time. Michael Franco's playing time is going to be regular. You know, Kapler's crazy. But he's crazy game, Kepler.

He's playing in seven of eight games. Yeah, I know. I think he started six of eight, but I think four in a row. So whatever. If he hits, he'll start. I'm not worried about that. You know, look, it's a little premature. He hit the Grand Slam.

It's premature to be sold on Franco. It's not premature to Adam. He hit the Grand Slam. They scored 20 runs that game. They faced the Marlins, terrible pitching staff. But, yeah, I'm excited, Heath. I picked them up in two leagues. Good stuff.

Scott? I did not have a very active weekend on the waiver wire, which, you know, wasn't for trying. I just didn't see a lot of options I liked. I was in a couple of 15 team leagues willing to throw a couple dollars, in a way of his way because since that three homer game he started every game and um that looks like possibly a power source who flew under the radar on draft day but that was only a 15 team leagues i would imagine 12 teams of fewer you have somebody more attractive than that out there we have

so many emails about ian hap and i have happened a couple of leagues i'm sitting in hap starting josh harrison over in half in one league um starting tray mancini over inhap in another league where I'm using him as an outfielder. You have to sit hap, right? I would. You probably have to sit hap, and it makes me sad to say that. I'm not happy.

I don't get it. He gets, I think, the game-winning hit or something. It's a huge hit, and Joe Madden's like, well, maybe this will get him going, and then he sits him the next day. And, like, the only thing that's working in his favor, it was a little bit scarier to me earlier in the year when Ben Zobrist and Kyle Schwerber were both really hitting.

Schwabers is like O for his last 10 now and hitting 170. Javier Baez is hitting 180 or something. So the first one of those guys to get hot, I think, will be fine. Kenan Middleton, I added, and it looks like Jacob Barnes is probably the guy to own for the brewers. Middleton for the Angels, Barnes for the Brewers, they're 30 and 25% owned, respectively. Who would you guys want out of those two closers? Keenan Middleton for the Angels or Jacob Barnes for the Brewers. I mean, there's more clearly a transition that's going to happen in the Brewers' pen, right?

This is just a speculative pickup for Middleton? Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah, yes. I mean, if we had to guess who gets the next save for the Angels, it's Blake Parker, right? That would still be my guess, yes. The way Soch has used the two lately opens the door for, you know, you could wonder. You can wonder about that. But, yeah, I mean, I think I would take Barnes. It's only a question to me because I, I mean, my hunch is Matt Albers gets the first save chance when it comes up for the Brewers.

But I know. Didn't it come up on Saturday or no? Or was it a tie game? I believe that was a tie game. Well, Barnes was used as the closer. Albers threw two innings the night before, and Barnes blew it, but two infield singles and an error. he did not pitch poorly and then a bunt for an RBI by John Lester. But it really seemed, I don't know, let's check on that.

Because it seemed to be on Saturday. I may have just missed it. It's totally possible. Yeah, Barnes was in. Yeah, Barnes came in for the ninth inning and blew it in an awful way. Yeah, but it really, he didn't pitch poorly. No, he really didn't pitch poorly. Like I said, two infield singles and an error in that game.

So it was bad luck for him. I think Albers pitched two innings. the day before, though, right? Yes. Yeah. We need to clarify also. Like, I understand he had some unlucky hits and such, but he got two outs and had two walks and didn't strike him. One intentional.

Almost positive about that. It did seem like a really Murphy's Law kind of inning for him. But the bottom line is Barnes was used as a closer a night after Matt Albers was not used as the closer. So it seems like he was leading going into Saturday night. I don't know how much the blow and save weighs on it, but... I mean... All right, let me look at Fridays. Because I feel like something Friday gave me an indication that...

And by the way, Craig Counsel qualified it as, you know, before anybody got a chance. Don't know exactly who it's going to be. We're going to try people until somebody sticks. So, you know, just because... What's his name? Barnes got the first chance doesn't mean... necessarily he's the guy. I'm not particularly excited about any of them.

So Barnes pitched the eighth and the ninth inning of what was a tie game at the top. No, no, Albers. Sorry, Albers. Great segment. Really, really. I had the right details, just the wrong name. It's okay, guys. Just go pick up Sean Newcomb.

Well, no, look, okay, look, Barnes and Albers. Okay, let's just say they'd be the two guys to get probably right now, right? Especially since everybody has a game. They'd be the two guys to get probably right now. Okay. I will say Barnes is the first choice from the Brewers Bowl. Based on what we saw this weekend. But it's like a 60-40 thing for me.

Okay. And Blake Parker has been really bad, and Middleton hasn't given up a run yet. So if you need to speculate, Middleton's 30% owned. And the usage of Parker's been a little bit interesting lately. All right, the big news, Canables out four to six weeks with a hamstring injury. So if they stick to one guy, you could have the Brewers' closer for four to six weeks. That could be really nice. Eh, Johanio Suarez, fractured his thumb, guys.

Is it Senzel time for the Reds? I don't think so. Yeah, the Beat Riders seem to indicate, I'm talking about the one for the Reds official team side, seemed to indicate it won't be Senzel. And it's worth noting Senzel wasn't very good this spring. Can Billy Hamilton play third? No, he did offer up a name. but it wasn't anybody I cared about.

So I didn't bother to commit it to memory. It was Jacob Barnes. No, it wasn't Jacob Barnes. It was Albert. Same team. Scott Shebler dealing with an elbow issue could end up on the DL, which, of course, would be good for Billy Hamilton and his sketchy playing time. Mike Sosha...

Alex Blandino was pulled from AAA Louisville. Oh, okay. Mike Sosha opened to using Shohay Otani more as a hitter as the season... progresses a little bit, but Otani is clearly a weekend standout. Holy cow. Unbelievable, Shohei Otani. The Angels have the best player in baseball. It's just not the one we thought it was. Christian Yewitch is on the deal with an oblique strain. They're saying it's minor. He could be back on April 15th. Nelson Cruz could return on Friday. Ryan Healy hurt his ankle, so I dropped Daniel Vogelbach.

and it looks like now Vogelbach, even when Cruz comes back, you know, Healy, it could be a serious injury here. Vogelbach could have regular playing time. Mike Zanito could return on Friday. Lonnie Chisandall is out four to six weeks with a calf injury for the Indians.

And unfortunately, I think Tyler Naquin's going to get more playing time, but do you think that if you need steals, Rajay Davis is someone we should pick up now? Only a young. And Routard Odore appeared to mock Marcus Strong. during one of Stroman's pitches. It was pretty childish. And you can't mock someone.

I don't know if you saw it. But Stroman's got like a big leg kick that he uses sometimes. And so in the middle of the pitch, Odor does the leg kick. But it's freezing cold. And Odor has one of those face covers where you can't see anything but his eyes. Like you look like kind of a wimp when you're wearing that. You can't mock someone when you're doing that. I just think that's a bad look.

I think it's a bad look. Yeah. I'm watching it now. Bad look. It's bad look. Pretty awesome, really. You're kind of giving up the pitch, too, right? Yeah, of course.

If you're going to alter your swing mechanics that drastically. Like, you're just conceding. I'm not going to swing at this pitch, even if it's in my wheelhouse. Like, that's totally uncompetitive move. Big mistake. Yeah, I don't, like, it's kind of fun. I mean, I guess I just think, like, you can't be wearing that mask when you do it. Oh, he gave him a little extra at the end.

Oh, yeah, he gave him the crotch, grail. He sure did. He gave him the business. All right, let's take a look at the most added list here. The most added player is the number one third basement in fantasy. Oakland's Matt Chapman. He is 84% owned. He's batting 375 with three home runs.

Eight RBIs, a double and a triple in 11 games. Five walks to nine strikeouts. Yeah, he's going to strike out, but five walks very nice in 11 games. Matt Chapman, guys, buy or sell. Pardon me, by herself. I think there's a good chance. He's not only a high strikeout guy, but a low BAPB guy. And that's based on the little bit of data we had last year and this year.

It's just kind of low-line drive, big fly ball tendencies. And I'm not sure there's quite enough power to go with that to make him an overall standout. I'm still skeptical with Chapman. Yeah, I mean, I guess what I would say, when we say, when we say, big strikeout, we should qualify that a little bit. He was below 30% last year. He's at 20% early this year. Again, it's kind of like what I was talking about with Davidson.

A marginal improvement in that strikeout rate for a guy with very little experience in the major leagues could make a big difference in his value. All right, the number two most added player is Jake Junice. He's got two starts this week. He's 81% owned. Preston Tucker is the third most added player. and I don't know that you can start him this week. He's got four games at Washington and at the Cubs.

I did look at Scott's hitter column this morning, but I didn't look at the worst matchups, but I imagine the Braves are on there. They got Scherzer, Strasberg, Darvish, and Kintana, Scott. I don't remember if they're on there. There may have been a change in that group. I can't remember if the Braves are on it or not. I'll look at it now.

But yeah, those are bad matches. Is it going to have Lester as well? I don't even know if he'll play against Kintana and Lester. No, he doesn't have Lester. But is Chadwood. Is Chadwood a lefty? He is, right? Here's the thing.

Acuna could be up Friday. Right. So this, like, I should have put him in the waiver wire just to say, stop adding him. Preston Tucker? This is not a thing. Okay, yeah. I wish it'd be a thing. I like him more than Marcakis, but I don't, you know, I don't see it happening.

Chatwood's a righty. I apologize for that. All right, back to the most added list. Tyler Malley is on the most added list, but he got rocked yesterday. I don't, I don't want to get a really bad inning against the. I had Braves is the second worst matches. Go ahead. What do you think about Malley? 56%

owned? I don't know that he doesn't have some work ahead of him still because he kind of has that Tony Singrani thing where you look at the minor league numbers and they blow you away, but they were built on a very

fastball heavy arsenal. And he actually wasn't fastball heavy in this start, but maybe That's why it was so bad, you know? Like, I'm just not sure the Arsenal's fleshed out enough for us to rely on him in fantasy yet. I think his ownership is probably about right. The problem with his ownership is that Newcomb and Ronaldo Lopez are owned basically the same number of leagues.

But right around 40 or 50% for a pitcher that has some upside and has shown us in one of the two-starts, that seems about right. Okay, that's Tyler Malley. Tyler Skaggs right behind him at 76%. Skaggs is a two-star pitcher this week. Chris Owings, guys. Chris Owings, Diamondback shortstop. Batting 423 with a steel. What do you think about him?

He's 51% owned. Well, I'm surprised we don't see more short stops at the top of the list, because I would assume all of the Xander Bogart's owners are very concerned about whether they're going to have a shortstop this week. I'm also kind of surprised that Owings is the guy at the top. Like, yeah, he's off to a... a good start. Nick Ahmed's

hitting over 400 as well, I believe. I would rather add as Drubel or Ahmed Rosario. And it looks like bad matchups for Owings. I mean, he's got Holland today, which should be fine, but Johnny Quato, who's amazing,

and to be determined for the Giants on the 11th, but then Rich Hill, Kenta Maeda, Clayton, Kershaw to end the week. So beware, I guess, there. And long term, Owings has gotten most of his starts in right, which is Stephen Sousis' spot. Okay.

So, I mean, I don't know that Nick Ahmed's really somebody. The Diamondbacks will lean on once everybody's healthy, but that's what they were indicating toward the end of spring training, that they prefer him to Owings. We'll see. Let's read some more names here on the most added list. Keenan Middleton, Brian Anderson, 34% owned, Jacob Barnes, Reinaldo Lopez.

We've talked about him. Joe Panic. Tim Anderson. Ian Kennedy. Panic. Anderson are about 75% owned. Ian Kennedy is 41% owned. He's off to a good start.

I whiffed on this guy. I really should have picked up Shinsu Chu in a 14-team points league, but I missed the boat there. He's 58% owned. How about Ian Kennedy? Could he bounce back? He was just so bad last year. Can he have another year with like a sub-4 ERA?

He's pretty hard to predict pitcher. I think that's possible. He apparently had some health issues last year that prevented him from drive with his lower body, and so that's why we saw the strikeouts, which has normally always been there. We saw those drop off last year. Really good spring with a big strikeout rate. I don't think he's as good as he's looked at his first two starts, but I think he could be that guy who was two years ago and, you know, kind of in that Lance Lynn range of fantasy contributor.

This is Ian Kennedy we're talking about. Would you rather have Kennedy or Tyler Malley? This early in the year I'm going to gamble on the upside of Malley. It depends on if I need a starter this week I'll have there of Kennedy. And just some other names. Joey Lucchasey, 23% owned. Deeper leagues, I see people picking him up.

Okay. Yeah, I've grabbed him in a couple spots. The problem is you just don't know if you can start him this week because he has two starts, but one's at Colorado. There was one. Oh, Tyson Ross had a really good start against the Astros over the weekend, and he's about 14% own. So I think our 16 team league's probably the only one I think about picking him up.

I don't even know if he's owned, but probably is. But I just want to bring Tyson Ross up. Pretty solid start to the season. Two starts. One okay, one really good. It's 14% owned. You guys, what do you think? Like 14%.

That's too low. Too low? Okay. It's really good a stretch. I mean, he gave up four on runs yesterday. Oh, Diddy? I'm sorry. Wait, seven strikeouts against the Astros?

Seven strikeouts, a couple home runs. I mean, the stuff for how. Having had thoracic outlet surgery, from what I can see, it looks like it's pretty much back. So there's upside here for sure. I'm just not sure. He's demonstrated enough for me to make him a priority pickup. I'm going to do the Worryometer in a moment, but I got a message for all of you employers out there. Anyone who's hiring now or if you're looking to hire in the future, just keep it in mind.

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Zero to 10 on the Wariometer. Ready for this one? I'm ready. I'm going to knock your socks off. I'm warning you. Okay. Clayton Kershaw. Whoa.

Sox are across the room. Four straight seasons with a K rate of 10.4 per 9 or higher. and only only nine per nine, only a strikeout printing right now. Any concerns on the Wariometer on Kershaw that he won't be a super ace, just a regular ace?

Like a one, two, not high. This is ridiculous. Okay. All right, fine. Marcus Strowminer on Strowman. Ten.

four I don't know like this obviously this entire game starting with Clayton Kershaw and then going to Marcus Strowman like how do you calibrate the Worryometer

when those are the two names I think what you do is you forget about Kershaw and then you just Okay so a 10 on the Worryometer would be I would take a trade offer for him I don't know what it means

like a 10 on the Wariometer is that you have no confidence of the guy I think Strowman is going to be exactly who we expect him to be. I think he's had two bad starts to begin the season. I think it's mostly been control-related, which is reasonable since he missed so much of spring training with an injury.

And maybe sit him, but, you know, if you liked him when you drafted him, you should still like him now. So you expect 200 innings of a mid-to-high-3s, ZRA? Yeah, I mean, basically. I think that's probably fine. I just think a lot of people's expectations may have been higher than that when they drafts. do him. I mean, it might be more on the low side of three than mid. The whip's going to be kind of high because he's, you know, ground ball guy. But, you know, look at his numbers last year. Well, but maybe, maybe correct the ERA a little. Last year is about a third of his major league

career. Yeah. And so was the year before when he had a four three seven. I think what he did last year was legit. I do not. Yeah. The outproduced his fit by almost a full run. Well, yeah, adjust the ERA a little. Like, I don't, okay, whatever. 3-7. Three-seven's higher than I expect. Yeah, 3-7 would be a bad year for Stroman. 3-7 is his career. Yeah.

I mean, he's kind of in that cycle category because his ground ball rate's so extreme. You kind of expect him to outperform the FIPP, right? Well, no, I was saying 3-7s his career ERA. His career FIP's actually a little better, 3-5-8. I have a tough time looking at a guy's career ERA when he's still very early in his career. and he made four starts in 2015. So anyway. The year where he got the most innings was kind of goofy.

And Stroman's at Cleveland this week, which is interesting because it's probably going to be cold. And Cleveland's been really bad. I mean, their top four hitters are hitting very poorly. But Stroman's pitch. I think I'm leading towards sitting him. I'm going to sit him for a two-star, Tyler Skaggs right now. That's fine, yeah. Do that.

All right. Good stuff. Way to go, Adam. Next up on the Wariometer, Luis Castillo. Yikes. Off to a bad start. He is off to a bad start, but the dominance indicators are still off the charts. Like the number of swinging strikes he's getting just on the change-up alone. Like, if you're only counting those, he's one of the best swing of miss pitchers in baseball. And I think he's had fastball command issues early. Whatever. I mean, like, It's two starts.

If you still believe in the talent, you should still believe in the player, and I definitely believe in the talent here. I'm not dropping Luis Castillo. I am worried because I had him ranked as a top 30 starting pitcher, and there's plenty to be worried about there. What are you worried about? The swing and miss stuff with the change-up is there.

The strikeouts have not been yet. He pitches for what's probably not going to be a very good team. But doesn't the lack of the... strikeouts seem fluky if he's getting that many swings and misses? It seems a little bit fluky, yes. A little bit or a lot? Just a little bit. Okay.

To me, it seems a lot to you. I just think the worrisome thing with Castillo is that he's not really throwing a slider. So he's got two fastballs. He's got a two seamer and a four seamer, and he throws the change up a lot. But I do like, I want him to have another pitch. So that's my concern. But he has faced the pirates who have been amazing and the Nationals. but we'll give him a little bit of a break there.

Cole Hamels, Worryometer. I don't. I mean, I don't know. This is a tough one to calibrate, because am I worried about a guy who I didn't think was going to be very good? No. I wouldn't have that much problem dropping him.

Right. I mean, I think that's a little premature. You dropped him for Renauda Lopez, right? What's weird is he got 17 swinging strikes yesterday. I don't think he has a very good fastball. But he didn't get him any strikeouts, and obviously he didn't have a great start. So I don't think the stuff, in terms of velocity,

has been very impressive either. So, like, I want to drop him because I know somebody in my league values him, but I'm not... I would be holding on for another start, like his last start, so you can sell high. Let's just say, when I said I would drop him. Sean Nukem, Renato Lopez, both available in half of leagues.

I'd drop him for either of those guys quickly. I would not drop him for, like, Ian Kennedy. This Cole Hamels were talking about. Hamels, I thought it was interesting what Steve Pierce said about Hamils. Steve Pierce homward on the first pitch of the game, and he said his change-up, I think he said his change-up is nasty. I didn't want to wait for that pitch, so he jumped on a first-pitch fastball. And that's what I can't.

Hamils is just, he doesn't have a very good fastball right now. So I think he can get the swings and misses with his secondary pitches, but he's going to get, you know, it's going to get beat on his fastball. I'm looking to see more of that slider he worked on in spring training. It would be nice to break that out. I think he's throwing it. They're just calling it a cutter because it doesn't break enough. Worryometer on Daniel Duffy.

Yeah, I'm pretty worried if you drafted him as a top 40 starting pitcher. I didn't. It's kind of like probably how Scott's got. about Cole Hamels. Wariometer for Duffy is, I guess, a five. Nice recovery after an awful first inning in his last start. That was true for both him and Carrasco in that game. Do you want to buy low on Dady Duffy?

Sounds like Heath, no, Scott, maybe. I mean, it depends how low we're talking here. Want to throw some offers my way? Sure. Jake Junis. I guess I'd I guess I'd rather have Duffy. Ask me after Junis to start tonight.

No. Patrick Corbyn. I'd rather have Corby. Well, you don't rush to make a trade. Well, the trade's going to be off the table after today. You're not confident in. It's going to be off the table. Yeah, I'd rather have Corby. Well.

Corby or Duffy, so Corby. Yeah, I'd rather have Corby. Start or sit Duffy this week against the Mariners. I would like to not start. I would prefer. Berticet him, yes. If I had options. Worryometer, zero to ten on Kenley Jansen.

Zero. Yeah, it's like a two. Velocity, at least according to Brooks baseball, baseball savant had it different, but it had him averaging on his cutter about what he averaged last year in this most recent outing, and he struck out the side. So he looks like he's

out of the drink. Yeah, I don't think it was quite vintage Janssen, but it was definitely a step in the right direction. All right, and finally, this one's interesting. Ken Giles. Now, Peacock got the save on Sunday because Giles was unavailable. But if you do a Twitter search for Ken Giles and you see what Astros fans say about him,

they hate Ken Giles, at least the ones on Twitter. They don't trust Ken Giles, and he's really not off to a great start. Yeah. Where's your Wariometer on Giles? Zero to 10. Yeah, the unreliable closer is the most hated of, most tainted. most hated by fans. And I mean, that's fair.

How many times has he lost his job just since joining the Astros? And, I mean, he lost it in the playoffs last year on the way to the World Series title. But, I mean, he still is a dominant pitcher when he's on. He still has, like, top five closer potential. You just got to worry

that'll have a bad week and lose his job at any given moment. So, I mean, I mean, I guess it's like a 3.5 for me. Yeah, I'd say 3 or 4. I don't think they want to give this job to Peacock. They've been pretty clear that they don't want to have DaVinsky or Peacock as their closer. They want to use them in the more high-leverage situations.

So I don't think he's particularly close to losing it right now, but two games could change that. All right, I got a great email of the day to get to, and I will do that in just a second. But, guys, how fun is the draft app? Oh, Heath, let's check the scores for the draft that we did on the sports line. DFS podcast. I finished last. I know that. Do you know who won?

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And I will whoop you. Eventually I'll make good on that promise. Stop getting my butt kicked. but FB today is the promo code, draft.com or the draft app. Email the day is from Troy and Colorado. Simple question. Do Heath and Scott feel stupid

for not predicting Otani for Rookie of the Year yet, or is it too early? Yes. Yeah. No, I feel really stupid. And I regret paying so much attention to the eight or however many scouts,

Jeff Passon, interviewed in that piece for Yahoo. Because it was universal. their distaste of Otani hitting approach and we didn't see much good for him as a pitcher this spring either but it's just you know I brought up an anecdote about when we were talking about

his struggles this spring and I was trying to you know provide the full 360 degrees of it I brought up an anecdote about Lou Panella his first spring with Ichiro Suzuki and how all each Rooszuki was doing

was hitting these weak grounders to the left side of the infield and Lou Penella got concerned that he couldn't do anything else but apparently like they're just so like their preparation for the season is so much more about process over there than results which is theoretically

is over here too but I don't know people get a little worried more when they don't see results because he is just he's out of his mind good at pitching especially I mean 20 Swings and Misses. The Splitter was responsible for like 20 of them

and he's had a perfect game into the seventh inning, 12 strikeouts, and oh, by the way he homered in three straight games earlier this week. It's just like I feel like it's the biggest sports story. I mean, it's got to be one of the top five stories of our lifetime and

I feel like it's actually not getting the hype it deserves. One of the top five sports stories of our lifetime. Yeah. All right, let's go. I'm not really going quite that far, but Let's do a top five. OJ. Well, Tiger, originally.

Tiger. Okay. Yeah, Otani's right there. Todd's third. Yeah, I think he's probably right there with those two. I mean, we'd probably have to. It'd probably take a little more thought. It is a huge story.

If he pitch for the Yankees, it would be. Nobody's done this since Babe Ruth. Nobody thought anybody could do it, which is why nobody's tried to do it. I just want to clarify. one thing because all of your tweets about how I was wrong about Otani, I appreciate them. Keep retweeting that CBS Sports HQ piece where I said he was going to be a bust. That's really fun and awesome. I just want to clarify, though, that this was not because of spring training.

I was stupid about Shoahe Otani long before he was bad in spring training. Well, the other piece of news here, actually, is that J.C. Ramirez is going on the D.L. And so it's going to be really tough for them to use a six-man rotation. You were concerned about Otani because of the innings. You thought he was going to throw like 150 innings at most, right? Oh, yes. That still, I mean, is a legit concern. Also, he is going to be great, right?

It seems. You got to look at him and say he's going to be really good. There's never going to be a time where his values higher than now. So, I mean, I still think I was. I might entertain putting him on the market. He's not going to homer every single game. And if he plays three times a week. But, like, just for the –

And I'll be – Obviously, you have to choose on CBS sports, whether you're starting as a hitter or as a pitcher, and it still seems like you're going to choose pitcher every time because he doesn't bat the day before or after he starts. But as a pitcher, he looks... I mean, he looks like Cy Young material. I don't know that he'll get the innings to be in contention there, really,

but it doesn't matter. Like, as scarce as front-line pitching is, today's MLB if you get that guy and you invested only a ninth round picking him so you like I mean I'm not saying I wouldn't trade him for Justin Verlander if the offer came my way I think I probably would but probably okay here's yeah probably here's the I was on last night the in this league podcast I know Adam you've been on their record oh I love them they're great yeah blogman and Welsh lots of fun that was one of the questions they asked what is the best player you would give up to get Otani.

And the first one they asked me was Dozier. No way. And the second one was Jose Ramirez. No way. Come on, you can give up those guys. It was about 50-50 on Dozier. Oh, come on now. I mean, you're talking about 11 days of baseball.

I just, I can't see it. Yeah, I mean, if you could pull off a trade like that, like maybe a top four-rounder for Otani. If we were redrafting today, he would be at earliest a fourth round pick for me, I think. because of there's less proveness there, and they're in in in-ink's concerns. So that's about what he'd be for me. So if you can get somebody like Ramirez or Dozier, I'm skeptical you can.

I think it's one thing when you don't own that guy, and you just swept up in the moment to click yes on that poll. If it's a Daily League, I think maybe you can. It's not forget he had an elbow issue, too. I mean, and they want to use a six-man rotation so they don't stress his arm out. So I think if you can get a surefire thing, like a top four-round pick, you have to do it with Otani, just like you guys said. I'm just reiterating. But I don't know.

If people are split on Jose Ramirez versus Shohei Otani, then I do believe, as great as Otani is, I do believe that it's getting a little out of hand. Yeah. All right. Let's move on. What do you guys think about Giancarlo Stanton? Two games with no hits and five strikeouts. He's at least the first Yankee, if not the first player ever, to do that in the same season in the live ball era. Any concerns there on Giancarlo Stanton?

He's not the first player to do it. He's the third, I believe I saw. Ray Langford did it recently. Semi recently. Ray Langford's back. Recently in the context of all baseball history. Anyway. No.

Yes. Oh, man. He's a worry ward today. Here's my thing. I don't, I'm not worried. worried about John Carlos Danton just being terrible. But there were two things he did last year that were new. One was stay healthy.

The other was cut his strikeout rate by 20%. Yep. He struck out in 41% of his plate appearances so far. I think it's reasonable to be worried he goes back to a 30% strikeout rate guy this year, in which case he was not worth a first round pick. Except he was always worth a first round pick, except for that one year, except going into last year. We always classified Stanton as a first round pick. But he not actually returned first round value, only because he got hurt.

On a per game basis, he was a first rounder. Yeah. Stanton or Judge, who would you rather have rest of season? I'm sticking with Judge. I'm sticking with Stanton. Okay. Start or sit, these guys, if you had to make the decision right now at about 10 a.m. Eastern. Gary Sanchez.

I would start Gary Sanchez, because what kind of replacement catch? are you getting? Zander Bogarts. I would probably sit Zander Bogartz, unless we hear something different this afternoon. Anthony Rizzo. We got to make this choice in our 16

teamer, Adam. I'm leaning towards starting. And I'd like to congratulate you guys. I believe you are over 500 for the first time in the Four of the People podcast league. Yeah, we should have been even bigger. We lost both Delano DeShields and Jake Lamb early in the 11-day

scoring period. That's one knock on the 11-day scoring period that we never discussed. I agree with that as well. We lost Zanino and Nelson Cruz. Yeah. So that's something I hadn't really considered. Just worth remembering. We also lost Anthony Rizzo, but we hung on, six to four.

Go us. Charlie Blackman, day-to-day. Oh, what do we say? We're starting Rizzo? I think we're going to start him in the 16th team league. They keep downplaying it for what it's worth. Charlie Blackman, got to start him, right? Yes.

Yeah. Ian Kinsler could come off the D.L. Tomorrow. Starters it. Not in a standard 12-team league. Give him a chance to prove healthy and effective. George Springer. I would start him.

Me too. Okay, guys, I've been a little slow-paced here, so let's see what we can get to here. A lot of stuff. We can save some for tomorrow. But we talked about Chapman. We talked about Franco. I'm going to give you some other hitters

who have been pretty solid. Colin Moran, the Pirates. Jesse Winker does not have an extra base hit, but he's batting 273. He's leading off for the Reds, and he's got seven walks of six strikeouts. Josh Reddick's off to a great start. David Peralta is pretty interesting.

I picked him up. I plan on starting him this week. He started against two of three lefties. He leads off for the Diamondbacks. He's batting 324. Peralta's having a nice start to the season. So all those names of Kyle Moran, Jesse Winker, Josh Redick, and David Peralta.

Reddick, by far the most owned. Who's your favorite there? Or who's like the most exciting? I think Winker's the most exciting. I agree. Winker's the most exciting. I don't expect him to be better than Josh Redick, though. So, like, Josh Reddick would be my favorite. Winker is the most exciting.

Winker is certainly my choice for this week. I like the matchups presented for him. A lot of Rites, and he, his left-handed batter, does well against Rides. Okay. I think we'll save the Steele's sources for tomorrow. You go ahead, Scott. You want something else to say?

Yeah. I wanted to mention David Peralta looks like an everyday player and not somebody who's sitting against lefties, and he's hit well against lefties so far. So as the Diamondbacks leadoff hitter, I do have more interest in him than I thought I would. And Colin Moran has struck out only three times so far, which is, you know, he was a low strikeout guy throughout his minor league career.

If he strikes out that little, he's going to hit for average. And anybody who has that kind of bat on ball skills in today's offensive environment, I think is a threat for 20 homers. Like, I think we may be sleeping on him as a potential. potential contributor at third base. I just real quick on Peralta, if he keeps hitting like this against lefties, it won't matter. But my expectation would be once we get Steven Sousa back, we see Chris Owings play against lefties for Peralta.

Yeah, that's possible. Okay. Eduardo Escobar shortstop eligible, Cotel Marte, second base eligible. Matt Carpenter, two games away from second base eligibility. Scott Kingery, two games away from shortstop eligibility. Ian Hap sat Friday and Sunday against Aritey. Michael Conforto sat against a lefty on Saturday. That was probably, possibly anyway, just let's give him a day off after he came off the DL.

But that's another situation to monitor. And get into the pitchers. I guess we could talk about the studs, but maybe it probably makes more sense to talk about the fringy guys that could be added. Take a look at the studs being studs. Charlie Morden, Weaver, Kintana, Darvish, Garrett, Garrett Cole, holy cow. Two straight games with 20 or more swinging strikes. He may have gotten no Tani wrong, but that Garrett Cole for Sy Young pick is looking plausible right now.

He is amazing. The Astros are amazing. They are. Wow. The way they mine the data to get the very best out of a pitcher. I mean, they've done it with fringies like Charlie Morton in the past. But seeing what they can do with a potential ace like Cole, it's working swimmingly. All right.

That's fine. That'll do it for that category. Studs being duds. Jake Areeta, we'll give him a break. He had a bad first inning. He settled in, and they should extend his pitch count next time around. Rich Hill struggled. Gialito, he's not quite in the Arenda Hill category, but he was bad. Jose Barrios was awful. Tanner Roark had one bad inning, gave up a grand slam.

Zach Granky had a bad inning. Could have been the weather. Very cold weather. Let's go back first, though, real quick, to Barrios. He was awful. You say he was awful, but, like, he was kind of awful in a Jacob Barnes type of way, right? I don't know. He didn't walk anybody, and he struck out seven-v-v-betters?

He gave him five runs in four-and-two-thirds. He was awful. I understand. Jacob Barnes gave him four runs and two-thirds of an end. The ball never left the infield. He wasn't really that bad. It never left the infield. I shouldn't say that for sure, but I don't think it left the infield.

At least the hits. I think it probably did. Not the hits. Yeah, I'm just. Burrios was not good. I'm not trying to say he was good, but he didn't walk anybody who struck out seven. I don't think anybody's giving up on Barrios based on, you know, the way the first start went. No, but I think Gialito, let me just focus since we're running at a time.

Gialito, it's not a very good start because even his first start was four walks, one strikeout. It was a quality start. Well, what got us so excited in spring training was he was dropping this curveball in that looked on, unreal and he's hardly featured it at all here early in the season. Now, do you know where he was pitching in this start? Like, maybe it's, oh, very cold weather you put here in Detroit. Maybe he just has a hard time getting a feel for that pitch in the cold weather.

Maybe he deserves a pass for that. I mean, if a guy's not throwing his best pitch, I would say most pitchers wouldn't be very good. So I'm going to give him to the end of April to show that he still has that curveball. I'm not even saying he has to be good. I'm just saying he has to show that that's going to be a regular part of his arsenal. If he doesn't show it by the end of April, then I'm comfortable moving on to whatever other exciting player is emerging off the waiver wire in that moment.

All right, here's a new segment called Over-One New York starting pitchers. It's Matt Harvey at 89% and Jordan Montgomery at 87%. Disagreements? Maybe a little bit on Harvey. but I don't think he's too far. Like, it's at Washington. The nationals are really good. I'm not going to hold it against him.

Okay. I mean, this was the first time spring training and regular season combined where I've seen him at Harvey start this year and said, okay, this is something I can definitely feel either good or bad about. Feel bad about it, obviously. Yeah.

And I feel like, maybe it was Chris. I think it was you and Chris. Chris, you were talking about dropping Harvey potentially after his last stuff. No, no, no, Chris was talking about it. Chris and I had the same takeaway from Harvey's first start, which was five scoreless innings, one hit, one run, five strikeouts against the Phillies, which was, I have no idea how he didn't give up any results. Obviously good results, but the underlying, you know, the velocity being low and not many.

Throwing a bunch of cookies over the middle of the plate and the fill, any other team probably would have crushed him. Yeah, he didn't put 12 there. So I feel like he continued those tendencies and took them. into this start and the results were much worse. Maybe a matchup had something to do with it, but yeah, I don't think he's undropable. I'm not saying I'm rushing to drop him. I'd like to see more, but he's not unruffable.

I'll say the same thing I said about Cole Hamels. I would happily drop Harvey for Newcomb. I would happily drop him for Raynaldo Lopez. But I'm not dropping him free in Kennedy. I think I could agree on Harvey. I wasn't willing to go that far with Hamels, but I agree on Harvey. What's interesting, would you drop Harvey for Stephen Matt's in a shallow way?

league. See, Matt's had his own issues. I mean, great results against the Nationals, even the eight strikeouts. That's awesome. Two swinging strikes. There was great frustration from the Nationals in particular about how much of the inside corner he was getting. It did not seem like a great strike zone.

He had 30 called strikes. Yeah. Unbelievable. This umpire was terrible in that game. Sounds like pinpoint control. But he's got better stuff than Matt Harvey right now. I say that kind of jokingly, but if the umpire is giving you, a part of the plate.

You still have to throw it to that part of the plate where they don't want to try to get it. No, I mean, I was watching the Mets broadcast and even Darling and Keith Hernandez were saying. This is ridiculous. Right. Same. Yeah, I was watching that too. All right. Fringy starting pitchers, let's talk about guys that could be added right now.

Or we could just maybe save this for tomorrow. Let's save it for tomorrow. It's too late in the show. These are more important stuff. We'll get it at the front of tomorrow's show. So let's preview today's games and then read some. emails. All right, today's games starts and sits.

We got to, I think they started at 2 o'clock. So there's something that, oh, here we go. Something that the listeners should know. I have the worst computer in the world. And when I stall, it's because the web page isn't loading, but it is finally loaded. All right. Chris Archer at the White Sox, start or sit.

Start, start. Don't even think about it. Yep. Think about it. He's going to go out. Don't think about it. No. You might make a stupid decision if you think about it.

Life is easier when you're the archer owner if you just don't think about it. Start him. Miguel Gonzalez against the race? No. No. Yvonne Nova at Tyler Chatwood. I would start Chatwood, not Nova. Yep.

Francisco Liriano and Corey Klooper. Definitely Kluber. That's it. I don't know. As bad as that Indian line has been, If I was hurting for another arm, I could see Dewaerrana. Cody Reed at Ben Lively. Nope.

No. You'll least just seen it at Miles Michaelis. No. I'd start Michaelis. That's an interesting one. We're going to be watching that one. Julio Taran at Max Scherzerzer. Scherzer, yes.

Tehran, no. Oh, so it's Bryce Harper Day. The thing is, like, Bryce Harper always homers off Ulyo Taran. But he's been homering so much. He's got to stop homering at some point. Is he going to be your dog chasers pick today? He's going to be up there, no question. Jay Hap at Dylan Bundy.

I would start both of those chaps. Probably, yes. Can't spell chapp without hap. If you spelled chapp incorrectly with an extra page. Yeah, yeah. Noah Cindergarde at Jose Eureña. I would actually start both, I think. What is this Jose Eurene?

Iranian thing, Scott White. I really thought the way he used his slider and his last start was transformative. I don't know if he'll keep using it. And that's the thing. He's been a bad pitcher his entire career, so he had one start where you liked it. And now he's willing to start up against the Mets? Part of it's I don't have a lot of confidence in the Mets lineup. Look, I'm not dropping somebody I care about to pick up Iranian in the hope that this goes well.

But if I already owned Iranian, I'm not, I don't feel like I could leave him on my bench with, If you own Urania, you should drop them. There is someone available on your league that is better than Jose. That's not true. There are plenty of leagues that are deeper than the standard 12 team head-to-head. There are. And even in those leagues, there is someone better. Garrett Richards at Doug Fister.

Richards, yes, Fister, no. Correct. Justin Verlander at Lance Lynn. Correct. He's giving me right or wrong. What was it, Lynn, or versus? This is who? Well, Verlander was starting.

Lance Lynn, starter, sit against the Astros. No chance. Against the Astros? Yeah, I guess the matchup would scare me away after the way that first start went. But it wouldn't surprise me if he has a bounce back. Well, I think the tough part is what do you do with Lynn in a two-star week? He's got the Astros and then the White Sox at home. I'm starting him.

Points League, I'm definitely starting him, for sure. Right, same. Not Rodo. Miguel, no, Marco Gonzalez. Tricky. at Jake Junis. I'm starting Junis for sure,

and I think Gonzalez also. I would definitely start Gonzalez over Lance Lynn and Jose Urania. Maybe even if I could combine uranium and Lens points. Clayton Richard and John Gray in Colorado. I'll start great.

Yeah, if you're not going to start him against San Diego, why'd you draft? I think I'm going to that game for the Dong Chaser, by the way. And Zach Godley at Derek Holland. Godly is great.

Especially into the Giants. Yes. Holland, not so much. You're going to go away from Bryce Harper's BVP for your dog chaser's pick. Who are you? I know, but he's got to stop homering eventually. I want you all to pass Harper. Let me get him with the last pick.

You are dull. My pick Friday was Rizzo. He was out of the lineup. Way to go. All right. Chris in Minneapolis is in a 10 team. Head-to-head categories league. I currently have Ian Hap as my second utility player.

Should I drop Ian Hap for Shohei Otani, the batter? I would rather have Hap the batter than Otani the better. Yeah, I think the playing time concerns will be similar, but Hap has more hope of emerging as a true everyday guy. So I agree. Jonathan from New Jersey. Does someone have to get hurt for Ryan McMahon to become a starter? Is McMahon worth holding in a 12-team or deeper league until then?

The answer to your first question is it certainly seems that way. The answer to your second question is probably not. What are the Rockies doing? That makes, like, he should be in AAA if he's not going to play. He's just sitting around wasting away. He's going to go bad. Next email. From Will know.

From Will. John Lester for Madison Bumgarner, Head to Head Categories League. Who'd you rather have, Lester, or Bum? Bum. Bum. From Michael, head-to-head points league. Would you trade David Price and John Lester for Garrett-Coleon-Haw? Price and Lester?

Oh, yes. For coal and have. Oh, yes. I would trade Price and Lester probably for just coal. Probably. From John. Imagine, now that I say. 16 team points league weekly lineup.

No points for wins or quality starts. So who would you rather have this week? Nukum, Harvey, or Chorinos? Nukum. Yes. Yes. Nookam, it is. Newcomb.

I agree. Damn near killed him. Mike D. from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Jason Kipness, he got dropped in my league. Should I spend Fab on him? Will he get consistent playing time? Is he just off to a slow start,

or is Kipnis no longer fantasy relevant? Oh, that's a lot of questions. I think the answer to the last three questions is slow start, we'll get playing time, still fantasy relevant. The answer to the first question depends on your league's size because there's a lot of depth at second base, and I don't think the standard 12 team, if there's no middle infield spot, he needs to be rostered.

He says he needs a second basement desperately. If that's the case, you probably should unless there's a better second basement out there. I am sitting Kipness for panic this week, but I prefer Kipness rest of season to Joe Panic. And that's in a points league, by the way. Okay, then. Thanks, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow. One quick thing.

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